The challenges and opportunities for high-end storage
Interview Rob Young serves as a storage architect at Mainline Information Systems, a Florida-based company specializing in systems design, development, consultancy, and services. With a rich legacy in IBM...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Infinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
High-end array supplier Infinidat says bookings bounced 29 percent year-over-year during the first six months of 2023.
The company sells InfiniBox storage arrays with a memory-caching capability that it says...
Storage news roundup – July 21
Managed infrastructure systems provider 11:11 Systems has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) and will offer customers 11:11 Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, 11:11 Cloud Backup for Microsoft...
Lenovo revs up NetApp and Azure Stack systems
Lenovo has upgraded its storage array and Azure Stack lines with faster and higher-capacity products to support AI and hybrid cloud workloads - just a quarter after a previous refresh.
Kamran...
Dell thinks generative AI will generate storage sales
Dell believes generative AI could be as transformative as server virtualization and drive increased compute, network and storage sales.
Execs presented to a bunch of financial analysts at an “Ask...
Silk extends its Azure high end base down to mid-market
Silk has moved its Azure storage acceleration technology down to the mid-market by using a mid-range class of Azure SSD storage and a new licensing scheme.
The concept is to...
Storage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
Comment: Legacy external hardware-based storage suppliers need to adapt to technology threats to their businesses from three incomers – Infinidat, Pure Storage and VAST Data.
Update. Dell PowerMax gen 2...
Zesty aims to take on cloud cost control
Israel startup Zesty claims its software can reduce AWS EC2 instance cost by up to 45 percent by automatically managing AWS discount commitments. The Zesty Disk feature, it reckons,...
Cost-cutting fast Lightbits block storage available for AWS and Azure
Startup Lightbits is offering full SAN-in-the-Cloud data services built on top of raw, ephemeral and fast NVMe instances for both the AWS and Azure clouds.
Lightbits is the fourth storage...
InterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage
Block storage provisioning startup Volumez is rapidly expanding its capabilities, adding Azure cloud support to the existing AWS cloud and supplying storage for InterSystems’ IRIS cloud database.
Volumez provides a...
Pure intros fresh FlashArray features for enterprise
Pure Storage announced improved FlashArray hardware and software, an unstructured data storage FlashArray system, and a ransomware recovery guarantee at its Las Vegas Pure Accelerate event.
FlashArray is Pure’s line...