Infinidat: We own the high-end storage array market
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
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...
Faster, cheaper: Pavilion packs massive monolithic features into mini-NVMe array
Pavilion Data Systems, an NVMe array startup, has added encryption at rest to its RF100 series appliance.
Pavilion's array is a radical architectural change over other all-flash arrays, which are...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...
Intel bakes Optane DIMM support into Cascade Lake AP
Intel today announced its Cascade Lake Advanced Performance AP Xeon processor with Optane memory support.
The high-end server chip ships at the end of the year and is generally available...
Fujitsu preps NVMe storage line
Fujitsu this week launched the ETERNUS DX89000 high-end array (tune in here for my write-up).
I was struck by the absence of NVMe drive and NVMe-oF fabric interconnect support - apart from a couple...
Excelero extends NVMesh reach with TCP and Fibre Channel support
Excelero is broadening its NVMesh offering by adding erasure coding, performance analytics and, most importantly, support for NVMe over traditional TCP/IP and Fibre Channel.
This could be considered to be...
Burlywood gets flash with NVMe
Burlywood has added NVMe protocol support for its customisable SSD controller software. And it is easy to see why.
As Tod Earhart, founder and CEO of the flash controller start-up, said, in...
Together we can build a better SSD controller – CNEX bags $23m funding
CNEX Labs, a startup that enables big cloud computing vendors to customise SSDs, has picked up $23m in Series D funding.
Typically, SSD controllers are one size fits all -...
Regarding Violin Systems and its race for All-Flash Array glory
Violin Systems has launched its latest VXS 8 all-flash array into what it calls the extreme performance all-flash array market.
Its a hot box with latency down to 50μs when...
Two-horse HCI race with graphical clarity
Dell Technologies and Nutanix, the leaders of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance market, are increasing their dominance, while their competitors in the following pack look to be fighting for...
A quick run through Axellio’s iWARP all-flash Hyper-V HCI box
Axellio has jumped onto the hyperconverged train with the FabrixXpress edge-computing appliance, a software-defined "datacenter in a box" for enterprises and service providers to build on-premises and hybrid integration...