Software-Defined Storage

Data Centre

Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance

August 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance
Lenovo announces its second hyperconverged partnership this week, which like the first is focused primarily on the SMB space, where Lenovo is initially focusing with its hyperconverged strategy.

Software

Dell adds Scality to partners in software-defined storage portfolio

August 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell adds Scality to partners in software-defined storage portfolio
The addition of Scality to Dell’s software-defined roster is likely to extend its market reach considerably, and partners Dell up with a leading object storage vendor.

Data Centre

Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions

August 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions
Lenovo teams up with software-defined storage vendor StorMagic to offer three new hyperconverged offerings. They are unlikely to be their last.

Servers

HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
The new CS 250 is a much-enhanced followup to the appliance HP first announced in December at HP Discover, and which came to market earlier this year.

Channel Programs

Entry level-focused StorMagic launches first channel program

July 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Entry level-focused StorMagic launches first channel program
StorMagic has sold mainly direct since its founding in 2006, but is transitioning to a 100 per cent channels strategy, and to expand its base of quality partners has unveiled its first partner program.

Storage

Dell expands Dell XC Series Nutanix offerings

June 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell expands Dell XC Series Nutanix offerings
Scheduled to roll out in Q3, the updates to the portfolio address specific use cases. They are: support for KVM, including Nutanix’s new KVM-based hypervisor; a storage-heavy Lite-Compute node; a new appliance that provides Nvidia GPU support; and a short-depth, 1U form factor appliance.

Storage

New Dell storage offerings enhance both old IT and new IT

May 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell storage offerings enhance both old IT and new IT
Dell unveils its new SCv2000 entry class array, the PS 6610, a new dense offering for the PS family along with new PS software, and Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces, which beefs up Dell’s software-defined portfolio.

Data Centre

Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance
Atlantis is adapting its high-performance USX software defined storage platform into a hyperconverged appliance that is easy to deploy and use, and is much less expensive than existing competitive offerings.

Data Centre

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre
EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for storage at Red Hat.
Storage

Red Hat readies storage for channel

April 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat readies storage for channel
Red Hat has built out its storage portfolio over the last year, and now the company’s storage chief says it’s time to take the technology to the channel.