HP announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 to assist clients in converting existing virtualization deployments into private and hybrid cloud environments. HP also now offers a PCI Compliance Security Solution Stack for virtual and cloud environments that meets all security-based PCI DSS controls.
EMC and VMware used the VMworld conference as the platform to announce that vSphere Data Protection (VDP), powered by EMC Avamar technology, has replaced vSphere Data Recovery in the new VMware vSphere 5.1. VDP leverages Avamar technology including variable-length deduplication, full support of Changed Block Tracking, and single-step restore.
At VMworld, NetApp has unveiled new integration between VMware’s vSphere 5.1 and NetApp’s Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode. Data ONTAP 8 extends VMware with the ability to transparently migrate data within a cluster to provide load balancing, hardware maintenance, or technology refreshes.
Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced HP Data Protector 7 integration for VMware vCloud Director 5.1, bringing Data Protector’s automated, policy-based protection for cloud environments. VMworld is the focal point for key partners like HP to announce new solutions that incorporate VMware technology, and Data Protector 7 is a key component of Autonomy’s Data Protection
At VMworld, LSI Corporation today announced immediate availability of its PCIe Nytro MegaRAID acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Nytro MegaRAID cards are the first to integrate PCIe flash technology and intelligent caching software with RAID using LSI dual-core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) technology.
Today marks the beginning of VMware’s ninth annual VMworld conference, where StorageReview is on site to cover major product launches from VMware and its partners. We will also be seeking out demonstrations of new and innovative technology on the tradeshow floor. Among the first product announcements of the conference is VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1, which
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced a roadmap to incorporate new flash management technology based on Hitachi intellectual property across its portfolio of enterprise and midrange IT solutions. This new strategy will be inaugurated by the immediate availability of new flash acceleration for Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) that enables it to achieve more than
Pure Storage has announced several new updates to their FlashArray 300 series of MLC NAND-based storage arrays and the Purity software that manages them. The Purity 2.5 management software update highlights include iSCSI support via 10GbE, ZeroSnap snapshots, and vCenter web client plugin. While all of the new features add breadth to the Pure Storage
The NetApp Virtual Storage Tier optimizes the use of flash on the server through intelligent caching to improve the performance and efficiency of shared storage infrastructure. With the new Flash Accel, NetApp is extending the Virtual Storage Tier strategy to the server to provide caching of random read operations for virtual server infrastructure that leverage
Nimbus Data has launched Gemini, their third generation flash array. Gemini looks and acts much like prior Nimbus arrays, but there are significant updates this time around, namely 10-year endurance our of consumer-grade MLC NAND and software-configurable interconnect ports that support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. The Nimbus Gemini is also highlighted by hot-swap dual-controller
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