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• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs

  As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

  Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ...

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search

  Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

  The NVM Express consortium finalized the specs for NVMe-over-TCP fabrics in November. Lightbits Labs' launch features software-defined storage, an appliance and an accelerator card.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Vexata readies VX-Cloud architecture with server partners

  Vexata is thinking outside the box. The NVMe all-flash array vendor is sampling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform reference architecture with major server vendors. The hardware design combines ...

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Paradox: Violin Systems all-flash stays small to grow large

  Violin engineers all-flash storage systems for data centers that require ultrafast performance. The vendor also added ISE G4 arrays from X-IO for secondary storage.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'

  Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ...

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD

  See how startup NGD Systems' 16 TB NVMe-based SSD can run applications inside the SSD controller to eliminate the need to move data between storage and host.

• 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.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers

  Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation

  Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4.

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Pure Storage cloud arrays add flash to Rackspace Service Blocks

  Rackspace data centers have the option to buy Pure Storage FlashArray//X as a consumable service on a dedicated array to facilitate running block storage in clouds.

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Startup Vast Data: Death to disk storage

  With $80 million in funding, the all-flash startup unveils its exabyte-scale Universal Storage system that it claims will make disk storage unnecessary in the data center.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  New NVMe Western Digital SSDs target cloud, hyperscale and edge

  Western Digital adds two new enterprise NVMe SSDs as the enterprise and cloud markets shift from SATA SSDs to faster NVMe. The new drives include 64-layer 3D NAND.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage

  German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors.