SanDisk has announced an investment in software defined storage firm Nexenta Systems. Nexenta's software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers storage solutions for both private and public cloud environments. The company has over 5,000 ...
Tags: Sandisk, Software-Defined Storage
It's arguable that two key things have driven developments in storage this year; server/desktop virtualisation and the relentless expansion of data. The first of these has led to real changes, namely the growth of flash in the datacentre. ...
Tags: Storage, Products, relentless expansion
As storage spending consumes an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets across the public sector against a backdrop of severe spending cuts, the case for using open-source storage software in government is gathering momentum. The public ...
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NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
Tags: FlexPod storage stack sales, 176 FlexPod units, storage hardware
Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, storage software, Nexenta, cloud computing platform
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...