Yesterday we blasted DCIG for their inept attempt to provide a buyer's guide for all flash arrays. As it turns out, the report is worse than expected. Upon our post the author, Ken Clipperton, took to Twitter to defend the DCIG stance. Since then, the situation has devolved further, with multiple vendors pointing out that the report
Today IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe Inc. later this year. Cleversafe being a lead developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances will strength IBM’s position in storage and hybrid clouds. Once the deal is completed, Cleversafe will be integrated into IBM’s Cloud business. Financial terms
Last week DCIG published their "2015-16 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide." We've grown accustomed to ignoring most "Magic" and "Best Of" quadrants and awards respectively because almost every time they're garbage. Analysts or media members anoint some vendor or technology best, shiniest, most rectangle or whatever else they can come up with to promote their own
Today Avere Systems introduced a new file storage application for Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFusion. This new solution features all the simplicity of a NAS while leveraging three tiers of Amazon storage. CloudFusion uses the performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and the cost-effectiveness Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Today Avere Systems announced that it is expanding some of its offerings for Google Cloud Platform. These will include support for a new instance, the ability to use Local SSD as the Edge filer cache, and additional support for Google Cloud Storage in the introduction of Nearline and Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage options. Avere
Today NETGEAR Inc. announced that it was expanding its ReadyNAS line for home and small office with two new Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, the 2-bay ReadyNAS 212 (RN212) and the 4-bay ReadyNAS 214 (RN214). Both of the new NAS units use a quad-core 1.4GHz ARM Cortex processor that allows them to deliver real-time 1080p
Today FalconStor Software Inc. announced that it was partnering with Cumulus Logic to provide a next-generation and intelligent cloud-based predictive analytics monitoring system for FalconStor’s FreeStor. Cumulus will be providing an exclusive source code distribution license for FreeStor. As we stated previously, FreeStor is the industry's first horizontal, software-defined storage platform for unified data services. This
Today WinMagic Inc. revealed the results of a survey, conducted by CensusWide, showing that several UK companies are potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks and data breaches due to employee use of cloud storage. The survey was of 1,000 offices with at least 50 employees. The survey found widespread employee use of cloud storage services that
VMworld 2015 US has come and gone. It was definitely a busy year this year with over 23,000 people in attendance. While the conference starts on Monday morning, Sunday brought the usual community event – VMunderground. For the last several years, VMunderground has severed as the unofficial start of the conference. It begins with Opening Acts where community
Pivot3 announced that it has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Both of the new patents are for hyper-convergence technology. The patents are U.S. Patent No. 9,086,821 for its “Method and system for execution of applications in conjunction with RAID” and U.S. Patent No. 9,146,695 for “Method and System
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