Seagate has announced that four Cray customers will be among the first to implement Seagate’s latest high performance computing storage technology. The four Cray customers that will be using the new technology are comprised of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Saudi Arabia-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Petroleum Geo-Services, and the
Spectra Logic Integrates With Leading Technology Partners
Along with the updates and enhancements recently announced for its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway, Spectra Logic has also announced that it is integrating with clients in the media and entertainment industry. This announcement provides direct access to deep storage for MAMs, editing suites, and media handlers. In effect, they could access all of their data with a
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Review
As we previously mentioned, Dot Hill released a major software update though that amongst other things, optimizes their 4004 controller architecture for hybrid configuration. Like other AssuredSAN models (such their Ultra line we previously reviewed here Ultra48 hybrid and here non-hybrid), the 4004 controller is also the controller in the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 array. And much like the other 4000 series,
Spectra Logic Provides Private Cloud Tier for NetApp StorageGRID Webscale
Spectra Logic announced today a proof of concept integration of BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. This joint solution will provide seamless content management across sites, tiers and clouds. StorageGRID Webscale enables customers to utilize massively scalable object storage for media content while BlackPearl allows users to massive amounts of data forever for pennies per gigabyte.
Supermicro Announces New 720TB 4U JBOD
Today at the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters, Supermicro announced a new ultra-dense 4U JBOD platform, the 4U SuperStorage. The Superstorage holds up to 90 8TB 3.5” drives that are top-loaded and hot-swappable. The JBOD supports up to 720TB of SAS3, 12Gb/s performance. It also features dual hot-swap expander modules featuring 4 mini-SAS HD ports.
Quantum Integrates Dot Hill Into Its Tiered Storage Offerings
Today Quantum Corp announced that it would be expanding its tiered storage offerings by integrating Dot Hill’s full line of storage systems. This partnership is beneficial to both companies, giving Quantum an expanded range of solutions and Dot Hill will be able to use Quantum’s channel, sales, and market resources, and global service and support,
Fujifilm And IBM Announce 220TB Tape Cartridge
Today Fujifilm Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. announce that, in conjunction with IBM, it has developed the highest capacity storage media ever achieved. This advanced prototype media is a magnetic particulate tape that has an areal data density of 123 billion bits per square inch. A single cartridge can store up to 220TB of uncompressed data.
HGST Unveils Active Archive Object Storage System
Today HGST (a Western Digital company) announced its new object storage system, Active Archive. The Active Archive System is designed to address the need for rapid access to massive data stores. The type of data the system predominately stores is data that is past its create and modify phase of its life, moving into its
Dot Hill Announces RealStream Software Technology & New AssuredSAN 6000 Series
Today Dot Hill had two major announcements aimed at increasing performance in vertical markets and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The first announcement is a new software technology that triples data ingest throughput and can also handle over 5,000 parallel data streams, RealStream software. The second announcement is a new AssuredSAN series, the 6000 Series.
Delphix Updates Simplify Migration To The Cloud
Today Delphix announced new features to its latest data as a service (DaaS) software platform, Delphix DaaS 4.2. The updated features allow for simple migration to both private and public clouds. The DaaS platform now supports Amazon GovCloud, OpenStack, and KVM hypervisor environments.




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