Frozen in time: Gartner Magic quadrant for primary storage
The latest Gartner MQ for Primary Storage is pretty much the same as a year ago, which was pretty much the same as the year before that, and with...
Azure touts elasticated SAN service
Microsoft's Azure cloud is previewing an Elastic SAN service offering high-availability iSCSI-access block storage.
This storage instance is designed, Microsoft said, “for large scale IO-intensive workloads and top tier databases...
Nutanix rumored to be for sale
Multiple sources report that Nutanix is considering a sale to private equity or an infrastructure supplier.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the software company had received a takeover approach...
Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency
Block array supplier Infinidat says a move to 20TB disk drives has enabled it to increase high-end system capacity by more than 70 percent and add more capacity for...
Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
NVMe-over Fabrics storage array startup Pavilion Data has crashed.
Update. Co-founder Sundar Kanthadai's epitaph LinkedIn post added. Jan 1, 2023.
The news was released at an all-hands company meeting on October...
Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power
DPU startup Fungible has rowed back from its data center composability ambitions, cancelling products to concentrate on its storage cluster technology using all-flash arrays controlled by its DPUs with...
Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
Block data migration provides an exact copy of data from a source storage system to a target system. Blocks and Files has written about file and object-level migrations with...
Breaking down the storage supplier revenue tiers
The storage market is mature and rigid, according to the revenue picture for publicly owned storage companies, which shows five stratified revenue layers, with a bit more movement among...
Infinidat gets kudos for block array ransomware protection
Infinidat has been named by analyst GigaOm as the top ransomware-protecting block storage array supplier.
The “GigaOm Sonar Report for Block-based Primary Storage Ransomware Protection” looks at a number of...
Dell introduces customer-managed APEX storage
Dell is offering day-to-day management of its APEX Data Storage Services to customers as an alternative to the vendor managing the whole shebang.
The idea is to provide a halfway...
Seagate Exos arrays get punchier RAID controller
Seagate has uprated its Exos Application Platform (AP) arrays to new Exos X models with a VelosCT ASIC RAID controller boosting performance.
The drive maker started building Exos AP block...
Storage news ticker – September 6
AMD announced that the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card, powered by the Pensando data processing unit (DPU) chip will be one of the first DPU products to support VMware...