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• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes

  New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 brings file, iSCSI and container storage

  Latest version of open source OpenStack-targeted software-defined storage adds CephFS, ISCSI and storage that can be deployed in containers to save hardware

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  Dell EMC claims launch of first designed-for-all-flash SC arrays

  All-flash arrays SC5020F and SC7020F boost performance by several times over existing former Compellent products in Dell EMC range that could be configured as all-flash

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  UK supercomputer is now world’s biggest Panasas scale-out NAS cluster

  Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours

• October 26, 2017 26 Oct'17

  Datrium gets Flash End-to-End in its server/shared hybrid DVX NVMe

  Taking aim at hyper-converged, Datrium DVX adds flash as bulk storage, while NVMe at the server handles hot data with the scale needed by enterprise customers in mind

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Oversight of intelligence agencies’ data sharing has ‘failed’, court hears

  UK’s intelligence services lack adequate oversight and written guidelines when sharing databases of sensitive information, Privacy International argues in secret court

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Containers will oust VMs and storage arrays, says Red Hat

  Red Hat launches storage delivered via containers and predicts a future in which costly and inflexible storage hardware and pricey hypervisors will be a thing of the past

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Commvault joins the hyper-converged backup wave with Hyperscale

  Hyperscale Software and Hyperscale Appliance bring Commvault backup software in a reference architecture/software product or as a pre-configured server/storage box

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged

  Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure. Secondary storage and backup from Cohesity replaces tape and supports Nutanix performance tier

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive

  Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs

  European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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