Tag: Storage
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PernixData Announces Version 2.5 of Their FVP Software
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…
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EMC Announces New High-Density Isilon Node – the HD400
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…
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Storage Field Day 7 (#SFD7) — A Delegate is Me
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…
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Stealth Storage Startup Qumulo Closes Series B Round of Funding
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…
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EMC Enters Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market with VSPEX Blue
Today EMC announced their entrance into the hyperconverged infrastructure space with a new product named VSPEX Blue. The product is based on the EVO:Rail configurations supported by VMware. The EVO:Rail specifications were announced at VMworld 2014. At that time, only a few hardware vendors had EVO:Rail offerings. More have come since then, with EMC being…
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SolidFire Announces New Version of Element OS – Nitrogen
Today, all-Flash storage vendor SolidFire announced the newest version of their array’s operating system, Element OS. In keeping with the “Element” theme, since this new OS version is the seventh generation of the OS, it is named “Nitrogen” — because Nitrogen is the seventh element on the periodic table. This updated software adds four main…
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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 an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…
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Two Announcements from SolidFire: Funding and New Hardware Offerings
Today, all-Flash storage vendor SolidFire announced both the completion of a Series D round of funding and the upcoming release of two new hardware products. SolidFire is one of several players in the highly-competitive all-Flash storage array arena. Despite the fact that their products have been being sold for two years now, and that Gartner…
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Investors Demonstrate Faith in Avere Systems’ Cloud NAS Offerings
Today Avere Systems announced a renewed emphasis on their Cloud NAS gateway offering. The Cloud NAS allows access to public cloud storage resources at performance similar to on-premises storage, making it a hybrid cloud storage enabler. Personally, I’ve always liked this product. When you dig into the details it’s easy to see why. In March,…
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GeekFluent’s Roundup of the EMC MegaLaunch Announcements
Perhaps you remember EMC’s first big product announcement event under their then-new CMO Jeremy Burton. They called it a “MegaLaunch” and set out to break several world records as part of the event. If you remember 20 people stuffed into a Mini Cooper, you remember the event. Every year since then, EMC has repeated the…