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In this week’s storage news roundup, there are signs of a coming together of Kioxia and Western Digital over zoned SSDs. Also ,Elastic is adding searchable snapshots stored in public cloud object stores.

Storage solutions provider, Infinidat, has appointed Shahar Bar-Or as its new chief product officer and general manager of its Israeli operations. Bar-Or will be tasked with overseeing the company's R&D, quality assurance/validation, product innovations as well as operations and IT.

Infinidat has appointed a head of product who reports direct to the executive chairman. What does it mean for Kariel Sandler, co-CEO who runs R&D and Operations? And what does it mean for the co-CEO structure that the high-end storage array vendor put in place in the wake of a funding round and subsequent departure of the company’s founder CEO?

Performance has always been a product attribute that IT vendors brag about. For decades, almost all attention was focused on CPUs — specifically how many millions of instructions per second (MIPS) they could process. Unfortunately, product specifications like MIPS don’t reflect actual customer value.