At Pure//Accelerate conference this month, Pure announced DirectMemory for FlashArray//X70R2 & //X90R2 storage, a new, capacity-optimized FlashArray//C, increases to the size of FlashBlade clusters and GA for their Cloud BlockStore product. Pure Storage DirectMemory Pure …
Oracle OpenWorld 2019 (storage) announcements
At OpenWorld this past month, Oracle® announced a new Exadata X8M system and new Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud. Oracle Exadata X8M Oracle re-designed Exadata X8M to take advantage of RoCE for …
SCI’s latest SPC performance report as of August’19
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers Storage Performance Council (SPC) results[1]. Over the last quarter there have been 1 new SPC-1 v3 submission, the MacroSAN MS5580G2. Two of our usual …
VMworld 2019 announcements, Pivotal & Carbon Black
Just prior to VMworld 2019 USA, VMware announced the intent to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black. Pivotal has been an active partner of VMware’s for a number of years now …
Dell EMC enhances VxBlock 1000 & releases Ready Stack designs
In March, Dell EMC announced enhancements to their VxBlock 1000 CI (converged Infrastructure) systems and released their Ready Stack validated designs for channel partners and customers with a preference for building …
SCI’s latest SPC-1 performance report as of Feb’19
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers Storage Performance Council (SPC) results . Over the last quarter there have been 3 new SPC-1 v3 submissions, Huawei OceanStor 5600 v5, Telecommunications Technology …
Pure Storage announces new NVMeoF storage & deduplicating appliance
The month Pure announced new front-end NVMeoF/Ethernet interface for their FlashArray//X series storage as well as a brand-new cloud-native ObjectEngine deduplication solution for better data protection. Pure Storage NVMeoF/Ethernet Pure …
SCI’s latest SPEC sfs2014 performance report as of Dec.’19
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers SPEC sfs2014 benchmark[1]. These were many new submissions this past quarter, DDN SFA14KXE with EXAScaler (vda) and SFA15KX with GridScaler (swbuild, vdi, eda, & …