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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.

By Carol Sliwa • May 7, 2018

Dell EMC midrange storage keeps its overlapping arrays

Dell EMC plans to keep overlapping midrange storage for now. Dell Technologies World 2018 rollouts included CloudIQ analytics and Isilon SaaS beta with Google Cloud Platform.

By Garry Kranz • May 3, 2018

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 5.6 enhances Cisco support

Virtual Instruments shows off newly integrated Cisco SAN Telemetry Streaming and AppDynamics technology and troubleshooting improvements in its VirtualWisdom 5.6 tool.

By Carol Sliwa • May 2, 2018

IT spending priorities for 2018 include cloud and flash storage

More than half of respondents to our survey have larger IT budgets this year, and their storage spending is focused on ways to manage massive data growth.

By Garry Kranz • May 1, 2018

IoT initiatives and other emerging workloads force data center change

Internet of things projects and other new technology, such as analytics and machine learning, are tied to software-defined storage and public cloud use, changing the face of IT.

By Scott Sinclair • May 1, 2018

Many enterprises aren’t prepared for a cloud service outage

Some businesses have no idea what a cloud outage will cost them and who takes responsibility for restoring data and workloads, the customer or the cloud service provider.

By James Alan Miller • May 1, 2018

Three trends causing the rapid commoditization of AFA storage

Advancing technology and changing market forces have shifted the dynamics in the all-flash array market, opening it up to new challengers and benefiting customers.

By Marc Staimer • May 1, 2018

NVMe technology is but a first step toward bigger things

NVMe is an inevitable move forward for flash technology that begins the transition to storage-class memory and will lead to even more significant storage advances.

By Dave Raffo • May 1, 2018

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.

By Garry Kranz • May 1, 2018

New DataCore CEO looks to MaxParallel to drive expansion

DataCore CEO Dave Zabrowski takes the reins from founder George Teixeira as the company works to use MaxParallel product to go beyond storage to the software-defined data center.

By Carol Sliwa • April 30, 2018

AFA storage tackles big data analytics challenges

The latest generation of all-flash array storage is delivering the high performance and low latency required to support petabyte-scale big data analytics workloads.

By Robert Sheldon • April 30, 2018

New Red Hat Storage One bundles hardware, SDS

Red Hat partners with Supermicro on first turnkey storage package, bundling Gluster Storage software, server hardware and support at one price in a single SKU.

By Carol Sliwa • April 26, 2018

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.

By Garry Kranz • April 26, 2018

How open source Ceph compares to Linux Ceph products

Ceph software-defined storage is available for free, thanks to its open source nature. However, in some situations, a commercial Linux Ceph product could be the way to go.

By Sander van Vugt • April 25, 2018

Dell EMC storage strategy talk buzzes Dell Tech World

Dell EMC World is no more. The combined vendor has renamed its annual user summit Dell Tech World, where data storage product upgrades will touch flash, HCI and software-defined.

By Garry Kranz • April 25, 2018

Cohesity CloudSpin serves up test/dev data

Converged secondary storage vendor Cohesity brings copy data management into the cloud for DevOps with CloudSpin and public cloud snapshot API integration.

By Dave Raffo • April 25, 2018

Three multi-cloud deployment tactics that work

Use standardization, as well as a centralized management tool and independent monitoring tool, to deploy a multi-cloud environment that's easy and efficient to manage.

By Sander van Vugt • April 24, 2018

Morro Data adds replication, Azure Active Directory support

Startup Morro targets SMB customers with a CloudNAS 3.0 file storage update that adds replication capabilities and support for Microsoft's Azure Active Directory.

By Carol Sliwa • April 23, 2018

Ultrathin memory storage device could spell breakthroughs

According to its creators, atomristor technology promises a vast improvement on modern flash storage devices, but mainstream use may still be far off.

By John Edwards • April 17, 2018

Four situations where a multi-cloud strategy makes sense

Many businesses can benefit from using multiple cloud services, especially if they need to ensure reliability, protect privacy, remain flexible and optimize the cloud experience.

By Robert Sheldon • April 12, 2018

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.

By Dave Raffo • April 10, 2018

Leading hybrid storage arrays offer flexibility, scalability

By examining how leading hybrid storage systems address scalability, system management and company size, your organization can select the array that will best meet its needs.

By Logan Harbaugh • April 6, 2018

Datrium storage software adds AWS cloud backup

Datrium DVX 4.0 adds enterprise features such as AWS' cloud backup and recovery service, Oracle RAC support, VM fault tolerance and FIPS 140-2 security validation.

By Carol Sliwa • April 5, 2018

Qumulo P-Series packs NVMe into scale-out NAS

Qumulo goes after organizations with large, unstructured data stores that have a new need for speed with its all-flash NVMe P-Series scale-out NAS, which holds up to 24 NVMe SSD drives in a node.

By Dave Raffo • April 4, 2018

How to get the full benefits from NVMe flash storage

Consolidate and increase the density of your organization's workloads in a flash storage system to take full advantage of NVMe's parallelism and reduced latency.

By George Crump • April 3, 2018