Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced that is has expanded its data compression guarantee as well as introducing a new 2x data reduction guarantee. HDS isn’t the only game in town when it comes to guarantees but they claim that they are the only vendor to offer a 100% data availability (100% availability, 100% of
The Mangstor NX-Series of all-flash arrays (AFA) are a family of appliances that are designed to bring the performance and low-latency benefits of NVMe to a shared storage environment. Shared storage of course isn't new, but being able to leverage the benefits of NVMe in a shared environment is. Conceptually, NVMe over Fabrics takes the power
Earlier this week Scale Computing announced that it was adding flash-enabled automated storage tiering into its HC3 platform. This update adds hybrid storage including SSD and spinning disk with HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT). The update will also allow users to tune performance on different workloads to make sure that they are getting the performance that they
Today at EMC World 2016, EMC Corporation announced new Rack-Scale Flash offerings, including a new VCE VxRack 1000 Series System with DSSD and new dual DSSD D5 systems. The DSSD was announced in February and release back in March of this year. EMC is going to make the DSSD a key building block of modern
Today at EMC World 2016, Brocade announced that its Gen 6 Fibre Channel and IP storage networking technologies would be providing a network foundation for the EMC Unity solution. According to Brocade, this technology will optimize the performance, availability, and reliability of Unity storage deployments.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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