Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
Western Digital is developing zoned SSDs that can be managed by host systems to speed data access and prolong the life of the drives.
This could make short-life...
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...
Toshiba embraces shingling for next-gen MAMR HDDs
Toshiba this week confirmed it will deliver both conventional and shingled MAMR hard drives.
Scott Wright, director of HDD marketing at Toshiba America Electronic Components, told us MAMR will be...
RackTop pushes NAS with built-in security and compliance
RackTop Systems is looking to grow the market for its line of NAS appliances featuring built-in encryption and compliance controls thanks to $15m in Series A financing.
Founded in...
What will Dell EMC’s unified mid-range storage box look like? Let’s not find out…
Blocks & Files tested out some ideas about Dell EMC’s upcoming unified mid-range storage box, the PowerTo-be-decided, with Dell EMC and got precisely nowhere.
I thought I would be clever...
Western Digital wants to be the Everything Storage Company. How does its ambition stack...
Western Digital is undertaking a huge project - to own and integrate the entire stack from silicon, glass and sand to arrays and composable systems software.
Originally a disk...
The irresistible rise of NVMe means SATA SSD days are numbered
SATA interfaces for SSDS are on their way out and the NVMe SSD interface will take over in 2020, according to Eyal Shani, Western Digital's director, technical product marketing....
Infinidat girds up loins for NVMe fabrics and storage-class memory
Infinidat's performance-boosting software upgrade, announced this week, will help the company add NVMe fabric links and storage-class memory to iInfinibox arrays.
InfiniBox 4.0.40 adds SMB support, better protection with snapshot...
Western Digital adds shingles to MAMR drives
Western Digital will introduce shingling to its MAMR drives to build a path to 20TB capacity in 2020 and from there to 40TB and 100TB.
Write tracks are wider than...
VAST Data: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the hard drives
VAST Data wants to direct an extinction event for hard drives.
This is a bold ambition but VAST Data is a remarkable startup, certainly in the scope of its claims...
Storage news sprinkles to start the week
The amount of data to be stored, processed and protected grows incessantly. That's fuelling product growth and partnerships between suppliers as they jostle to taker advantage of the benign...
NetApp building moat around ONTAP base
NetApp says flash and cloud integration enables it to build a moat around its core ONTAP business base, despite revenues becoming temporarily becalmed.
Its third quarter revenues of...