In a continuing move to make data center infrastructures more responsive to applications’ dynamic needs, Cisco and NetApp have broadened the FlexPod® portfolio with new validated designs across the entire portfolio, highlighted by the introduction of FlexPod Select for dedicated data-intensive workloads. The FlexPod portfolio now includes FlexPod Datacenter (formerly FlexPod) for core enterprise data centers and service providers, FlexPod Express (formerly ExpressPod™) for...
Read MoreInfortrend says that thin provisioning software licenses will be offered as part of the EonStor DS G7i Series standard software package. At no extra cost, SMBs can better optimise storage utilisation and minimise data centre management requirements.
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Read MoreDot Hill Systems Corp. has patented a method for achieving greater data availability and reliability for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)-based storage systems. The technology has been incorporated into the Dot Hill AssuredSAN™ 3000 Series storage arrays, helping to maintains constant, reliable SAS connections between storage systems and host servers.
Read MoreFusion-io has announced new milestones in the development of flash-aware applications. The Fusion-io Atomic Writes API contributed for standardisation to the T10 SCSI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 and Percona Server 5.5.31 as well as the upcoming Percona Server 5.6. Fusion-io will be contributing its nonvolatile memory key-value interface to flash, NVMKV, to the Open Compute Project and has posted the first flash-aware Linux...
Read MoreQuantum Corp. has generated more than$1 billion in revenue to date from sales of its Scalar i500 tape library. The Scalar i500 is the best-selling tape library in Quantum’s history, and the $1 billion milestone reflects the platform’s strength, continued innovation and broad-based customer adoption. Quantum also announced an expansion of its long-time partnership with Benchmark Electronics, which has been manufacturing the Scalar i500 since its introduction.
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