451 Research ran a survey on datacenter trends in for the second quarter of 2015 and found that a majority, 87%, of datacenter operators are maintaining or increasing their spending on their datacenter facilities. Not only are operators still spending on datacenter facilities, the study found that 25% are expected to increase their spending in
Today NexGen Storage announced the latest release of its ioControl software, version 3.5. This release features new Quality of Service (QoS) Manager for vCenter Server 6 and new VM-level QoS, the industry’s first and only VM-level QoS designed for VMware Virtual Volumes and PCIe Flash. The latest software release is also NVMe ready and thus
Toshiba has announced a new high-capacity 6TB addition to their MC04 Series, which was launched back in May of last year. The MC04 6TB model enterprise HDD is designed for bulk storage systems and servers that support cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. Using a 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04 Series offers 7,200 RPM to support
Today Condusiv Technologies released the latest version of its I/O reduction software solution for virtual environments, V-locity 6.0. Condusiv is also announcing that they have updated their IntelliMemory DRAM read caching engine stating it now delivers 3 times the performance of the previous version. IntelliMemory has gained the performance increase by focusing on caching effectiveness
Today Metalogix announced that its Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) product, StoragePoint, has achieved VSPEX Labs Validation for EMC’s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure with Isilon. Vendors such as Metalogix can validate their offerings as part of a VSPEX solution in the EMC Lab through the VSPEX Ecosystem. Their channel partners benefit by now having a tested and
Today Netgear Inc. announced the launch of its first secure, cloud-based IT service platform, Business Central. Business Central is a platform of various services that are aimed at providing small to medium businesses with a cost-effective way to establish, provision, and manage key IT networking services and network devices. The first service module being launched
Pivot3 recently announced the general availability of its new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) all-flash enterprise appliance. The new appliance joins Pivot3’s wide selection of high-capacity systems and can be combined with their other HCI appliances through their central management system. Pivot3 also announced that Trent Landreth and Jason Peoples have joined their executive team.
At the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (InterMag) this year, Seagate Technology discussed and demonstrated some of the new storage technologies that they have been working on such as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and bit-patterned media (BPM) technologies. InterMag was held in China for the first time in its 52-year history, China accounts for a growing
Iron Mountain Incorporated has sponsored a white paper study through IDC. Just recently they revealed the results of the study and have found that organizations could save and be generating millions of dollars if their data archives were mined effectively. This finding effects organizations of all sizes. What’s more, organizations that can leverage their data properly
Today at the Red Hat Summit, Super Micro Computer Inc. announced that it would be delivering Open Source optimized solutions across its portfolio of computing and storage platforms. Supermicro’s Red Hat solutions will now support Linux 7 for open hybrid cloud and enterprise workloads across converged infrastructures. Supermicro also announced that its next generation X10
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