Today NexGen Storage announced the industry’s first multi-tier all-flash array (AFA) that leverages its patented Quality of Service (QoS). NexGen has two new AFA, the N5-1500 and N5-3000, both of which utilizes multiple tiers of flash including RAM, PCIe flash, and SSDs. NexGen uses its recently patented QoS (Primary Data Storage System with Quality of

HP has announced the t730, the world’s first thin client with native quad UHD/4K display support coupled with next-generation quad-core AMD processing power. Ideal for business customers in high-performance sectors, such as financial services, oil/gas, digital media, and engineering, HP’s new Thin Client lineup allows businesses to achieve the content-driven performance they need, without any

Today EMC Corporation announced it was expanding its next generation Isilon scale-out NAS solutions to further power them to tackle unstructured data growth. These new solutions will deliver a Data Lake-ready platform to enterprises with high-speed data analytics. The new solutions are aimed at three aspects of the Data Lake, the edge, the core, and

Today SIOS Technology Corp. announced the latest release of its machine learning analytics solutions, SIOS iQ 3.3. The latest release features better accuracy and precision in performance root cause analysis for VMware environments.  This release also includes improved usability through dashboard enhancements and a graphical topological impact view enabling faster identification and resolution of issues.

Today Intel Corporation announced new products and new collaborations that are geared around dealing with the ever growing Internet Of Things (IoT) and its impact on telecommunications, cloud and data center services. This announcement includes an expansion of Intel’s Xeon processor D-1500 product family and new Intel Ethernet controllers. And the collaborations are with industry

Today Riverbed Technology announced that it would be updating its branch converged infrastructure solution, SteelFusion with version 4.2. The previous update consolidated all physical IT assets at the branch level into “zero branch IT.” This update will now support VMware vSphere 6.

Netstor has released the NS388, a new 2.5" enterprise-level 12Gbps SAS Expander designed to save power, significantly improve business archiving and increase production efficiency. The Netstor NS388S is built as a high-density framework, featuring low space requirement and ultra-low power consumption design. Netstor indicates it will maintain fast data transfer to host, provide organizations with the

Red Hat Inc. announced that its Gluster Storage is available in Microsoft Azure as a fully supported offering. Through Gluster, Azure users will have a scale-out, POSIX compatible, massively scalable, elastic file storage solution with a global namespace. This announcement also means that existing Gluster users will have another public cloud environment to run Gluster

Since the announcement that Dell is buying EMC for $67 billion last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about what this deal means both to me and the vendors we use. Our business is largely an EMC shop for storage, and we use a variety of servers, switches and other products from HP, Cisco and