It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming: Storage's coming home
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/16/week_in_storage_ending_july_16/
Quite a few things happened in the land of storage this past week. When it came to hardware, there were a raft of substitutions in the second half, and we also saw the appearance of a new benchmark that hopes to punt real-world workloads past the goalie. There was also, of course, an attempt to win back precious possession of, er, Tintri. Clear away the beer cans and get ready to rack up some wins with a week in the world of mad flash and spinning rust.
IBM has a redesigned FlashSystem 9100 (FS9100) to offer the crowds... a go-faster and store-more redesign of the FlashSystem 900 (FS900) using proprietary or off-the-shelf small form factor NVMe drives.