IBM® recently announced a new version of their Spectrum Scale ESS 3000 storage, designed to support HPC and AI workloads New IBM ESS 3000 storage hardware The new ESS 3000 …
Hitachi NEXT 2019 announcements
At its NEXT conference this month, Hitachi Vantara made a number of significant announcements, including the VSP 5000, a new enterprise class storage system, new Hitachi Ops Center software, new …
NetApp Insight 2019 Announcements
At their Insight 2019 conference this month, NetApp® introduced Keystone, a new approach to purchasing NetApp products, solutions and services, new SAN only storage systems, a new all flash object …
Pure Storage announces new DirectMemory (SCM), FlashArray//C, & other enhancements at //Accelerate
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 …