The enterprise grade DXi9000 and the smaller DXi4800 are enhanced replacements for the DXi6900 and DXi 4700 respectively.
Backup, Storage
Quantum unveils new enterprise, ROBO DXi backup appliances
by Mark Cox •
Tag Archive for Density
Servers
Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips
by Mark Cox •
Supermicro believes that the new Xeon chips will allow partners to do more with entry level servers than they have in the past.
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Big Data, Data Centre
X-IO Technologies rebrands as Axellio to focus on edge and HCI after selling storage business to Violin
by Mark Cox •
Axellio has only had its new product portfolio on the market for a little over a year, but has met with a strong response for their edge solutions in the performance part of the market, and just introduced a new HCI solution in partnership with Microsoft that is based on the Microsoft software-defined stack.
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Dell EMC introduces PowerMax, the rebranded next generation of VMAX
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC also announced that native replication has been added to EMC XtremIO, and a ew entry point X-Brick XtremIO system at up to a 55 per cent lower cost than the previous generation.
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Hardware, Unified Communications
Jabra launches new Engage wireless headset franchise for dense contact centre environments
by Mark Cox •
The Engage franchise, available in models which connect to two and five devices respectively, and in mono, stereo and lightweight convertible models, is designed for dense contact centre environments, and allows for connection of three times as many wireless headsets with no loss of quality.
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Storage
Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS
by Mark Cox •
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.
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Tegile upgrades IntelliFlash HD platform with NVMe capability
by Mark Cox •
NVMe technology priced for the mass market is very new, and Tegile thinks it has a differentiation by integrating this capability within its flagship array, rather than having it as a separate platform.
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Data Centre, Storage
Pivot3 looks to shake up hyper-converged market with multiple workload solution
by Mark Cox •
The Acuity solution’s priority-aware capabilities is the fruit of last year’s acquisition by Pivot3 of NexGen and its technology.
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Storage
New Tegile T4000 series significantly upgrades old T3000 line
by Mark Cox •
The company says that performance, density and memory upgrades will make things like facial recognition of individual customers in retail stores a reality.
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All-Flash Dell EMC Isilon offers high-end complement to recent entry level offering
by Mark Cox •
What was formerly Project Nitro will hit the streets in 2017, with a single 4U Isilon Scale-Out system reaching a maximum of 924TB of capacity, 250,000 IOPS and up to 15GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in a 4-node cluster.
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Exablox expands partner primary flash storage opportunities with scale-out OneBlox 5210
by Mark Cox •
Exablox unveils the OneBlox 5210, a scale-out low-cost flash product with object storage under the hood, that lists for $29,000 diskless, with 4 TB SSDs a further $2,000 each.
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Mobility, Networking
Xirrus expands Wave 2 portfolio with new high-density four and eight radio devices
by Mark Cox •
802.11ac Wave 2 is still in early adopter phase, but more medium and large sized customers are asking about it, so Xirrus has unveiled two new dense solutions aimed at use cases like conference centres which have large numbers of Wi-Fi users.
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Storage
Dell expands Nutanix XC series with two new models
by Mark Cox •
Dell introduces both its first all-flash appliances and a high-density offering in its popular XC hyperconverged series which combine Dell hardware and Nutanix software.
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Data Centre, Hardware
Dell unveils next-gen PowerEdge FX2 converged architecture
by Mark Cox •
CEO Michael Dell described this as a really revolutionary product, the ultimate in converged infrastructure for the data centre, and the most ultra-dense architecture in the world.
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Storage
EMC upgrades its VNX-F all flash array lineup
by Mark Cox •
One new model delivers higher density than had previously been available, and another offers a lower entry price than had previously been the case.
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Data Centre, Featured Post, Servers
Apple ditching Xserve in favor of MacPro, Mini
by Robert Dutt •
Decision leaves Apple without a high-density option for the data centre
