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Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dell EMC PowerMax Introduces SCM As Persistent Storage

Today Dell EMC announced that it will be leveraging Storage Class Memory (SCM) as true persistent storage. The Dell EMC PowerMax product will now ship with dual port Intel Optane drives. To further boost performance, PowerMax now supports NVMeoF, with 32Gb NVMeoF for Fibre channel connectivity.

Enterprise  ◇  Networking

Cisco Announces New SAN Technology Innovations

Today Cisco announced new Storage Area Networking (SAN) Technology innovations. The new innovations focus on getting storage networking ready for 64G, analytics for SAN NVMe/FC, and new DevOps innovations. These new innovations are aimed at protecting organizations investment in next generation SAN giving them more bandwidth and visibility. 

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: NETINT, Cisco, Cloudian, Dell, Virtual Instruments, Dell EMC, Samsung & Fujifilm

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NETINT Codensity SSDs achieve PCIe 4.0 compliance. Cisco to acquire CloudCherry. Cloudian announces general availability of HyperStore Xtreme. Dell Technologies announces second quarter earnings. Virtual Instruments releases VirtualWisdom 6.2. Dell EMC releases OneFS 8.2.1.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

AWS Lowers Price on Amazon EFS Infrequent Access

AWS announced the largest price reduction in AWS Cloud’s history. The price reduction is specifically for customers leveraging Infrequent Access (IA) with Lifecycle Management with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). With the new price reduction customers can utilize the technology for as little as $0.08/month.

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Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Commvault Acquires Hedvig

Today Commvault announced its first-ever acquisition. Commvault has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the software-defined storage (SDS) company, Hedvig. The deal is set to be for around $225 million and will include employee retention.

Enterprise  ◇  HDD

Western Digital Announced 18TB CMR & 20TB SMR HDDs For 2020

Today Western Digital (WDC) announced that is has begun accelerate the development its nine-disk mechanical platform and leveraged energy-assisted recording technology in or to deliver the highest capacity HDDs yet. The company stat that it will have a 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD and a 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD sampling to select

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Toshiba Acquires LITE-ON’s SSD Business

Toshiba has announced today that it will be purchasing LITE-ON Technology’s solid-state drive business. In a signed definitive agreement, the purchase is estimated at 165 million USD and is expected to close by the first half of 2020. The announcement of the deal indicates that it will be subject to customary closing adjustments and regulatory