HP has announced several updates today in what HP collectively refers to as their Converged Infrastructure solutions group. There are updates to the HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect as well as the HP Multitenant Device Context. From a pure storage perspective however, the highlight is the updated HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). The StoreVirtual VSA
Skyera has launched the SkyHawk, a half-depth 1U rack-mountable box that provides up to 44TB of flash storage with an Ethernet switch built in. Not only is the system ridiculously full-featured for such a diminutive box, Skyera is also attacking price. By leveraging 19/20nm consumer MLC NAND flash Skyera is able to drive pricing of
Violin Memory has announced a deal with Symantec to offer flash-optimized data management capabilities designed for highly virtualized environments. The new data management features in the Violin Memory Operating System (vMOS) include; snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, full-disk encryption, de-duplication and asynchronous replication. The net result after nine months worth of work between the two partners
Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit has launched the DT01ACA Desktop, a new series of high-density 7,200 RPM SATA hard drives. DT01ACA drives feature terabyte-per-platter designs with one, two, or three platters (500GB to 3TB). 3.5-inch drives remain a mainstay of high-capacity desktop PC and consumer device storage. According to projections from IDC, more than 200
AC&NC has announced a new JetStor 764F solution for high capacity, high demand enterprise applications. The JetStor 764F features four 8Gb/s fiber channel interfaces and four 6Gb/s SAS channel expanders. If used with 4TB drives, a single 4U 764F array supports up to 256TB of storage.
Plextor has announced their latest enthusiast-grade SSD offering, the PX-M5P. The first SSD to hit the market with Marvell’s latest generation SSD controller, the M5P promises some of the biggest single drive performance yet, with random read IOPS of 94,000 and write performance of 86,000 IOPS. Sequential read/write speeds weigh in up to 540/450 MB/s.
Virident Systems has announced FlashMAX II, its second generation PCIe solid-state drive for enterprise environments. Virident is backed by investors Intel and Cisco, and aims to compete with established players like Fusion-io by providing the highest capacity in a low-profile form factor and twice the performance density as its nearest competition.
EMC has announced the DLm8000, their latest high-end mainframe family of virtual tape libraries. The DLm8000 is highlighted by support for EMC VMAX and EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) synchronous replication. The system also boasts a 2.5X improvement in performance over the nearest competitor (read: IBM).
Nimble Storage has announced its forthcoming Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout Architecture (CASL), an enterprise storage architecture that independently scales controller performance, cache capacity, and storage capacity of storage arrays. Nimble Storage is targeting clients that start with a small footprint and leverage CASL to incrementally scale up or scale out their infrastructure as new storage
Today’s increasingly mobile work force has moved more and more end-users, devices, computing applications and highly sensitive data beyond the safety of the enterprise firewall. As the number of laptops multiplies across the enterprise, the prospect of a security breach through a lost or stolen device shifts from a speculative risk to a virtual inevitability.
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