News
SAN technology and arrays
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 ...
- July 03, 2017
03 Jul'17
Toshiba says enterprise demand remains for 15,000 rpm HDD
Tape isn't dead, and neither are 15,000 rpm enterprise hard disk drives. Not yet, at least. Toshiba recently began shipping a new AL14SX Series of 15,000 rpm HDD products designed for ...
- June 22, 2017
22 Jun'17
FlexPod SF converges NetApp SolidFire onto Cisco hardware
SUNNYVALE, California -- NetApp today launched its second SolidFire-based converged product this month, this time in partnership with Cisco. The FlexPod SF extends the FlexPod converged ...