As more and more companies look to software-defined storage (SDS) and software-defined data centers (SDDC), they have to begin to rethink their own data center architecture. More and more vendors and startups are coming out with products that challenge traditional storage (software-defined, Hyper-Converged) they do run into various limitations. This is where Hedvig enters the
Earlier this year at HP Discover, HP announced a new type of infrastructure it dubbed, Composable. This new infrastructure would be composable or built on fluid pools of compute, storage and fast flexible fabric, disaggregated so they can be quickly composed, decomposed back into the pool and then re-composed in a software template to fit the
SolarWinds announced that its Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) now supports even more vendors, bringing the total amount of array families supported up to 17. SolarWinds SRM now supports EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM storage array families and provides monitoring capabilities for hierarchical storage pools. With the addition of these new vendors, SolarWinds states that they
Today HP announced the general availability of the latest version of its integrated enterprise cloud solution, Helion CloudSystem 9.0. Along with the software update, HP is also introducing a new platform optimized for CloudSystem 9.0, the HP ConvergedSystem 700.
QNAP Systems has announced the TS-x63U, a new business-class AMD-powered quad-core TS-x63U series NAS designed for SMBs looking for backup, restoration, virtualization storage, and private cloud solutions as well as to future-proof their IT infrastructure for 10GbE networks. Available in 4, 8 and 12-bay models and single and redundant power supply options, the TS-x63U series comes
EMC acquired ScaleIO in 2013 and up until now, EMC has offered ScaleIO as software only. Today with the introduction of ScaleIO nodes, customers can now purchase ScaleIO bundled with on an EMC commodity server. ScaleIO nodes enable customers to quickly deploy a fully architected software-defined, scale-out, server SAN in a pre-validated, tested and configured
Today CTERA Networks announced that it has integrated its Enterprise File Services Platform with HP’s Cloud Service Automation (CSA). This integration enables IT to automate the deployment and management of enterprise file services across a hybrid cloud delivery model and enables IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) delivery of enterprise file services.
Today Nexenta announced its strategy to bring its Open Software Defined Storage to container-based cloud-native application deployments. Nexenta will be integrating its NexentaEdge Software-Defined Storage solution with container technology. Nexenta states it will embrace microservice architectures to provide a high performance, enterprise-grade storage foundation for could-native applications.
Today the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (HP, IBM, and Quantum) announced new specifications for the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 or LTO-7. The new specifications more than double the capacity per tape cartridge bring the capacity to 15TB (when compressed) up from 6.25TB of the previous generation. And the new specifications have even faster
Cloudian Inc. announced the release of the latest version of HyperStore software, version 5.2, and they announced new physical appliances, the forever live FL3000 appliances. The new forever live appliances can start off small and scale to hundreds of petabytes as the needs increase. The appliances offer up to 3.8PB per rack.
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