Today Panasas announced the launch a new version of its parallel file system, PanFS. The new system has Dynamic Data Acceleration, which is said to support workflows in HPC and AI. The new system is said to deliver high performance by automatically adapting to the changing and evolving small file and mixed workloads.
VMware recently added NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) as a storage network protocol option in vSphere 7.0. The fact that the fastest shared-storage solution is now able to be used by the world’s most popular virtualization software is a game changer, opening a whole new set of use cases for a virtualized data center. This also
Today NetApp announced that its Azure NetApp Files is available in the government region data centers on Microsoft Azure. This means all of the benefits and savings of the service can now be leveraged by federal, Department of Defense, and state and local agencies that have strict government security and regulatory compliance requirements. Deployment of
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Caringo adds seamless disaster recovery service powered by Wasabi. Nasuni awarded a patent for cloud file storage. Supermicro and Scality partner on software defined storage. Quest KACE Unified Endpoint Management updated. Marvell launches new
AWS announced that it has expanded its fairly new AWS Graviton2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type. The original EC2 Graviton2 instances, M6g along with the later added C6g and R6g are all based on the AWS Graviton2 processors. Today they have added the M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instance types that have locally attached
Today at the first Supermicro Storage Summit, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) unveiled two new top-loading storage systems. The new Supermicro top-loading storage systems have either 60- and/or 90-bays, SSG-6049SP-DE1CR60 and SSG-6049SP-DE1CR90. These new systems will act as expansion for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage applications.
In recent years, we continue to experience how storage performance is getting faster, which has been challenging the old storage protocols that have become a bottleneck for data centers. Despite using the latest fabric speed of 100GbE and new networking standards, such as InfiniBand, those slow network protocol technologies restrain flash device’s performance, keep it
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. MinIO earns Veeam Ready qualification. Ivanti Neurons Platform launched. Quantum Introduces Multi-Factor Authentication for tape libraries. Dynatrace expands Azure Monitoring support. IGEL UMS 6.05 released. Masergy expands its SD-WAN portfolio. Bittware launches Xilinx FPGA-based processor.
Robin.io released an upgrade to their eponymous Robin software platform. The upgrade adds support for hosting a single application on one-or-more cloud environments, without needing to any endpoint specific modifications. Robin.io primary product is the Robin software platform for life cycle management and automating scaling and deployment of Kubernetes applications.
In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Shawn Meyers, Field CTO at Tintri. The podcast starts off with Field of Dreams talk and winning an Eric Davis autographed baseball. Shawn talks about his years as a customer, and reminisces about Fusion-io edge cards. Eventually the topic of Tintri comes up, which has been around about
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