Today HP announced that is was making a series of enhancements to its MSA Storage line. These enhancements include firmware upgrades to boost performance and new systems aimed at smaller sites. These new enhancements are aimed at making small to medium businesses more competitive.
Teradata has released the latest version of its Appliance for Hadoop, version 5. Version 5 is unique as it is the industry’s first configurable platform for Hadoop. On top of that it also provides customers with the choice of Hadoop from either Hortonworks (HDP 2.3) or Cloudera (Cloudera Enterprise 5.4). The latest version of Teradata
Seagate Technology announced that HP will resell its ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 appliances along with HP’s high performance computing (HPC) solutions. HP’s HPC solutions, including its Apollo portfolio, will be equipped with ClusterStor scale-out storage capabilities. This partnership will further advance HPC workloads in complex computing environments.
Today Seagate Technology announced that it is integrating IBM’s Spectrum Scale software into its ClusterStor High Performance Computing (HPC) storage. This integration will deliver a new software defined storage appliance, which will help users manage the demands of data-intensive workloads, such as genomic research, computer aided design, digital media, data analytics, financial model analysis and
Today Panasas introduced its new hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, ActiveStor 18. The ActiveStor 18 is scalable over 20PB and has speeds of 200GB/s. This is a big increase from ActiveStor 16 that topped out at 12PB and 150GB/s. ActiveStor 18 also offers increased CPU power and twice the storage cache capacity.
InfiniteIO is an Austin Texas based startup that is tackling the one of the problems with data storage from a different angle. In the past, when data grew beyond capacity, users had to add more boxes. With the advent of larger and larger capacity drives, another solution was to add the larger drives to existing
Today ioFABRIC announced that it has received funding from private investors and Real Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in early stage tech companies. ioFABRIC is planning on emerging from stealth soon with their new product, Vicinity.
Violin Memory, Inc. announced that its Violin 7300 Flash Storage Platform has achieved VMware Ready Status. VMware Ready Status indicates that after a detailed validation process the Violin 7300 FSP has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement. Violin is also announcing that they have been certified with VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage.
Today Parsec Labs LLC announced its new product, HyperQ Total Storage Management solution. The HyperQ Total Storage Management solution provides storage virtualization, bringing what Parec’s states as “the ultimate storage tiering solution to data centers.” HyperQ can add hybrid flash storage to any storage environment allowing data to cascade from flash to spinning disk to cloud.
451 Research ran a survey on datacenter trends in for the second quarter of 2015 and found that a majority, 87%, of datacenter operators are maintaining or increasing their spending on their datacenter facilities. Not only are operators still spending on datacenter facilities, the study found that 25% are expected to increase their spending in
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