Today Mellanox Technologies introduced the ConnectX-4 Adapter, a single/dual-port 100Gb/s Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter, the final piece to the industry’s first complete end-to-end 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solution. The ConnectX-4 will provide high-performance and low latency needs for high-performance computing (HPC), cloud, Web 2.0, and Big Data applications.
Today NVM Express has released its 1.2 specification. NVM Express (NVMe) is already a high-performance standard for enterprise and client non-volatile memory based storage solutions (NVM developed the specification for accessing SSDs on a PCIe bus). NVMe 1.2 extends to a new level of enterprise and client functionality with new data center and client features. Along with
Today QLogic announced that its 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapters are now shipping in Fujitsu PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST servers. The collaboration allows Fujitsu customers to deploy end-to-end Gen 5 SANs in combination with ETERNUS Gen 5 Fibre Channel disk storage systems. This collaboration is the latest with QLogic that is aimed at satisfying enterprise-class server and
CalDigit has announced the T4 Thunderbolt 2 RAID storage solution is now available for pre-order and will begin shipping on November 19th, 2014. The T4 is a four-bay RAID 0, 1, 5 & JBOD storage solution that is equipped with Thunderbolt 2 technology, storage capacities up to 20TB, and can reach speeds of 750MB/s with
Today Zadara Storage announced its expanded high-availability and data protection options for its Virtual Private Storage Array. The service includes a unique, Multi-Zone HA capability. The new options run the gamut of data protection from application corruption all the way up to facility-level failure. The new features also enable customers to extend their data redundancy
Computing has changed dramatically, particularly in the last ten years. According to IDC, the rise of web and mobile applications, and the commoditization of content creation tools, has increased endpoint content consumption and content creation by at least 30 times. As such, companies today are looking to get more value out of the petabytes of
HP has announced several enhancements to its HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage family to help customers get more out of both new and existing arrays by taking better advantage of SSDs. These enhancements are a combination of free software upgrades that unlock more performance within 3PAR arrays with intelligent flash management and performance tuning, along with analytics that
Avere Systems has announced the release of its high-performance, scalable software NAS with its latest version of Avere Operating System (AOS 4.5), the Virtual FXT Edge Filer. The Virtual FXT Edge Filer provides complete flexibility to deploy and scale compute in the cloud, using both on-premises and cloud-based storage resources such as Amazon EC2.
Synology has officially launched the latest version of its operating system for NAS, DiskStation Manager 5.1 (DSM 5.1). As mentioned in the beta announcement, DSM 5.1 provides feature-rich backup and security tools, increased productivity, media functionality, and management. DSM 5.1 also has a number of enhancements helping users complete their cloud solutions by providing an advanced private cloud
Dell has launched the Dell Cloud Marketplace public beta program. The marketplace will give both developers and IT managers a single unified console on dell.com where they can compare, purchase, use, and manage public cloud services from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Joyent. Dell is aligning itself with Delphix, Docker, and Pertino allowing users
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