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SAN technology and arrays

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  New Dell EMC all-flash Isilon hardware compresses NAS data

  Dell EMC Isilon F810 all-flash NAS array and ClarityNow software tackle unstructured file data through increased performance and data reduction over previous versions.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes

  University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Enterprise storage arrays: 2018 Products of the Year finalists

  Eleven storage vendors, including legacy brands and some startups, entered arrays for consideration in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2018 Products of the Year competition.

• December 23, 2018 23 Dec'18

  Broadcom Brocade launches 2 new SAN management products

  Broadcom releases new Brocade SAN management software to help users visualize and optimize storage and a new Fibre Channel extension switch to speed long-distance replication.

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Broadcom Emulex flashes Gen 7 Fibre Channel adapter for NVMe

  Broadcom releases new Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel host bus adapter designed for high-performance NVMe-based flash storage systems with support for 32GFC and 64GFC and PCIe 4.0.

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  NetApp all-flash storage fuels hybrid cloud stance, CEO says

  NetApp CEO George Kurian says data center customers are adopting more all-flash file and block storage to manage data across multiple public and private clouds.

• 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.