Nexenta and Raidundant Achieve One Million IOPS in a Single Box

Nexenta Systems, a world leader in OpenStorage solutions, together with Raidundant, an emerging innovator of storage technologies providing ground-breaking solutions for the storage market, announced they achieved one million IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second) by combining NexentaStor with SkySAN Storage. With its new capabilities, Raidundant’s second-generation SkySAN Storage Appliances deliver even more compelling performance and… Continue reading Nexenta and Raidundant Achieve One Million IOPS in a Single Box

New Dell fund will invest in data storage technology

The chief of US computer maker Dell on Tuesday announced the launch of a $60 million fund focused on investing in technology for storing the massive amounts of data being collected by businesses. “We really believe in this explosion of data driven a lot by smartphones and tablets,” Michael Dell, founder of the Texas-based company… Continue reading New Dell fund will invest in data storage technology

TechEd 2012: DataCore to Present Storage Virtualization Best Practices Sessions for Private Clouds

DataCore Software, the storage hypervisor leader and premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced it has been chosen to participate worldwide at multiple TechEd events and to present the “Private Cloud Design and Management” session at Microsoft’s TechEd North America 2012 aimed at helping organizations understand and overcome the difficult storage related challenges needed… Continue reading TechEd 2012: DataCore to Present Storage Virtualization Best Practices Sessions for Private Clouds

InfiniBand Accelerates File Server Performance for Database and Cloud Deployments

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand, supported in Windows Server 2012, demonstrates extreme application performance and efficiency for file system, database and enterprise data centers. Benchmark results performed by Mellanox, Microsoft Corp. and Fusion-io delivered… Continue reading InfiniBand Accelerates File Server Performance for Database and Cloud Deployments

Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Virtual Desktops with Dell EqualLogic and Unidesk

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Enterprise Infrastructure Overview DVS Enterprise Infrastructure is designed and optimized to deliver a highly robust, highly scalable and highly available enterprise solution designed for implementations in sophisticated IT environments. The DVS Enterprise infrastructure implements enterprise scale virtualized servers, multi-tier virtual SAN storage and robust enterprise network architecture for multiple demanding… Continue reading Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Virtual Desktops with Dell EqualLogic and Unidesk

Intel SSD 910 Series Delivers High Performance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching

Intel introduced today the Intel® Solid-State Drive 910 Series (Intel® SSD 910 Series), a super high-performing SSD to address rigorous data center storage demands driven by cloud computing, virtualization and online transactions. PCIe-based 400GB and 800GB Intel SSD 910 Series provides extreme performance, endurance and reliability for rigorous data center demands. Intel SSD 910 Series… Continue reading Intel SSD 910 Series Delivers High Performance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching

EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Concepts for the Experienced Fibre Channel Storage Professional

As data storage has become central to any successful computer based solution, advanced technologies for connecting computing resources to data have matured over the last four decades. From early storage connection protocols that utilized parallel data transmission such as SCSI and ATA that connected storage devices directly to individual computing resources through today’s modern distributed… Continue reading EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Concepts for the Experienced Fibre Channel Storage Professional

Texas Memory Systems Introduces RamSan-80 Bundle for Server-side Caching

Texas Memory Systems, Inc., provider of The World’s Fastest Storage®, today introduced the RamSan-80, a 450GB eMLC PCIe board integrated with NEVEX Virtual Technologies’ CacheWorks software to deliver an unbeatable solution for virtualized applications that accelerates IO-intense applications and alleviates latency caused by slow performing hard disks in backend storage. The RamSan-80 is Texas Memory… Continue reading Texas Memory Systems Introduces RamSan-80 Bundle for Server-side Caching