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Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo
At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?
Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…
Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Eagle Eye Networks brings the Cloud to Video Surveillance
Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…
Tagged with: Analytics, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, Data Growth, Eagle Eye, Expandable, Infrastructure, Video
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HGST announces 10TB HDD, ‘Flash Fabric’, NVMe SSDs, Archive Platform
At HGST’s Analyst’s Day in San Francisco this week the company announced several new storage products including a 10 TB drive that uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology in conjunction with the company’s Helium (He) technology platform, plus an 8TB…
Nimble fills out their Adaptive Flash Line
Nimble announced two new models to their “Adaptive Flash” line of hybrid disk and flash storage systems. These arrays, the CS300 and CS500, are updated versions of Nimble’s CS200 and CS400 products, respectively, providing a 50% performance improvement over the…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, Cache, Capacity, Flash, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Nimble, SSD
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Nexenta explains the economics behind Software-Defined Storage
Nexenta is a software-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86-based hardware of their choice and disk or flash-based arrays, with support recently added for all-flash arrays. Based on the ZFS file system,…
Tagged with: CIFS, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Nexenta, Object Storage, Red Hat, SDS, Software Defined, VMware, VSAN, Windows
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Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle
At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…
Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
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How to meet the expectations of a VDI Project
VDI can be one of the toughest projects an IT organization has to implement, due in a large part to the expectations of the groups involved. Replacing PCs with virtual desktops creates expectations with users that have to get their…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, IBM, IOPS, performance, Software Defined Storage, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Storage Developers: This One’s For You
Most IT professionals go to a trade show to learn, after all, knowledge is the stock in trade for our industry. But what about the professionals in the storage eco-system, the individuals that actually create the solutions that IT professionals…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, File system, Flash, Memory, Object Storage, SDS, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
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