Dell and Cisco renew VxBlock wedding vows
Dell Technologies and Cisco have signed a multi-year extension to their VBlock partnership.
This is the converged infrastructure combo that integrates Dell EMC storage with Cisco UCS servers and Nexus...
Rising All-Flash Array tide fails to lift Pure, IBM and HPE boats
The all-flash array storage market is growing strong and Dell and NetApp are the winners. It is far too soon to pick out the losers, but can the next...
Infinidat poaches Gartner analyst
Stanley Zaffos, the Gartner research VP, has left the analyst firm to take charge of Infinibox product marketing at Infinidat.
Zaffos is an 22-year Gartner veteran and specialised in...
StorPool inches past Optane DIMM-fuelled Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct
StorPool, a Bulgarian storage startup, has matched an Optane DIMM-accelerated Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 12-node cluster and its 13.7 million IOPS record for a hyperconverged system, by just 1,326...
Lenovo gets into fast virtual SAN array business with Excelero
Lenovo is buddying up with Excelero to provide NVMe over Fabrics access speed to data for its ThinkSystem servers.
The Data Centre Group at Lenovo has done the global reselling...
Datrium out-guns VMAX, XtremIO and FlashArray all-flash boxes
Hyper- or hybrid converged system supplier Datrium’s DVX storage and compute system out-performs Dell EMC’s VMAX and XtremIO all-flash arrays as well as Pure Storage’s FlashArrays.
Datrium wants to be...
IBM refreshes Storwize V5000 array line-up
IBM has replaced its five Storwize V5000 arrays with four faster, bigger and cheaper models.
The V5000 and V7000 products are classic dual-controller storage arrays which use IBMs Spectrum Virtualise...
MemVerge virtualizes DRAM and Optane DIMMs into single clustered memory pool
Startup MemVerge is developing software to combine DRAM and Optane DIMM persistent memory into a single clustered storage pool for existing applications to use with no code changes.
It says...
SoftIron builds out storage line for Ceph-alitics
SoftIron has announced three Ceph-based storage systems - an upgraded performance storage node, an enhanced management system and a front-end access or storage router box
Ceph is free source storage...
Fujitsu Eternus array shatters SPC-1 storage benchmark
Fujitsu has set the new top score for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark, scoring 10,001,522 IOPS with its ETERNUS DX8900 S4 array.
In SPC-1 benchmark terms this is the...
Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe
Dell next month will refresh the Unity mid-range storage array line with Skylake Xeon processors and NVMe – the latter as expected after I revealed the firm's plan in...
Dell EMC customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems
From today customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems by using Dell EMC Ready Stack blueprints. Previously this option was available for channel partners only.
Dell EMC has...