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

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

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

SanDisk Acquires FlashSoft

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today extended its enterprise solid state disk drive (SSD) solutions portfolio with the acquisition of FlashSoft, a provider of innovative caching software products. SanDisk intends to sell FlashSoft’s products as standalone software, as well as offer these software products in combination with SanDisk’s growing… Continue reading SanDisk Acquires FlashSoft

Composite Software Release of Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform

Composite Software today introduced version 6.1 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform™ which extends the company’s performance leadership position and significantly enhances the data virtualization platform’s data services development environment. Composite 6.1, available immediately, is a free upgrade for Composite’s hundreds of installations worldwide. Composite 6.1 advances the company’s industry-leading query optimization algorithms and techniques… Continue reading Composite Software Release of Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform

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