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Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing

  Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

  Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Scale hyper-converged adds all-flash 1150F and “workhorse” 5150D

  Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  NVMe flash blocked by array architecture, says Kaminario CTO

  Flash pioneer CTO says array controllers are built for a different era and must scale-out as clusters to provide the CPU power needed to allow NVMe to realise its potential

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Medical college retires HP for Scale Computing hyper-converged

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine replaces ageing HP servers and MSA SAN with Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, and saves £80,000 in replacement costs

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Tegile launches Intelliflash tiered all-flash arrays with NVMe

  Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Tape here to stay, says Spectra Logic with LTO-8 2x capacity gain

  LTO-8 tape to boost capacity by leveraging HDD head read technology TMR. Spectra gets in early with offer to customers, “buy LTO-7, get LTO-8 when it ships”

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Cloud firm gets Infinidat hybrid flash to save £250,000 on storage

  Brightsolid replaced EMC and NetApp storage with 1.2PB of Infinidat hybrid flash to help win council contract that saw local authority save £250,000 in yearly storage costs

• June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17

  Irish cloud provider opts for Tegile hybrid flash storage

  Savenet gets 70TB of Tegile hybrid flash in a move that sees Huawei spinning disk arrays replaced as main storage and replaced with hybrid flash for cloud-based services

• June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17

  Rubrik Alta adds Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV to backup appliance

  Rubrik backup appliance now support all major physical and virtual server platforms in flash-equipped boxes that range from a few tens of TB to the hundreds

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Object storage will be 'huge' in stateless world of web and mobile

  SNIA Europe director says traditional SAN and NAS are not built for the stateless world of web-based apps and workloads, with object storage set to become dominant

• June 05, 2017 05 Jun'17

  NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances

  NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes

  Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups

• May 23, 2017 23 May'17

  Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

  Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO X2 gains I/O boost via software upgrade

  Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays got a performance jump from ungraded hardware, but the real performance boost comes from changes to the way I/O is dealt with