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
Pivot3 recently announced the general availability of its new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) all-flash enterprise appliance. The new appliance joins Pivot3’s wide selection of high-capacity systems and can be combined with their other HCI appliances through their central management system. Pivot3 also announced that Trent Landreth and Jason Peoples have joined their executive team.
Today at the Red Hat Summit, Super Micro Computer Inc. announced that it would be delivering Open Source optimized solutions across its portfolio of computing and storage platforms. Supermicro’s Red Hat solutions will now support Linux 7 for open hybrid cloud and enterprise workloads across converged infrastructures. Supermicro also announced that its next generation X10
Today Pure Storage announced that its FlashStack CI reference architecture is now combining Microsoft SQL Server and Citrix XenDesktop with its FlashArray 400 series. Pure Storage is also expanding its FlashStack CI to new global partners and reseller opportunities in what Pure hopes will accelerate the flash adoption in datacenters.
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