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Here is a snapshot of press and conference announcements to go with your morning's coffee, tea, smoothie or some other beverage. Cohesity goes up the Amazon Cohesity, a converger of...

NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens

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All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone. A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200  - 2.8 times...

Escaping the DRAM price trap: Storage Class Memory, what it is and why it...

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In this article we explore Storage-Class-Memory (SCM) and explain why it is ready for enterprise IT big time in 2019.  Setting the scene DRAM is the gold standard for storing...

Fujitsu gets cosy with Vexata

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Vexata has plugged into a big enterprise sales channel in the USA and Canada via a deal with Fujitsu to resell its bleeding edge NVMe storage arrays. The companies will jointly...

Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks

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Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...

VAST Data claims one flash drive to rule all storage things

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VAST Data quietly boasts it will change the enterprise storage game. We say 'quietly', because the venture backed start-up is in stealth mode. But if you know where to look you...

Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?

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The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of  two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Intel Optane

Intel Optane-boosted cluster is giant whale in tiny benchmark puddle

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Intel has chosen a small and under-populated benchmark performance pond in which to be a large price/performance fish. The company has achieved a record price/performance on the IOmark VM benchmark...

Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter

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Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed. It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...

All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…

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Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox. We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve  deep...

Infinidat: We own the high-end storage array market

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Infinidat claims it has a 60 per cent plus share of multi-petabyte storage array shipments. But we have only its word to go on. Brian Carmody, Infinidat CTO, argues that...

Western Digital aims to boost NVMe SSD share with this one cunning virtualization trick

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Western Digital today introduced its ME200 memory extension NVMe SSD. This uses a hypervisor to implement a software memory management unit which adds SSD capacity into the host server’s...