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SAN technology and arrays

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 launched for entry-level SAN

  While the industry watches its midrange lines, Dell EMC pushes out a new array of entry-level, flashy PowerVault systems for smaller organizations and branch offices.

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  IBM all-flash diversifies with NVMe-based FlashSystem 9100

  IBM FlashSystem 9100 scales to 32 PB of all-flash storage in a standard rack. IBM guarantees consistent latency of 350 microseconds and 100 million IOPS per four-way cluster.

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Hitachi VSP boosts performance and analytics

  Hitachi Vantara outfits new Virtual Storage Platform models with more and faster processors and memory, adds midrange arrays, but makes no NVMe promises yet.

• May 07, 2018 07 May'18

  All-flash and hybrid HPE Nimble Storage arrays get updates

  HPE enhances its Nimble all-flash arrays with support for NVMe and storage-class memory. Additionally, the vendor collapses its hybrid systems into one product line featuring deduplication.

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Dell EMC all-flash PowerMax replaces VMAX, injects NVMe

  Dell EMC rebrands its high-end, all-flash VMAX system as PowerMax, which is packed with NVMe flash and inline data reduction. A single system scales to 4 PB, with an onboard AI tiering engine.

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Cisco MDS FC Director switches expand with eye on NVMe

  Networking giant Cisco adds two MDS FC Director switches for small and medium-sized businesses. The vendor said it wants to speed transition to 32 Gbps FC for NVMe flash.

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  Broadcom preps for NVMe over Fibre Channel with Brocade gear

  Broadcom ships its first Brocade FC switching products and updates SAN management for NVMe with the goal of making Fibre Channel the fabric of choice for NVMe storage.

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  IDC: Dell No. 1 in CI, HCI revenue

  Dell won the trifecta in the latest IDC Quarterly Converged Tracker report. Dell Technologies-owned technology led market share across the board in converged and hyper-converged systems, according ...

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Nexsan arrays 'ARM' national lab with redundant disk storage

  Nexsan Unity disk arrays are based on a dual-controller NST platform. Argonne National Lab uses the storage for continuous operations in inhospitable environments.

• 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.

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Reduxio Systems' storage wows human resources specialist

  Reduxio HX550 hybrid arrays provide primary storage with native data protection for CPP's talent management software, which includes a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment.

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Infinidat embeds SAN, NAS replication in InfiniBox R4

  Infinidat's software upgrade eschews SCSI in favor of custom IP-based replication protocol. The vendor claims InfiniBox R4 delivers target writes at sub-400-millisecond latency.

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Violin Systems CEO Abbasi says profits coming in 2018

  All-flash pioneer Violin emerges from bankruptcy; 2018 plans call for profits, acquisition, NVMe deployments and software-defined scalability.

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Cisco telemetry data gets streamed from MDS 9700 32G modules

  Cisco SAN telemetry sensors capture insight on network fabrics to aid capacity and infrastructure management. The FC feature provides real-time instrumentation analytics.

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Broadcom-Brocade deal delayed, with ‘no assurances’

  The $5.9 billion Broadcom-Brocade acquisition has been delayed 30 days, which may turn into a 75-day delay. That's if the deal happens at all. SAN switching vendor Brocade Tuesday evening said the ...