Excelero adds scale-up NVEdge to scale-out NVMESH
Excelero, the NVMe-over-Fabrics flash array software startup, has announced a scale-up NVEdge product to complement its scale-out NVMESH offering.
NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the PCIe/NVMe protocol across network links so a...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
StorCentric CEO: ‘My mission is to build the next world-class storage company’
Newcomer StorCentric has acquired four storage companies and aspires to become a world-class storage company. What's the score?
The company emerged in August last year through the acquisition of the...
Here’s a way to optimise your SSDs for different workloads
Flash storage software startup Burlywood has introduced an analysis service for SSDs that profiles their production workload in order to tune operations.
Customer workloads differ by read/write mix, IO sizes,...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Druva, Microsoft, Veeam and StorONE
Take a jolly dash along the River Storage and visit Druva for a backup history lesson, Microsoft with ideas on formal data sharing, StorONE with Dell server storage...
Western Digital parades go-faster, get-bigger IntelliFlash arrays
Western Digital has updated the IntelliFlash storage array range with a lower-priced entry-level NVMe models and a higher-capacity SAS array. The storage giant has also added live dataset migration...
Big US business thinks object storage is big business
More US enterprises intend to buy object storage than unified file/block, SAN and NAS. Almost half are increasing cloud storage and a quarter are bulking upon-premises storage capacity.
This is...
IBM puts on its Red Hat and bags some more storage software
IBM closed its massive $34bn Red Hat acquisition yesterday. The Red Hat portfolio includes five open source storage software products. Let's take a closer look.
For starters, there is...
Dell EMC’s Midrange.NEXT: Everything we know so far
Update May 5, 2020. Dell EMC today launched the PowerStore (formerly called Midrange.NEXT) data storage array line. Check out our PowerStore explainer. Our editor thinks this is "most important...
Cisco, NetApp crank up FlexPod with MAX Data
Cisco and NetApp are adding MAX Data to their FlexPod reference design to make applications run faster.
In a white paper published last week Cisco showed MAX Data on FlexPod...
StorCentric scoops up ailing startup Vexata
Enterprise NVMe array startup Vexata has been bought by StorCentric, a private-equity-owned company which yesterday acquired the Retrospect backup software company.
Vexata was founded in 2013 by CEO Zahid Hussain...