Formulus Black is a software rethinking of technoloigy originally developed by its predecessor company, Symbolic IO, designed to make DRAM non-volatile, inexpensive and usable for storage.
The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.
Certification on SAP HANA is exceedingly important for HCI vendors, because it validates that HCI will run in a demanding Tier One environment, and opens up a market where enormous pent-up demand exists, that has just been waiting for this validation.
8GB memory is now standard, up from 4 GB, with the high end model moving from 8GB to 15 GB. The keyboard is now backlit with red rather than white for better nighttime use.
HPE says that ProLiant Gen 10 is not only the world’s most secure Industry Standard Server – but that none of their competitors can possibly catch up.
Growth was good pretty much across all D&H segments, although notebooks, collaboration and video conference solutions, systems components, and even printers, all did exceptionally well.
The company says that performance, density and memory upgrades will make things like facial recognition of individual customers in retail stores a reality.
Nutanix makes its first foray into acquiring other people’s technology with a pair of deals designed to enhance their storage-class memory systems and improve their cloud automation and management capabilities.
The Memory1 hardware was announced last year, but now, as it hits production release, it is accompanied by Diablo Memory Expansion (DMX) software.
Futuresville 2 – Dell’s Chief Technology Office for Enterprise – discussed their work in identifying key trends and co-ordinating responses within Dell, and talked about some of those trends they deem vitally important going forward.
Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory architecture converges memory and storage technologies to drastically reduce latency and significantly improve performance of data-intensive applications.
