All-Flash Archives - Vipin V.K http://vipinvk.in Storage - Technology, trends and more... Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:05:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.13 http://vipinvk.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-VK-Logo3-32x32.jpg All-Flash Archives - Vipin V.K http://vipinvk.in 32 32 68538467 Dell EMC World 2016 – through the product announcements http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/dell-emc-world-2016-announcements/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/dell-emc-world-2016-announcements/#respond Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:51:08 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=1086 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/dell-emc-world-2016-announcements/feed/ 0 1086 ISILON Nitro – All-Flash ISILON array from Dell EMC http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/isilon-nitro-all-flash-isilon-array-from-dell-emc/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/isilon-nitro-all-flash-isilon-array-from-dell-emc/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:00:41 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=1075 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/10/isilon-nitro-all-flash-isilon-array-from-dell-emc/feed/ 2 1075 EMC UNITY -“SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION” http://vipinvk.in/2016/05/emc-unity-simplicity-is-the-ultimate-sophistication/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/05/emc-unity-simplicity-is-the-ultimate-sophistication/#comments Mon, 02 May 2016 05:56:58 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=1028 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/05/emc-unity-simplicity-is-the-ultimate-sophistication/feed/ 2 1028 The all-new FlashBlade is here from Pure Storage http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/the-all-new-flashblade-is-here-from-pure-storage/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/the-all-new-flashblade-is-here-from-pure-storage/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:27:27 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=965 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/the-all-new-flashblade-is-here-from-pure-storage/feed/ 1 965 DSSD D5 – EMC’s quantum leap in flash storage with the rack-scale all-flash appliance http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/dssd-d5-emcs-quantum-leap-in-flash-storage-with-the-rack-scale-all-flash-appliance/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/dssd-d5-emcs-quantum-leap-in-flash-storage-with-the-rack-scale-all-flash-appliance/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2016 11:18:31 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=927 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/03/dssd-d5-emcs-quantum-leap-in-flash-storage-with-the-rack-scale-all-flash-appliance/feed/ 2 927 EMC VMAX to the All-Flash market – VMAX All-Flash arrays http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/emc-vmax-to-the-all-flash-market-vmax-all-flash-arrays/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/emc-vmax-to-the-all-flash-market-vmax-all-flash-arrays/#comments Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:30:29 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=914 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/emc-vmax-to-the-all-flash-market-vmax-all-flash-arrays/feed/ 3 914 Nimble Storage announced their Predictive All Flash Arrays http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/nimble-storage-announced-their-predictive-all-flash-arrays/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/nimble-storage-announced-their-predictive-all-flash-arrays/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:31:04 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=891 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/nimble-storage-announced-their-predictive-all-flash-arrays/feed/ 3 891 With FLASH, things are changing ‘in a flash’ !? http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/with-flash-things-are-changing-in-a-flash/ http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/with-flash-things-are-changing-in-a-flash/#respond Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:32:54 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=889 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2016/02/with-flash-things-are-changing-in-a-flash/feed/ 0 889 Understanding NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) http://vipinvk.in/2015/12/understanding-nvme-non-volatile-memory-express/ http://vipinvk.in/2015/12/understanding-nvme-non-volatile-memory-express/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:26:59 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=818 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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]]> http://vipinvk.in/2015/12/understanding-nvme-non-volatile-memory-express/feed/ 4 818 All-Flash symphony from Violin Memory http://vipinvk.in/2015/11/all-flash-symphony-from-violin-memory/ http://vipinvk.in/2015/11/all-flash-symphony-from-violin-memory/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:08:34 +0000 http://vipinvk.in/?p=800 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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