Today NexGen Storage announced the industry’s first multi-tier all-flash array (AFA) that leverages its patented Quality of Service (QoS). NexGen has two new AFA, the N5-1500 and N5-3000, both of which utilizes multiple tiers of flash including RAM, PCIe flash, and SSDs. NexGen uses its recently patented QoS (Primary Data Storage System with Quality of
Today Intel Corporation announced new products and new collaborations that are geared around dealing with the ever growing Internet Of Things (IoT) and its impact on telecommunications, cloud and data center services. This announcement includes an expansion of Intel’s Xeon processor D-1500 product family and new Intel Ethernet controllers. And the collaborations are with industry
Since the announcement that Dell is buying EMC for $67 billion last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about what this deal means both to me and the vendors we use. Our business is largely an EMC shop for storage, and we use a variety of servers, switches and other products from HP, Cisco and
Today HPE announced that, according to the Storage Performance Council, its 3PAR StorServ 20850 All-Flash Array set a new world record SPC-2. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA was able to take the top spot in the SPC-2 test displacing the former record holder, EMC VMAX 400k. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA also took number 6 in price-performance, making
Today at the ICAP 2015, Spectra Logic Corporation announced its integration of BlackPearl hybrid storage architecture into the HauteView Dock Management System by HauteSpot Networks Corporation. This integration will give law enforcement, transit authorities, fire fighters, EMS professionals and others an ability to store recorded video from body cams in a long-term affordable manner.
Intel has announced that it may invest up to $5.5 Billion to manufacture memory chips in China. The money will be spent on converting Intel’s first Chinese facility, located in Dalian, to start producing 3-D NAND, versus the semiconductors that are currently produced there. Initially Intel planned on keeping the factory behind the production of
October is the month for major acquisitions apparently. Last week Dell acquired EMC for $67 billion in what amounted to the largest tech merger in history, or the largest so far. In slightly smaller announcements, Imation acquired Connected data and Western Digital was granted permission to further integrate HGST into WD. Today marks the second major acquisition announcement of the
A few months ago Dell announced its new Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) line of business. This line of business is aimed at businesses that normally fall through the crack between traditional datacenters and hyperscale (web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations). Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. is announcing
Today at Dell World, Dell Inc. is now offering what they claim to be the industry-leading All-Flash cost-per-gigabyte. Based off of Dell’s 13th generation Poweredge server platform, the arrays combine the new flagship Dell Storage SC9000 storage array controller, new 12Gb SAS expansion enclosures and next generation array software to deliver the lowest cost/GB of
This year at the Spectra Summit in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Spectra Logic unveiled its latest disk-based product, the ArcticBlue. ArcticBlue leverages both Spectra’s BlackPearl deep storage gateway system and SMR technology to deliver the first nearline object storage that responds like disk storage with the longevity of tape. The Artic Blue can deliver up to 6.1PB
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