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  • Pure Storage Announces New Program, New Hardware, New Software Services

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    Today, Pure Storage, an all-Flash array vendor I’ve written about before, made three major announcements covering a new program for customers, new hardware, and new management software. Specifically, they announced: Evergreen Storage The FlashArray//m family (also called FA//m) Pure1 Management Platform I’ll cover all three in detail below.

  • Qumulo Announces New High-Density Storage Node

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    Less than one month after emerging from stealth, storage startup Qumulo announced the availability of a new high-capacity storage node today. The announcement was timed with Qumulo’s attendance at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show. Qumulo makes a data-aware scale-out NAS storage platform. Their combination of easy management and real-time analytics makes it possible…

  • Qumulo Comes Out of Stealth Offering Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS

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    I’ve let several people know that I’m traveling today, and I even told some folks that I was in Seattle, but it wasn’t until today that I can go public on why I’m here. Today, storage startup Qumulo came out of stealth mode. My company, Accunet Solutions, was involved in one of the first Qumulo…

  • SimpliVity Closes $175 Million D Round of Funding

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    Yesterday, hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity announced that they had raised $175 Million in series D funding. Waypoint Captial led the round, with previous investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), and Meritech Capital Partners joining in. This investment brings SimpliVity’s total venture funding to $276 Million. SimpliVity’s main…

  • SolidFire Announces New Hardware Node, FlashForward Guarantees, and Software-Only Offering

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    Yesterday, SolidFire released a hat-trick of announcements: The addition of a new hardware node to its all-Flash, scale-out storage platform The FlashForward program — a combination of a platform compatibility guarantee and an unlimited drive wear guarantee ElementX — the software-only version of SolidFire, designed for customers who want to build their own hyper-scale all-Flash…

  • PernixData Announces Version 2.5 of Their FVP Software

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    Today, PernixData announced version 2.5 of their FVP software product. This product can provide huge storage performance benefits in VMware environments. Since it’s not something I’ve written about before, and it seems that not everyone has heard of PernixData and FVP yet, I’ll spend a little while explaining what it is and why it’s so…

  • EMC Announces New High-Density Isilon Node – the HD400

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    Yesterday, EMC announced the addition of a new node type to their Isilon scale-out storage line. This new node offers higher-density storage than any other Isilon nodes, specifically 354TB raw capacity in 4U of rack space. The new node, known internally at EMC as “Colossus”, has been launched as the HD400. I’ll walk through the…

  • Storage Field Day 7 (#SFD7) — A Delegate is Me

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    I’ve been a fan of the folks at Gestalt IT for a while now. I follow them on Twitter, I read the stuff they post, and I’ve always followed their Tech Field Day events with great interest. If you’re not familiar with these events, I’ll give a brief idea here: these events bring together a…

  • Stealth Storage Startup Qumulo Closes Series B Round of Funding

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    Last week, storage startup Qumulo completed a Series B round of funding, gaining an additional $40 Million in investor backing — while still in “stealth mode”. This new round of funding brings the total amount invested in Qumulo to $67 Million. Qumulo hasn’t revealed much about themselves or their products publicly, despite having some customers…

  • VMware Announces vExperts for 2015

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    Today, VMware announced the list of 2015 vExperts. The “vExpert” designation is not a technical certification, but instead a recognition of community engagement and personal influence within the various VMware and virtualization communities. I am simultaneously happy, honored, proud, and humbled to have been included among the 1,056 vExperts named for 2015. This marks the…