Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier
Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with previously-used hardware and StorONE software.
Cork-based Wisetek built...
Kubernetes storage: SmartX’s IOMesh beats Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS
China-based SmartX has released a preview of its Kubernetes storage software IOMesh, and it outperforms Pure’s Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS on MySQL transactions and latency.
The claims are backed up...
Lenovo unveils new NetApp entry-level all-flash arrays
Lenovo has announced two entry-level all-flash arrays, one with NVMe drives and the other SAS, with a sub-$15,000 starting price.
Update: 6 Aug 20321. Justification for Lenovo first to market...
Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises
An end-user survey by research firm Coldago finds users highly positive about the public cloud, cloud-native development, and all-flash arrays, with some surprising vendor rankings concerning Infinidat, VAST Data...
SAN attack: AWS speeds up slow SSD block volume instances
Less than a year after introducing its first SSD-based performance block storage, AWS has finally caught up with modern SSD and SAN speed with its latest io2 Block Express...
Storage VAR sentiment tracker: VMware mojo lost, Commvault mojo gained?
A June survey of storage VARs’ views of the market shows growing demand with core infrastructure refreshes as the US economy re-opens and ransomware becomes a top-of-mind concern.
William Blair...
StorONE and Storbyte get NASA blessing for combined fast, long-life flash array
NASA is repatriating an HPC application system back on-premises to a StorONE S1 software platform, running atop a three million IOPS-plus Storbyte flash array with a ten-year write life...
Fungible claims fastest storage node on the market, at 6.55 million IOPS
Dutch high-performance computing (HPC) researchers have reported a Fungible storage node delivering 6.55 million random read IOPS to a single server. Fungible claims this is the world’s highest performance...
Your occasional storage digest with MariaDB, HPE, WD, IBM and more
This week we have an improved MariaDB database, HPE’s Alletra array getting faster access, WD announcing a much faster 5G phone-embedded flash drive and IBM producing an all-IBM tape...
PowerFlex, Dell EMC’s other HCI system, supports more Nvidia GPUs and Oracle KVM hypervisor
Dell EMC has updated its PowerFlex software, widening GPU and hypervisor support and improving resiliency and manageability.
PowerFlex is Dell EMC’s scale-out virtual SAN and hyper-converged system with multi-hypervisor support,...
Flash KumoScale hops onto OpenStack Wallaby and adds IP routing for network resiliency
Kioxia has added up-to-date OpenStack access control and open source integrations to its NVMe-oF KumoScale flash array software and increased its network access availability and bandwidth with a preview...
Dell’s CloudIQ storage health and performance checker adds security status monitoring
Dell EMC has introduced cybersecurity features into CloudIQ, its AIOps application for Dell EMC IT infrastructure products.
CloudIQ supports PowerMAX, PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerProtect, VxBLock, VxRail, as well as older arrays...