Today EMC Corporation announced its vendor and platform-agnostic storage orchestration, model and API, libStorage. EMC is calling libStorage the first open source technology of its kind. EMC claims that it will provide providing universal and portable storage capabilities for container and application platforms.
Today Mellanox Technologies announced its new family of programmable processors for networkding and storage applications, the Bluefield family. There is an increasing need for higher levels of SoC (System-on-Chip) integration in the industry and this new family aims to address this need. Mellanox believes that broader integration of SoC will result in simplified system designs,
Today both Quantum Corp. and Komprise, Inc. announced their new joint solution enabling companies to cope with exponential data growth within tight budgets by integrating archive storage into their active workflow. In order to achieve this integration the two companies are combining Komprise Data Management software and service with Quantum Lattus object storage or Artico
Unveiling a new NVMe PCIe SSD, Samsung today announced the mass production of its new PM971-NVMe for computer manufacturers. Samsung was able to do this by stitching together 16 of its 48-layer, 256Gb flash chips, 4Gb LPDDR4 DRAM, and a controller into a single Ball Grid Array.
Taking the wraps off two new SSDs, Micron introduced the 1100 SATA SSD and 2100 PCIe NVMe SSD. Both geared towards different kinds of buyers, the 1100 SATA SD will come in configurations up to 2TB, while the 2100 SSD uses the PCIe NVMe design for low latency and high performance.
Today at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Marvell introduced its new family of high-performance RAID storage controllers, the Marvell 88RC13xx family. This new product line features eight 6Gbps SATA ports, four lanes of PCI Express 3.0, and a 10Gbps USB 3.1 device port with Type-C connector support. Marvell states that its product line consists of a
Today, Intel took the wraps off its brand-new family of Xeon processors: the E3-1500 v5 line. By including the latest Iris Pro P580 into Intel’s Xeon processors, the company hopes to better equip data centers for the ever-increasing strain put on them by video streaming. Additionally, the chips aim to reduce the overall power needs
Today NetApp announced the release of its latest operating system, ONTAP 9. NetApp claims that the latest updated OS will be a major advancement in data management combining higher simplicity and flexibility with new capabilities. It has been a bit since the last major update of ONTAP, and NetApp states the latest software will allow
Unlike the vast majority of financial stories we run, Pure Storage has been able to more or less report positive earnings since going public. Of course, it has only been publicly traded since October of last year. While this report was also positive, revenue and gross margin up, analysts don’t seem to regard Pure’s stock as
With IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, EMC was most likely pleased to see that they have topped the list once again in most categories. Going along with their announcement that 2016 is the year of all-flash, EMC believes that the IDC report as well as their own growth in market share of all-flash,
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