DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced the newest product in the DDN GRIDScaler portfolio, the GS14K, which is touted by the company as industry’s fastest and most flexible scale-out NAS solution. The GS14K is built to deliver the speed and scale required by data intensive environments; it will accelerate analytics, increase reliability and integrate into modern workflows such

After looking at scaled Sysbench performance under maximum capacity, we continue to produce database performance results on the all-flash VxRack nodes from EMC in a two-layer SAN configuration. Where we designed the Sysbench workload to show scalability of the platform, the SQL Server benchmarking is architected particularly with an eye on latency for OLTP workloads. In this case

  Today Pure Storage introduces a new all-flash storage platform that it claims is designed to store the biggest, fastest data of today and tomorrow, FlashBlade. Pure goes on to state that its FlashBlade is an elastic scale-out system that delivers all-flash performance to petabyte-scale data sets at economics of less than $1 per usable

Violin Memory has been plagued with problems on the stock market since they went public in 2013. Just recently it had a fairly rough third quarter, one of its investment groups nominated 3 new board members in an effort to turn the company around, and the NYSE has informed the company that they risk being delisted if they can’t

Through a joint customer, Credit Acceptance Corporation, Cohesity and Pure Storage have worked together to combine Pure Storage’s All-Flash array with Cohesity’s consolidated secondary storage platform. The combination of the two technologies gives customers the best of both worlds with an increase in performance through the all-flash array while being able to maximize the value

Violin Memory has announced that its enterprise management operating system, Concerto OS 7, has been certified for VMware's vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager (SRM). This announcement builds off of the relationship Violin has with VMware and adds to the to the existing Violin vSphere Web Client Plugin, the Violin Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) solution integrates Violin's Concerto OS

Nimble Storage has had a rough go of it lately. Their third quarter earnings were below expectations, which pulled down its stock price and didn’t do any favors to other tech stock prices such as Pure Storage’s. Then last month Nimble was hit with a series of class action lawsuits around their poor stock performance. Nimble released

First announced back in May, the EMC Federation Hybrid Cloud solution is designed to enable IT organizations to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively build a hybrid cloud. At VMworld 2015 EMC gave everyone a preview of the upcoming enhancements centered on application lifecycle automation capabilities, Always-on and secure Infrastructure as a Service, and new deployment options with the VCE

SanDisk Corporation and IBM are collaborating on bringing cost-effective, next-generation, software-defined, all-flash storage solutions for the data center. These new solutions are a combination of SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System and IBM’s Spectrum Scale filesystem. The two companies believe that the combination of the two technologies will be able to effectively tackle the arising issues of the modern data center