Today NetApp launched the latest release of its data management software, NetApp ONTAP 9.9. On top of the new software launch, NetApp has also announced enhancements to its hybrid cloud portfolio. These include reductions in costs and complexity along with what they are claiming to be a simple, unified data management across on-premises and public

Today Dell Technologies announced updates to its PowerScale line. These updates include a new unit, the Dell EMC PowerScale F900 that is an all-NVMe shelf for the most demanding workloads. The company is also updating the operating system with OneFS 9.2, which aims to bring more performance to the existing F200 and F600 as well

NetApp has added to their line of all-flash storage arrays with the new entry-midrange NetApp AFF A250.  It’s one thing to be all-flash at this price band. But NetApp takes flash further with end-to-end NVMe including support for NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC). While NetApp is well known for high-performance all-flash arrays (check out our

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced innovations around its Storage-as-a-Service, through expanding its HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. The company is continuing on its shift to a more cloud operations model that is said to address data from edge-to-cloud. With this in mind, the company has announced its new Data Services Cloud Console, Cloud Data Services,

LucidLink Filespaces is a cloud file system for distributed workloads that works with any cloud storage. The service provides remote storage streamed over the Internet but accessed as if it was in your local computer or network. In this article, we quickly overview the cloud NAS concept and the LucidLink Filespaces solution. Here we also

In a previous article, we looked at Dell Technologies’ new midrange storage line – PowerStore. We discussed the reasons why Dell released this new line of storage and then did a hands-on investigation of what it takes to set up a PowerStore storage appliance and migrate a database to it. In this article, we will

Today, Dell Technologies is announcing significant updates to Dell EMC PowerStore, its flagship storage offering. This new software and automation capabilities include a performance boost for all models, NVMe-FC upgrades, AppsON scale-out, intelligent deduplication, SCM metadata tiering, and DRE dual parity. Dell is also introducing the PowerStore 500, a lower-cost model suitable for a broader

Today VMware unveiled its distributed, multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to accelerate application modernization across the data center, edge, and any cloud, VMware Cloud. A unique benefit to VMware Cloud is that it allows developers to build and deploy to any cloud. The platform gives users a way to modernize their infrastructure and operations in

Pure Storage has marked its fifth anniversary of introducing FlashBlade, exhibiting a remarkable $1B in sales. FlashBlade, unveiled in March 2016, has a rapid growth and impact in the storage industry. According to the company, this platform is used by more than 25% of the Fortune 100. Pure Storage is considered a pioneer in delivering