This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorMagic sees 400% adoption growth. Nimbus launches 100TB SSD. Carbonite finishes acquiring Mozy. Mellanox and Microsoft announces hybrid cloud solution. Microsemi announces new HBAs and RAID adaptors. Condusiv releases three new software products. Morpheus Data expands features of its Unified Multi-cloud Orchestration Platform. Seagate’s new technology gives impressive results.
StorMagic Sees 400% Adoption Growth
StorMagic announced that its partner program has seen a 400% growth since it began in 2016. Achievements and trends include:
Nimbus Launches 100TB SSD
Nimbus Data announced what it is calling the largest capacity SSD, the ExaDrive DC100. This new drive comes with 100TB of capacity in a 3.5” form factor with SATA interface. The performance is quoted as 500K IOPS and up to 500MB/s. The drive also comes in a 50TB model.
Carbonite Finishes Acquiring Mozy
Carbonite announced that it has finished acquiring Mozy from Dell Technologies. The total price was $145.8 million in cash. The companies plans now include:
Mellanox & Microsoft Announces Hybrid Cloud Solution
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced a new solution that it sates will simplify extending existing non-virtualized on premise data centers to Microsoft Azure while also reducing costs. The solution includes Mellanox Spectrum switches and ConnectX IO adapters running over Microsoft’s Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). The companies are stating that the solutions can scale to millions of VMs while reducing complexity and costs.
Microsemi Announces New HBAs & RAID Adaptors
Microsemi released and announced new HBAs and RAID adaptors. The new Adaptec HBA 1100, SmartHBA 2100, and SmartRAID 3100 are all powered by AMD’s EPYC processor series. The new HBAs and RAID adaptors and their capabilities include:
Condusiv Releases 3 New Software Products
Condusiv Technologies announced three new editions of its software products that it claims will “smash the I/O Performance Gap.” These new products include:
Morpheus Data Expands Features Of Its Unified Multi-cloud Orchestration Platform
Morpheus Data announced that it has made updates to its Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration Platform. The new enhancements center around speeding application development and lowering overhead. Highlights include:
Seagate’s New Technology Gives Impressive Results
At the 2018 OCP Summit, Seagate Technologies announced that two of its new technologies are showing some impressive results. Its MACH.2 multi actuator technology was able to hit 480MB/s of sustained throughput, an impressive feat for an HDD. The company’s HAMR technology also set a record in reliability demonstrating that a single head can transfer 3.2PB over a five-year period, twenty times the amount required for the industry’s nearline specification.
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