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SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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October 11, 2017
11
Oct'17
Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits
Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits
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October 03, 2017
03
Oct'17
Intel leak reveals plans for more Optane 3D Xpoint products
Leaked Intel slides show 900P products to be launched at end of October with half a million IOPS per card. We run the rule over 3D Xpoint and what it offers enterprise customers
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September 28, 2017
28
Sep'17
Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’
Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe
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September 26, 2017
26
Sep'17
Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network
Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe
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September 22, 2017
22
Sep'17
Movie maker shuns cloud, gets Spectra Logic Black Pearl tape NAS
Hat Trick ditches industry-specific hardware and deploys Black Pearl, which gives NAS-like file access from tape
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September 20, 2017
20
Sep'17
Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances
Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system
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September 14, 2017
14
Sep'17
Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics
Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
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September 12, 2017
12
Sep'17
University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat
The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs
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September 07, 2017
07
Sep'17
The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO
Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?
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September 07, 2017
07
Sep'17
Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target
Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive
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September 05, 2017
05
Sep'17
Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO
Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products
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August 30, 2017
30
Aug'17
Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD
Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait
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August 24, 2017
24
Aug'17
Most firms don’t test, but rely on supplier to spec storage, finds survey
Most customers simply trust storage suppliers and resellers to recommend the right product for their workloads, while a small minority test their needs and involve application owners
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August 22, 2017
22
Aug'17
E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing
Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers
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August 14, 2017
14
Aug'17
Film maker shuns cloud storage for Spectra Logic tape
Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day