Today, at Mobile World Congress, QLogic Inc. introduces its new line of Ethernet controllers, the QLogic FastLinQ 45000 Series. This new series will enable 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100Gb Ethernet (100GbE)-based network connectivity on a single high-performance ASIC. QLogic states that their new FastLinQ 45000 Series is both highly flexible and extensible and are

G-Technology has announced two new mobile 8-bay RAID storage solutions, the G-SPEED Shuttle XL as well as a model that includes ev Series Bay Adapters. The new storage solutions come with an integrated handle to make it easily for professionals on the go and to fit inside a standard protective case. Both solutions are designed

Earlier this month VMware Inc. released the latest version of VSAN, version 6.2. This version was aimed at increasing performance of all flash while lowering the price as well as introducing deduplication and compression, erasure coding, and new QoS capabilities. Today VMware released its licensing guide for the new VSAN 6.2.

Today Red Hat, Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is now available in Google Cloud Platform. Gluster is for Google customers that are elastic and robust file storage across public and hybrid cloud environments. This marks yet another public cloud expansion for Gluster as Red Hat announced Gluster on Azure in November.

This year at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM launched two new products for customers with high-performance processing and flexible hybrid storage solutions needs. IBM launched the IBM Platform Conductor for Spark to help business use Apache Spark in order to gain insight into the data they are collecting. And IBM launched a new hybrid

Back in November of 2015, we covered Google’s introduction to Custom Machine Types for its cloud platform. This features allows users to build the VM in the shapes (vCPU and memory) they need for their given workload, in other words they would no longer have to over buy VMs to get what they need for a

Today X-IO Technologies announced that its iglu blaze storage portfolio will now be available in a high-performnace, all-flash model, iglu blaze fx. The newest iglu, 800 all-flash, is all about performance and scalability and is designed for transactional databases and other critical applications in large, virtualized enterprise environments. X-IO will still be offering capacity in all-flash, hybrid,

Today Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc. and Dell Inc. combined their technology to make SAS-based servers with the fastest random read enterprise SSDs in today’s market. These fast servers are composed of Toshiba’s PX04S SSDs and Dell’s PowerEdge R730 servers. Using a single PX04S the Dell server was able to hit 340,000 IOPS in random

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced the release of its new SATA Revision 3.3 Specification and Unified Test Document (UTD) 1.5. The latest release introduces new features that enable higher capacity, reliability and flexibility for SATA-based products. All SATA-IO members have access to the new specification while non-members can purchase it.