In an interesting turn of events, Diablo Technologies has announced what is described as a decisive victory in the lawsuit brought by Netlist concerning the ULLtraDIMM technology. Today, a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Diablo. A jury unanimously decided that there was
OCZ Storage Solutions has announced the Intrepid 3700 Series, a new family of SATA III SSDs that adds to its Intrepid 3000 enterprise portfolio. The new Intrepid 3700 SSDs are designed to deliver top-class performance and I/O latency responses, which OCZ indicates will dramatically improve application performance and I/O efficiencies. The new line will also support higher storage
The Ethernet Alliance has released the 2015 Ethernet Roadmap. The Ethernet Roadmap outlines the current developments and future evolution of the Ethernet through the end of the decade. This is the first time ever the industry roadmap has been made public.
Today Maxta announced new solutions today that will allow entire data centers to be built exclusively using industry-standard hardware. This will create simple, cost-effective, and powerful solutions giving customers greater platform choice. The new solutions enable hyper-convergence for environments built on Maxta software and using the Cumulus Linux operating system, for open networking on Cumulus
Scality today announced the general availability of version 5.0 of its RING software-defined storage platform. RING uses a parallel architecture that can be deployed across commodity x86 servers in order to provide storage services that scale linearly to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects. RING is hardware-agnostic and supports SSD and HDD storage media.
Today OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group Company, released a new SSD management solution, Guru. Guru allows user to do the usual monitoring and maintenance of their SSDs, but it also gives them enough information to “unlock their SSD’s full potential.”
HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced a new milestone as they have deployed over a million of their helium-filled hard drive disks (HDD). With this news, HGST believes that its helium filled drives will become the mainstream choice for data centers where storage density, reliability and power efficiency are paramount. HGST is now shipping
Today OnApp announced a new Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service capability for the OnApp cloud platform. OnApp DRaaS enables customers to using OnApp’s integrated storage system to create resilient local cloud storage on the hardware they are already using for their cloud. Customers will then be able to replicate in real-time to a remote OnApp DRaaS site without impacting
Today Rubrik announced $10 million in Series A funding from investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, John W. Thompson, Frank Slootman, and Mark Leslie. Rubrik’s aim is to offer live data access for recovery and application development. Rubrik will use enterprise data management with web-scale IT, to eliminate backup software through what they are referring to as a
Today the EMC Federation announced a new hardware and software solution that enables businesses to deploy big data at scale, quickly and securely, across the enterprise, the Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL). The Federation consists of EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), VMware, Pivotal, VCE, and RSA. The Data Lake is a new solution from EMC,
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