Ahead of VMworld next week, IBM announced today that it is expanding its all-flash storage products. These new all-flash products will be in IBM’s Storwize family line and is aimed at all companies from small to large with an eye on primary storage for cloud or cognitive applications and workloads. IBM is also announcing its new
Datrium Takes Per-Server Flash Density To 100TB
Today Datrium announced that its DVX has doubled performance density to 100TB of effective flash capacity per server. Not only is Datrium announcing that they have increased performance density, they are claiming that they have lowered the price to 10TB per $1000. Datrium states that this announcement will broaden the range of applications that can remain completely
Datera’s Elastic Data Fabric Integrates With Kubernetes
Today Datera announced a new integration with Google’s Kubernetes system. Datera states that its intent-defined universal data fabric complements the Kubernetes operational model well. An integration of the two enables automatic provisioning and deployment of stateful applications at scale. According to Datera, this integration with Kubernetes will let them translate application service level objectives, such
Cisco Announces 4Q Earnings As Well As Layoffs
Today Cisco announced its fourth quarter earnings as well as its fiscal year earnings. Unlike much of the other earnings reporting we do here, Cisco is looking pretty good in terms of numbers from the previous year’s earning reports. Though their numbers aren’t bad they are announcing a restructuring plan that will costs roughly 5,500
Google Announces GA Of Several Of Its Database Storage Products
Today Google Cloud Platform announced that several of is database storage products, that were formally in beta, are now generally available. The products that are now generally available include Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore. Not only are these products now generally available they are also covered by corresponding Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Rubrik Announces Its New Firefly Platform
Today Rubrik announced the world’s first cloud data management platform, Rubrik Firefly. Companies that leverage clouds will now be able to manage this service for data protection, search and analytics, archiving and compliance, and copy data management capabilities across all workloads. Rubrik is also announcing today that they have raised an additional $61 million in
Citrix Announces XenApp “Express”
Back in January Citrix made several announcements at its Citrix Synergy Summit. Most of these announcements focuses on the release of XenApp 7.7 and XenDesktop 7.7, however the company touched on both its expanded partnership with Microsoft and its comprehensive Citrix Cloud strategy. Now Citrix is working with Microsoft to develop of next-generation of the
HPE Announces Enterprise Capabilities For SMBs
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new solutions aimed at modernizing small and midsized businesses’ (SMBs) IT. HPE is introducing cost-effective, sub $10K, hybrid flash and software-defined storage platforms that can bring enterprise capacity and capabilities to SMBs. To help SMBs take full advantage of what is available HPE is releasing StoreVirtual 3200 storage systems,
Panzura Releases Next Generation Hybrid Cloud Controllers
Today Panzura announced its new series of expandable enterprise hybrid cloud controllers, the Panzura 5000 series. This new series of controllers can scale from thousands of users at a single site to tens of thousands of users across global offices. Panzura claims that these new controllers, along with its patented hybrid cloud storage software, enable customers
Toshiba Unveils Its Flashmatrix Technology
Today at the 2016 Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced its all-flash, big data analytic platform technology, Flashmatrix. This new technology is designed to address the growing need for real time/streaming analytics in distributed systems targeted at high data intensive applications in manufacturing, finance, medical and security. Toshiba will debut and showcase




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