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EMC World 2016 – How to follow if you are not in Vegas.

Posted on May 1, 2016 by admin

It’s just a few hours for the EMC World, the biggest storage event of the year. Maybe the last event as an EMC event as the Dell-EMC merger will be completed by the mid-year. As always there are many attractions, including … Continue reading →

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Cloud integration with Cohesity storage platform

Posted on April 23, 2016 by admin

Cohesiy added Cloud integration to their secondary storage platform, featuring 3 cost-effective solutions for archival, tiering and replication. They had added a good set of features recently with their 2.0 release. Cohesity presented at Storage Field Day 9, in which … Continue reading →

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Leader, in technology and in figures that matter – all in just 2 years.

Posted on April 5, 2016 by admin

The phase of transition in data storage now is mainly anchored on 2 architectural approaches – All-Flash storage arrays as a result of the Flash domination and the second is the HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure). The competition is really tough in … Continue reading →

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The all-new FlashBlade is here from Pure Storage

Posted on March 15, 2016 by admin

Yesterday (14-Mar), Pure Storage announced their new All-Flash products at the Pure//Accelerate event. FlashBlade is to support unstructured data (File, Object, containers etc…) requirements and FlashArray//m10 to strengthen their FlashArray//m series. FlashBlade, the cloud-scale data platform provides All-Flash efficiency and performance … Continue reading →

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Storage Field Day 9 – presenting companies

Posted on March 11, 2016 by admin

During this time next week, there will be some serious discussions on Flash, Hyper-Convergence, Primary/Secondary Storage and more at Storage Field Day 9. Storage Field Day always have awesome (may not be huge always) vendors from industry to present their solutions. This time … Continue reading →

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DSSD D5 – EMC’s quantum leap in flash storage with the rack-scale all-flash appliance

Posted on March 6, 2016 by admin

In their ‘Quantum Leap’ announcements, alongwith VMAX All-Flash storage EMC announced DSSD D5 flash appliance on Monday (29-Feb). And it is really a big leap in flash storage as they produce un-matching performance and capacity in small footprint. D5 is a ‘rack-scale’ flash … Continue reading →

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EMC VMAX to the All-Flash market – VMAX All-Flash arrays

Posted on February 29, 2016 by admin

On Monday (29-Feb), EMC announced their All-Flash models of VMAX arrays. With the addition of All-Flash version of EMC VMAX 3 series of arrays, EMC is targeting to continue to maintain their position in today’s busiest storage market – the AFA Market. … Continue reading →

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It’s now Oracle Ravello Systems – latest in acquisition.

Posted on February 26, 2016 by admin

Earlier this week – on 22nd Feb – we heard of another interesting acquisition news. Ravello Systems has been acquired by Oracle. Ravello Systems – a Cloud Computing venture started in 2011, known for their virtual labs using Nested Virtualization. … Continue reading →

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Nimble Storage announced their Predictive All Flash Arrays

Posted on February 24, 2016 by admin

Today Nimble Storage caught the headlines as they announced the new line of predictive All-Flash-Arrays..! We were impressed by Nimble during their presentations at SFD8 and today they impressed the industry with their new range of products. The new product line comes with … Continue reading →

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With FLASH, things are changing ‘in a flash’ !?

Posted on February 21, 2016 by admin

The data storage industry has gone through major changes in the past 5-7 years. And is still in the phase of changes. The user requirements has changed from “More GB’s or TB’s” to “More IOPS”. Introduction of FLASH drives been … Continue reading →

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