VMware To Complete Storage Virtualization With VVols
VMware launched its Virtual SAN (VSAN) hyperconverged storage for its vSphere virtualized servers last fall and started shipping it this spring and has seen very good uptake of the ...Full Article
Violin Bolts Dedupe, Compression Onto All-Flash Arrays
All-flash array maker Violin Memory has beefed up its all-flash arrays with much-needed inline deduplication and compression features. While both of these features have been around for years with ...Full Article
Nexenta Object Storage Targets OpenStack, Big Data
Software-defined storage specialist Nexenta launched the first version of it block and object storage package designed to provide inline data compression and deduplication on petabyte-scale clusters. The scale-out storage ...Full Article
CacheBox Takes On Incumbents In Server-Side Flash Cache
A bunch of file system experts who worked on the Veritas clustered file system that was a mainstay of Unix deployments and that is now controlled by Symantec have ...Full Article
Diablo Readies Memory Channel Flash For DDR4
The first generation of flash-based memory channel storage from Diablo Technologies and SanDisk is ramping up in high-end Xeon E5 and E7 machines made by IBM and is now ...Full Article
Zadara Offers Pay-As-You-Go Virtual Storage
The list of Things-as-a-Service keeps growing. Zadara Storage has rolled out the latest entry with the introduction of On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS), targeting private clouds that include managed storage area network ...Full Article
Flashtec NVRAM Does 15 Million IOPS At Sub-Microsecond Latency
Hyperscale datacenter operators and enterprise storage suppliers just got a new tool from PMC to help them build out zippier storage infrastructure. PMC, a venerable semiconductor maker founded three ...Full Article
HGST Shows Off Zippy PCM Prototype, Updates Flash Cards
HGST, the disk drive and NAND flash storage device maker that is now part of Western Digital and that is based on IBM’s former UltraStar disk business, is using ...Full Article
AMD Accelerates Chip Testing With Flash Storage
Like most large enterprises, chip maker AMD has some big central systems that it uses to run its core business, and on top of that, it has a cluster ...Full Article
RackWare Adds Disaster Recovery To Cloud Management
RackWare, the five-year-old cloud management startup, has rolled out the third version of its disaster recovery module designed to move existing IT infrastructure to the cloud with minimum hassle. ...Full Article
