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...
Why hard drives fail
Damaged recording surfaces are responsible for 70 per cent of hard disk drive (HDD) failures.
Damage is generally caused by the hard drive experiencing a physical shock; being hit, falling...
Molecular data storage makes waves
Research scientists have demonstrated kilobyte-scale data storage in synthetic metabolitic molecules, smaller than DNA, with data read by mass spectrometry. This could lead to dense offline storage that may...
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...
Qumulo adds fatter drives to flash, hybrid and archive systems
Qumulo has added larger capacity models to its all-flash, hybrid and archive systems along with a software update that includes real-time analytics.
The all-flash P series gets a new P184T...
You look stunning, darling! WD snuggles up to Veeam in an IntelliFlash
Western Digital has linked its IntelliFlash all-flash and hybrid disk/flash arrays to Veeam's storage API, to produce a storage snapshot plug-in for Veeam and protect vSphere VMs more quickly....
Cloudian pushes Xtreme performance with Seagate backing
Cloudian has increased HyperStore storage capacity by 80 per cent, courtesy of a strategic deal with Seagate.
The object storage software company today launched Xtreme, the third member of the...
HPE’s Primera is Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
HPE's newly-launched Primera array is a performance beast - and that’s before it gets NVMe over Fabrics and storage class memory.
HPE staffers told Blocks & Files in a product...
HPE doubles up on HCI and hugs the hybrid cloud
HPE Discover HPE yesterday unveiled two hyperconverged systems, a composability extension and much hybrid cloud activity at at its Discover jamboree in Las Vegas. Let's take a quick...
HPE scales out 3PAR to build massively parallel Primera line
HPE’s Primera array, launched today, is an evolutionary upgrade of its 3PAR platform, with expanded InfoSight management and claimed Nimble array ease-of-use.
Our sister publication The Register carries the announcement...
Double-headed Seagate disk drives? Yes, on their way
Seagate will introduce 18TB, 20TB+ and double-headed disk drives by the end of 2020.
Seagate CEO David Mosley, signalled the company's intentions at a recent investor briefing hosted by Wells...
DDN adds lustre to HPC storage with EXA5
DDN, the high performance computing storage vendor, has launched the fifth generation of its Lustre-based EXAScaler storage system.
Lustre is a parallel file system used in high-performance computing - in...