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SAN technology and arrays

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  Infinidat storage wants to rescue stranded IBM customers

  Infinidat storage takes direct aim at IBM with Data Rescue Program. IBM users can trade in IBM XIV and FlashSystem A9000 gear for Infinidat InfiniBox disk arrays.

• May 28, 2019 28 May'19

  NetApp, Pure misses raise all-flash storage questions

  NetApp said 'execution challenges' cut into earnings last quarter due, in part, to changing data center buying patterns. All-flash vendor Pure Storage's losses grew to $100 million.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Infinidat storage fabric sews disk arrays to hybrid cloud

  Infinidat hasn't followed the storage array crowd into all-flash storage, but it is following the trends of adding flexible consumption pricing and storage analytics.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Dell EMC Unity XT expands midrange storage overlap

  Even as it plans to winnow away overlapping midrange SANs, Dell EMC adds four capacity models to its Unity XT series designed to broaden support for VMware Cloud.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Cisco, Dell Technologies renew VxBlock dalliance

  Cisco and Dell Technologies may be rivals in the server business, but when it comes to converged infrastructure, the two vendors remain strong partners. Cisco, EMC and VMware in 2009 formed VCE, a ...

• 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.