Intel Jumps Into the PCIe SSD Market
Intel has gotten into the fast-growing and lucrative market for PCIe SSDs. The company has announced a PCIe SSD, the 910, that provides the high performance you would expect of a PCIe drive with the...
View ArticleSTEC SSD Survey Yields Surprising Results
STEC ran a survey at VMworld this week to determine who was using SSDs and how they were using them. Some of the results were a little surprising. Out of 136 attendees surveyed: Only 5% believe that...
View ArticleWestern Digital to Acquire sTec
The following is excerpted from an Objective Analysis Alert e-mailed to our clients on 24 June, 2013: Western Digital Corporation (WDC) and sTec, Incorporated announced today an agreement for sTec to...
View ArticleEMC Chooses EMC Storage!
An acquaintance pointed out that EMC has published a case study detailing how one of its divisions, EMC Corporate IT, decided to use an EMC Isilon storage system over other competing candidates: After...
View ArticleWho’s #1 in Flash Arrays?
A recent conversation with some fellow analysts revealed a puzzling set of claims. EMC, at its EMC World conference (May 3-7) claimed to be the leader in flash array shipments. The very next week, in...
View ArticleIBM Refreshes Broad Swath of Flash Offerings
Yesterday IBM unveiled a sweeping update of its existing flash storage products. These updates cover a range of products, including IBM Storwize All Flash arrays: V7000F, V7000 Gen2+, and V5030F, the...
View ArticleKaminario Adopts Software-Only Business Model
Kaminario recently decided to adopt a “software-centric” business model, rather than sell all-flash arrays as the company has done since its inception. The company says that this will allow it “to...
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