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Samsung Unveils SM863 & PM863 Data Center SSDs

Today Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Introduced new high performance SATA SSDs aimed at small to medium businesses (SMB), the SM863 and the PM863. First showcased as CES earlier this year, Samsung states that the new SSDs will deliver higher reliability, faster speeds, and much higher capacities. This will give data centers better performance at a

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dell Adopts New Flash Technology Driving Down Adoption Price

Today Dell Inc. announced that it was the first storage array provider to adopt the industry’s newest, highest-density and lowest-cost for performance enterprise flash drives. The adopting of this technology will dramatically drive down price per GB while improving performance as customers can switch to SSDs from HDDs. Dell states it can offer all-flash mid-tier

451 Research Finds Cloud Costs Are Falling But More Savings Can Be Found

451 Research has released its most recent Cloud Price Index and has found that on-demand cloud pricing has dropped 2.25% since October (using 451 Research’s cloud pricing model, representing a typical multi-service on-demand application the price went from $1.72 per hour in October 2014 to $1.68 currently). However the price index shows that companies can

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Nimble Updates Adaptive Flash Platform With Several New Benefits

Nimble Storage has announced that it has made updated its Adaptive Flash Platform (NAF) giving it several enterprise-grade capabilities. This advancements include the ability to deliver an all-flash service level, an auto-flash service level, and a disk only service level all within a single storage platform. Nimble also announced it added additional capabilities including software-based

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Scale Computing Announces the Closing of its $18 Million Funding Round

Scale Computing has announced that it has ended its $18 million funding round, which will be used with the intention of providing new products to their global customers. Financing for the latest funding was led by ABS Capital Partners, an investor in later-stage growth companies based out of Baltimore and San Francisco. Scale has been

Dell Delivers Thin Clients Based on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

At Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Dell announced that its latest Wyse thin clients will have a new operating system based on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, making Dell the first OEM to deliver thin clients running this OS. It also announced new updates to its vWorkspace desktop virtualization software; all aimed at making it easier to

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Caringo Swarm Version 7.5 Adds Major Enhancements

Caringo has announced major enhancements in its latest version of Swarm object storage software with version 7.5. This new update offers architectural and management features to address issues found in big data storage, web content delivery, and active archive environments. 

Enterprise

HP and Intel Team To Expand Access Of High Performance Computing To All Enterprises

HP has announced a High Performance Computing (HPC) alliance with Intel Corporation at the International Supercomputing Conference, which was created to advance customer innovation and help expand accessibility of HPC to enterprises of all sizes. To increase accessibility of HPC, both companies will launch a new Center of Excellence (CoE) to bring a community of experts

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Windows Server on Google Compute Engine Now Generally Available

Google has announced that their Windows Server on Google Compute Engine is now general available, adding to their growing list of operating systems they support and making it an ideal platform to run production Windows Server workloads. Google has also announced several enhancements for Windows Server users to complement updates made back in January of this

Enterprise

Pivot3 and Lenovo Partner to Launch a Global Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution

Pivot3 and Lenovo have partnered to bring Pivot3’s Global Hyper-Converged solution to Lenovo clients. In addition, Arrow ECS will be the exclusive distributor of this platform for the European market, which will be its focus for now. Initially, this combined solution will be sold as the “Hyper-Converged ONE” appliance, while leveraging a high-performance, Lenovo All-Flash