Today Western Digital Corporation (WDC) introduced a new model to its HGST Active Archive Object Storage System, the SA-1000. This latest model of Active Archive is targeted at media and entertainment digital data preservation, life sciences data pools, and cloud backup. WDC states that the SA-1000 will enable smaller object storage footprints with easy-to-manage building blocks
Today Zadara announced an addition to its award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud, the ZIOS Intelligent Object Store service. This new service is aimed at both enterprises and service providers. ZIOS is said to deliver a common storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform that can be deployed at any location, supporting any data type and connecting to any protocol. Zadara
Today Datera emerged from stealth launching its first product, Datera Elastic Data Fabric. Datera Elastic Data Fabric is scale-out storage software that turns standard, commodity hardware into a RESTful API-driven, policy-based storage fabric for large-scale clouds. Datera states that their solution is the first storage solution for enterprise and service provider clouds that is designed
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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