In the storage world, shipping 100,000 arrays is a pretty big milestone. Dell has hit said milestone as Connexions4London (C4L), a web services provider, recently deployed the 100,000th EqualLogic array. For perspective, when Dell purchased EqualLogic in November 2008, there were 4,000 customers and 8,000 units in the field. In just about five years, Dell
CommVault has announced the Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, the industry’s first standalone software product that automates snapshot management and application-aware recovery across multiple storage arrays and physical or virtual servers. Businesses are beginning to use hardware snapshots more and more in order to support the recovery of critical applications and virtual server environments; however, existing
Hitachi’s (HDS) eleven new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged infrastructure solutions combine storage, server, networking and software management in integrated packages. The UCP represents Hitachi’s efforts to improve upon first-generation converged infrastructure solutions, particularly on limitations around managing third-party devices in heterogeneous infrastructures.
Overland Storage has announced the availability of LTO6 technology in the company’s line of NEO Series tape libraries. The new LTO6 technology has increased user storage capacities by more than twice than previous generation technology, providing up to 6.25TB in storage on a single data cartridge, boasting data transfer rates of up to 1.4TB/hr per
LaCie has announced that the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series now features a pair of SATA III SSDs (6GB/s interface) with read speeds as fast as 635MB/s in RAID0. The LaCie Little Big Disk is the fastest portable Thunderbolt solution on the market and can transfer a 50GB file in less than two minutes or
IBM has announced a new top-of-the-line DS8870 storage system which the company says performs three times faster than the previous top performer in its DS8000 storage family. Along with the new DS8870, IBM has announced a variety of new technologies to improve security, take advantage of cloud computing, and manage large datasets.
Icy Dock has announced the MB153SP-B, a 3-in-2 SATA internal RAID backplane for 3.5" SATA hard drives. The MB153SP-B is the lite version of the MB45X series, removing the monitoring features and reducing the overall cost, but keeping the 3 year warranty and core tray system for hot swapping and maintenance.
Synology today announced the two-bay DS213air, the company’s first DiskStation with integrated wireless support, and the twelve-bay DiskStation DS2413+, with features geared for digital photography. Both devices ship with Synology’s latest DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1 operating system, which offers a suite of built-in applications and packages including built-in Windows backup capabilities from Data Replicator 3
Kaminario, provider of scalable, high-performance, enterprise-class SSD SAN storage solutions, announced that it has achieved industry-leading performance of greater than 2 million IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput on a single MLC-based all-flash K2 storage system. The 2M IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput was achieved using workload of random reads on a single K2 system containing
GridIron Systems has announced TurboCharger GT-1500, a Flash-based appliance that drastically improves the performance of entire data center Storage Area Networks (SANs) to solid state speeds while avoiding the issue of disrupting servers, storage or software applications. The GridIron TurboCharger is an innovative appliance that does away with conventional storage I/O bottlenecks by intelligently caching
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