VMware announced vSphere 7 & VMware Cloud Foundation 4 this month, and both are focused on application and infrastructure modernization for cloud native applications. Tanzu Portfolio VMware re-architected vSphere to …
SPC performance report as of February 2020
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers Storage Performance Council (SPC) results[1]. Since our last report, two quarters ago there have been 4 new SPC-1 v3 submissions, three from Fujitsu, ETERNUS DX900 …
IBM announces new FlashSystem family, new SVC hardware and other enhancements
IBM® recently announced a broadening of their FlashSystem storage systems, enhanced media and hardware for FlashSystem storage, new SAN Volume Controller engines and updates to Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Discover and …
IBM announces a new ESS 3000 storage system
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 …