Names, faces and storage people places
Without further ado...
Kirill Tatarinov has joined the Acronis board. He was most recently the president and CEO at Citrix Systems and is said to know effective product development strategies...
The irresistible rise of NVMe means SATA SSD days are numbered
SATA interfaces for SSDS are on their way out and the NVMe SSD interface will take over in 2020, according to Eyal Shani, Western Digital's director, technical product marketing....
Infinidat girds up loins for NVMe fabrics and storage-class memory
Infinidat's performance-boosting software upgrade, announced this week, will help the company add NVMe fabric links and storage-class memory to iInfinibox arrays.
InfiniBox 4.0.40 adds SMB support, better protection with snapshot...
Huawei bakes NVMe into OceanStor Dorado all-flash arrays
Huawei has launched the all-flash entry-level OceanStor Dorado3000 v3 array and added NVMe support to mid-range and high end all-flash Dorado storage.
The OceanStor Dorado is a classic SAN array. From...
Infinidat boosts performance, adds SMB support
Infinidat, the enterprise high-end array provider, has added SMB filer support, boosted IOPS and throughput, and strengthened its snapshot capabilities.
New features in InfiniBox 4.0.40 software include:
Support for SMB protocols v2.1...
VAST Data: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the hard drives
VAST Data wants to direct an extinction event for hard drives.
This is a bold ambition but VAST Data is a remarkable startup, certainly in the scope of its claims...
VAST striping and data protection
The way data is written and erasure coded is crucial to VAST’s data protection capabilities and centres on striping.
Suppose a QLC drive fails. Its data contents have to be...
VAST Data’s business sitrep
VAST Data was founded in 2016 by CEO Renen Hallak, an ex-VP for R&D at XtremIO and its first engineer. Some time before that he worked on computer science...
VAST Data’s Universal filesystem
The VAST Data system employs a Universal Storage filesystem. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded, and has an infinitely-scalable global namespace.
It...
VAST decouples compute and storage
Separate scaling of compute and data is central to VAST’s performance claims. Here is a top-level explanation of how it is achieved.
In VAST’s scheme there are compute nodes and...
Smartphones get NVMe for faster flash card data access
The SD Association is adopting the NVMe protocol to speed data access to add-in tablet and phone flash cards.
The industry standards-setting group of around 900 companies has agreed the...
Trust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile
AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when...