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
At the start of day two of Dell Technologies World, Dell Technologies announced software enhancements across its storage portfolio. More than 500 software advancements will improve intelligence, automation, data mobility, and security across clouds, on-premises, and edge environments with no additional cost to existing customers.
Fungible is changing the way storage platforms are designed by removing limitations of existing storage architectures with the release of the Fungible Storage Cluster, FSC 1600 high-performance storage node. The Fungible Storage Cluster delivers a high-performance, low latency NVMe/TCP disaggregated storage solution that is fully transparent to high-level applications. Powered by the Fungible DPU™, the
Quantum has announced the availability of H4000 Essential and F2100 storage appliances. The H4000 is the company’s all-in-one appliance that integrates Quantum CatDV media asset management and Quantum StorNext 7 shared storage software.
VAST Federal, a subsidiary of VAST Data, has announced a collaboration with Mercury Systems to deliver ruggedized, high-performance storage solutions for edge-based data capture and AI computing. Mercury’s upcoming rugged data storage systems will be based on Ceres, VAST Data’s next-generation storage platform concept.
VAST Data has announced support for the next-generation storage platform named Ceres. Enabled by VAST’s Universal Storage data platform, Ceres is built leveraging the latest hardware technologies like NVIDIA BlueField DPUs (data processing units). On the storage side, Ceres takes advantage of cost-optimized, and highly dense Solidigm EI.L ruler-flash drives and storage-class memory (SCM) SSDs.
NVIDIA has announced the acquisition of Tel Aviv-based software-defined storage provider Excelero. The acquisition gives NVIDIA the tools needed to expand its footprint into enterprise high-performance computing environments with a focus on storage-area networking.
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