SanDisk has announced the world’s first 256Gb 3-bit-per-cell (TLC) 48-layer 3D NAND chip using BiCS technology as well as the beginning of 3D NAND pilot line operations in Yokkaichi, Japan, in a joint effort with its partner, Toshiba. SanDisk’s 256 Gb X3 BiCS chip is built for wide range of use cases including consumer, client,
Power consumption is front of mind when it comes to designing, building, and running a datacenter. Not only does power usage eat into IT operations budgets, there are many other influences power consumption has as a larger part of the IT infrastructure. The StorageReview lab is no different. Not only does our testing at times draw huge amounts of
Quantum has announced substantial upgrades to the Scalar i6000 tape library, including twice the drive density, the addition of unique RESTful web services management capabilities and 80 PLUS certified power supplies. With these new updates, Quantum believes that it now offers the most feature-rich and technically advanced enterprise tape library available on the enterprise market,
Today Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corporation unveiled new non-volatile memory technology that they claim may revolutionize any device, service, or application, 3D XPoint (cross point). 3D XPoint is in production now and is the first new category of memory introduced in over 25 years.
In addition to Google Nearline’s Cloud Storage’s recent general availability, the company has announced the beta version of Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys for Google Compute Engine, giving their users the ability to bring-their-own-keys to encrypt compute resources. This certainly brings the best of both worlds, as it provides users the power and flexibility of public cloud
Today SwiftStack announced that top organizations in media and entertainment are using its object storage to gain incremental value in their production workflows. These organizations are finding that when they combine SwiftStack object storage with their media asset management solutions they are getting better productivity from new levels of access and protection. And producers are
Today Savage IO released its software agnostic, open storage platform, SavageStor. Savage IO states that SavageStor is the most-densely populated storage server on the market. SavageStor is designed to handle the capacity and IO needs of cloud storage, big data analytics, HPC, enterprise and ROBO environments.
Today X-IO Technologies announced a new portfolio of storage systems, iglu. The iglu family is designed to bridge the paths between fully featured storage and software-defined storage (SDS). iglu will bring X-IO’s intelligent storage element (ISE) arrays into the world of SAN. X-IO is stating that iglu will be a worry-free SAN that will run
As we previously mentioned, Panzura released SkyBridge to run VDI and application virtualization completely in the cloud. Now Panzura is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run SkyBridge within AWS as a seamless extension of the datacenter. This partnership aims to simplify networking with the cloud, connect to on-premises authentication services, automate the configuration of cloud services
According to both The Register and CRN, Cisco has confirmed that will cease its Invicta Storage Array line. Cisco first acquired the Invicta All-Flash array when it purchased Whiptail in 2013 for $415 million. Within a year Cisco halted shipments from apparent customer complaints. After two years of issues, Cisco will no longer develop the Invicta Appliance and
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