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Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane

Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint. In a press briefing...
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Lightbits Labs: HCI systems needlessly chew up SSD budgets

Lightbits Labs, an all-flash array startup, claims VMware vSAN HCI systems need external SANs to use flash memory properly. Users may only get only get 15 to...
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Kioxia and LITE-ON delay SSD business transfer

LITE-ON has deferred the transfer of its SSD business to Kioxia due to the pandemic, but still expects it to go ahead. Kioxia, the...
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Pavilion Data unfurls NVMe-oF array roadmap

Pavilion Data is developing a NVMe-oF flash array that is double the speed and capacity of its current line-up. The storage vendor also plans to release several...
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Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more

Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically. Commvault...
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Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more

Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking. Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte...
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NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage

NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies. Coldago, a...
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Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate

Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming,...
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Micron gives insight (kinda) into 3D XPoint revenues for the first time

Micron sold at least $118.8m worth of 3D XPoint media and drives in its second fy2020 quarter, ended February 27. This is the first time the US...
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Diamanti: K8s workloads run so much faster on our bare metal HCI system

Profile: Diamanti has built a bare metal Kubernetes container platform with persistent all-flash storage. The California startup was founded in 2014 by three...