SMBs and SMEs are adding flash storage to their SAN infrastructures to take advantage of the lower latency and faster data transfer of PCIe based memory drives. With the announcement of ioControl 3.0, Fusion-io has provided Midrange customers with a solution to control their storage environment’s quality of service (QoS) for each specific application demand.
Planned for general availability in the first quarter of 2014, Sepaton’s VirtuoSO Data Protection platform addresses the challenges of supporting and protecting enterprise data growth will support up to 16 Petabytes, and affords providers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) with regard to enterprise data protection. Using the OptiScale File System, Sepaton is using an
HP today announced the mt41, a new laptop form-factor thin client with a 14-inch screen that is designed for mobile access through remote corporate, academic, and government infrastructures via the cloud. The mt41 runs Windows Embedded Standard 7E and features wired, wireless, and WWAN connectivity options and is offered with a choice of either AMD’s
WD has announced updates across the WD Black line of high-performance 7,200 RPM 3.5-inch hard drives. The WD Black family is available in capacities from 1TB to 4TB and is engineered for applications such as workstations, gaming PCs, and all-in-one devices that benefit from higher performance and high capacity. The refreshed drives feature model numbers
Dot Hill has announced details about its new RAID storage architecture and storage controller platform, known by the codename Gallium, which will be introduced across the company’s entry level and midrange offerings this quarter. The new architecture supports 12 Gb SAS connectivity as well as converged implementations that leverage 16 Gb Fibre Channel, 10 Gb
Following up on several announcements at Dell Enterprise Forum earlier this year, Dell has announced the availability of Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4, and the shipment of Dell Compellent arrays with all flash and hybrid configurations. Storage Center 6.4, amongst other things, unlocks a new MLC-based SSD storage tier. Dell Compellent already supports high-speed SLC SSDs along
Emulex is releasing a data capture appliance entitled EndaceFlow 3040 that will be capable of providing depth of information regarding the management of application and network performance. These products are designed to assist network and application infrastructure administrators in four categories: prevention of issues/anomalies, detection/alerting, response, and determination of root cause. All of the 4 appliances
The last two weeks has seen quite a bit of nonsense in the flash-array space. Some of it revolves around good old-fashioned competition in a space that receives a ton of media attention, but most of it revolves around claims of who’s the fastest in a given test. The main event has been a slap-fest
HGST today announced it is shipping a new Endurastar J4K320 single-platter 320GB hard drive, the highest capacity drive in the Endurastar lineup as well as the largest capacity automotive HDD now on the market. The JK4320 represents the sixth generation of HGST automotive and industrial drive technology, and the second generation to incorporate the company’s
One of the challenges in delivering cloud services is to be able to access and manage data that reside in public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. In many situations the service provider has to utilize different methods for the cloud variations and this creates complexity that hinders efficiency and the ability to manage these disparate
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