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Flash storage for applications

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Pure Storage CEO back after COVID-19 battle

  Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo said it took him a month to recover from an extended bout with coronavirus. Meanwhile, Pure's revenue grew by 12% last quarter despite the pandemic.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  HPE 3PAR vets launch cloud-defined storage startup Nebulon

  Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage is on-premises-based, using controllers on PCI cards inside servers and AI-driven cloud management for application owners.

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  Vast Data wows investors with 'flash everywhere' design

  In the throes of economic uncertainty caused by a global pandemic, investors pour $100 million into startup that sells a million-dollar storage system, Vast Data Universal Storage.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

  Containers on bare-metal flash and souped-up processing highlight innovations in storage, aiming for seamless data movement between local and cloud arrays.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Qumulo NAS file system adds encryption, security

  Qumulo juices its file system with encryption, real-time security audits and other capabilities designed to position the scale-out NAS for denser, more complex workloads.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  New enterprise PCIe 4.0 SSDs from Kioxia, Samsung double speed

  Kioxia's new performance-boosting PCIe 4.0 enterprise SSDs add support for NVMe 1.4 and U.3 universal backplane specs, join Samsung models offering a maximum capacity of 30.72 TB.

• December 26, 2019 26 Dec'19

  Enterprise flash adoption poised for new uses, experts say

  Enterprise flash memory technologies are evolving with NVMe fabrics, QLC drives and storage class memory. The new options will enable data centers to expand flash use cases.

• 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.

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  DDN storage expands, buys Western Digital's IntelliFlash

  Western Digital makes an abrupt exit from the storage systems business, while DataDirect Networks continues its storage portfolio growth with IntelliFlash platform.

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Data protection customers turn to Pure Storage FlashBlade

  Pure Storage created the FlashBlade all-flash NAS mainly for dense unstructured workloads, but customers like Domino's Pizza and ServiceNow are among Pure customers that use it as a backup target.

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Latest Oracle layoffs gut flash storage division

  Oracle laid off much of the division that built and maintained its FS1 All Flash Storage Array this week. Analysts expect the company’s storage focus will be on Exadata and cloud options.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Pure Storage AIRI trains FlashBlade NAS at hyperscalers

  Pure Storage teams with Nvidia and Cisco to bring out FlashBlade with Hyperscale AIRI, extending its AIRI partnership with Nvidia, while introducing Pure-Cisco FlashStack for AI.

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  All-flash startup Storbyte previews Eco-Flash file system

  Storbyte Eco-Flash drive technology situates Hydra ASIC chips on drives to prolong endurance in write-heavy environments. Eco-Flash stripes data on multiple M.2 modules.

• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  Western Digital Ultrastar DC ME200 optimizes memory storage

  Western Digital extends its Ultrastar SSD line, adding a software-defined layer for fast in-memory computing. An onboard hypervisor mounts the storage capacity as usable memory.

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  New 12 Gbps single-port Toshiba SAS SSD takes aim at SATA

  Toshiba designed a new single-ported 12 Gbps RM5 SAS SSD to replace slower 6 Gbps SATA SSDs in servers until faster NVMe-based PCIe SSDs are ready for wider market adoption.

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Industry vet Lewis reveals plan to save Violin flash storage

  New Violin Systems CEO Mark Lewis' strategy for saving the flash vendor focuses on its core high-performance technology and a rebuilt channel partner-oriented sales team.

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  Pure Storage cloud plan gets warm reception from end users

  Pure Storage made new FlashArray and FlashBlade all-flash systems generally available this week, emphasizing their role in moving data seamlessly between local and cloud storage.

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Pure Storage software tooled up for containers, OpenShift, VMware

  Pure Storage adds software for building, managing and protecting data in containers, clouds, VMs and on premises. Pure ES2 subscription offers a managed on-premises cloud.

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Pure Storage all-flash revamp accelerates and consolidates

  The Pure Accelerate conference kicks off with an NVMe-enabled FlashArray refresh and upgrades to all-flash Pure AIRI and FlashStack-Cisco UCS converged infrastructure for Oracle.

• May 03, 2018 03 May'18

  Dell EMC midrange storage keeps its overlapping arrays

  Dell EMC plans to keep overlapping midrange storage for now. Dell Technologies World 2018 rollouts included CloudIQ analytics and Isilon SaaS beta with Google Cloud Platform.

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI

  The new Pure Storage CEO sees NVMe as the immediate future for flash storage; he's also considering hyper-convergence and 'looking at some things' on the M&A front.

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Toshiba NVMe lineup adds new SSDs, software to pool drives

  Toshiba bolsters NVMe support with new 2.5-inch U.2 and small-form-factor M.2 solid-state drives and KumoScale storage software to pool NVMe SSDs over a network fabric.

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Nimbus Data due to ship 100 TB SSD this summer

  Nimbus Data claims the new ExaDrive DC100 will draw less power, improve endurance and provide balanced read and write performance compared with other enterprise SSDs.

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Pure Storage FlashStack is recycler's renewable resource

  Food waste recycler Valley Proteins chose Pure Storage's all-flash converged infrastructure to replace Dell EMC VNX-Cisco UCS for 24 TB of usable storage with Cohesity backup.

• February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17

  Datrium storage adds Blanket Encryption for end-to-end data protection

  Datrium's Blanket Encryption software encrypts deduplicated and compressed data from servers to storage, but doesn't yet support third-party key management products.

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  EMC Unity: Redesign or rehash?

  EMC unveils three all-flash systems at EMC World 2016, including new midrange Unity platform that draws fire from smaller competitors.

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Propane provider gives SAN the gas with Violin flash array

  Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management.

• January 13, 2010 13 Jan'10

  Vendors take different approaches to automated tiered storage software for solid-state drives

  Compellent says real-time automated tiered storage is stymied by disk drive transfer rates, but EMC and Avere say their software can overcome that limitation.