The consumer SSD market has for a long time been very much the wild west of technology expansionism. In the early days, everyone wanted in. Western Digital even dabbled in the space for a brief period, albeit with a controller that was more suited for USB than SSD. The former memory and overclocking companies immediately
CA Technologies has announced enhancements to its ARCserve r16.5 data protection solution that add replication and virtualization capabilities designed for small and medium businesses as well as service providers seeking to quickly build or add to their data protection portfolios. This release is intended to compliment enhancements announced in October 2012 to ARCserv’s non-disruptive bare
The Simpana platform is comprised of individually-licensed modules to Analyze, Replicate, Protect, Archive, and Search data across an enterprise and across devices and locations by leveraging a consolidated virtual ContentStore pool. The arrival of Simpana 10 brings more than 300 new features to reduce risk, administrative overhead, and support costs. According to CommVault, Simpana 10’s
Barracuda and Drobo have announced a joint endeavor to offer a Drobo 5N client for Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage platform. The Drobo 5N is a NAS appliance for small office environments and prosumer applications such as photography, video, and other types of digital content creation. The Copy client will allow 5N users to designate shared
Dell has announced the DR4100, an update to their backup and recovery appliance line that is based on the Fluid Data Architecture. The DR4100 is highlighted by support for deduplication and compression at rates of up to 15 to 1, to help customers tame data sprawl with more efficient storage. While the DR4100 can start
NetApp today announced the availability of its new all-flash EF540 array, intended for performance-driven application and data center deployments. The EF540, built on the SANtricity operating system, can provide more than 300,000 IOPS and sub-millisecond latency in a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture. The company has also released a preview architecture for its new FlashRay product
HP today announced new HP StoreVirtual Storage systems based on the company’s ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) technology, aimed at midsize virtualized environments and HP channel partners with entry-to-midmarket storage portfolios. HP has also introduced a channel-only StoreSystem solution with 3PAR StoreServ Storage and StoreOnce Backup functionality.
EMC has announced Continuous Availability Advisory Services for organizations evaluating deployment of or improvement to their continuous availability (CA) architecture. CA provides redundancy for organizations that have mission critical applications that need to be able to sustain multiple types of hardware and infrastructure outages while still providing steady performance and uptime. The new service combines
Dell today announced new workload-optimized solutions for Dell server, storage and networking systems running the SAP HANA real-time analytics database platform. Dell also announced Active System Manager 7.0, the management layer for the company’s converged infrastructure offerings, which integrates recently-acquired Gale Technologies IP to deploy virtualized infrastructure and applications.
X-IO Technologies has announced the second generation ISE Station XL, a pre-configured 1 petabyte storage solution that offers over 1 million IOPS across four 44U racks. According to X-IO, this release reflects the company’s commitment to tuning the ISE Station product line to reduce cost-of-deployment by at least a third.
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