Category Archives: All-Flash

Dell EMC World 2016 – through the product announcements

Posted on October 30, 2016 by admin

EMC declared 2016 as the Year-of-Flash and they had a few interesting products added in their All-Flash portfolio this year. ISILON AFA, VMAX 250F contributing more to this line-up and a few other announcements were the highlights of the Last week at … Continue reading →

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ISILON Nitro – All-Flash ISILON array from Dell EMC

Posted on October 19, 2016 by admin

At EMC World 2016, EMC announced the “Project Nitro” – a high performance NAS storage array. And today at Dell EMC World, Dell EMC announced the GA (pre-order from today and GA by 2017) of the All-Flash ISILON array ISILON Nitro. … Continue reading →

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EMC UNITY -“SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION”

Posted on May 2, 2016 by admin

Today at EMC World, EMC announced the EMC Unity unified storage solution. The al-new Unified storage solution, available in All-Flash and Hybrid variants. As the subject says, Unity is Simple in many aspects from purchase to service. New controllers, no more … 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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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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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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Understanding NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)

Posted on December 3, 2015 by admin

SFD8 (Storage Field Day 8) gave us a great opportunity to listen from Intel about a few latest technologies on SSDs (Solid State Drives). The main discussions were on NVMe, 3D XPOINT, ISA-L etc… . I had to do some serious self … Continue reading →

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All-Flash symphony from Violin Memory

Posted on November 20, 2015 by admin

Violin Memory is a US based Public company known for their AFA (All-Flash-Array ) storage systems in the market. Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8) helped me in having a deeper dive to the technical details of  Violin’s AFA products. Let us discuss … Continue reading →

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