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Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
Micron cuts capex in response to declining memory market
Micron is reining in capital spending in the face of a glut in the DRAM and NAND memory markets.
The chip giant yesterday reported $7.91bn revenues Q1FY2019, missing estimates of...
How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out
In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon?
But first, a brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
External storage sales fall behind in bull market
IDC's Q3 2018 worldwide storage tracker shows the overall storage market is booming except for external, shared array / filer technology.
The total storage numbers reported are summarised in...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
Intel confirms Optane DIMM and SSD speed
Intel has revealed Optane DIMM and SSD read latency numbers.
Optane DIMMs and SSDs use 3D XPoint memory, which is non-volatile, faster than NAND but slower than DRAM, and based...
IBM enlists Nvidia for full-stack AI build-out
IBM has introduced Spectrum AI, a souped up integrated set of server, GPU and storage components. The reference architecture includes:
IBM Elastic Storage Server or Spectrum Scale NVMe all-flash appliance,...
HPE’s Neri hails storage market share gains
After growing faster than the storage market in its latest quarter, HPE expects to keep on doing that in 2019, buoyed by its InfoSight management tool and new products....
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
Taejin Infotech gets up to speed in SPC-1 league table
Taejin Infotech has established the best price/performance for million-plus IOPS arrays in the SPC-1 benchmark.
Earlier this week we noted the emergence of a new SPC-1 price/performance class with Korean supplier...
Measure for Measure: SPC-1 benchmark yields new class of storage price-performer
Korea’s Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) has filed an SPC-1 benchmark ranking seventh in the performance list, and cementing a new performance and price-performance grouping within the SPC-1 rankings.
The organisation filed the...
Samsung parades 4TB SSD in the consumer quad
Samsung has started shipping the 860 QVO, a 4TB QLC consumer SSD.
QLC means quad-level cell flash and 4bits per cell - one more than the typical TLC (3bit/ cell)...