In July this year, Dell announced substantial updates to the PowerStore unified storage platform. The most apparent announcements were around updated hardware, bringing PowerStore to its second generation. Perhaps more important, though, were the additions on the software side with the PowerStoreOS 3.0. The OS update includes over 120 new or enhanced features ranging from

Dell PowerScale launched QLC SSD support in May this year at Dell Tech World for their F600 and F900 nodes. Support for the 15.36TB and 30.72TB SSDs was immediately embraced by PowerScale customers, who started gobbling up these extremely dense PowerScale nodes as they went GA over the summer. These new QLC drives, supported by

QSAN Technology Inc. has launched its next-generation Hybrid Flash Storage 3300 series, optimized in price and performance for SMB workloads. In our lab is the QSAN XCubeSAN XS3312D, a 2U, dual-controller SAN designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, remote or edge locations, and anywhere else where a blend of performance and

Almost two years ago, we completed a review of a Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) storage server with 24 NVMe bays and twin compute nodes in a 2U chassis. VES is a major OEM, creating some of the most innovative storage server systems in the market. Recently we had the opportunity to get hands-on with a

Seagate has announced their next generation Exos X Storage Array controllers, the sixth generation in their advanced storage controller series. This new generation offers twice the performance and includes self-healing technology.

Modern server designs are taking advantage of an expanding world of accelerator cards to enable new or enhanced capabilities. While many go straight to GPUs when thinking about acceleration, there’s a new breed of processors that are not only addressing performance but also data protection and economics as well. The Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP)

StarWind Software is an industry leader in software-defined storage (SDS) thanks to flexible deployment modalities, overall system performance, and their urge to embrace emerging technologies. We saw this first hand at the end of last year when we looked at their NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows. This time we’re looking at the StarWind SAN & NAS

We recently took a look at Dell’s latest entry-storage array, the PowerVault ME5. In that effort, we worked through mainstream use cases for the array, testing the ME5 in a popular hybrid configuration with very positive results. While the ME5 is excellent for SMB needs — mainly as a hybrid flash array — there’s much

Today at Dell Technologies World, Dell Technologies announced Quad-level cell (QLC) support for Dell PowerScale F900 and F600 all-flash models. The new 15TB and 30TB QLC flash memory drives are expected to be introduced in the summer, delivering up to 25 percent or better performance for streaming reads, depending on the workload, with all-flash nodes