Flash memory and storage

HPE storage still on its Nimble high

Hewlett Packard Enterprise extended its impressive storage turnaround last quarter. For the second straight quarter, HPE storage revenue increased 24% year-over-year – jumping to $912 million for ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Micron starts shipping denser QLC SSD to select customers

Micron and Intel unleash QLC NAND flash that can store 4 bits per cell. Micron starts shipping a 2.5-inch QLC enterprise SATA SSD to select customers and targets fall for general availability. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Pure Storage: flash is a means, not an end, to shared data

SAN FRANCISCO – Pure Storage will push the theme of a “data-centric architecture” at its annual Accelerate user conference that begins Wednesday. Data-centric architecture is Pure’s description for ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Pavilion Data gets funded for NVMe-oF push

As all-flash array pioneer Pure Storage celebrates its $1 billion in annual revenues, two of its former executives are planning the next big thing in flash. Pavilion Data, whose CEO Gurpreet Singh ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Does SSD overprovisioning have storage benefits?

While overprovisioned SSDs have less usable capacity available, that space is put to good use. The majority of SSD manufacturers overprovision their drives, and for good reason. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Five NVMe-oF questions you've been dying to ask

The NVMe over Fabrics specification is growing in popularity, thanks to its ability to reduce latency and increase performance. But is it just a fad or here to stay? Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

NetApp NVMe AFF array plays capacity tune for AI listeners

NetApp pumps out an NVMe-ready All Flash FAS array with 30 TB Samsung drives and 700 TB of usable storage. SAN users can upgrade to FC over NVMe on select OnTap systems. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

NVMe technology is but a first step toward bigger things

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Three trends causing the rapid commoditization of AFA storage

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The AFA market faces unprecedented and rapid commoditization

Prices of all-flash arrays have nosedived. Massive discounts due to fierce competition are contributing to rapid and unprecedented commoditization of all-flash arrays and changes in the AFA market. Meantime, the demand for AFAs is shrinking because of increasing hyper-convergence and cloud adoption. This is bad news for storage vendors. To survive, they must innovate and differentiate themselves by solving real problems users face. But it's all to the advantage of storage buyer in today's AFA market. Learn how and why this is happening and how you can benefit.

The data explosion has pushed storage systems to the breaking point, leading many enterprises to spend a good deal of their IT dollars on the cloud, backup storage and on-premises flash, according to the TechTarget 2018 IT Priorities Survey. More than half of those surveyed will see their IT budgets increase in 2018, according to the IT spending trends study. And the average growth in spending across all enterprises will be about the same this year as it was in 2017. Demand for on-premises storage infrastructure, meanwhile, continues unabated for a large percentage of companies, as it does for hyper-converged and converged infrastructures.

Reliance on the cloud is leading almost a third of respondents to consolidate cloud workloads to better meet the management challenges presented by multiple cloud environments, while the on-demand model of the cloud itself has altered how we expect to consume and pay for IT resources. This includes storage, where vendors have changed how they deliver core features like deduplication and compression. The 2018 IT spending trends highlighted in this issue shed considerable light on today's storage market. This, in turn, will help elucidate your present and future storage needs.

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Three trends causing the rapid commoditization of AFA storage

Advancing technology and changing market forces have shifted the dynamics in the all-flash array market, opening it up to new challengers and benefiting customers. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

NVMe technology is but a first step toward bigger things

NVMe is an inevitable move forward for flash technology that begins the transition to storage-class memory and will lead to even more significant storage advances. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Dell EMC all-flash PowerMax replaces VMAX, injects NVMe

Dell EMC rebrands its high-end, all-flash VMAX system as PowerMax, which is packed with NVMe flash and inline data reduction. A single system scales to 4 PB, with an onboard AI tiering engine. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

AFA storage tackles big data analytics challenges

The latest generation of all-flash array storage is delivering the high performance and low latency required to support petabyte-scale big data analytics workloads. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Cisco MDS FC Director switches expand with eye on NVMe

Networking giant Cisco adds two MDS FC Director switches for small and medium-sized businesses. The vendor said it wants to speed transition to 32 Gbps FC for NVMe flash. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Ultrathin memory storage device could spell breakthroughs

According to its creators, atomristor technology promises a vast improvement on modern flash storage devices, but mainstream use may still be far off. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Broadcom preps for NVMe over Fibre Channel with Brocade gear

Broadcom ships its first Brocade FC switching products and updates SAN management for NVMe with the goal of making Fibre Channel the fabric of choice for NVMe storage. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Leading hybrid storage arrays offer flexibility, scalability

By examining how leading hybrid storage systems address scalability, system management and company size, your organization can select the array that will best meet its needs. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

How to get the full benefits from NVMe flash storage

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How to get the full benefits from NVMe flash storage

Consolidate and increase the density of your organization's workloads in a flash storage system to take full advantage of NVMe's parallelism and reduced latency. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Nvidia, Pure Storage FlashBlade lift 'AIRI' infrastructure

Pure Storage AIRI is AI-ready infrastructure that integrates Pure's all-flash FlashBlade NAND storage blades and four Nvidia DGX-1 artificial intelligence supercomputers. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

The end of Moore's law for SSD performance

SSDs are seeing diminishing returns as Moore's law ends and quantum effects set in. Multilayers and more bits per cell are temporary fixes, but both have drawbacks. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

NVMe compatibility is key when transitioning SAS and SATA SSDs

Getting ahead of the SSD interface performance curve requires foresight and careful planning. As NVMe technology evolves, new adopters are looking for ways to ease the changeover. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

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. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Symbolic IO becomes Formulus Black

Symbolic IO has changed its name as part of “complete rebranding” months after its founder was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Symbolic IO is now called Formulus Black. The company made no ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Hybrid storage array vendors offer simplicity, ease of use

Although hybrid arrays are similar in functionality from one system to another, subtle differences in features can make one array more appropriate for a given application. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

How to mitigate SSD vulnerabilities

SSDs could pose a security risk for organizations that aren't careful when they decommission drives. Learn what you need to know about keeping data stored on SSDs safe. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

NVMe SSDs: Is there a need for all this speed?

Everything you should know to decide if nonvolatile memory express is right for your enterprise and, if it is, how to plan for the future of flash storage. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

NVMe SSDs: Is there a need for all this speed?

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The future of flash storage: Is NVMe right for your enterprise?

Cracks in the SAS and SATA protocols started to appear with the rise of SSDs and the exponential performance improvements they delivered over HDD technology. This led to the development of the nonvolatile memory express protocol to exploit flash's potential. As the future of flash storage, NVMe addresses many of SAS and SATA's shortcomings by, among other things, connecting storage devices closer to the processor to reduce latency and introducing parallelism using multiple I/O queues and greater queue depth to match flash's ability to process many requests in parallel -- something SAS and SATA drives can't do. NVMe SSD adoption is leading to new storage architectures and helping give rise to disaggregated approaches to storage. NVMe-based devices come at a cost premium, however. Find out if and when you should move to NVMe and what the best use cases are for the future of flash storage and your enterprise.

Monetizing malware through ransomware has led to massive financial losses for companies worldwide. Ransomware is a megabillion-dollar industry and is becoming more sophisticated all the time. Although data backup restoration remains the best way to deal with a ransomware attack, it's no longer foolproof. It's time to rethink your organization's backup and restoration processes, acknowledge the hidden dangers of replication and revisit your permissions model to strengthen your defenses against the ransomware threat. Here's how.

Economic espionage, the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, is another threat U.S. companies face. It can be rogue employees with access to company information doing the stealing, but most often, cybercriminals commit the crime. Effectively combatting economic espionage requires implementing a range of IT measures covered in this article.

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Tintri flash sales won't keep CEO Klein in job much longer

Popularity of Tintri E6000 flash storage helped the vendor beat quarterly revenue and earnings estimates on Monday, but muting the upbeat tone was news of layoffs and CEO Ken Klein’s decision to ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Pure Storage revenue tops $1 billion, says ‘hello’ to profit

Pure Storage has joined the billion-dollar club. On Thursday, the all-flash provider completed two long-sought goals by posting fiscal-year revenue of $1.023 billion, up 41%, en route to achieving ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

NAND flash memory technologies evolve to support QLC

QLC NAND pushes the storage capacity of flash devices higher, but devices can wear out more quickly than other NAND types because more data can be written to the same cell. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Intel P4510 U.2 SSD ships with 64-layer TLC 3D NAND

Intel launched a new P4510 Series of U.2 solid-state drives (SSDs) equipped with its 64-layer triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND flash and enhanced firmware, enabling greater storage density and lower ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

NetApp cloud-flash pivot brings cheers

NetApp attributed strong product revenue growth last quarter in part to two-a-days – it’s averaging two displacements of rivals’ all-flash SAN systems every day. Success in NetApp cloud and flash ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Time for a flash storage system refresh: What's next?

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Time for a flash storage system refresh: What's next?

The second wave of flash storage systems in the enterprise must be about optimizing flash performance and density, not just IOPS, and being faster than its hard disk predecessor. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

NVMe flash hopeful E8 Storage goes software-only route

All-flash array startup E8 Storage has expanded into reference architecture with the launch of a software-only version. The new product, E8 Storage Software, runs on rack servers from Dell EMC, ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

When to use TLC NAND flash memory

TLC NAND flash storage devices wear out quickly, and they're not as fast as MLC or SLC. But TLC devices are a good choice for tier 2 storage and read-heavy applications. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Kaminario storage jettisons hardware for software-only cloud model

Kaminario is the latest vendor to deemphasize hardware in favor of a solely software-defined approach. Under its new strategy, customers will buy Kaminario storage as a reference stack from global ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

New enterprise SATA Micron SSDs use 64-layer 3D NAND flash

Micron launches new 5200 Series enterprise SATA SSDs with high-density 64-layer 3D NAND flash technology, offering similar performance to prior 32-layer 5100 Series. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Factors to consider before evaluating hybrid storage systems

The right hybrid flash storage can help an organization maximize its storage capacity and improve performance. Learn what factors to consider before evaluating hybrid storage arrays. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

Key factors that affect NAND flash memory endurance

Program/erase cycles, write amplification and even garbage collection contribute to faster NAND flash wear-out. But wear leveling and bad block can help. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

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. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

NVMe enterprise flash storage, new memory mean change in 2018

Storage executives and industry analysts predict NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and new memory technologies will disrupt the storage industry this year and into the future. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Rehearsals over, Violin Systems raises curtain on comeback

Violin flash customers can consume FSP hardware as a service with three-year subscription at guaranteed cost of 1 cent per GB per month, based on 140 TB and data deduplication. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Potential NVMe benefits spark enterprise IT interest

Enterprise IT pros who have seen the benefits of conventional flash storage are looking ahead to potential use cases for faster NVMe-based technologies. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Persistent storage-class memory to revolutionize data centers

Since it doesn't lose data during power outages, persistent memory will revolutionize direct-attached storage in particular and the cost/performance ratio of computing overall. Continue Reading

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• Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

Persistent storage-class memory to revolutionize data centers

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Reduxio Systems' storage wows human resources specialist

Reduxio HX550 hybrid arrays provide primary storage with native data protection for CPP's talent management software, which includes a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

NVMe SSD storage costs won't hinder market takeover

Storage vendors agree that NVMe will become the default for solid-state drives, but it must still overcome cost and configuration challenges. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Hybrid storage arrays join multiple storage types to cut costs

Despite being more complex than all-flash or all-hard disk drive systems, hybrid systems offer the speed and low latency of flash and the economy of HDDs, tape or cloud. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

NVMe-focused Toshiba storage node software due in '18

Toshiba plans to deliver storage node software designed to extend the high performance and low latency benefits of NVMe-based solid-state drives over a network fabric. Toshiba Memory America’s ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Western Digital-Toshiba flash clash ends

Western Digital and Toshiba settled their NAND dispute with an out-of-court settlement that allows Toshiba’s sale of its NAND chip business while WD keeps its stake in the companies’ joint venture. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Which enterprise NVMe SSD vendor is right for me?

Picking an NVMe drive is an important decision. Consider thermal control, proprietary software and drive architecture to make the right choice. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

NVMe-oF and storage class memory set to disrupt storage

NVM Express over Fabrics and storage class memory may disrupt traditional storage over the next half decade in much the same way NAND flash did over the last five years. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Kato, Taneja Group

NVMe-oF and storage class memory set to disrupt storage

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Pure Storage revenue boost puts it on ‘march to profit’

Pure Storage hit a home run in its first quarter under CEO Charlie Giancarlo. Pure Storage revenue of $278 million last month exceeded the high point of its  guidance and increased 41% from last ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase

Meg Whitman says it’s time for “a new generation” to take over Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She was talking about the CEO change when she made that comment during the company’s earnings call last ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Do users need 3D NAND flash memory?

The population of users who need 3D NAND flash chips on their computers is limited to those who run extremely large workloads, such as big applications or multiple virtual machines. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

NAND flash memory basics: Comparing SLC, MLC and TLC NAND

NAND is the most popular type of flash, but there are many different types, and they each serve a different purpose. Do you know your NAND flash basics? Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

NetApp revenue rides flash gravy train

NetApp is showing a legacy storage array vendor can still increase revenue impressively during these days of scant storage growth. NetApp Wednesday night reported its fourth straight quarter of ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NOR vs. NAND flash memory: What companies need to know

NOR and NAND flash memory each suit different use cases, and companies looking at a flash memory product need to know the difference before they buy. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Are you ready for NVMe storage and the future of flash?

Three factors to consider beyond technical capabilities before designing and investing money and resources in a low-latency NVMe flash storage network. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Are you ready for NVMe storage and the future of flash?

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3D TLC NAND gives capacity boost to IBM FlashSystem 900

FlashSystem 900 building blocks are the foundation of IBM FlashSystem A9000 and V9000 arrays. New NAND modules use 3D TLC in place of planar 2D enterprise MLC. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Solid-state drive performance metrics go beyond latency, IOPS

In determining performance and lifespan of an SSD, companies must consider the drive's architecture, the storage controller and write amplification in addition to IOPS and latency. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Violin Systems CEO Abbasi says profits coming in 2018

All-flash pioneer Violin emerges from bankruptcy; 2018 plans call for profits, acquisition, NVMe deployments and software-defined scalability. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hybrid storage arrays offer the best of all storage worlds

Hybrid flash arrays provide performance benefits over all-flash and all-hard disk storage systems and can address the varying workload demands of today's organizations. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

Western Digital CEO vows to block Toshiba NAND sale

Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan said he remains confident his company will win its fight to prevent its NAND manufacturing joint venture partner Toshiba from selling its memory chip unit without ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NVMe flash array startups Pavilion Data, Vexata jump in

The 4U Pavilion Memory NVMe flash array comes with 20 controllers and 40 Ethernet ports. Vexata markets VX-100 appliances running Active Data Fabric distributed storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Dell EMC acquisition: The deal of the century a year later

A year has passed since the Dell EMC acquisition, the biggest transaction in the history of IT. With the benefit of hindsight, we examine the positives, negatives and uncertainties of the deal. Did Dell buy the world's biggest storage vendor, or did EMC round out its infrastructure strategy? Was the timing of the Dell EMC acquisition good, and were the reasons behind it sound? Does it matter? What are the long-term prospects? How about the complications of integrating companies with different corporate cultures and overlapping product lines? What's the effect on the data storage market in general?

Public cloud use has increased at a remarkable rate. So much so, it's a matter of when, not if, public cloud adoption will match on-site infrastructure. Vendor lock-in is a top concern IT decision-makers and practitioners have with cloud services. An emerging set of multicloud primary storage products mitigate this problem by providing data services simultaneously across multiple public clouds. Explore the key drivers and benefits of these multicloud storage products and services. Find out what customers want from them. And learn about the vendors that meet these diverse customer requirements and how they deliver on the promise of multicloud storage.

The open source software movement has potential to change the face of storage. With the commoditization of servers and storage media, costs are low and reliability is high enough to use off-the-shelf components to build storage platforms with software-defined storage products, including open source. This trend is reducing or eliminating dependence on proprietary storage hardware and software. Find out which open source technologies support object-, file- and block-based storage individually or in combination.

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A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger

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Accelerate predictive analytics software with flash technology

For organizations that must analyze large amounts of data quickly and efficiently, nothing beats solid-state storage. Predictive analytics applications perform better with flash. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Qumulo Core File Fabric knits cloud bursting, replication

New Qumulo storage fabric replicates data between local and public cloud storage on AWS. QF2 is the first version of Core that runs in a public cloud. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Is there a Ceph client to connect Windows machines?

Integrating Ceph and Windows isn't as straightforward as connecting Ceph to Linux machines. You'll need a Ceph Gateway or SUSE Enterprise Storage to get the job done. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition

In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ... Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Toshiba memory business sale points to Bain-led consortium

The Toshiba memory business could be sold to a Bain Capital-led consortium that reportedly includes Apple, Dell Technologies and Seagate if the parties can strike a deal that passes legal muster ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Back-end storage considerations for in-memory processing

Storing hot data in main memory removes the latency associated with hard disk and solid-state storage operations; it's the best option for need-it-now data. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

How NVMe over Fabrics will change the storage environment

Expect NVMe to supplant SCSI and SAS protocols for SSD storage and NVMe over Fabrics to find a place in high-end networking deployments for transporting data. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

HPE storage more Nimble after $1.2 billion buy

HPE storage sales received a boost last quarter from its $1.2 bilion Nimble Storage acquisition. HPE did not break out its total storage revenue by product, or even give a total amount except to ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

How NVMe over Fabrics will change the storage environment

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How to determine the true cost of flash

If you want to add flash storage, it's important to consider the cost per IOPS and gigabyte compared to HDD volumes, as well as the difference between consumer and enterprise SSDs. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Kaminario K2.N gives composable infrastructure an NVMe twist

Kaminario's K2.N all-flash infrastructure creates multiple virtual arrays from clustered resources. Compute nodes and NVMe shelves connect via RDMA over Converged Ethernet. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tegile becomes the latest Western Digital acquisition

Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen resigned unexpectedly Thursday, as the all-flash pioneer named former Cisco executive Charlie Giancarlo its new leader. Dietzen will stay at Pure as chairman, ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hedvig storage upgrade adds flash tier, encryption options

Hedvig software-defined storage enables 'all-flash hybrids' by supporting tiering across different types of solid-state media inside of commodity hardware systems. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tegile IntelliFlash array family welcomes all-NVMe sibling

A rack of Tegile's IntelliFlash N Series NVMe arrays scales to 60 PB of effective capacity. Tegile promises 3 million IOPS in a single array with full data services at low latency. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

NetApp earnings lifted by all-flash sales

Strong all-flash sales and a new niche acquisition highlighted the NetApp earnings call this week. The vendor on Wednesday reported net revenue of $1.33 billion, up 2% year over year and above the ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Compare XtremIO vs. Unity all-flash storage system for VDI

Dell EMC offers two all-flash storage options geared toward VDI shops. One suits companies with fewer than 500 persistent machines, and the other is for larger deployments. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Nimbus Data ExaDrive tunes into OEM channel

Nimbus Data claims ExaDrive can replace traditional disk in data centers. The 3.5-inch SSDs package flash and intelligent software, including data features in multiple ASICs. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Should I be concerned about SSD lifespan?

HDD and RAID vendors have stirred up FUD around the lifespan of SSD drive cells, but companies considering solid-state don't have to worry about arrays wearing out. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Flash Memory Summit 2017: Flash really on fire

Any claims that "flash is on fire" at Flash Memory Summit 2017 this week drew awkward glances, nervous laughs or groans. That's because one flash system literally caught fire, causing the ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Writable shared flash volumes highlight E8 Storage upgrade

E8 adds parallel file-system support for IBM Spectrum Scale and Oracle RAC deployments. Applications read and write to a shared flash volume on E8-D24 and new E8 X-24 arrays. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

How the leading all-flash array vendors meet storage demands

This in-depth overview of the features and capabilities of the leading AFA storage products can help you determine which configurations may best meet your needs. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

New enterprise SSDs launch from Intel, Micron, Toshiba

SSD manufacturers showing off new 3D NAND products at this year's Flash Memory Summit include Intel, Micron and Toshiba; Intel adds new SSD form factor and Optane options. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa