Today at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, QNAP Inc. made several announcements around its NAS lines. These announcements include several enhancements such as new Thunderbolt 3 solutions, Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet (T2E) converter technology, new Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and new 4K live-streaming/broadcasting. QNAP is also releasing a powerful new 16-Bay NAS, showing that the company

Today at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, LaCie (the premium brand from Seagate Technology) announced updates to both its Rugged and d2 Thunderbolt storage devices. The Rugged series has been updated with a maximum of 5TB in capacity and the d2 now carries an upward of 10TB of capacity. Both of the devices will now

Leading up to CES this year, Intel is trickling out some more details for its 7th generation Core processors (Kaby Lake). First announced back in August of 2016, Intel is announcing the full line of 7th generation Core processor families today. On top of that, Intel is also announcing its Optane Memory Ready Program. This

Every year there are several shows and conference vendors throw to show off new products, show their customers a good time, or give the media a chance to see their wares in a "hands on" fashion (along with access to some of the powers that be for interviews). StorageReview attends a handful of these shows

VMware recently announced that customer adoption of its Virtual SAN is continuing to grow, now topping 5,500. On top of adding customers, VMware has pointed out that the updated branding of their Virtual SAN product is vSAN similar to vSphere. Several customers, users, competitors, and news sources (including this one) have incorrectly named the product as

Today Panzura announced the general availability of its cost-effective archive data solution, Freedom Archive. Panzura states that its new solution is ideal for longer-term storage that still needs high-performance such as the storage and access of surveillance video, healthcare imaging, seismic data, and life sciences information. Such customers as Chevron, American College of Radiology, NBC

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. IBM and DDN work together to provide Yahoo! Japan a 50TB/day transfer rate with a new active archive system. Virtual Instruments announced Load DynamiX Enterprise version 5.2. VMware has made its integrated containers generally

Today Red Hat announced the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10. The latest version is based off of OpenStack’s ‘Newton’ release. The new version is filled with new features aimed at enhancing performance and security, increasing scalability, improving orchestration, and easing management. On top of that, Red Hat

Violin Memory has had a rough go of it recently but it appears as if they are nearing the end of their rope. Violin was a pioneer of early all-flash arrays, which are becoming more and more common in data center, along with all-flash data centers. However, the company was been plagued with issues for