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Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes

  New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  Dell EMC claims launch of first designed-for-all-flash SC arrays

  All-flash arrays SC5020F and SC7020F boost performance by several times over existing former Compellent products in Dell EMC range that could be configured as all-flash

• October 26, 2017 26 Oct'17

  Datrium gets Flash End-to-End in its server/shared hybrid DVX NVMe

  Taking aim at hyper-converged, Datrium DVX adds flash as bulk storage, while NVMe at the server handles hot data with the scale needed by enterprise customers in mind

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits

  Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits

• October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17

  Intel leak reveals plans for more Optane 3D Xpoint products

  Leaked Intel slides show 900P products to be launched at end of October with half a million IOPS per card. We run the rule over 3D Xpoint and what it offers enterprise customers

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’

  Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe

• September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17

  Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network

  Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances

  Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics

  Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

  Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD

  Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales

  Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones

• 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