Today Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced that is wholly owned subsidiary, OCZ, has made a dual port version of its Z-Drive 6000 NVM Express (NVMe) Solid State Drive (SSD) series immediately available. With a dual port connection two hosts can concurrently access data from the same storage device. Or users can use the dual

Today Plexxi is introducing a new suite of product integrations through its Plexxi Connect Open Integration Platform. These new integrations are what Plexxi is claiming, the industry’s first workload-responsive, programmable network fabric for converged infrastructure (CI) and storage environments. Plexxi’s new software enables enterprises that build clouds to do so in new ways with building

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its latest 3PAR array, the HPE 3PAR 20840 converged flash array. The latest 3PAR is claimed to be the highest performing, most scalable converged flash array on the market. The array is designed to help customers utilize the best benefits of in an all-flash data center while shielding them

Along with its new 3PAR announcement today, HPE is also announcing new data protection options for the all-flash data center. These new protections options include two new StoreOnce options, the 5500 and 6600, and an assessment program aimed at saving customers capacity when migrating to all-flash, the HPE Get Thinner Guarantee.

Synology has announced the availability of the DS216j, a 2-bay NAS powered by a dual-core CPU with FPU and designed for home media streaming, file sharing and backup. The DS216j’s use of FPU speeds up thumbnail generation and is quoted to deliver file transfer speeds of 112.75MB/s read and 97.6MB/s writes when configured in RAID1.

Today at the Open Compute Project Summit Facebook made several announcements, from its new NVMe JBOF to its renewed focus on front-end server performance. Facebook is opening up its designs for its modular switch platform, 6-pack, and its next-generation TOR switch, Wedge 100. These two networking solutions are an important step for Facebook as it aims to support

Facebook has made a series of announcements today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit. While these announcements generally focus around innovation and increasing the use or utilization of emerging technology, Facebook is announcing something a little different. Facebook has worked with Intel to develop new processors for their front-end servers, but instead of using

At the Open Compute Project Summit today Facebook is announcing its flexible NVMe JBOF (just a bunch of flash), Lightning. Facebook is introducing Lightning as a flash building block, or flash sled. Lightning will allow data centers to better scale out flash capacity across multiple applications while tuning the compute-to-storage ratio. Facebook is contributing this

Google announced today that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP), which helps drive standardization in IT infrastructure. Google will be joining the ranks of other companies such as Facebook, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America. Google’s main focus in OCP will be a new