Today StorMagic launched its SvSAN management pack and system management provider (SMP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The new management pack enables users to centralize monitoring of their entire SvSAN through a single pane of glass. The pack also includes real-time alerts and monitoring capabilities, so issues can be identified and addressed quickly.
Today Hitachi Data Systems unveiled the next phase of its Social Innovation Strategy. HDS believes its Social Innovation Strategy will make societies safer, smarter, and healthier. HDS is also announcing new solutions and services to go along with its Social Innovation Strategy. These solutions and services include: Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Clinical
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) unveiled its new lineup of software-defined infrastructure solutions that are designed for all transactional and analytic driven workloads. HDS is helping customers leverage information gathered through virtualized, hyper-converged and scale-out platforms to accelerate the journey to IT as a service (ITaaS). HDS is working on this by automating operations to
Today Dell Inc. introduced its most powerful four-socket server, the Dell PowerEdge R930. The R930 is the next step up from the PowerEdge R920 we reviewed earlier. Like its predecessor, the Dell PowerEdge R930 is designed to handle nearly any workload and configuration. This new addition to Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge servers is ideal for customers migrating
Dell Inc. recently introduced three new modules to its PowerEdge FX Portfolio, the FC430, the FD332, and the FC830. These modules were first announced along with the rest of Dell’s next generation converged infrastructure in November. We had a chance to review the Dell PowerEdge FX2 at the time as well. Dell has also announced that its PowerEdge servers
Today QLogic Corp announced that they are making their 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology available for Violin Memory Inc.’s all-flash array (AFA), Flash Storage Platform. The collaboration between the two companies will increase throughput and workload capacity for Violin customers. This is the latest in a string of collaborations aimed at satisfying enterprise-class server
Today SanDisk Corporation introduced the next generation of its Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators. This new generation of Fusion ioMemory is aimed at improving performance while driving datacenter consolidation, and lower total cost of ownership.
Mobile remote access is something many labs need to work with when it comes to keeping tests operating smoothly, where physical access to the server isn't feasible. In the StorageReview Test Lab we work with remote access on a daily basis to keep our many tests operating smoothly, although a desktop or notebook isn't always the closest platform within reach.
Today Iron Mountain Incorporated and EMC Corporation announced a strategic relationship to deliver cloud backup and replication services. This partnership will help customers optimize both their on and off-premises data protection strategy. The partnership also helps tackle the challenge of exploding data growth, stringent availability and security requirements, and tight IT budgets.
Google Cloud Platform announced a trial discount off of its Local SSD. The discount will take 75% off of their standard pricing. This promotion is aimed at getting potential customers to try it out and see the performance difference compared to a different vendor such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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