Category: Storage News&Tips

July 13, 2018

Investors poured more money in North American data centers last year than they did in any previous year – more than in three previous years combined, according to CBRE – and the level of investment is expected to rise even […]

July 12, 2018

A surprising no-show at this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference was any kind of hardware refresh for Apple’s Mac products. While WWDC is first and foremost a software development show, it’s also been a convenient event for Apple to […]

July 12, 2018

Today Snowflake Computing announced that its data warehouse-as-a-service is immediately available on Microsoft Azure for preview. Up until today, Snowflake’s WaaS only ran on AWS. This expansion allows an entirely new set of customers to take advantage of the benefits […]

July 10, 2018

While Intel has yet to detail its upcoming Cascade Lake processors for servers, some of the key characteristics are beginning to emerge. According to a new report from ServeTheHome, some of the new chips will support up to 3.84 TB […]

July 6, 2018

FinancialForce is betting that the number of businesses relying more on services to drive profitability is about to expand exponentially. The company has expanded a professional services automation (PSA) cloud application that it makes available as a complement to the […]

July 5, 2018

Seagate has pretty much always been a major player in the storage market, where they’re known primarily for their hard drives. They haven’t been completely absent from the SSD market, but they have focused almost exclusively on the enterprise SSD […]

July 5, 2018

Until now, ADATA’s SSD portfolio has consisted of client-focused SSDs and industrial-grade models based on similar hardware but optionally rated for extreme temperatures, with only the occasional purely server-oriented SSD. ADATA is entering a new market segment with the release […]

June 29, 2018

Mainstream enterprise storage vendors are embracing NVMe. HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, Kaminario and Tegile all offer all-NVMe arrays. According to these vendors, the products will soon support storage class memory as well. NVMe protocol access to flash memory […]

June 26, 2018

FRANKFURT, Germany and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 26, 2018 –- DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced a set of data platforms for artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL). Engineered for the AI data center, DDN’s A3I™ (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) […]

June 22, 2018

The company is deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology, which will increase overall storage density, reduce the company’s physical data center footprint, and provide cost savings without sacrificing performance or reliability. The company will be the first company to […]

June 15, 2018

Storbyte announced it has solved the solid-state storage ‘write cliff’ problem without the overprovisioning or complex workarounds required by flash array vendors. Write-cliff conditions are all too familiar to flash storage manufacturers, as is the common performance and endurance deficiencies […]