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

DataCore Software Targets Volume Resellers, System Integrators, SSD Vendors and System Builders with Fast-Start Business Development Programs

DataCore Software, the storage hypervisor leader and premier provider of storage virtualization software, announced a number of new business development initiatives to expand its base of volume resellers, system integrators, solid state disc (SSD) vendors and appliance system builders selling its solutions. To help its partners quickly take advantage of lucrative, burgeoning opportunities in storage,… Continue reading DataCore Software Targets Volume Resellers, System Integrators, SSD Vendors and System Builders with Fast-Start Business Development Programs

Hitachi NAS Reduces Costs and Centralized Management of VDI Deployments

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Hitachi NAS Platform has a superior ability to offload… Continue reading Hitachi NAS Reduces Costs and Centralized Management of VDI Deployments

Centrix Software, Atlantis Computing to Address VDI Storage Challenge

Centrix Software, a leading provider of workspace computing solutions, today announced it has joined forces with Atlantis Computing, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, to help organizations accurately size and reduce the cost of storage requirements for large-scale desktop virtualization deployments. Many IT organizations are unaware that the major… Continue reading Centrix Software, Atlantis Computing to Address VDI Storage Challenge

Red Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is built on the former Gluster technology that the company acquired in October 2011. As the leading enterprise-ready scale-out NAS offering for the public cloud… Continue reading Red Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Kaspersky Lab Selects DataCore Storage Hypervisor, Accelerates Microsoft Hyper-V

DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held Internet security and anti-virus company, has chosen DataCore SANsymphony™-V storage hypervisor software to virtualize and protect its build-out of 10 petabytes of disk storage located in two, separate Moscow data centers. With the SANsymphony-V virtualization layer,… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab Selects DataCore Storage Hypervisor, Accelerates Microsoft Hyper-V

How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi

I am redoing my lab at home (more on that in coming weeks) and wanted to test out jumbo frames support in vmware esxi with my iSCSI NAS device. This article by vmware provides information related to setting up a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and an iSCSI environment with Jumbo Frames. Note: Jumbo Frames on… Continue reading How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi

DataCore Storage Hypervisor Integrates with Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer

DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software today announced Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer from Hitachi Data Systems, now provides detailed monitoring of DataCore SANsymphony-V environments. Through tight integration of the software, enterprises can gain a holistic, single-pane view of their entire data center – including virtualized storage resources, servers, networks and applications… Continue reading DataCore Storage Hypervisor Integrates with Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer