Today HGST (a Western Digital company) announced its new object storage system, Active Archive. The Active Archive System is designed to address the need for rapid access to massive data stores. The type of data the system predominately stores is data that is past its create and modify phase of its life, moving into its
Today Riverbed Technology announced the latest version of its branch converged infrastructure solution, SteelFusion 4.0 (SteelFusion was formally known as Granite). This time around, SteelFusion will act as what Riverbed is calling “zero branch IT.” All physical assets (servers, storage, and backup) at the remote branch will be completely consolidated. SteelFusion will lead to better application
Last year Nexenta introduced NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop. Today Nexenta is announcing the general availability of NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop.
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.
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