Today the Storage Network Industry Association’s (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative (SMI) announced the completed version (Version 1.0) of the SNIA Swordfish storage management specification. This specification extends the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Redfish application programming interface (API) to handle the management of storage equipment and storage services found in modern data centers. The new

Fresh off finalizing its merger between Dell and EMC, Dell EMC announced today its first combination of technology, a rack-scale flash solution that combines the EMC DSSD D5 and Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. This new solution, called the Dell EMC DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash solution, is ideal for SAS analytics infrastructure. Both companies state that SAS 9

Today Dell Technologies completed its acquisition of EMC Corporation creating the world’s largest privately controlled tech company. Combined the companies create a $74 billion market leader with a wide breadth of products and solutions that cover a large portion of the industry including hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), data analytics, mobility,

Today Spectra Logic announced that it expanded its Spectra BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway family with two new products. The new products include an entry-level option, the BlackPearl V Series, aimed at smaller organizations, such as post-production houses and a more performance-ordinated option, the BlackPearl P Series, aimed at large organizations requiring superior performance to handle

Today HP Inc. announced a few thin client solutions that designed to support companies as they transition their computing workloads to the cloud. HP is announcing a new Thin Client, the t630, an updated thin client operating system (OS), ThinPro 6, and the industry’s first zero client support for VMware Blast Extreme. HP claims that

Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced the latest release of its OpenStack distribution, based off of the OpenStack Mitaka Release, VMware Integrated OpenStack 3. Today VMware is introducing new features, including support with VMware Cloud Foundation, that are designed to make deploying OpenStack clouds simpler and more cost-effective as well as

Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, Scality announced that it has partnered with the world’s third-largest hosting and Internet infrastructure provider, OVH, to deliver a joint solution designed for large-scale storage needs. Scality will now be able to run its software on OVH servers, which the two companies state is ideal for Hosted Private

Today at VMworld 2016, Tegile Systems announced the release of its all-flash rack-scale platform, IntelliFlash Cloud Platform (CP). Designed for Fortune 1000 enterprise companies, IntelliFlash CP is claimed as being able to deliver the cost savings of cloud architectures while also providing the reliability and control of on-premise storage solutions. IntelliFlash CP offers scale out

The Mangstor NX6325 NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMf) shared storage array offers up to 21.6TB of flash storage in an HP DL380 2U server. Like the NX6320 we reviewed earlier this year, the NX6325 aggregates Mangstor’s add-in card (AIC) NVMe drives and shares them out over the network. This enables latency sensitive applications to take advantage of