Avere Systems has announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft, which will bring its Virtual FXT Edge filers to Microsoft Azure. Customers will now be able to deploy and scale cloud compute on-demand all the while leveraging on-premises storage resources. Avere indicates that this will make NAS data accessible to the Azure without having to endure
HPE Accelerates Path To The All-Flash Data Center
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it would help the acceleration to the all-flash data center with 3PAR StoreServ Storage solutions. Along with the new 3PAR StoreServ Storage solutions, HPE is also refreshing its HPE StoreOnce and HPE StoreEver product lines. These refreshes are aimed at keeping protection and retention up to pace with application
Dell Aims To Bring HPC To The Mainstream
Today at SC15 in Austin, Texas, Dell announced several innovations and partnerships around bringing high performance computing (HPC) to the mainstream. These new innovations include HPC systems for genomic data analysis and for manufacturing and research. The partnerships are with Intel, Mellanox, as well as the momentum Dell is gaining from its customers and its
ContainerX Releases Beta Of Its New Platform
Today at DockerCon Europe 2015, ContainerX launched the beta of its new comprehensive, multi-tenant container platform designed for enterprise IT admins. This new platform provides a single pane of glass for all containers allowing support for Linux and Windows, bare metal and virtual machines, private and public cloud environments.
Netgear Arlo Q 1080p HD Security Camera with Audio (VMC3040) Announced
Netgear has unveiled their Arlo Q 1080p HD Security Camera with Audio (VMC3040), the newest addition to their Arlo IP camera portfolio featuring 1080p high-definition video coupled with a 4-megapixel-image sensor and built-in night vision. The Arlo Q camera is also equipped with two-way audio, allowing users to communicate in any room that they are
Data Dynamics Releases StorageX 7.7
Today Data Dynamics Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its intelligence-based storage management solution, StorageX 7.7. Data Dynamics states that this release will expand its lead in software defined migration solutions. The update brings new abilities to scale as well as faster migration speeds due to the upgrade to a 64bit architecture.
NVIDIA Announces Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform
NVIDIA has announced the Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform, an end-to-end hyperscale data center platform that allows web-services companies accelerate their huge machine learning workloads. The new NVIDIA hyperscale accelerator line includes two accelerators: the Tesla M40 GPU, which enables researchers to accelerate the innovation and design of new deep neural networks for each of the
VMware Announces NVMe Support for VSAN
VMware has announced that VSAN will now be supporting NVMe devices. To emphasize its importance, VMware indicated Intel has previously demonstrated that clusters can easily scale into the millions of IOPS when leveraging NVMe VSAN. We recently reviewed VMware Virtual SAN, and found it to be a tremendous performer during much of our benchmarks and configurations.
Nautilus Data Technologies Successfully Launches Waterborne Data Center
Today Nautilus Data Technologies announced the construction of its first waterborne commercial data center. The announcement of the commercial data centers comes after the successful launch of Nautilus’s proof-of-concept prototype. This prototype showed a 30% decrease in energy consumption and operating costs.
Google Announces Enhancements To Its Container Engine and Container Registry
Over the past few months, Google has made several additions and enhancements to its Cloud Platform. Google has introduced a Container Engine, for setting up container clusters and managing apps, a Container Registry, for securely storing container images, and the introduction of Kubernetes, Google’s container orchestration system. Google has recently announced new enhancements to these products.




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