Today at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle, Washington, a new on-demand storage startup, StorageOS, announced the beta of its new container-based storage software. StorageOS claims that their new software will make it easier for software developers to create, test, deploy, scale and rebuild containerized applications with enterprise-class production storage. They go on to claim that their
HDS Announces New HCI Solutions For Virtualization & Cloud
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced two new converged and hyperconverged systems, the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 2000 (UCP 2000) converged system and the UCP HC V240. The UCP HC V240 is the first member of the new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) line of hyper-converged solutions. These new solutions are designed to
Tegile Adds Lifetime Storage To Their IntelliCare Service
In what is likely an attempt to compete with Pure's Evergreen service, Tegile Systems has unveiled the newest addition to their IntelliCare service, Lifetime Storage. Touted as an industry-first support offering, Lifetime Storage will provide an entirely new storage system to its customers every three to five years, including the controller and media, with a
Pure Storage Announces Right Size Guarantee
Today, enterprise storage company Pure Storage announced new enhancements to its Evergreen Storage. All of today’s updates are geared towards saving the end consumer more money, both at the initial sticker price of hardware purchases and long-term maintenance. The end goal, Pure Storage claims, is to avoid the ultra-expensive “forklift upgrade”—the complete replacement of an outdated
EMC Aims To Accelerate Support For Containers With RackHD Machine Driver
Today at DockerCon 2016, EMC Corporation announced a hardware–agnostic solution for open deployment of Docker solutions directly on bare metal, RackHD Machine Driver. This driver integrates with Docker Machine to manage the lifecycle of physical servers for the Docker Engine and future Docker solutions. With this new driver users can embrace Docker containers on bare-metal
HPE Unveils Software-Defined HPC Platform
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its new high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. These new solutions include a comprehensive software-defined platform, enhancements to its Apollo servers, as well as, a new ANSYS computer-aided engineering (CAE) software based solution designed to help manufacturing organizations optimize their design simulation deployments.
VMware Releases Beta Of Docker Volume Driver For vSphere
Today VMware announced the release of its new beta of the Docker volume driver for vSphere. This marks the second storage-focused initiative from VMware on containers, last year they released a vSphere Volume Driver for Flocker. VMware is also making the source code for their new driver available under open source to encourage use and
NetApp Integrates Its Flash To Accelerate Docker
Today at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle, Washington, NetApp announced the integration of its complete flash portfolio (including NetApp SolidFire SF series, All Flash FAS (AFF) and EF-Series) with the NetApp Docker Volume Plug-In (nDVP). According to NetApp, the native Docker plug-in allows containerized applications to easily maintain state by consuming persistent storage. Docker developers will
Hedvig Unveils CloudScale Reference Architectures
Today at DockerCon 2016, Hedvig Incorporated announced its new end-to-end CloudScale Reference Architectures that aim to provide enterprises with infrastructure templates that are proven and tested. Hedvig states that these new Docker solutions will help enterprise DevOps and ITOps teams save time, lower costs and reduce the complexity of deploying containers using Docker Datacenter, Windows
Intel Releases New Xeon E5-4600 v4 For 4 Socket Servers
Today Intel announced the release of yet another Xeon processor family, the Intel Xeon E5-4600 v4 family. This family is designed specifically for 4 socket servers used in next-gen data centers and cloud deployments. Intel states that servers utilizing these new processors can now have up to 22 cores and 44 threads for enough processing




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