Today at EMC World 2016, EMC Corporation introduced a new family of storage systems, including all-flash, that is designed to help simplify and modernize the data center, Unity. Unity marks the newest edition of all-flash with EMC (the existing all-flash include XtremIO, VMAX All Flash and DSSD D5). The main difference this time is that
IBM Announces 3 New All-Flash Arrays
Today IBM announced that it was expanding its all-flash portfolio with three new arrays, including an all-flash mainframe. IBM states that these new all-flash arrays (AFAs) will help accelerate the adoption of “cognitive solutions” and help customers extract value from data faster so it can be turned into competitive advantage. The new AFAs have new
Rubrik Unveils The Industry’s 1st Security Enhanced Converged Appliance
Today Rubrik announced the release of the industry’s first security enhanced Converged Data Management appliance, the r528. Rubrik claims the r528 will provide customers with the ability to deliver complete data protection, encryption at rest and in-flight, and rich data services at a global scale.
AWS Launches Faster S3 Transfers & Bigger Snowballs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is all about moving more data onto to the cloud. AWS knows that in order to get more and more customers to move their data and workloads to the cloud they need to make it faster and easy for them. This week AWS made a couple announcements centered on just that,
CTERA Updates Its Cloud Storage Gateway Portfolio
Today CTERA Networks announced updates to its cloud storage gateway portfolio. These updates include a 4x capacity expansion and a virtualized cloud storage gateway. CTERA claims these upgrades will deliver new levels of deployment flexibility, storage capacity, and efficiency for remote office IT environments.
Oracle Announces New Cloud Storage Options At NAB 2016
Today at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Oracle announced new cloud storage options that are designed to save organizations costs while they store, manage, and retrieve their media content. In order to achieve these savings Oracle is combining its content storage applications, Oracle DIVA, with its Storage Cloud Serve –
Crucial Expands Its Server Memory Portfolio
Today Crucial announced the availability of two new offerings in its server memory product portfolio, 32GB DDR4 VLP RDIMMs and 64GB DDR4 LRDIMMs. To get the higher density out of the new memory modules, Crucial engineered a dual stack of 8Gb DDR4 DRAM die to engineer a single 16Gb component. The new modules have quoted
Scality & Dell Partner To Bring RING Powered SD7000-S
Today Scailty has announced that it has expanded its partnership with Dell to bring a high-density, purpose built storage server for Scality RING file and object-based architecture. According to Scality, this new system, the Dell SD7000-S, will deliver a flexible, scale-out storage that is designed for modernized enterprises.
Spectra Logic Enhances Black Pearl & Introduces Certification Program
Today at the National Associations of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Spectra Logic announced several feature enhancements to its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway and a new Client Certification Program. BlackPearl provides a single interface to tape and disk using cloud protocols. Since its introduction in 2013 it has gained traction in several vertical markets such as
Seagate Adjusts Earnings Outlook & Takes A Beating
Seagate Technology announced some of the preliminary financial information for its third quarter that ended on April 1, 2016. Seagate now expects to report a revenue of approximately $2.6 billion instead of their forecast of approximately $2.7 billion. While this isn’t good news, Seagate is also expecting to report non-GAAP gross margin of approximately 23%




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