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Nexenta Announces NexentaFusion 1.0 Community Edition and NexentaStor 5.0
Nexenta has announced the availability of the enterprise and community edition of NexentaFusion 1.0 and version 5.0 of NexentaStor, the company’s OpenSDS solution. Featuring an intuitive user-interface, efficient workflows, DevOps friendly self-documenting REST APIs and rich storage analytics, NexentaFusion 1.0 and NexentaStor 5.0 are designed to save on operational costs.
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Dell Announces Flexible Converged Systems for Virtualization
Dell has made several announcements at VMworld, including the introduction of the Dell Validated System for Virtualization, touted by the company as the industry’s most flexible converged system, new client virtualization solutions with enhanced performance for demanding use cases, and that VMware has selected Dell Financial Services as its preferred financing partner.
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Mangstor NX6325 NVMf Array Review
The Mangstor NX6325 NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMf) shared storage array offers up to 21.6TB of flash storage in an HP DL380 2U server. Like the NX6320 we reviewed earlier this year, the NX6325 aggregates Mangstor's add-in card (AIC) NVMe drives and shares them out over the network. This enables latency sensitive applications to take advantage of all the great benefits of NVMe storage, without needing to have an AIC inside every server. When paired with the Mellanox SN2700 100GbE switch and ConnectX4 (Ethernet or InfiniBand), the NX6325 has impressive capabilities, offering up reported read performance of 12GB/s and writes of 9Gb/s out of a single array.
August 31st, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
Panzura Releases Panzura Inside
At VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, Panzura announced the release of its new program that combines Panzura’s hybrid cloud NAS software with leading flash arrays and hyperconverged systems, Panzura Inside. Inside will be able to deliver high performance storage for both block and file workloads. The Panzura Inside virtual controller is currently tested with Nimble, Nutanix, Tegile, and Simplivity.
August 31st, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
Axcient Releases Fusion 1.5
At VMorld 2016 in Las Vegas, Axcient announced the latest version of its cloud-converged IT resilience platform, Fusion 1.5. The latest version features new cloud orchestration and workflow automation capabilities that are aimed at simplifying and automating continuity and availability for critical services. The Axcient Fusion IT resilience platform was first announced in June.
August 30th, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
HP Announces New Thin Client Solutions
Today HP Inc. announced a few thin client solutions that designed to support companies as they transition their computing workloads to the cloud. HP is announcing a new Thin Client, the t630, an updated thin client operating system (OS), ThinPro 6, and the industry’s first zero client support for VMware Blast Extreme. HP claims that this trio of new Thin Client solutions will provide powerful and secure resources for end-users manipulating rich content in the cloud.
August 30th, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
VMware Introduces New Capabilities For Its vSphere Integrated Containers
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Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced that it would be adding new capabilities to its VMware vSphere Integrated Containers. VMware states that these new capabilities will enable IT teams to provide a compatible Docker interface to their app teams, running on their existing vSphere infrastructure. The capabilities include a new container registry and management console.
August 30th, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
VMware Introduces VMware Integrated OpenStack 3
Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced the latest release of its OpenStack distribution, based off of the OpenStack Mitaka Release, VMware Integrated OpenStack 3. Today VMware is introducing new features, including support with VMware Cloud Foundation, that are designed to make deploying OpenStack clouds simpler and more cost-effective as well as allowing customers to use existing VMware vSphere workloads in an API-driven OpenStack cloud.
August 30th, 2016 by Adam Armstrong
Scality Partners With OVH For Large-Scale Cloud Storage
Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, Scality announced that it has partnered with the world’s third-largest hosting and Internet infrastructure provider, OVH, to deliver a joint solution designed for large-scale storage needs. Scality will now be able to run its software on OVH servers, which the two companies state is ideal for Hosted Private Clouds environments. OVH customers will now be able to run Scality RING and build Petabyte-scale storage pools, giving them both efficient hosting and efficient storage.
August 29th, 2016 by Lyle Smith
Samsung and VMware Partner for Software-defined Data Center Rack With NVMe SSD Caching
Samsung has partnered with VMware to develop the first fully-operational prototype of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based software-defined data center (SDDC) rack that uses NVMe SSDs. The new prototype will be demonstrated today at VMworld at the Samsung booth. The new VMware Cloud Foundation-based rack leverages six Dell R730XD servers, each configured with two Samsung PM1725 NVMe SSDs as the caching tier, and six Samsung PM863 SSDs as the capacity tier. Samsung indicates that this solution spans successful imaging and bring-up of the integrated system rack, creation of a workload domain, and deployment of applications within the workload-domain-hosted VMware vSphere cluster.
The Synology RackStation RS815RP+ (the RP referring to its use of redundant power supplies) is a high-performing NAS built specifically to handle intensive, resource-heavy tasks and encryption. As is the case with most Synology RackStations, the RS815RP+ is built to easily scale for growing businesses by leveraging the company's RX415 expansion units via eSATA. This allows for the use of 8 total drives for a maximum raw capacity of 80TB, making it ideal for small businesses looking for a rack-based storage solution that can grow with the organization. The RS815+ also features an AES-NI hardware encryption, an engine which distributes the encryption calculation tasks away from the main CPU to help improve overall performance. 
The Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software enables users to monitor and manage all of their power devices in either a physical or virtualized environment. Eaton states that the goal behind IPM is to maintain business continuity by giving users better remote monitoring and management, and in turn, control of the power devices within their network. Recently Eaton updated IPM with new integration with VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0. These new and enhanced features enable additional support for administrators managing their VMware environment and their power devices through a single dashboard.
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The Huawei ES3000 v3 is a series of NVMe SSDs (Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid State Drives) that marks the sixth generation of Huawei’s enterprise-level SSDs. The ES3000 v3 series is Huawei first NVMe drive however. The series comes in two form factors: 2.5” (15mm z-height) and Half-Height, Half-Length add-in card (HHHL AIC). The drive comes in a variety of capacities from 1.2TB to 3.2TB.
