NetApp has no plans to join the fray in the all-flash array market. That’s according to NetApp CTO Jay Kidd, who spoke to Computer Weekly at NetApp’s Insight partner event in Dublin this week. Jay Kidd says NetApp does not ...
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NetApp has topped-and-tailed capacities in its midrange filer family, introducing the FAS3220 and FAS3250. Both products come with clustered NAS, unified storage (NAS and SAN) and flash cache acceleration capability. The FAS3220 and ...
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Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array. The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays - the DLm1000, DLm2000 ...
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IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
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DataDirect Networks(DDN)has announced a clustered NAS storage platform,the SFA7700 hybrid flash storage appliance. The SFA7700 uses DDN's SFA OS operating system in a dual-controller storage platform.The base system supports up to 60 ...
Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today,Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive,which combines the high performance of NAND flash memory with the storage capacity of a hard disk drive(HDD). The Fusion Drive will be ...
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UK air traffic control provider NATS has deployed a Violin Memory all-flash array solid state storage system to support a planned 6,000-seat virtualised desktop infrastructure(VDI)roll-out. The Violin all-flash array will provide ...
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A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. According to market ...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
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To augment its line of storage and data center systems with solid state technology,IBM is acquiring flash memory system provider Texas Memory Systems(TMS).Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM plans to incorporate TMS ...
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Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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