scale-out

HPE addition of scale-out capability to SMB StoreVirtual 3200 big deal for channel

January 11, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

HPE has announced the first major series of enhancements to the SMB-focused StoreVirtual 3200, which bring it up to the same capabilities of StoreVirtual systems higher in the market, and will make it much more attractive to partners.

ZeroStack adds deployment option on existing servers for their ‘cloud-in-a-box’ appliance

October 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

While other companies offer a similar type of product, ZeroStack sees a competitive advantage in what it claims is the broadest range of customer choice in the way it can be deployed.

Pure Storage CEO Dietzen sees strong momentum in new Pure announcements and metrics

October 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Pure has announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco, and its new (very high) Net Promoter Score, and sees a strong outlook both in Canada and its business generally.

NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.

Tegile Systems announces massively scalable IntelliFlash Cloud Platform

August 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Tegile says its new scale-out platform, with flash prices starting at about 50 cents/GB, will make on-prem flash cheaper than the public cloud and thus give channel partners a powerful weapon.

Caringo SwarmNFS aims to mainstream object storage by eliminating gateways to NFS

August 23, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Caringo has developed a patent-pending process that eliminates the need for a gateway by connecting the NFS server directly to the Object Storage. This significantly cuts costs and improves efficiency, opening up new use cases that Caringo believes will mainstream object storage.