IBM pitches FlashSystem against ‘limited’ Dell EMC PowerStore
IBM Storage has updated the FlashSystem all-flash array hardware and software and is dissing Dell EMC’s "limited" PowerStore array.
The company has made FlashSystem faster, more economical in...
Nebulon: Here’s why we are better (and cheaper) than SANs and HCI
Analysis. Nebulon, a storage startup that came out of stealth in June, aims to compete with SAN arrays and HCI. It has built a product that fits into neither...
Infinidat sued by employees for ‘secretly’ diluting shares
Infinidat, the high-end Israeli storage startup, is being sued by 29 current and former employees for wrongfully diluting their shares in the company.
The plaintiffs are holders of Infinidat Class...
Israel time change knocks out local NetApp storage
A switchover to winter time in Israel was followed by failures in NetApp storage arrays which in turn caused server failures.
Computers in the Ministry of Health, universities and businesses...
NetApp’s flash upgrade for its AFF and FAS arrays
NetApp has bumped up performance for FAS and AFF arrays at the entry level, with end-to-end NVMe flash drive support, to "leave rivals in the dust".
The refresh provides extra...
STaaSification; Dell APEX project includes Storage-as-a-Service
Dell is going to offer on-premises managed file and block storage services next year. Customers will rent storage instead of buying it.
This is part of its Project APEX, announced...
DDN hauls NVMe storage chassis to Tintri products
DDN has injected its all-NVMe flash storage chassis into its Tintri product line to start the cost-cutting process of unifying product hardware across its two divisions.
Tintri was acquired by...
Lose the 36-year-old: Quobyte pushes folks to ditch NFS for its ‘secure’ scale-out, self-service,...
Quobyte has dropped the veil on v3.0 of its Data Centre File System (DCFS) software, saying customers need scale-out, self-service, automated, secure, run anywhere, multi-tenant file services, and NFS...
Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s...
This week has been busy with storage news, like last week and the one before that. Ransomware protection has become a top-of-mind CIO concern and - among others -...
KumoScale beats Ceph hands down on block performance
Kioxia today published test results showing its KumoScale storage software runs block access on an all-flash array up to 60 times faster than Ceph, thanks to NVMe/TCP transport.
Update:...
Huawei has fastest storage array in the world. SPC-1 says so
Huawei has smashed the SPC-1 benchmark, with an all-NVMe flash OceanStor array that is double the performance pg previous title holder Fujitsu at 40 per cent higher cost.
SPC-1 tests...
Hardware fault shuts Tokyo Stock Exchange for the day
A data storage hardware failure was to blame for day-long Tokyo Stock Exchange outage on Thursday October 1.
In a press conference, TSE executives "squarely accepted responsibility for the incident,...