SSD News & Support Resources

August 1, 2018

We would like to continue our vSAN series with Mayur Parmar’s very helpful blog posts. Please find the complete article from Mayur here and scroll down for some more information. VMware vSAN is a software defined storage solution from VMware to eliminate the need of the additional storage boxes using the local server storage. In […]

DataCore and Broadcom to Accelerate Adoption of NVMe Storage

June 6, 2018

Douglas Brown

The Combination of DataCore’s Software-Defined Storage and Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs Offers Maximum Performance and Value from Storage Investments, Including NVMe DataCore Software announced today that it has enhanced its software-defined storagesolutions, allowing companies to realize the substantial IOPS and latency improvements enabled through support for Emulex® Gen 6 (16/32Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Host […]

Introducing Amazon EC2 C5d Instances

May 30, 2018

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 C5d instances deliver C5 instances equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation and other forms of media processing. It will also benefit applications that need […]

How To Avoid Downtime While Using 100% Commodity Hardware

March 6, 2018

DataCore

Today’s era has allowed businesses to tap into a global market, which has created a tremendous opportunity for growth and expansion. With growth comes storage scaling challenges. Data continues to grow exponentially, and storage prices keep rising. In addition, business continuity is must-have as data needs to be available around the clock, every second. Imagine […]

VMware Named a Leader in 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

February 14, 2018

VMware

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today announced that VMware has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. (1) “In our view, Gartner has recognized the important role software plays in powering next-generation hyperconverged infrastructure in this report,” said Lee Caswell, vice president of product, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware. “We believe this Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged […]

Datrium DVX makes EC2 and HCI seem like Complex Old Systems

January 5, 2018

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici

While setting up couple AWS EC2 instances a few days ago, I noticed that despite the higher level abstraction and orchestration provided by cloud services I still needed to understand quite a lot about application behavior to properly stand-up a solution that would cater for my business. Luckily I was just playing around with some […]

Top tech news of 2017 – Define Tomorrow™

January 5, 2018

ComputerWorld Group

2017 seemed to be the year that cryptocurrencies soared and actually joined the global financial system. The leader throughout the year seemed to be Bitcoin with the value of bitcoin has risen steadily over the past 12 months from just $960 in January to over $10,000 towards the end of the year and actually accounted […]

The Biggest Release in Veeam’s 10-Year History Provides Centralized Data Management for Virtual, Physical and Multi-Cloud Workloads

January 3, 2018

Veeam

Extends the industry leading VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper‑V data protection to deliver No.1 Availability for Any App, Any Data, across Any Cloud from a single “pane of glass”; Enterprises can finally replace their legacy backup and eliminate data management siloes with a single Availability platform for multi-cloud enterprise; Expands storage integrations with IBM and Lenovo in addition to the current […]

NEW Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 3 Released: The Biggest Release in Veeam’s 10-Year History Provides Centralized Data Management for Virtual, Physical and Multi-Cloud Workloads

December 19, 2017

Veeam

Tipping IT past the all-flash inflection point with hyperconvergence

December 18, 2017

HP Enterprise

For decades, traditional storage (or disk storage) worked well for IT teams, giving them the high capacity they needed. But, as data storage space becomes more important every year, capacity alone is no longer enough. IT teams often face high latency issues and drive failures with the traditional storage solutions – as seen by the […]

Datrium The Only Convergence Platform to Achieve FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Certification

December 18, 2017

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici

Datrium’s Blanket encryption is an already an industry-first, providing software-based (without hardware dependencies) end-to-end encryption. Datrium’s client software runs as part of the hypervisor and is uniquely able to provide cluster-wide encryption domain with full data services, such as compression, de-duplication, and erasure coding. The encryption covers ESXi, RedHat Enterprise Virtualization and CentOS KVM host […]

Does a disk type matter for VDI infrastructures?

December 13, 2017

Wilco van Bragt

Probably most people would say this is no brainer and actually it is. Of course the type of disks used for your VDI infrastructure matter for the user experience and performance of VDIs. In this article I will do a walk-through of a PoC where we have been required to investigate the impact of the […]

Amazon EC2 Update – X1e Instances in Five More Sizes and a Stronger SLA

November 20, 2017

Amazon Web Services

Earlier this year we launched the x1e.32xlarge instances in four AWS Regions with 4 TB of memory. Today, two months after that launch, customers are using these instances to run high-performance relational and NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, and other enterprise applications that are able to take advantage of large amounts of memory. Five More Sizes […]

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The Time is Now for Moving to 25GbE

November 16, 2017

Dell

There’s never been a better time to adopt 25GbE, both from a technology and an economic perspective. It’s no secret that broader technology shifts require substantially more network bandwidth. Just to name a few, these include: Virtualization in all its forms – server, storage, network, desktop Increasing use of and demand for video/streaming IoT requiring […]