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
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
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,
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
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
Today at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California Netlist Inc. announced and intends to demonstrate its first Storage Class Memory (SCM) product, HybriDIMM. The HybriDIMM is a unified DRAM-NAND solution that will enable users to scale memory (up to the terabyte level) as well as accelerate storage into what Netlist is claiming to
Today Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. announced that it is collaborating with DataDirect Networks (DDN) on its IME14K appliance. Toshiba’s dual-port ZD6000-series Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid state drives (SSD) are now being used in the IME14K to enable application acceleration and burst buffer technologies of DDN. The two companies claim that by combining the
Virtual Instruments announced the latest version of its Load DynamiX appliance operating environment, version 5.2. This update features support for 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 32 Gigabit Fibre Channel (32Gb FC) capable Workload Generation Appliances. According to Virtual Instruments, this update makes the Load DynamiX product suite to offer the first and only storage performance
The process of scheduling containers in a container orchestration framework such as Kubernetes or Docker SWARM can be described as simply allocating runtime resources to workloads. In a world where there are unlimited (or at least sufficient) resources and all workloads are equal, current container scheduling systems would be considered adequate. However, in the real
Today Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced that it has successfully developed BiCS3, the latest generation of its 3D NAND technology, now with 64 layers of vertical storage capacity. WDC states that pilot production has commenced in Yokkaichi, Japan joint venture facilities. Initial output is expected by the end of this year with meaningful commercial volumes
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