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, & …
SCI’s latest SPC performance report as of Nov. 2018
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers Storage Performance Council (SPC) results[1]. Over the last quarter there have been four new SPC-1 v3 submissions, Huawei Dorado OceanStor 180000 v3, Huawei OceanStor …
Pure Storage announces new Cloud Block Store & CloudSnap for AWS
The week prior to Amazon’s re:Invent conference this month, Pure Storage announced new cloud data services for customers needing enterprise class storage services operating in AWS. Pure Storage Cloud Block Store …
SCI latest Microsoft ESRP performance results as of Oct. 2018
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) briefing covers Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013/2016 Solution Review Program (ESRP) results[1]. Unfortunately, there have been no new ESRP submissions for two quarters. So instead …