Red Hat Unveils Unified Open Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced worldwide availability of a unified open software-defined storage portfolio that brings together Red Hat Ceph Storage, formerly known as Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Red Hat Gluster Storage, formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server. The unified Red Hat Storage portfolio… Continue reading Red Hat Unveils Unified Open Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

StorMagic, VMware to Deliver 2-Node Storage Solution For Remote Branch Offices

SvSAN VMware Infrastructure

StorMagic, a leading provider of enterprise-class software-defined storage for virtual server environments, today announced it has partnered with VMware to deliver a solution providing powerful server virtualization and software-only shared storage for remote office and branch office (ROBO) environments, using only a two-server configuration. VMware vSphere and StorMagic SvSAN will be combined to deliver high… Continue reading StorMagic, VMware to Deliver 2-Node Storage Solution For Remote Branch Offices

EMC Embraces VMware vSphere 6, Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption

EMC XtremeIO

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced support for VMware vSphere 6 within its product and solution roadmap and development cycle, enabling customers to leverage EMC’s leading storage platforms to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications with confidence, redefine availability, and simplify the virtual data center. EMC storage platforms including VMAX®, VNX®, VNXe, VPLEX® and XtremIO™ will… Continue reading EMC Embraces VMware vSphere 6, Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption

EMC Announces VSPEX BLUE Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

EMC Corporation VSPEX BLUE

EMC today announced availability of the EMC® VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that delivers compute, storage, networking and management powered by VMware EVO:RAIL and EMC software. The VSPEX BLUE hyper- converged infrastructure appliance enables customers to go from power on to provisioning virtual machines in under 15 minutes, offering impressive time to value when compared… Continue reading EMC Announces VSPEX BLUE Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

Tegile Systems Provides Storage Guarantee with IntelliCare Flash 5

Tegile All Flash Array

Tegile Systems, the leading provider of flash-driven storage arrays for databases, virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today announced its IntelliCare™ Flash 5 Guarantee, a multi-point program that gives customers additional confidence in their Tegile storage purchase for the effective service life of their array. Focused on the top five principles of most enterprise technology… Continue reading Tegile Systems Provides Storage Guarantee with IntelliCare Flash 5

SanDisk Showcases All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 Architecture at VMware PEX 2015

SanDisk's new Virtual SAN 6 architecture leverages SanDisk Lightning® Gen. II 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs and CloudSpeed SATA SSDs to provide the cache and persistent storage tiers required for highly-reliable, enterprise-class application performance.

SanDisk announced support for an all-flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 architecture for business-critical applications and databases. Deployed at entry-level as a 4-node cluster that can scale up to a total of 64 nodes, the new server design empowers vital enterprise business applications, such as database transaction processing and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications, to perform… Continue reading SanDisk Showcases All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 Architecture at VMware PEX 2015

NETGEAR Pushes Performance Boundaries With Powerful New Products

The NETGEAR ProSAFE M6100 Chassis Series

NETGEAR, a global networking company that delivers innovative products to businesses, consumers, and service providers, today announced three new products providing higher throughput and new capabilities for improved network performance in businesses and education facilities. With these new, scalable offerings for wireless access management, switching, and storage in higher-density environments, the NETGEAR commercial product portfolio… Continue reading NETGEAR Pushes Performance Boundaries With Powerful New Products

vNEST: Home Lab Upgrade, enter the vSAN!

Dell C6105 Cloud Server

Ever since VMware introduced VSAN, I’ve been anxious to test it out, deploy it in my lab and see what it does and how it functions. Few months ago one of my Dell Poweredge 1950 GenIII server died so I was considering upgrading my home virtualization lab anyway… if you are like me, we just need… Continue reading vNEST: Home Lab Upgrade, enter the vSAN!