Today SanDisk Corporation announced that it has upgraded its all-flash storage platform, InfiniFlash, to InfiniFlash System IF150. SanDisk has upgraded the 6Gbps SAS connectivity of InfiniFlash to 12Gbps SAS. SanDisk states this upgrade will deliver twice the performance while retaining the same high capacity. This new higher performance widens the variety of workloads that the InfiniFlash
Xangati Announces New Analytics & Control Platform
Today Xangati announced its next-generation service assurance analytics and performance control platform, Xangati ESP for Cloud Workspace and Cloud Infrastructure. Xangati is also announcing four new data-source compute extensions. Now customers using NVIDIA physical GPUs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Docker will be able to use Xangati’s virtual appliance software to correlate real-time
Nexenta & Canonical Extend Partnership On SDS For OpenStack
Today Nexenta and Canonical announced that they were furthering their partnership in creating joint solutions for OpenStack environments. The two companies plan to create solutions combining Nexenta’s SDS solution NexentaEdge with Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack platform. Both Companies will be attending the OpenStack Summit this year in Austin, TX from April 25-29.
TYAN Unveils GT75-BP012, Their New POWER8-Based 1U Sever
TYAN unveiled the GT75-BP012 line during the OpenPOWER Summit 2016 earlier this week, their newest POWER8-based 1U server platform. Comprised of the BSP012G75V4H-B4C, BSP012G75V4H-Q4T, BSP012G75V4H-Q4F, this new platform supports the maximum configuration with a single POWER8 CPU (10-core/ 80-thread), 1,024GB DDR3L memory (32x 32GB) and 64MB last-level cache. Last month, we reviewed the GT62B-B5539 1U
SolarWinds Releases Its 2016 IT Trends Report
SolarWinds has released the findings of its latest IT Trends Report, subtitled The Hybrid IT Evolution. As the subtitle suggests, the report highlights the move of the majority of IT from on-premises-only to a more hybrid environment. The study features insights from IT practitioners, managers and directors in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Brazil
NETGEAR Release New Arlo Q Plus Security Camera
Today NETGEAR Inc. announced that they have released yet another camera for their Arlo HD Camera System (formally the VueZone Camera System). This new release builds off of NETGEAR’s last Arlo Q camera that had two-way audio, built-in night vision, rolling seven days of free cloud storage for video recordings, and 1080p HD video. Unlike the previous version the Q
Supermicro Unveils Total Solution for Lustre
upermicro has unveiled its Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS at this week’s Lustre User Group conference. Leveraging the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, this fully integrated software-defined storage solution is based on Supermicro 4U 90x top-load 3.5” 8TB hot-swap storage JBOD, 2U SuperStorage servers with Simply Double extreme performance all-flash 48x NVMe options, and
Dell Aims To Deliver The Broadest Hyper-converged Infrastructure Portfolio In The Industry
Dell Inc. has announced that it is expanded its hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio that it claims is the industry’s broadest. This newly expanded portfolio is aimed at helping customers accelerate and simplify IT deployment and management while also helping them to make their infrastructure future-ready. The new additions include VCE VxRail appliances, VxRack systems to flexible VMware Virtual SAN Ready
Red Hat & QCT Collaborate On Systems For OpenStack & Ceph
Today Red Hat Inc. and Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) announced that they are working together to deliver combined Red Hat offerings (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) with QCT servers, storage, and networking. These joint solutions will increase private and hybrid cloud deployments, and enable customer
Seagate And Intel Collaborate On New Lustre HPC Choices
Today Seagate Technologies announced that it would be incorporating Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) into its ClusterStor storage architecture for high-performance computing (HPC). Seagate states that this incorporation will strengthen its HPC data storage while providing customers with additional choices of Lustre parallel file systems. It will also create a common software platform between




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