Facebook has announced the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers, code-named Yosemite, while proposing the design as a contribution to the Open Compute Project for all members of the community to build on and deploy. Yosemite is designed as a modular chassis containing high-powered system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor cards, providing Facebook’s infrastructure with capacity
We reviewed the VNXe3200 back in October of last year and we liked the little platform. But not everyone felt the same. The performance of the unit wasn’t the question so much as the licensing. Now EMC has introduced a new software bundle that is 88% cheaper.
X-IO Technologies has launched its own series all-flash arrays (AFA), the ISE 800 Series. This marks an expansion of X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage portfolio, which also includes the X-IO ISE 700 and ISE 200 Series. The new ISE 800 Series has also achieved the number one position for price-performance in the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1
LaCie has announced the addition of USB–C technology to its Porsche Design Mobile Drive. With USB-C technology, both ends of the cable are identical and the connector is reversible, which helps make the LaCie Mobile Drive easier to connect, as there is no need to think about which end goes to which device or worrying
Today WD, a Western Digital company, announced the worlds most power-efficient, 6TB HDD for datacenters, the WD Re+ hard drive family. The new drives only consume 6 watts per 6TB. WD has also announced that the WD Re And WD Se will now be expanding to include a 6TB model as well.
Today Barracuda Networks announced that several of its storage solutions have achieved VMware Ready – vCloud Air status. The status indicates that Barracuda’s products have undergone technical validation within the vCloud Air environment, and are supported on VMware vCloud Air. The solutions that achieved this status are Barracuda NG Firewall, Barracuda Message Archiver, Barracuda Spam Firewall, and Barracuda
HP announced today at the Open Compute Summit that they were introducing a new family of compute platforms, HP Cloudline. These new platforms are designed to enable service providers, that are running hyperscale IT architectures, to maximize their data center efficiency and increase cloud service agility. Along with the Cloudline servers, HP announced a new
Today Supermicro announced the launch of a new line of low power, high-density server solutions that support Intel Xeon Processor D-1500 product family. The new solutions run the gamut of various configurations from UP motherboards to 1U and Mini-Tower servers all the way up to a high-density 6U 56-node MicroBlade microserver.
A few years ago while attending EMC World, I had the chance to meet with Chuck Hollis and several other VMware employees to talk about an idea they had. They wanted to make use of untapped local storage resources inside an ESX host. Rather than simply holding the ESX boot image, they wanted to make
Today SanDisk Corp, unveiled its new storage platform, the SanDisk InfiniFlash. The InfiniFlash creates an entirely new category in the IT industry as it geared toward and dubbed “Big Data Flash.” InfiniFlash comes in three configurations that are all aimed at delivering high capacity, high performance, and reliability for big data and hyperscale workloads.
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