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Flash storage for applications

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI

  The new Pure Storage CEO sees NVMe as the immediate future for flash storage; he's also considering hyper-convergence and 'looking at some things' on the M&A front.

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Toshiba NVMe lineup adds new SSDs, software to pool drives

  Toshiba bolsters NVMe support with new 2.5-inch U.2 and small-form-factor M.2 solid-state drives and KumoScale storage software to pool NVMe SSDs over a network fabric.

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Nimbus Data due to ship 100 TB SSD this summer

  Nimbus Data claims the new ExaDrive DC100 will draw less power, improve endurance and provide balanced read and write performance compared with other enterprise SSDs.

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Pure Storage FlashStack is recycler's renewable resource

  Food waste recycler Valley Proteins chose Pure Storage's all-flash converged infrastructure to replace Dell EMC VNX-Cisco UCS for 24 TB of usable storage with Cohesity backup.

• February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17

  Datrium storage adds Blanket Encryption for end-to-end data protection

  Datrium's Blanket Encryption software encrypts deduplicated and compressed data from servers to storage, but doesn't yet support third-party key management products.

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  EMC Unity: Redesign or rehash?

  EMC unveils three all-flash systems at EMC World 2016, including new midrange Unity platform that draws fire from smaller competitors.

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Propane provider gives SAN the gas with Violin flash array

  Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management.

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  OCZ beefs up SQL Accelerator drives, adds remote flash cache

  Key to OCZ's new SQL Accelerator is Direct Pass Caching software that abstracts data at the block level.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  SolidFire SSD array gets plug-in for VM-level QoS

  Software plug-in for SolidFire SSD array enables its all-flash systems to communicate with VMware's vSphere Storage I/O Control.

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Sanbolic Melio adds flash support, WORM and writable snapshots

  Sanbolic Melio 5.5 storage and data management software platform expands hardware support to solid-state drives and PCIe flash.

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Violin Memory Maestro software can migrate data from disk to flash arrays

  Violin Memory Maestro software tiers and accelerates data between solid-state and disk-based storage to make it easier to switch to all-flash arrays.

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  LC Technology offers SSD utility update

  LC Technology updates its Solid State Doctor SSD utility suite, including overprovisioning, cloning and TRIM support for Windows users.

• August 30, 2013 30 Aug'13

  Flash storage vendors make lucrative acquisition targets

  Flash storage is a hot technology for IT customers, but also for storage companies who fill product gaps by acquiring innovative flash storage vendors.

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Analysts say Fusion-io open API availability will help drive adoption

  Fusion-io's moves to make its flash-aware APIs available could help it make greater inroads within the flash storage space, according to analysts.

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Flash storage arrays take center stage at Storage Decisions

  Storage Decisions conference attendees received the lowdown on flash storage arrays, along with advice not to ignore other storage tiers.