Silk: NetApp is slower than us on AWS
Silk, the storage array software vendor, claims its AWS numbers for IOPS, latency and bandwidth are superior to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance on the public cloud.
Derek Swanson, Silk...
Exclusive: Datera has gone bust
Datera, the high-end storage software startup, has gone into liquidation. All of the company's assets are being transferred to the assignee of the creditors, according to a letter dated...
Hello Azure. Pure Cloud Block Store is here
Pure Storage has made its Cloud Block Store available on the Azure Marketplace.
Cloud Block Store is the cloudified version of Purity OS, the operating system that runs on the...
ATTO re-invents the RAM Disk with block storage device
ATTO is prepping new generation RAM disk technology in the shape of its SiliconDisk storage appliance. “This is not addressable memory. This is storage. It's a block storage device,”...
Dell powers up hybrid cloud storage services with Faction
Dell Technologies has expanded its partnership with Faction, the US multi-cloud managed services provider, to offer two new storage and data protection services.
Announcing the offerings, Joe CaraDonna, the CTO...
Equinix data centres offer Pure storage as a service
Pure Storage is opening a new front in the cloud edge storage market, with data centre operator Equinix offering Pure-as-a-Service to its customers.
Equinix has fitted out 18 data centres...
How to stop El Capitan’s thousands of blades from overwhelming the SAN
The El Capitan exascale supercomputer will use HPE-designed 'Rabbit' near node local storage to get data faster to its many processing cores from a backend SAN.
The $600m 2 exaFLOPs...
Red Hat supports high-availability apps in AWS and Azure
Red Hat Linux running in the AWS and Azure public clouds now supports high-availability and clustered applications with its Resilient Storage Add-On (RSAO) software. This means apps like SAS,...
StorCentric gets out its first Violin, an entry-level NVMe all-flash array
StorCentric, the mini data storage conglomerate, has launched its first Violin-branded system since buying the company's assets last October.
This is the Violin QV1020, an entry level NVMe drive all-flash...
Zadara buys NeoKarm, jumps full stack into the private cloud
Zadara, the enterprise storage as a service vendor, has gone full-stack by acquiring a compute-as-a-service startup called NeoKarm.
Zadara first teamed up with NeoKarm, a one year-old Tel-Aviv based company,...
Datera CEO Guy Churchward resigns: ‘Natural time to move on’
Datera CEO and exec chairman Guy Churchward has resigned, citing health reasons. His colleague chief Product Officer Narasimha Valiveti - known as 'VNR' - has left the company to...
Silk’s Azure speed is based on Ephemeral OS disks
Silk gets crazy fast Azure speed by using and protecting Azure’s fast and unprotected ephemeral OS disks - incurring no storage cost.
Ephemeral OS disks are created on the local...