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.

Veeam Software has released the results of its latest annual Availability Report; this year marks its fifth. The study illustrates the demands of customers who want always-on 24/7 enterprise and though companies recognize this, the amount of downtime and frequency is actually going up. The report showed that 84% of IT decisions-makers (ITDMs) from numerous

Toshiba has announced the SG5 Series of client solid state drives (cSSD), the company’s first client SATA SSD to support 1,024GB capacity in an M.2 form factor. The SG5 also features 15nm TLC NAND flash memory to reach high storage capacities while maintaining a small form factor and driving down costs for consumers. Toshiba indicates

Hitachi Data Systems has announced version 2.1 of their Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere, which allows service providers and IT organizations to offer secure content mobility solution to their users under their own brand. New features of HCP Anywhere v.2.1 allow external parties to upload data to shared folders, enhance team folders, and offers new