NVMe

Storage

Qumulo releases NVMe all-flash P series

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Qumulo releases NVMe all-flash P series
The Qumulo P-series NVMe flash offering that was announced last fall now hits the market, initially targeted at the most demanding of use cases of workload-intensive sectors like media and entertainment.

Storage

E8 Storage building out channel around NVMe flash array play

March 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on E8 Storage building out channel around NVMe flash array play
E8 Storage is looking to recruit partners with a focus on markets where NVMe is a strong opportunity, and with Canada being a green-fields opportunity for partners.

Data Centre

Pivot3 targets ROBO and mid-sized companies with 1U version of Acuity HCI

March 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 targets ROBO and mid-sized companies with 1U version of Acuity HCI
The Pivot3 X3 series is half the size of the original X5 series, and has its core features – NVMe flash architecture and QoS capability that enables priority-aware provisioning.

Storage

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

January 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Partnerships

Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration
The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.

Networking

Mellanox provides HPE’s first Ethernet storage switches in HPE StoreFabric M-Series

September 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mellanox provides HPE’s first Ethernet storage switches in HPE StoreFabric M-Series
The M-Series family OEMed from Mellanox, which provide 100 GbE Ethernet connectivity, but also scale down to an SMB price point, provide HPE with a strong channel offering that has a large price-performance differential over Fibre Channel.

Storage

NetApp augments Big Data portfolio with new systems, software

September 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Storage

HDS expands VMware partnership with rack-scale platform powered by VMware Cloud Foundation

August 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS expands VMware partnership with rack-scale platform powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
HDS also announced that their hyper-converged Hitachi UCP HC platform has been upgraded with the new Intel processors and NVMe memory support.

Storage

Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series

August 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Storage

Scale Computing brings two midmarket hyper-converged appliances to market

July 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing brings two midmarket hyper-converged appliances to market
The new offerings are more powerful than the appliances Scale has offered before, but they aren’t looking to move upmarket, just satisfy the demand of storage-hungry SMBs and midmarket customers.