News

Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)

• May 10, 2017 10 May'17

  Dell EMC World brings “bigger, faster, stronger” storage upgrades

  All-flash additions plus hardware and software upgrades see platform refreshes across all Dell EMC storage offerings, as well as design changes in Isilon and Xtremio

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Nexsan Unity goes all-flash but leaves NVMe on the back-burner

  Nexsan Unity arrays already have SAN, NAS and file sync and share, and now add all-flash and policy-based archiving, but there’s no NVMe on the roadmap for now

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  3D XPoint et al to force architecture and software changes

  New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS

  Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

  Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

• April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17

  Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives

  FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year

• April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17

  Cloud increasingly part of the job for storage professionals

  451 Group research finds storage professionals are less concerned with data growth than last year but increasingly likely to have to manage storage capacity in the cloud

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

  IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Storage fails the business as data balloons, survey finds

  Lack of agility and failure of storage to keep pace with the business and data growth are major concerns to UK businesses that see data volumes increase by 27% a year

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Kaminario looks forward to NVMf, but not this year

  All-flash maker Kaminario plans to add NVMe drives, but only when it can replace existing fabric protocols with NVMf and a full stack of advanced storage features

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Scale Computing to bring NVMe flash to hyper-converged

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing is set to introduce NVMe connectivity to its products in 2017 with tiers of all flash also on the roadmap

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Analytics sell Tegile hybrid flash as college replaces iSCSI

  Bolton College replaces six-year-old Dell EqualLogic iSCSI block arrays and is won over to Tegile hybrid flash by ease of troubleshooting troublesome VM I/O spike issues

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Excelero NVMe over fabrics NVMesh brings SAN to hyperscale

  Excelero aims at transactional and analytics use cases for webscale users that want to create SAN-like pools of storage with its NVMesh software-defined product

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  HPE buys Nimble Storage to fill an all-flash and hybrid gap

  Hardware giant buys Nimble Storage for $1.2bn and plugs a gap below its high-end flash retro-fitted 3PAR arrays with ground-up solid state-based hardware

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

  Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise