
Startup Qumulo Bets Data Trumps Storage
A month after announcing a $40 million funding round, scale-out intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with a "data-aware" network-attached storage offering dubbed Qumulo Core. ...Full Article
Digital Photo Leader Embraces Flash Storage
As the name implies, Shutterfly Inc. is a digital retailer of high-end "personalized photo-based products and services," which is to say it has turned the family photo album in ...Full Article
SanDisk Touts ‘Big Data’ Flash Storage
SanDisk said it is targeting big data workloads with an all-flash storage scheme touted as overcoming a key price barrier for an all-flash storage array. The flash storage specialist ...Full Article
HGST Acquires Object Storage Specialist Amplidata
In a bid to boost its software-defined storage portfolio as its pushes deeper into enterprise storage, Western Digital's HGST unit announced a deal to acquire Amplidata, a developer of ...Full Article
Violin Memory Fiddles With Primary Storage
The push to elevate all-flash arrays as the primary storage technology of choice got a boost this week from Violin Memory Inc., which rolled out two new all-flash arrays ...Full Article
Storage Startup Qumulo Raises $40M
An enterprise data storage startup has announced a second funding round along with the addition of industry veterans to its board. Seattle-based Qumulo Inc. bills itself as the next ...Full Article
Flash Startup to Support VMware Storage Push
In the wake of VMware's launch this week of a new generation of enterprise products aimed at promoting adoption of software-defined storage, third-party storage vendors are lining up to ...Full Article
Researchers Put a New Spin on Graphene Chips
Among the post-silicon candidate materials for future chip manufacturing is graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice. One hurdle to the use of graphene as a ...Full Article
Flash Startup NexGen Targets Flash Utilization
NexGen Storage Inc., the flash array specialist spun out earlier this month from SanDisk Corp., unveiled a new hybrid flash array this week along with intelligent caching software designed ...Full Article
Dell Drops Price on All-Flash Storage Arrays
Dell Inc.'s storage unit rolled out a pair of all-flash storage array configurations this week priced as low $25,000 in a bid to overcome cost barriers that have hampered ...Full Article