Hitachi Data Systems Announces Global Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced broad support for the new release of Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS), and Hitachi Compute Blade are now fully certified with full support for the Windows Server 2012 operating system. Windows… Continue reading Hitachi Data Systems Announces Global Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012

DataCore’s Storage Hypervisor with VMware Cloud Infrastructure Enhances Private Clouds

VMworld US 2012 Today at VMworld® 2012, DataCore Software, the storage hypervisor leader and premier provider of storage virtualization software, announced that SANsymphony™-V is now certified as VMware Ready™ and easily integrates with VMware’s portfolio of solutions, allowing data center and private cloud operators to gain the most from their virtual infrastructure investments. At VMworld… Continue reading DataCore’s Storage Hypervisor with VMware Cloud Infrastructure Enhances Private Clouds

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

Dell Announces New Solutions to Drive Data Center Convergence, IT Efficiency

Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell Storage, inspects the new Dell EqualLogic Blade Array at the company's Round Rock, Texas, design center. Dell's first storage blade arrays enable customers to combine storage, server and networking technologies into one compact blade chassis, helping them to reduce the cost and complexity of setting up and managing enterprise data centers.

First Dell storage blades – Dell EqualLogic Blade Arrays – provide customers the simplicity and scalability of EqualLogic storage within a compact Dell blade chassis Dell Converged Blade Data Center solution combines Dell EqualLogic Blade Arrays, 12th generation Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and Dell Force10 MXL blade switching, providing customers an entire data center within… Continue reading Dell Announces New Solutions to Drive Data Center Convergence, IT Efficiency

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

Pogo Storage Launches PogoStor SAN+NAS Integrated Cloud Storage Appliances

Pogo Storage, a leader in open source storage integration, today announced the launch of the PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances, a new line of integrated cloud storage solutions, in collaboration with OS NEXUS and LSI® Corporation. PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances are based on the OS NEXUS storage platform and LSI MegaRAID® technologies, and offer high performance… Continue reading Pogo Storage Launches PogoStor SAN+NAS Integrated Cloud Storage Appliances

DataCore Software Offers Free Storage Hypervisor to Microsoft Certified Professionals

DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, announced today that in the spirit of the holiday season it will offer free license keys of its SANsymphony™ -V storage hypervisor to Microsoft Certified and System Center professionals. The not-for-resale (NFR) license keys – may be leveraged for non-production uses such as course development,… Continue reading DataCore Software Offers Free Storage Hypervisor to Microsoft Certified Professionals

Maximizing Virtual Machine Scalability with iSCSI Storage

Server virtualization is being deployed on an almost universal scale to reduce costs and optimize data center resources. To underscore this point, a recent survey* reported several key findings: Server virtualization is widely used—74% of respondents are currently using server virtualization and another 19% are planning deployments. The number of virtualized servers is relatively small… Continue reading Maximizing Virtual Machine Scalability with iSCSI Storage