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Spectra Logic Announces Verde DPE

Today Spectra Logic Corporation announced its new high-density, bulk storage NAS disk platform, the Spectra Verde Digital Preservation Enterprise (DPE). The Verde DPE utilizes Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology to provide capacities of 180TB per rack unit for a cost as low as 9¢/GB raw.

ExaGrid Releases Software 4.9 With Expanded Deduplication & Oracle RMAN Support

Today ExaGrid Systems Inc. announced that it has updated its software for its line of backup storage appliances to the latest version, 4.9. This update offers two key features: supporting data deduplication globally across all NAS shares and all appliances in a single scale-out GRID and enhancing support for Oracle RMAN Channels. This new support

Enterprise

Everspin & Aupera Team Up To Deliver First All-MRAM In M.2 Form Factor

Everspin Technologies, Inc. and Aupera Technologies Inc. announced that together they are launching the industry’s first all MRAM storage module in the M.2 form factor, the AupM001. The AupM001 uses Everspin’s non-volatile, high endurance, 64 Mb DDR3 ST-MRAM devices and a PCIe backhaul interface and comes with an initial capacity of 32MB with higher capacities

Gartner Issues Apology For Pure Storage’s Wildly Inaccurate Sales Data

Yesterday Pure Storage started the process of going public, filing their S1 with the SEC. This process means Pure will soon have access to a large pile of cash, likely in the $300-400 million range by the time the issue starts trading. On the flip side the company now has to disclose all sorts of financial data

In the Lab: VMware HCIbench Hands On

VMware's VSAN group recently announced a free storage performance testing tool for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), the HCI benchmark or HCIbench. While stressing traditional arrays with I/O or bandwidth tests is fairly well understood, applying synthetic tests to HCI gear requires a careful approach and a steep learning curve. With traditional storage infrastructure you setup your

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Pure Storage Files Paperwork For Proposed IPO

DiscussToday Pure Storage announced that is has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Pure Storage is planning on going public however they have not yet stated the amount of shares or the price range

Nutanix And Citrix Partner To Drive Down App & Desktop Virtualization Costs

Today Nutanix Inc. announced that it is working with Citrix in an effort to drive down the costs and the complexities of developing new applications and desktop virtualization environments. Nutanix is also announcing that its Acropolis solution has been verified as Citrix ready, meaning that Acropolis solutions can now power XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp products.

Enterprise  ◇  Power Management

Eaton Launches New Power Xpert 9395 High Performance UPS

Today Eaton Corporation announced a high performance model uninterruptible power system (UPS), the new Power Xpert 9395. This new UPS provides best-in-class efficiency and scalable battery runtimes for data centers, light industrial applications, and multi-tenant data centers. The Power Xpert 9395 will offer 10% more power (275kW modules at a power rating of 675-1100 kW/kVA)

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Google Announces General Availability Of Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Today Google Cloud Platform announced the general availability of two new data analytics products, Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. These products will provide a unified programming model for data analysis, removing the need for batch and stream data sources while integrating applications and services and analyzes data streams in real time. Google is