Dell EMC has released an update to its object storage platform, the Dell EMC ECS version 3.5. ECS platforms have been engineered to support both traditional and next-generation workloads. With this product, the company claims unmatched scalability, manageability, resilience, and economics to meet the demands of modern business. Now, with the latest version, this platform
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE publishes storage pricing. Actifio announces best first quarter. Netlist adds an M.2 SSD to its portfolio. FUJIFILM announces Object Archive software. CTERA Files Services available for SimpliVity. Portworx sees triple digit growth In
Today, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Cloud. VMware Cloud is what the company calls their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. Their Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides Dell VxRail HCI running VMware software like VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and has been for so long that you may not remember
Today, Dell Technologies announced that it has teamed up with Google Cloud to launch Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud. This new technology offers what the companies are calling a simplified management of private and public cloud storage to help control exponential data and application growth and ease the flow of files across their
NVIDIA had its annual GTC summit, NVIDIA GTC 2020, this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. NVIDIA and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include Iguazio partnering with NVIDIA, Lenovo DCG
Today, at the rescheduled GTC (GPU Technology Conference organized by NVIDIA), NVIDIA revealed that they have begun shipping their first 7nm GPU to appliance manufacturers. Much like AMD, who released a 7nm GPU two years ago in 2018, NVIDIA is choosing to focus on the data center use cases for their first 7nm GPU. NVIDIA
Today, Quantum announced some of the enhancements that they are planning to include in StorNext 6.4. StorNext is a File System software that abstracts the physical medium data is stored on to allow customers to scale and tier their storage solutions as needed. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In
Today MemVerge announced what it sees as the next big thing for in-memory computing, MemVerge Big Memory Computing. Big Memory Computing is being hailed as a new technology category that will allow all applications to run in memory versus a strict range of workloads. This new technology combines persistent memory hardware and memory machine software
Today, Aerospike announced that they are working on the fifth major release of their NoSQL database, Aerospike Database 5. Aerospike was founded in 2009 under the name Citrusleaf. In 2012 the company changed their name to match the name of their NoSQL database. Aerospike Database remains the company’s main product, despite being open-sourced under the
Today, StorCentric released the Nexsan E-Series 32F storage appliance. StorCentric was founded in August 2018. In the less than two years it has existed, it has gobbled up four storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that they would be acquiring storage companies Drobo and Nexsan. Soon afterwards, in June 2019,
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