Hybrid

Storage

Apcera formally announces its enterprise container management platform

November 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Apcera formally announces its enterprise container management platform
Apcera is now emphatically branding its platform as an enterprise-grade container management platform, believing that the container market has matured to the point where the platform’s purpose and assets will now be clear.

Storage

HDS enhances flash capabilities in software and in new systems

October 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS enhances flash capabilities in software and in new systems
HDS adds top of the line models in both its all-flash F series, and hybrid flash G series, as well as the new SVOS 7 operating system.

Storage

NetApp deepens flash push with new ONTAP software, all-flash systems

September 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp deepens flash push with new ONTAP software, all-flash systems
The new software adds software based encryption, container support and major performance and latency increases that NetApp says will continue their momentum in flash and hybrid.

Small Business

HPE unveils new StoreVirtual, MSA entry level storage arrays

August 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils new StoreVirtual, MSA entry level storage arrays
HPE’s strategy with its new offerings is to offer strong featured hybrid-flash and software-defined offerings to the entry level at a sub-$10k price where they haven’t played before.

Storage

Nimble builds on new all-flash portfolio with entry level AF1000

August 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nimble builds on new all-flash portfolio with entry level AF1000
The AF1000 takes Nimble into the sub-$40k range for an all-flash array, which certainly isn’t the cheapest available on the market, but does offer a broad range of services and analytics.

Networking

Avaya, FatPipe launch first integrated SDN and SDN-WAN solution

July 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya, FatPipe launch first integrated SDN and SDN-WAN solution
The joint solution will be available through the channel of both vendors, although in Canada, the FatPipe channel is more limited, so Avaya’s channel will likely carry the ball here.

Cloud

Nectar unveils QoS automation solution for collaboration environments on Cisco networks

July 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nectar unveils QoS automation solution for collaboration environments on Cisco networks
Nectar also announced a second new offering, around Microsoft Skype, with a suite of cloud enablement solutions that parallels ones they had previously offered for on-prem deployments.

Data Centre

Pluribus Networks leveraging Dell, Nutanix connections to drive SDN solution

June 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pluribus Networks leveraging Dell, Nutanix connections to drive SDN solution
Pluribus partnered with both Dell and Nutanix a year ago, and is benefiting from being the software-defined networking element in joint deals. They also believe the upcoming Dell-EMC merger will help their business.

Cloud

KEMP 2.0 releases KEMP360 application delivery framework

May 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on KEMP 2.0 releases KEMP360 application delivery framework
The new two-component application infrastructure monitoring and management solution is aimed at the enterprise, where the former SMB-focused vendor has been increasingly looking for new business.

Servers

Scale Computing integrates flash into tiering to strengthen SMB hyper-converged offering

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox 1
Scale’s new HEAT technology brings flash into hybrid tiering, with all the performance benefits of using flash for a tier rather than just a cache. The challenge here was not introducing flash, but doing so in a way that would not increase complexity, and would be cost-effective for SMBs.