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ODPi Announces Its Gold Sponsorship Of Apache Software Foundation

Today at Apache Big Data North America 2016, the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) announced that it has become a gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ODPi will join the ranks of the other gold sponsors such as Pivotal, IBM, WANDisco, and Hortonworks (it should be noted that all of the other sponsors

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Caringo Swarm Adds Hierarchical Data Protection Policies, Historical Metrics and Usage Metering

Caringo has added hierarchical data protection policies, historical metrics and usage metering to Caringo Swarm, the company’s software-defined object storage platform. This results in improved flexibility and ease of operation for users. Caringo continues to build on the platform, earlier this year Caringo made Swarm available for Microsoft Azure.

Consumer  ◇  Memory Card

Samsung EVO Plus 256GB MicroSD Card Announced

Samsung has announced the EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, which is touted as the maret’s highest capacity microSD card for its class. Designed for smartphones, tablets, 360-degree video recorders, action cameras, and even drones, consumers can record up to 12 hours of 4K UHD video (or 33 hours of Full HD video) on their mobile

Enterprise  ◇  Workstation

HP t310 Quad-Display Zero Client Announced

HP has announced the HP t310 with Quad-Display, the newest addition to their Zero Client portfolio. Featuring high-performance and effective protection against security breaches, the new book-sized HP t310 Quad-Display Zero Client is designed for multitasking across multiple monitors (upwards of four displays simultaneously) without adding additional components and supports. Back in November of last

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Scale Computing Adds Automated Flash Tiering To Its HC3

Earlier this week Scale Computing announced that it was adding flash-enabled automated storage tiering into its HC3 platform. This update adds hybrid storage including SSD and spinning disk with HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT). The update will also allow users to tune performance on different workloads to make sure that they are getting the performance that they

With The Help Of Ford & Microsoft, Pivotal Raises $253 Million In Funding

Pivotal announced today that its latest round of series C financing has landed the company $253 million in new cash. One of the major new investors this go round was Ford Motor Company in conjunction with Microsoft. Pivotal also raised money from its existing investors including GE, EMC, and VMware. This funding round is expected

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Metalogix Announces Essentials For Drives: File Shares To OneDrive Freemium

This week Metalogix announced the launch of its Essentials for Drives: File Shares to OneDrive Freemium. With this new program, users will be able to migrate up to 500 drives (or users) or 1TB of file share content (including files, folders, versions, metadata, and permissions from file systems, file shares or Network Attached Storage (NAS))

Accessories  ◇  Enterprise

Netgear Announces New ProSAFE 10GbE Smart Managed Switches

Netgear has announced the addition of three new powerful switches to its portfolio of second-generation ProSAFE 10GbE Smart Managed Switches: the XS748T, which offers 44 copper 10GBASE-T ports and 4 additional dedicated 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports for 10G fiber links; the XS716T, which includes 16 copper ports of 10-Gigabit connectivity, 2 of which are shared/combination copper/SFP+

Enterprise  ◇  Software

EMC Announces New & Enhanced Open Source Contributions

Today at the last day of EMC World 2016, EMC Corporation announced new and enhanced projects under its EMC {code} umbrella. The new project is known as Polly, an open source framework that enables storage allocation in scheduling environments such as Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos. EMC is also announcing integrations and enhancements to

Enterprise

StorageReview Podcast #14: EMC World 2016 – John Roese

John Roese is EMC's CTO, charged with leading the technical strategic vision for the company. John wears many hats at EMC including overseeing hardware development, managing specialized market segments like telco, and is involved in core aspects of the Dell integration – to name a few. In this podcast we talk about three core disruptions John sees coming