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Category Archives: Storage
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 … Continue reading
EMC Announces RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
Today, timed with VMworld, EMC announced a new version of their RecoverPoint data protection / disaster recovery product: RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. This is the product that came out of what was formerly being called Project Mercury. The new product, … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Disaster Recovery, EMC, RecoverPoint, Virtualization, VMworld
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, EMC, Flash, Isilon, ProtectPoint, Storage, VMAX, XtremIO
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EMC Announces Updates to Isilon Scale-Out NAS Platform
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced updates to the Isilon scale-out NAS platform. The updates include two new hardware nodes, expanded Flash capabilities, and new data access methods. I’ll walk through the updates below.
EMC Announces Upgrades to XtremIO All-Flash Array
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced upgrades to the XtremIO all-Flash array. The upgrades include increases in capacity, number of active controllers, and performance.
EMC Announces ProtectPoint Backup Solution
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced a new backup/data protection solution called ProtectPoint. Storage administrators already use a combination of array-based snapshots and backups to another device (either disk- or tape-based) to protect their users’ data. ProtectPoint combines … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, BRS, Data Domain, EMC, ProtectPoint, Storage, VMAX
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EMC Announces Next-Generation VMAX Storage Array
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced the next generation of their VMAX storage platform. The new line is known as the VMAX3 and consists of three models, the 100K, 200K, and 400K which succeed the previous generation’s 10K, … Continue reading
Pure Storage Announces Major Release of Purity Operating Environment
Today, Pure Storage announced a major release of their Purity operating environment. (Pure also announced two new hardware models, which you can read about here.) The new release, Purity 4.0.0, adds multiple new features including a RESTful management API, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Flash, Pure, Pure Storage, Purity, Storage
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Pure Storage Expands FA-400 Series Offerings
Today, Pure Storage announced two new models in their FA-400 Series line of all-Flash arrays. (Pure also announced a new major release of their Purity Operating Environment, which you can read about here.) The new hardware offerings “bracket” the previously-available … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, FA-400, Flash, Pure, Pure Storage, Storage
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