The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, announces new enterprise-grade SATA SSD models supporting cryptographic-erase and self-encrypting drive (SED) models, one an enterprise SAS solid state drive (eSSD) and the other a mobile SATA hard disk drive (HDD). Collectively, these four new 2.5-inch storage device models provide… Continue reading Cryptographic-Erase and Self-Encryption Features for Toshiba’s New Enterprise SSD and Mobile HDD Models
Category: Storage Virtualization
Lenovo and EMC Create LenovoEMC JV to Bring NAS to SMBs and Distributed Enterprise Sites
Lenovo and EMC Corporation announced today that they have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, the joint venture previously announced in August 2012 along with a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked storage solutions. Incorporating the core assets of EMC’s Iomega business, the new JV will bring co-branded network attached storage (NAS)… Continue reading Lenovo and EMC Create LenovoEMC JV to Bring NAS to SMBs and Distributed Enterprise Sites
Fujitsu Selects Wind River Portfolio for RAID Next-Generation Disk Storage System
Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, announced that Fujitsu, a leading Japanese information and communication technology company, relies on VxWorks® real-time operating system, Wind River Linux and Wind River Hypervisor for the development of their next generation of ETERNUS RAID disk storage systems. As the amount of data and traffic continues… Continue reading Fujitsu Selects Wind River Portfolio for RAID Next-Generation Disk Storage System
Veeam Expands Strategic Initiatives with Support for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage
HP Discover 2012 Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, announces it has expanded integration with HP to include SAN snapshot recovery for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage using HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software. Currently, Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots enables IT administrators to… Continue reading Veeam Expands Strategic Initiatives with Support for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage
ScaleIO Secures $12M to Address Demand for Its Elastic Converged Storage Solution
ScaleIO, the leader in software-defined storage, today announced that it has raised $12 million from Greylock IL Partners, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), and private investors. The company will use the funding to expand its field operations in response to growing demand by enterprises and service providers for the ScaleIO ECS software product. ScaleIO ECS eliminates… Continue reading ScaleIO Secures $12M to Address Demand for Its Elastic Converged Storage Solution
New Flash Module From Hitachi Delivers Superior Performance, Capacity and Reliability for Enterprise Workloads
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., (TSE: 6501), today unveiled Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage. This new flash module is built specifically for the most demanding enterprise-class workloads. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage features a custom-designed, rack-optimized form factor and innovative flash memory controller technology from Hitachi, Ltd. These features let… Continue reading New Flash Module From Hitachi Delivers Superior Performance, Capacity and Reliability for Enterprise Workloads
Emulex Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with I/O Connectivity and Performance Management
Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) today announced that its LightPulse® 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and prior generations of I/O connectivity solutions have inbox driver support with the release of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012, delivering more than a million input/output operations per second (IOPS) on a single port, the highest level of… Continue reading Emulex Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with I/O Connectivity and Performance Management
VMware vSphere 5.1 vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices
A series of tests were conducted at VMware Performance labs to investigate and compare the performance implications of vSphere 5.1 vMotion over the proven vMotion and Storage vMotion technologies in various scenarios including the migration of a database server and an in-memory application. In addition, live migration tests were performed over metro area network scenarios.… Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.1 vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices