Mellanox spread bets on high performance storage startups
Mellanox has pumped an undisclosed sum of money into Excelero, its second announced investment in a storage startup in a week. The amount is likely to be small, as...
Infinidat: Storage costs soar in the multi-petabyte era. Let’s fix this
Larger enterprises are storing multiple petabytes of data already and many are heading towards storing exabytes. This presents significant economic and management challenges, according to Infinidat, the high-end storage...
NetApp adds end-to-end NVMe to mid-range storage array
A busy day yesterday for NetApp, which launched a mid-range all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe access, pushed out an ONTAP software update and introduced three support services.
The AFF (All-Flash...
No Dell, our storage array is faster than yours – Infinidat
Infinidat today boasted it makes the fastest SAN array with the lowest latency and can prove it - albeit with its own test results.
The high-end array vendor used the...
Your Bumper Fun book of storage, featuring DDN, Exagrid, Kaseya, Mimecast, Softiron and...
Your occasional storage digest today features DDN, Exagrid, Faction, Kaseya, Mimecast and Softiron and more.
DDN buys Nexenta
HPC storage supplier DDN has bought software-defined storage business Nexenta, a 14-year-old...
Infinidat arrays go faster, play nice in hybrid clouds
Infinidat, the high-end array maker, today launched subscription programs, software with enhanced performance, extended array connectivity, and cloud-delivered array monitoring and analysis.
The company also signalled its intention to...
Dell EMC’s Trident reveals a glimpse into unified mid-range storage project
Dell EMC is unifying its mid-range storage product around a single new platform, potentially called PowerStorage, based on XtremIO, with the internal codename Trident.
Dell EMC has revealed a little...
Dell EMC upgrades Unity mid-range storage arrays
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC’s new Unity XT arrays add drives, memory and CPU power, with the hybrid models getting a stronger upgrade punch than their all flash cousins.
Unity...
Amazon adds block storage to Snowball Edge
Amazon has introduced block storage for its Snowball Edge data collecting and processing device, adding to existing file and object storage capabilities.
According to Amazon, customers want to process locally...
Pure Storage moves Evergreen subscriptions around the blocks
Pure Storage is rounding out its Evergreen Storage Service with movable block capacity and a backup offering. It is developing a block storage offering on AWS and has released...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Lightbits Labs enters all-flash array fray
Lightbits Labs has introduced the NVMe-connected SuperSSD all-flash array using its LightOS and LightField accelerating hardware cards.
The SuperSSD is hooked up to accessing servers across dual 100GbitE links and...