Today Synology Inc. announced its new converged NAS server, RS18016xs+ and its expansion unit RX1216sas. The new NAS server come with a vast variety of features including expansion capacities, point-in-time data backup for enterprises, and high performance throughput. The RS18016xs+ runs DSM and comes with a 5-year warranty.
Microsoft announced several improvements and innovations today to help customers manage their hybrid clouds. Previously at their Ignite event, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Operations Management Suite. This hybrid management solution extended the value of System Center and helped manage corporate workloads. Back-up and migration functionality in Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery were also introduced at
EMC announced that it is released an update to its software for Disk Library for mainframe (DLm), version 4.3. The update includes significantly boosting the capacity of virtual tape libraries and enhancing data protection and disaster recovery testing. EMC’s new update is aimed at ease the pressure that Third Platform technologies are putting on mainframes.
Veeam Availability Suite v9 is now on the horizon, though no exact date has been given. With the new version of its software, Veeam is starting to let some of what users can expect out. Veeam recently announced the support of storage arrays for its storage snapshots integration; these arrays include EMC’s VNX and VNXe.
Today Parsec Labs LLC announced its new product, HyperQ Total Storage Management solution. The HyperQ Total Storage Management solution provides storage virtualization, bringing what Parec’s states as “the ultimate storage tiering solution to data centers.” HyperQ can add hybrid flash storage to any storage environment allowing data to cascade from flash to spinning disk to cloud.
451 Research ran a survey on datacenter trends in for the second quarter of 2015 and found that a majority, 87%, of datacenter operators are maintaining or increasing their spending on their datacenter facilities. Not only are operators still spending on datacenter facilities, the study found that 25% are expected to increase their spending in
Today NexGen Storage announced the latest release of its ioControl software, version 3.5. This release features new Quality of Service (QoS) Manager for vCenter Server 6 and new VM-level QoS, the industry’s first and only VM-level QoS designed for VMware Virtual Volumes and PCIe Flash. The latest software release is also NVMe ready and thus
Toshiba has announced a new high-capacity 6TB addition to their MC04 Series, which was launched back in May of last year. The MC04 6TB model enterprise HDD is designed for bulk storage systems and servers that support cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. Using a 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04 Series offers 7,200 RPM to support
Today Condusiv Technologies released the latest version of its I/O reduction software solution for virtual environments, V-locity 6.0. Condusiv is also announcing that they have updated their IntelliMemory DRAM read caching engine stating it now delivers 3 times the performance of the previous version. IntelliMemory has gained the performance increase by focusing on caching effectiveness
Today Metalogix announced that its Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) product, StoragePoint, has achieved VSPEX Labs Validation for EMC’s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure with Isilon. Vendors such as Metalogix can validate their offerings as part of a VSPEX solution in the EMC Lab through the VSPEX Ecosystem. Their channel partners benefit by now having a tested and
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