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Tag Archives: SDS
Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model
Today Pure Storage, known for their All-Flash Storage arrays, announced their next Big ThingTM, DirectFlash, as well as a new FlashArray model. DirectFlash is a combination of NVMe hardware and the software to manage it (more details on that below). … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, DirectFlash, Flash, FlashArray//X, NVMe, Pure Storage, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage
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Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260
Today, Cisco made some storage-related announcements that may have sounded confusing. On a first read, you might think that Cisco is attempting to re-enter the storage market. Personally, I view their announcement as wanting to ensure that they become — … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, UCS, UCS S3260
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EMC Announces Plans to Make Isilon Announcements in 2016
[NOTE: This post has been updated with answers to some of the questions I had at the time of the announcement. The updates are inline, below.] Today, EMC made some announcements about some new Isilon products that they hope to … Continue reading
Posted in Isilon
Tagged Announcement, Cloud, CloudPools, EMC, Isilon, IsilonSD, IsilonSD Edge, OneFS, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage
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Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer
Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, FXT
Tagged Amazon, Announcement, Avere, Cloud, EC2, FXT, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization
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EMC’s Nile Makes the Leap from Project to Product
EMC’s “Project Nile” was first revealed at EMC’s MegaLaunch event in 2013. The idea was hyper-scale private cloud storage at a cost-per-gigabyte similar to (or lower than) public cloud storage. The idea was to provide this storage via software running … Continue reading
Posted in ECS (Nile), Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, ECS (Nile), EMC, ScaleIO, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, ViPR
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EMC Announces Major Updates to Their SDS Platform – ViPR 2.0
In another of their announcements on the first day of EMC World, EMC announced a series of major updates and new features for their software-defined storage (SDS) platform, ViPR. The new updates will be in ViPR 2.0 While storage solutions … Continue reading
Posted in Software-Defined, ViPR
Tagged Announcement, EMC, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, ViPR, Virtualization
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EMC Announces Version 1.30 of ScaleIO
Today, in one of the many announcements that kicked off EMC World, EMC announced the new version of their ScaleIO product. If you’re not familiar with ScaleIO, EMC defines it as a “software-only server-based SAN that converges storage and compute … Continue reading
Posted in ScaleIO, Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, EMC, ScaleIO, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization
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EMC’s Project Liberty – Hints of Things to Come?
Today, in addition to announcing a new model VNXe, EMC announced their Project Liberty as part of the pre-EMC World build-up. What’s Project Liberty? EMC is calling it a “virtualized storage software technology based on VNX”. What does that mean? … Continue reading
Posted in EMC, Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, EMC, SDDC, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization, VNX
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