Today at the Mobile World Congress, EMC Corporation introduced its new EMC Provider Cloud System (PCS). The EMC PCS is a software-defined Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) reference architecture designed to enable communications service providers’ (CSPs’) to deliver distributed, multi-service, carrier-grade cloud solutions quickly and economically.

Today IBM announced that it was introducing a new object-based storage services to its IBM Cloud. IBM will use technology from its recent acquisition of Cleversafe, a leading object storage company, to help customers better manage their unstructured data. IBM goes on to state that its Cloud service will provide enterprises with fast, flexible, hybrid cloud

Today Red Hat, Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is now available in Google Cloud Platform. Gluster is for Google customers that are elastic and robust file storage across public and hybrid cloud environments. This marks yet another public cloud expansion for Gluster as Red Hat announced Gluster on Azure in November.

This year at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM launched two new products for customers with high-performance processing and flexible hybrid storage solutions needs. IBM launched the IBM Platform Conductor for Spark to help business use Apache Spark in order to gain insight into the data they are collecting. And IBM launched a new hybrid

Back in November of 2015, we covered Google’s introduction to Custom Machine Types for its cloud platform. This features allows users to build the VM in the shapes (vCPU and memory) they need for their given workload, in other words they would no longer have to over buy VMs to get what they need for a

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced the release of its new SATA Revision 3.3 Specification and Unified Test Document (UTD) 1.5. The latest release introduces new features that enable higher capacity, reliability and flexibility for SATA-based products. All SATA-IO members have access to the new specification while non-members can purchase it.

In our first segment of the VxRack Node review, we covered over the deployment options, primary management interface overview and a look at the hardware behind our all flash performance nodes from VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC. In this portion of the review we take a look at VxRack Nodes in a two-layer SAN configuration and

Dell Inc. has introduced a new expansion enclosure for its PowerEdge server line, the MD1280. This ultra-dense expansion enclosure offers adding up to 84 drives in a 5U form factor. The MD1280 can be expanded to two shelves, giving up to 168 drives in a 10U rack space and supports HDD with capacities up to

In June of 2013, EMC made a $200 million investment in ScaleIO, adding to their portfolio of storage offerings with a webscale software-defined scale-out solution. The ScaleIO stack has grown in flexibility and capabilities since then and now EMC offers ScaleIO in a variety of configurations to solve a wide variety of enterprise and service provider