I initially held off reviewing E8 Storage as we had a podcast scheduled with CEO Zivan Ori, which went live last Friday. Rather than make assumptions about the technology, I wanted to ensure I was giving some credit to the architecture. I’m glad I did wait because there were one or two fundamentals I hadn’t… Read more »
The desire to provide cheaper and greater capacity storage devices knows no bounds and has been a focus of the industry for the last 60 years. Following on from Seagate’s 60TB “concept” flash drive, we now have two vendors selling 50TB OEM flash drives from Nimbus Data. Let’s put that into context – the largest… Read more »
Despite all the recent noise around software defined storage (SDS), vendors still keep coming to the market with new hardware solutions. Over the past weeks we’ve seen new products from Nimbus Data and emerging startup E8. Nimbus Nimbus Data has had what can only be called a ‘chequered’ history. My first introduction to the company was… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
This week IBM announced three new flash products, two of which are based on existing technology. Mainframe/Power customers got the all-flash DS8888, with the A9000 and A9000R models covering the rest of the market. What’s interesting about these latter two products is that they are based on Spectrum Accelerate, otherwise known as the software behind… Read more »
Flash storage (and in particular, NAND flash) has taken the IT world by storm and is quickly set to replace the majority of HDDs as the choice for primary storage systems. We now have every major storage vendor delivering all-flash solutions. Most recently, EMC finally showed more details on DSSD, a new product in the… Read more »
This week Nimble Storage announced an all-flash array in a series of events around the globe that were based on presentations at the main event in San Francisco. Many bloggers were flown in specially from around the world, to help get the all-flash message out. Nimble has been a long-time provider of hybrid storage solutions… Read more »
Earlier this month SanDisk announced InfiniFlash, their first entry into the All-Flash storage array (AFA) market. I briefly blogged on the market impacts over on my company blog at Langton Blue; here I’m going to look a bit more into the specifics of the platform. First of all, let’s look at the detail here. From a… Read more »
Earlier this week Violin Memory (NYSE:VMEM) released two new products that close the loop on integrating data services into the company’s familiar 3U appliance. Under the branding of Flash Storage Platform the company announced the new 7300E entry level model, which scales to 35TB raw (125TB effective), while the 7300 scales to 70TB raw (217TB… Read more »
