In our second podcast, I interview Josh Goldstein, the VP Marketing & Product Management of the XtremIO Business Unit at EMC. In this podcast we look at the evolution of XtremIO over the years, it’s use of flash and the market’s adoption of it, and its ease of use. He shares his views on converged

Today Tintri Inc. made several announcements including a new entry-level all-flash array, the Tintri VMstore T5040, an update to their operating system, up to Tintri OS 4.1, and through the update comes support for the Citrix XenServer hypervisor. The new T5040 joins the VMstore T5000 All-Flash series and T800 Hybrid-Flash series giving customers even more

Today Crucial announced the general availability of its new DDR4 2400MT/s 8Gb-based RDIMM, LRDIMM and ECC UDIMM server modules. These new memory modules are designed to enable higher density, while increasing performance, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. On top of these benefits, Crucial also states users can see significant cost advantages when compared to 4Gb-based DDR4

Today InterModal Data unveiled its disaggregated data storage software solution, the InterModal Data solution. The solution is built to deliver scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness achieved by companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google. The solution is system software that is able to disaggregate commodity hardware architecture, similar to HPE’s composable infrastructure. In other words, this solution

The EMC Durham Center Of Excellence is a massive 450,000 square foot facility located in Durham, North Carolina. The Center Of Excellence (COE) serves a few purposes for EMC. The COE serves as a state of the art, highly virtualized cloud data center support over 60,000 EMC employees all over the world. Over 130,000 square

Today at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference in Las Vegas, QLogic and Brocade demonstrated the industry’s first Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics solution using Fibre Channel as the fabric. The demonstration is based on the draft specification of NVMe over Fabrics under definition by the NVM Express, Inc. organization and

Today Commvault announced a new array-based snapshot management solution, Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp. This new solution will be offered as a replacement for NetApp SnapProtect. Commvault states that the new solution will accelerate and simplifies data protection and recovery for NetApp customers while enabling them to expand to the full range of Commvault’s data protection

Breaking the cycle of bad financial stories we’ve ran such as Nimble Storage and Violin Memory missing expectations in their third quarter reports, Pure Storage is reporting record revenue. For their third quarter Pure reported revenue of $131.4 million up from $49.2 million a year ago or up 167% year to year. This number also comes in higher than analysts expected,

Quantum has announced StorNext 5.3, the latest version of the company’s scale-out storage platform comprised of a wide range of advanced data management capabilities optimized for demanding workflows. Not only does it power Quantum’s new Xcellis high-performance workflow storage solution, Artico NAS archive appliance, and the company’s new Q-Cloud Vault service, version 5.3 also incorporates end-to-end