Today IBM announced that it was introducing a new object-based storage services to its IBM Cloud. IBM will use technology from its recent acquisition of Cleversafe, a leading object storage company, to help customers better manage their unstructured data. IBM goes on to state that its Cloud service will provide enterprises with fast, flexible, hybrid cloud
In October of last year, Dell announced plans to acquire EMC in a deal worth roughly $67 billion. EMC's board of course approved the transaction, but that was just the first step in many of what is a complicated process with so many moving parts. Today we've learned that The FTC has granted their approval
Today Broadcom Limited announced that it is sampling the industry’s first NVMe/SAS/SATA controllers and its unmatched NVMe software portfolio. These new controllers bring a higher level of innovation to the data center. NVMe technology can dramatically lower latency in SSDs. Broadcom’s announcement today can help data centers take full advantage of NVMe SSD performance.
Today Drobo announced the launch of its new 8-bay iSCSI SAN, the Drobo B810i. This new SAN is aimed at the SMB market and will be replacing the Drobo B800i. Customers can either mount it in a rack or keep it on a desktop, as the SAN provides flexible block storage, entry-level virtualization, and enough
Today SanDisk Corporation announced a handful of new portable storage devices including what they are claiming as the world’s fastest microSD card. SanDisk is announcing the Extreme PRO microSDXC UHS-II card is what they are stating as the fastest transfer speeds in the world, 3 times that of current cards. SanDisk is also release a
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
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