Today Panzura announced that its Cloud Controllers are now available on VMware vCloud Air, transforming vCloud Air Object Storage into a globally distributed file system. Panzura states that this will enable vCloud Air to appear like it is just another room of the corporate datacenter. Panzura has undergone technical validation within the vCloud Air environment
Super Micro Computer, Inc. is collaborating with Nexenta and HGST to develop a turnkey scale-up high performance unified block and file storage solution optimized for high performance data-centric environments. The new solution is a combination of Supermicro’s 2U Ultra SuperServer integrated with Nexenta’s NexentaStor and featuring SSDs from HGST (Ultrastar SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar SSD1600MM). This makes the
Today SanDisk Corporation and Nexenta announced that they are working together to release the industry’s first open software-defined storage (OpenSDS) All-Falsh Array (AFA) through a combination of SanDisk’s InfiniFlash IF100 system and Nexenta’s NexentaStor. This joint solution will provide data center customers a pre-tested, full-featured, cost-effective, high-performance system for addressing today’s increasing Big Data challenges.
Cumulus Networks has announced that their Open Networking operating system, Cumulus Linux, will power new hyper-converged infrastructure solutions from Dell and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) based on VMware EVO SDDC. To date, more than 80 hardware provides, resellers, and distributors, (including Dell and HP) have partnered with Cumulus Networks to create networking solutions using Cumulus Linux
There have been a lot of announcements at VMworld this year. A major announcement was the upcoming release of VSAN 6.1, with its new features such as Stretched Cluster, Virtual SAN for ROBO, Replication with vSphere Replication, and so on. Another major announcement is a limited beta for future VSAN releases in order to test upcoming technology. The
Seagate Technology has announced that they have made a major advancement in areal density with a new hard disk that offers upwards of 2TB in capacity inside a slim 7mm package. Seagate indicates that the final product form will allow OEMs to design a new generation of extremely thin “elegant mobile products” with stylish, light-weight, fast,
Today at VMworld 2015, VMware announced new End-User Computing (EUC) innovations. These announcements include a technology preview of VMware’s new “Project A2” to Accelerate Windows 10 Adoption, a new VMware Identity Manager Advanced Edition, and VMware Horizon 6.2 and VMware Horizon 6.2 for Linux. These innovations will help companies bridge the gap between traditional workforce
Today at VMworld 2015, Nexenta announced that it has partnered with VMware to offer an exclusive promotion for any validated customer of VMware Virtual SAN. Customers could receive exclusive promotion of NexentaConnect to achieve file services. NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN can be used to add NFSv3, NFSv4, and SMB file services to VMware Virtual SAN deployments by
Today at VMworld 2015, Huawei Technologies announced that its OceanStor converged storage portfolio has been certified for VMware vSphere 6.0 virtual platform and Virtual Volumes (vVols). This certification includes its 18000 series, V3 series, Dorado series and VIS series.
It’s been two years since VMware first introduced NSX, which enables the virtualization of existing network infrastructures. In that time they have been able to add over 700 customers, have over 100 production deployments, and trained over 3,500 people on NSX. At VMworld this year VMware announced the latest version of NSX, version 6.2.
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