A little over a year ago, Amazon announced its Snowball for moving data to AWS faster. The initial Snowball was roughly the size of a briefcase and could store up to 50TB. For $200, customers could quickly load up data and physically ship it to Amazon to have it stored on AWS. While this seemed
Today Dell announced its latest Wyse thin client, the 5060. The new thin client is designed for knowledge workers and is all about high-performance and security. The Wyse 5060 is highly compatible with major virtualization software including Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft RDS and VMware Horizon. Dell states that its new thin client can deliver flexibility, efficiency
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today its new initiative around flexible storage consumption models and accelerating all-flash data center adoption with its HPE 3PAR Flash Now. HPE is also announcing an update to its StoreFabric 32Gb (Gen 6) Fibre Channel portfolio for faster networking. And they have entered a partnership with Spectra Logic for enhanced data
Today at Amazon re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada, Scality announced the latest version of its flagship object storage software, RING. The latest version, 6.4, includes extended security features that are becoming crucial in today’s evolving digital business environment. The company is also announcing that it was joined AWS marketplace and has released the Open Source S3
Today Nimble Storage reported its third quarter 2017 earnings and once again saw an overall improvement. While Nimble’s stock has been a bit more stable than some of the other earnings we cover, it has seen a modest increase since its last earnings report. Nimble saw an increase in revenue and an decrease in net
We've long been fans of the Dot Hill arrays, looking at a few over the years including the AssuredSAN 4824 and the AssuredSAN Ultra48 in both HDD and hybrid configurations. In fact, the Ultra48 never made its way home; it's been in our lab serving as a primary capacity array for some time now. Dot Hill was good about continuing to
Today Tegile Systems launched its new series of all-flash and hybrid arrays, the T4000 Series. This new series is designed with large and midsized organizations in mind as it features several advancements such as multiple classes of persistent memory, greater processing power, and industry leading density. Along with these advancements, new and existing customers will
Today at SuperComputing 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah Lenovo made a series of announcements including the completion of its second phase deployment at CINECA, a world class HPC research resource with the capabilities to become a leading artificial intelligence compute resource. With the HPC solutions, Lenovo is announcing its new Antilles GUI, and its
This morning Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it was making enhancements to several of its solutions aimed at SMB. These solutions include HPE StoreEasy Storage, HPE ProLiant Easy Connect and HPE Flex Solutions. According to HPE, the enhancements announced today will help to deliver the flexibility to SMB to ensure they are able to
Today at Supercomputing 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Seagate Technology plc announced the latest addition to its family of scale-out storage systems for high-performance computing (HPC), ClusterStor 300N. The 300N features a flash cache accelerator and Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager. Seagate will be demonstrating its new ClusterStor 300N at booth #1209 at the Salt
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