Today Dot Hill had two major announcements aimed at increasing performance in vertical markets and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The first announcement is a new software technology that triples data ingest throughput and can also handle over 5,000 parallel data streams, RealStream software. The second announcement is a new AssuredSAN series, the 6000 Series.
LaCie has announced that its Rugged Thunderbolt storage solution will be released in a 1TB SSD capacity. This significant increase in storage comes with no size or weight increase when compared to the 500GB offering, making it just as portable as before. Our first look at the 500GB SSD version showed that the LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt
Today Dell Inc. announced that they have launched the latest version of its scale-out NAS solution, Fluid File System (FuildFS) version 4. The latest version of FuildFS is available on the Dell Compellent FS8600 now and will be available on EqualLogic later this year. FluidFS v4 will help customers manage the growth in the number
Today Quantum Corp announced three new solutions that are aimed at helping companies address the challenges that unstructured data growth presents in a cost-effective manner. Quantum is addressing these challenges with three solutions: Quantum Artico NAS, Lattus extended online storage, and through a joint solution of Quantum’s DXi appliances and Rocket Arkivio Autostor software.
In our latest In the Lab Series we will be upgrading our TurboBox (NA211TB-LD) from Thunderbolt 1 to the newest Thunderbolt 2 technology, which we reviewed back in October of 2013, using the company’s Thunderbolt 2 upgrade kit. The Netstor TurboBox is an slick looking external PCIe enclosure that offers storage expansion through a Thunderbolt connection
Today Delphix announced new features to its latest data as a service (DaaS) software platform, Delphix DaaS 4.2. The updated features allow for simple migration to both private and public clouds. The DaaS platform now supports Amazon GovCloud, OpenStack, and KVM hypervisor environments.
Today SIOS Technology Corp announced that its DataKeeper Cluster Edition software has been certified by Microsoft Azure and is now available in the Azure marketplace. This marks the first offering that is Azure certified and enables customers to create a SANLess high availability cluster in Azure using Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering.
Today SanDisk Corporation announced that it has updated its server-side solid state caching software, FlashSoft version 3.7. The new software updates includes improvements in performance, usability, and compatibility for Windows, VMware, and Linux environments. SanDisk has also announced that it is bundling its FlashSoft software with its hardware, such as its Optimus Ascend SAS SSD and the CloudSpeed Ascend SATA
Google has announced the beta launch of Cloud Console for Android, allowing users to manage the Google Cloud Platform from their phone or tablet. The new app allows users to be away from their workstations as they can now receive automatic alerts when an issue occurs in their Google App Engine. Users can quickly glance
Dot Hill has been awarded a patent for a write-cache management feature that intelligently manages cache usage. As a result, Dot Hill indicates that this will allow their AssuredSAN storage solutions to improve write performance by up to 100 percent in demanding storage workloads with high stream counts.
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