Hardware fault shuts Tokyo Stock Exchange for the day
A data storage hardware failure was to blame for day-long Tokyo Stock Exchange outage on Thursday October 1.
In a press conference, TSE executives "squarely accepted responsibility for the incident,...
PowerMax maxes more with vVOL replication, better DR and cloud tiering
Dell EMC today updated the high-end PowerMax storage array to run more VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs), migrate data to the public cloud and improve disaster recovery capability.
With today's update,...
Western Digital speeds up shingled disk write performance
Western Digital has found a software partner called Kalista.IO that makes host-managed shingled magnetic recording drives appear like normal drives to applications.
Shingled Magnetic Recording crams more read tracks...
Actifio pushes cloud DR that accelerates slow object storage to near SSD speed
ESG has validated Actifio’s claim it can provide public cloud disaster recovery at near SSD speed using slower, low-cost object storage in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
A yet-to-be-published “Microsoft...
Back to basics: HPE adds SSDs, faster controllers, tiering and Cloud Volumes backup juice...
HPE’s basic Modular Smart Array storage line now goes a bit faster, with tiering and backup to the cloud, after the tech giant's Gen 6 update announcement.
The dual-controller MSA...
Nutanix Blockstore nips through Stargate to speed AOS storage
Nutanix will be bypassing Linux kernel context switches to accelerate AOS storage processing in its latest release. That makes AOS faster, which is good news for its mission-critical application...
Seven attempts to speed processing with faster storage
Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers...
NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
AWS cranks up EBS performance with io2 volumes
Amazon Web Services has announced EBS io2, a new storage service that provides more durability and IOPs per GiB - at the same price - than the current io1.
Announcing...
iXsystems supercharges OpenZFS storage
iXsystems claims it has the world’s fastest OpenZFS storage systems with the new M60 array and TrueNAS v12 software. With this week's upgrade, TrueNAS users get twice the capacity...
Quobyte storage software takes a bite at HPC and machine learning
Profile Quobyte produces unified block, file and object storage for high-performance computing (HPC) and machine learning.
Its software runs on-premises and in the Google cloud and is used for...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...