Tag Archive for flash

VAST Data looks to disrupt enterprise data centre with Universal Storage Architecture

VAST Data is targeting larger enterprises with an unabashed rip-and replace offering, designed to replace legacy data centre infrastructure with what they term a revolutionary and state of the art offering designed to deal with modern enterprise pain points.

Tintri sends message to market with first product release since being acquired by DDN

In addition to their Tintri Global Center 4.0 release, Tintri by DDN announces new staff and resource additions, as they continue their rebuild from the collapse that preceded their being purchased by DDN in September.

NetApp on course to execute on aggressive channel strategy

NetApp asked its partners to place bets this year on the cloud, on HCI and on all-flash, with the first two acknowledged as being a significant ask for some partners. Almost two quarters in, the company said that results so far have been good.

Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market

Violin System introduces its first new product since it resurrected from bankruptcy, a NVMe fabric, ultra-low latency offering aimed at the extreme performance market, which is now the focus of Violin’s efforts.

Server, storage success in Q2 show continued Dell EMC progress on integration journey

Kevin Connolly, President of Commercial Sales at Dell EMC Canada gives his take on why the company had another strong quarter, what’s happening in the market, and where Dell EMC still has room for substantial growth in Canada.

NetApp makes changes to sales motions designed to accelerate channel success

The NetApp strategic priorities for the new fiscal year will have implications for their sales strategy. Here’s how that strategy will affect the channel.

Hitachi Vantara announces new VSP storage systems plus analytics and software updates

Hitachi Vantara expands their midrange offerings for both all-flash and hybrid platforms and extends their flat service model from the all-flash series to their hybrid series as well.

New HPE Nimble arrays feature enhanced price-performance, inline always-on dedupe and Store More guarantee

The new Nimble arrays are also fully enabled for SCM and NVMe for when HPE supports them on these models, but the support is not yet there out of the gate.

Retuned Violin looks to play sweet music by focusing on roots in new strategy

Violin Systems CEO Ebrahim Abbasi talks with ChannelBuzz about his plans to return the all-flash pioneer to relevance and long-term success following their late-2016 Chapter 11.

NetApp augments Big Data portfolio with new systems, software

A new version of the NetApp SANtricity software powers the new all-flash EF570 and hybrid E5700. The new software also adds a new System Manager tool and improves Cloud Connector.

Tintri announces new massively scalable EC6000 cloud platform series

A distinct feature of the new Tintri series is the ability to do non-disruptive drive-by-drive expansion, since most of the series configurations ship with only partly populated boxes.

Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series

Tegile becomes the second vendor to announce an all-flash version around the generation of NVMe drives that is about to ship, with massive performance and latency improvements over existing product.

Tegile upgrades IntelliFlash HD platform with NVMe capability

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.

New 14th gen PowerEdge servers highlight first day of Dell EMC World

The dominant theme of this year’s Dell EMC World is the automation of the data centre, and a key part of that is the announcement of its latest servers, with availability set for summer.

NetApp unveils small form factor version of top of the line all flash array

The NetApp AFF A700s is aimed at customers looking to improve their data centre economics by significantly reducing physical footprint. NetApp also announced an updating and reworking of its storage capacity guarantee.