Today Schneider Electric announced that it will soon be supporting the use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries as an alternative to Valve Regulated Sealed Lead-Acid (VRLA) batteries for many of its three-phase uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs). The change over to Li-ion batteries would help customers reduce overall footprint and weight, as Li-ion batteries are much smaller
Samsung has announced that it is now shipping the PM1633a, which is touted as the industry’s largest SSD drive at a whopping 15.36TB in capacity. Unveiled last year at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit, the PM1633a leverages a 12Gb/s SAS interface and is designed specifically for use in enterprise storage systems. This huge capacity point will
Today Pure Storage announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2016. While their stock had a bit of a bumpy start, their 3rd quarter and this quarter showed some pretty impressive performance. Today actually marks Pure’s best quarter so far with revenue of $150.2 million up from $65.9 million a year ago
SanDisk Corporation and IBM are collaborating on bringing cost-effective, next-generation, software-defined, all-flash storage solutions for the data center. These new solutions are a combination of SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System and IBM’s Spectrum Scale filesystem. The two companies believe that the combination of the two technologies will be able to effectively tackle the arising issues of the modern data center
LaCie has announced a significant capacity increase for their 5big Thunderbolt 2 professional 5-disk storage solution by leveraging Seagate’s new 8TB Enterprise NAS HDDs. With this new build, the updated LaCie 5big now offers an impressive 40TB in storage (i.e. 33 percent capacity increase compared to the last generation) as well as an extended warranty.
So far today Cisco has made a few announcements about expanding its portfolio, surrounding its switches and its new HCI platform. Now Cisco is planning on bolstering its cloud options with its intent to purchase the privately held CliQr Technologies Inc. CliQr, which is already integrated into several of Cisco’s data center switching and cloud solutions, including UCS and
Cisco threw its hat in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) ring today with its new HyperfFlex systems. Cisco claims the HyperfFlex systems is a complete hyperconvergence system and has everything first generation HCI lacked. HyperfFlex is based off of Cisco’s UCS and integrates next generation data platform with a proven converged network and compute platform. HyperfFlex
Along with all the Gen 6 Fibre Channel announcements this morning, Cisco is also making some networking announcements around new data center switches and software. Cisco’s new switches and software help customers future proof their data centers in a cost–effective way. The new announcements feature the new Nexus 3000, 9200, 9300EX, and 9500 series. These
Today Broadcom Limited announced its latest family of family of Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs). This new family of HBAs is designed to address the growing enterprise data storage requirements of flash storage arrays, virtualized and cloud datacenters. Broadcom was recently acquired by Avago for $17 billion in cash though the company kept
Western Digital Corporation has announced the addition of 8TB drives to its line of storage solutions for NAS, video surveillance and desktop external use cases. Each of these storage solutions will be equipped with HelioSeal helium-technology 8TB HDDs, which will allow for both maximum storage and efficient performance. WD has also indicated that some products
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