Today Google introduced a new low cost storage service that allows business to store near limitless amounts of data, Google Nearline Cloud Storage. Nearline acts similar to cold storage, storing all data whether it appears business critical or not, but has the speed and accessibility of the Cloud.
PROMISE Technology Announces VSky A-Series Software-Defined Storage Appliances
PROMISE Technology today announced the forthcoming launch of its VSky A-Series family of storage solutions which are designed to support petabyte-scale volumes for applications such as backup and archiving, media editing, video surveillance, virtual environments, and content delivery. The A-Series uses a single flat namespace as part of an architecture that can be deployed with
X-IO Launches All Flash Array ISE 800 Series
X-IO Technologies has launched its own series all-flash arrays (AFA), the ISE 800 Series. This marks an expansion of X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage portfolio, which also includes the X-IO ISE 700 and ISE 200 Series. The new ISE 800 Series has also achieved the number one position for price-performance in the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1
Barracuda Solutions Are Now Available On vCloud Air
Today Barracuda Networks announced that several of its storage solutions have achieved VMware Ready – vCloud Air status. The status indicates that Barracuda’s products have undergone technical validation within the vCloud Air environment, and are supported on VMware vCloud Air. The solutions that achieved this status are Barracuda NG Firewall, Barracuda Message Archiver, Barracuda Spam Firewall, and Barracuda
IBM Unveils Next Generation Flash Storage Solutions
Today IBM unveiled two new all-flash enterprise storage solutions, the FlashSystem V9000 and the FlashSystem 900. These two new all-flash solutions are aimed at helping organizations by providing industry-leading performance, reliability, and efficiency by accelerating data-intensive applications, all the while lower costs.
New EMC Isilon Array Supports Up to 50PB Data Lake Clusters and OneFS 7.2 Operating System
Today EMC has announced new products and solutions to support the Data Lake Foundation, leading with the new Isilon HD400 NAS platform that offers a 2.5x increase in maximum capacity over the previous generation. This increase allows for Isilon-based EMC Data Lake deployments with cluster sizes up to 50PB. EMC has also announced an updated
FalconStor Unveils Industry’s First Horizontal Converged Data Service Platform
FalconStor Software Inc. unveiled the industry's first horizontal converged data service platform, FreeStor. FreeStor allows data to flow horizontally across older and newer technology, both physical and virtual. The new unified platform works across arrays, servers, hypervisors, data centers, and the cloud to provide migration, continuity, protection, recovery, and optimization.
What is Converged Infrastructure?
When organizations evaluate options for hardware and software infrastructure, they must decide whether they would rather choose the emerging hyper-converged infrastructure category or build their own solution using handpicked vendors of their choice. A big driver for the former option is the “single throat to choke” argument, which has been heard and made so many times
Nutanix Announces The General Availability Of NOS 4.1
Nutanix Inc. announced the general availability of the latest update of the operating system, Nutanix Operating System NOS 4.1. NOS 4.1 is the OS that powers Nutanix’s Virtual Computing Platform. Nutanix has been giving users glimpses of the NOS 4.1 new capabilities for some time now, we mentioned it here in our NX-9000 piece.
Pure Storage Deepens VMware Integration
Pure Storage announced the availability of a new Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and an enhanced VMware vSphere Web Client Plug-in. The new solutions, used in conjunction with the FlashArray 400 series, will deliver “a simple and seamless storage and virtualization management experience, comprehensive disaster recovery protection, and scalable availability for




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