Software-Defined Storage

Dell EMC makes HCI appliances available on PowerEdge 14th gen servers

December 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to the souped-up servers, Dell EMC has also simplified the ordering process by which partners acquire these HCI appliances.

Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.

ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Toronto startup ioFABRIC has refined its messaging to focus on customer concerns about clouds and hybrid clouds, and backed that up by extending their solution’s capability with Vicinity 3.0.

Dell EMC publicly recommits to Nutanix partnership

June 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

While the Dell EMC merger has raised speculation about the future of their relationship with Nutanix, Dell EMC forcefully stated at Nutanix .NEXT that the relationship is solid and will continue.

HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy

June 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

HPE formally announces its project to extend HPE Synergy to the full hybrid IT environment, which is still known by its internal code name, and which is still in the tech preview stage, but should reach beta in the fall. The company hopes it will be ready to sell by December.

Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program

June 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Hedvig software-defined technology collapses disparate tiers of storage and unifies block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform, providing HPE and its partners with a capability not otherwise available to them through HPE.

Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.

Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements

June 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Other highlights include the new version of their ONTAP software, a new usage-based consumption option to purchase infrastructure, enhancing their OCI software, and expanding their free controller upgrade program to credits for a broader array of NetApp purchases.

Lenovo DSS-G software-defined storage solution to be more channel-friendly

April 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The pre-integrated solution combines IBM’s Spectrum Scale software with Lenovo servers, and is the first of multiple related software-defined solutions Lenovo will announce this year.