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Data center storage

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Infinidat storage plans NVMe-oF driver in 2020

  Infinidat CTO Brian Carmody says NVMe protocol is a 'perfect match' for hybrid InfiniBox disk arrays. Customers are beta testing Infinidat NVMe drivers, starting with RoCE 4.

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Storage admins 'unleashed' in age of cloud

  Storage professionals should feel 'unleashed' and empowered in the age of cloud to avoid the tedious admin work and hit the reset button by modernizing data center storage.

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NetApp cloud push prompts discussion of data center future

  Admins at NetApp storage conference consider moving everything from physical data centers into public clouds, although such a shift is likely years away for most enterprises.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  New NVMe IBM storage for Spectrum Scale cuts install time

  IBM introduces new NVMe-based flash storage system bundled with Spectrum Scale, enables Spectrum Discover to access backup date, and updates pay-as-you-grow pricing.

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  MAMR tech fuels mammoth 20 TB hard drives

  Age-old hard disk drives get a new twist as energy-assisted technologies fuel Western Digital's upcoming new 20 TB HDDs and rivals Seagate and Toshiba work on product plans.

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Western Digital IntelliFlash adds NVMe, SAS storage

  The expanded Western Digital IntelliFlash models include low-end N5100 NVMe and high-density HD2160 SAS arrays. IntelliFlash OS now supports live migration to an S3-compatible cloud.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Seagate 16 TB hard drives amplify storage for Exos, IronWolf

  Seagate has introduced a collection of 16 TB HDDs to its Exos, IronWolf and IronWolf Pro lines that can store massive amounts of data, while maintaining a small footprint.

• May 28, 2019 28 May'19

  NetApp, Pure misses raise all-flash storage questions

  NetApp said 'execution challenges' cut into earnings last quarter due, in part, to changing data center buying patterns. All-flash vendor Pure Storage's losses grew to $100 million.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Infinidat InfiniBox preps SMB protocol nodes for Windows

  All-flash arrays command most of the attention, but Infinidat claims its InfiniBox arrays deliver the performance of flash on commodity-priced spinning disk.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes

  University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center.

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Toshiba set to launch 16 TB HDD for cloud-scale users

  Toshiba will try to get a jump on rivals Seagate and Western Digital with a new 16 TB hard disk drive that targets cloud-scale users in need of low-cost, high-density storage.

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Cloud, data management top 2019 enterprise data storage options

  Data management -- on premises and in the cloud -- appears on the rise as a 2019 spending priority for storage pros, while flash arrays and converged infrastructure may have peaked.

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Newisys no longer, OEM wants to be a Viking in storage

  Sanmina Corp. subsidiary Newisys recently plunged into enterprise storage with an NVMe all-flash system. In a bid to extend its presence in storage, Newisys is now called Viking Enterprise ...

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  NetApp Cloud Volumes gives new wrinkle to OnTap file storage

  NetApp appends services to Data Fabric that aim to help enterprises flexibly manage their data between local storage and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google.

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

  Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology?