Yesterday Chris Mellor ran a story about NetApp phasing out its HCI appliance, the original article can be found here. This comes as no shock at all as most of the major vendors seem to be moving in the direction of getting more away from hardware and into software/cloud-based products and services. The NetApp HCI
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 with an eye toward enterprise edge infrastructure. The latest enhancements to this hyper-converged stack include advanced data protection thanks to StoreOnce. Now SimpliVity customers can embrace native backup to the cloud with optional or additional centralized backup for compliance. The SimpliVity update also includes CSI plugin
Video surveillance is an interesting vertical as it has a lot of seemingly contradictory requirements. On the one hand, it must have a high level of availability and be secure, reliable, and able to process different video streams efficiently in real time. On the other hand, it needs to be able to run in locations
Today Dell Technologies announced enhancements to its VxRail portfolio. The company released two new platforms that leverage AMD EPYC CPUs, the Dell EMC VxRail P Series, VxRail P675F and P675N. Not only do these new hyperconverged platforms leverage the fast CPUs, but they also support NVIDIA Tesla T4 and NVIDIA Tesla V100S GPUs.
In a recent article, we looked at one of the more interesting technologies currently being deployed in the datacenter: disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). In particular, we looked at HPE’s implementation of dHCI as they are a leader in this technology. As a recap, dHCI is similar to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in the sense that it
Today Dell Technologies announced an update to its Dell EMC for Microsoft Azure Stack portfolio with the launch of a new offering, the Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. According to Dell, this new system is design to do one thing, optimize the operational experience of Microsoft’s next generation of Azure Stack
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) involves using a server’s local storage, coupled with software-defined storage (SDS), to create a virtual SAN whose storage is accessible from all the nodes in an HCI cluster. Using HCI, storage and compute are managed from the same console. To add compute and storage in a HCI cluster you only need to
Today Nutanix announced new hybrid cloud capabilities for its unstructured data storage offerings, Nutanix Objects and Files. These storage-focused enhancements are said to enable customers to deploy an easy-to-use, scale out storage fabric across their different cloud environments to simplify data management and effectively manage costs. The new features span from Edge, to private and
Scale Computing announced it is offering Acronis Agentless Backup for Scale Computing HC3. The company also announced that it is also now offering Acronis Cyber Backup 15 Advanced. We last covered Scale Computing’s partnership with Acronis earlier this year in March, when Scale Computing started offering Acronis Cloud Storage. More recently, we did a deep
iXsystems – makers of TrueNAS (Formerly FreeNAS) – has been at it again. This time Scaling out and expanding both hardware and software. One thing the company has talked about previously but is out today with the TrueNAS SCALE Open Source HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) Platform. The company is also releasing its R-Series of storage systems
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