At the 2014 Flash Memory Summit, NetApp, Inc. was honored with two awards for its leadership and customer flash implementation. NetApp was awarded Best of Show Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation for its EF-Series all-flash-array deployment at Diamond Light Source. NetApp was also selected by IT pros in the annual SSD survey as the Market Leader favorite for All-Flash NAS SSD. NetApp took the lead in the four additional categories of Performance, Reliability, Service, and...
Read MoreHGST has announced the launch of its new FlashMAX® III family of PCIe accelerators, which deliver a dramatic improvement in price/performance for today’s most demanding database and cloud workloads. Also introduced today is the new HGST ServerCache™ software that allows IT administrators to inject acceleration into their existing storage infrastructure by quickly and easily deploying a hybrid flash environment with any SSD.
Read MoreAt the recent Flash Memory Summit, HGST previewed a new architecture for solid-state drives (SSDs) that enables applications to provide faster insights to the data-intensive questions of tomorrow. The demonstration shows unprecedented SSD performance levels that are achieved by utilizing a combination of HGST’s new, latency-optimized interface protocols with next-generation non-volatile memory components.
Read MoreScalr has announced the release of Scalr Cost Analytics. Scalr Cost Analytics will enable a broad group of stakeholders within an enterprise to understand and analyze the costs associated with using cloud computing resources. This set of features addresses a growing need for IT operations and development to work with financial managers to proactively understand spend, optimize usage and in turn enforce budgetary decisions and controls on cloud infrastructure.
Read MorePlatform9 has emerged from stealth and unveiled its SaaS platform that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud within minutes. The platform significantly reduces the operational complexity for IT and offers single pane of glass management of Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere. Platform9 is currently in beta with a dozen mid-to-large sized organizations.
Read MoreGridstore™ has revealed its mid-year review of their original 2014 industry predictions. With data growth showing no signs of slowing down and the variety and number of data storage solutions on the market also increasing, there continues to be a large amount of end-user confusion when it comes to product purchasing decisions. Now at the midpoint of 2014, Gridstore CEO George Symons reviews three of his key predictions to see how far the market has come in six months and where it might be...
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