Amazon Web Services (AWS) is all about moving more data onto to the cloud. AWS knows that in order to get more and more customers to move their data and workloads to the cloud they need to make it faster and easy for them. This week AWS made a couple announcements centered on just that,
G-Technology Announces Its First NAS, The G-RACK 12
Earlier this week at the National Associations of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, G-Technology announced its first NAS solution, the G-RACK 12. As the name implies, the new NAS solution is both a rackmount and 12-bay device. With the G-RACK 12, G-Technology is expanding its portfolio, aiming upstream, as they are more known for
SanDisk Announces iXpand Flash Drive For iOS Devices
SanDisk has announced the release of their iXpand Flash Drive, which is designed to help with the pervasive storage shortages that iOS users often face. The iXpand drive connects directly to the lightning port of Apple's mobile devices, allowing users to quickly offload up to 128GB of content that they don't need (but want to
Panzura Delivers In-Cloud NAS On Microsoft Azure
Today Panzura announced that its Panzura Cloud Controllers have been certified for Microsoft Azure. With its Cloud Controllers certified, users will have an end-to-end global file system Panzura controller’s on-premises and Panzura controllers running inside Azure, all using Azure Storage. This announcement follows other such announcements of Panzura working with Oracle, VMware, and AliCloud.
CTERA Updates Its Cloud Storage Gateway Portfolio
Today CTERA Networks announced updates to its cloud storage gateway portfolio. These updates include a 4x capacity expansion and a virtualized cloud storage gateway. CTERA claims these upgrades will deliver new levels of deployment flexibility, storage capacity, and efficiency for remote office IT environments.
Intel Releases Earnings & Announces Layoffs
I didn’t intend to be the bearer of bad news but covering the recent earnings in the tech industry has hung that title around my neck. Intel is the latest company to release its first quarter earnings that didn’t live up to the expectations, or at least in some cases. The earnings overall weren’t bad,
Oracle Announces New Cloud Storage Options At NAB 2016
Today at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Oracle announced new cloud storage options that are designed to save organizations costs while they store, manage, and retrieve their media content. In order to achieve these savings Oracle is combining its content storage applications, Oracle DIVA, with its Storage Cloud Serve –
Crucial Expands Its Server Memory Portfolio
Today Crucial announced the availability of two new offerings in its server memory product portfolio, 32GB DDR4 VLP RDIMMs and 64GB DDR4 LRDIMMs. To get the higher density out of the new memory modules, Crucial engineered a dual stack of 8Gb DDR4 DRAM die to engineer a single 16Gb component. The new modules have quoted
Spectra Logic Unveils World’s Largest Capacity Tape Library, TFinity ExaScale
Today at the National Associations of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Spectra Logic announced the world’s largest and most richly featured tape storage system Spectra, TFinity ExaScale Edition. The TFinity ExaScale Edition is designed for organizations that have exception data growth exponential data growth, such as media and entertainment and high performance computing.
WD Gold Datacenter HDDs Announced
WD has announced the expansion of its HDD portfolio with the addition of the new WD Gold datacenter hard drives. Placing itself nicely alongside the company’s existing lines like the Black and Red HDDs, the Gold drives are built to handle a variety of use cases, including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers/storage and rack-mount datacenter servers/storage




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