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
Brocade has announced the release of their Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking, the Brocade G620, indicating that the new high-density SAN switch will boast unprecedented performance and scalability designed to support data growth and demanding workloads from mission-critical applications. Brocade adds that their Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology will allow organizations to
Today QLogic Inc. is announcing that it is currently shipping its new Gen 6, 32Gb Fibre Channel Adapters, the QLogic 2700 series. According to QLogic its new series of adapters will enable greater virtualization density and improved database performance, combined with increased operational efficiency. QLogic is also announcing that its QLogic 2690 Series Enhanced Gen
Hot on the tails of the introduction of the DSSD D5 and VMAX All Flash, EMC has announced new features for its VMAX and Disk Library for mainframe storage products. VMAX support for mainframe (VMAX3 and the new VMAX All Flash products) allows their customers to modernize, automate and consolidate disparate data center technologies through
During VMworld 2015 Tegile Systems announced its new all-flash storage array, IntelliFlash HD. Today Tegile is announcing that IntelliFlash HD is generally available worldwide. Tegile claims that IntelliFlash HD is the industry’s first flash storage platform that brings hyperscale performance and economics to enterprise data centers. Tegile is also announcing the release of its entry-level all-flash
EMC has called 2016 the year of all flash. Today EMC released an all-flash version of its flagship storage product VMAX. While EMC did go big here and could have went home they've decided to up the flash ante a bit with the introduction of its new all NVMe flash storage, the DSSD D5. The DSSD
Today EMC Corporation declared 2016 the year of all flash for primary storage. And more than just being a nifty marketing slogan, EMC is delivering several updates to its all-flash storage portfolio, including what it is calling a “quantum leap forward” in its VMAX, flagship enterprise storage platform. The new EMC VMAX All Flash is
Today Dell announced the launch of the latest version of its Fluid File System (FluidFS), version 5. Like the previous version, FluidFS 5 is also available on Dell’s FS8600. FluidFS 5 comes with many improvements and enhancements running the gamut from protocol support, management, to security.
Not long after announcing the production of 4GB DRAM package, Samsung has now started mass producing 256-gigabyte embedded memory based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 standard for next-generation high-end mobile devices, another industry first. Samsung indicates that their new embedded memory will provide outstanding performance on mobile devices and will exceed that of
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