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.
Micron Technology and Intel announced today the availability of their new 3D NAND technology. Jointly developed by both companies, this new flash memory technology is being billed as the world’s highest-density. The companies claim that they will be able to get three times higher capacity than competing NAND technologies.
Toshiba has announced the development of a 48-layer three dimensional stacked cell structure flash memory named BiCS, a 2-bit-per-cell 128-gigabit (16 gigabytes) device. Primarily suited for solid state drives, the BiCS is based on a 48-layer stacking process, which enhances the reliability of write/erase endurance all the while boosting write speed. Sample shipments of products using
In an interesting turn of events, Diablo Technologies has announced what is described as a decisive victory in the lawsuit brought by Netlist concerning the ULLtraDIMM technology. Today, a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Diablo. A jury unanimously decided that there was
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