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Add deduplication and compression to an Linux server

12 September 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough Linux is used in several storage solutions, the native filesystems lack of modern features like deduplication or compression (compression extented attribute is present from some decade, but it’s implementions is still limited or missing). Most storage solutions use other filesystem (like ZFS), or also other operating systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris branches, or also Windows Server (like DataCore). Now Permabit Technology Corporation announced the availability of its Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) for Canonical’s Ubuntu Server.

Highlights, vStorage

Cohesity announce v3 of its data platform

29 June 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn less than one year Cohesity announced the v1, the v2 and now the v3 of Cohesity Data Platform, a product designed to consolidate all secondary storage use cases on a unified environment that helps organizations control growing data demands. The Cohesity Data Platform combines a web-scale storage architecture with standards-based hardwar, in the same as there more and more HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solutions and platform in the primary storage world.

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Scale Computing make hybrid flash HCI affordable for SMB

14 June 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutesScale Computing has launched their hybrid HC1150 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with a three nodes cluster for under $25,000 that will allow the SMB to more freely adopt hyperconvergence, making virtualization as simple and cost effective as a single server. The HC1150 combines virtualization with servers and high performance flash storage to provide a complete, highly available datacenter infrastructure solution at the lowest price possible. Offering the full line of features found in the HC2000 and HC4000 family clusters, the entry level HC1150 provides the most efficient use of system resources – particularly RAM – to […]

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Dell storage strategy will be Compellent centric

19 May 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAlso if is not yet clear the impact of the EMC acquisition by Dell, at least in the storage portfolio, seems clear that the Dell storage strategy for the next years will be Compellent centric, with the position of this type of product also as a future replacement for the PowerVault MD3 and EqualLogic. Dell storage portfolio has slightly change with the introduction of the SC4020 (as a mid-size solution) and then the SC2000v as a entry level solution. And also the new SC9000 at a high level position.

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Tintri unveils its scale-out storage model

17 May 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutesTintri Inc. has announced a new scale-out storage platform to enable enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) to build their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure for diverse virtualized workloads. The new platform forms the foundation for the industry’s largest all-flash scale-out, with support for up to 160,000 VMs, 10 petabytes of capacity, and 6.4 million IOPS, for less than $1/GB.

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SwiftStack: Object Storage for the Enterprise

27 April 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutesSwiftStack is a storage company, founded on 2011 and based in San Francisco, CA, build with the idea to create a large scale object storage infrastructure in customer’s own data center (so specific for private cloud). Is still a small company with 50 employess and more than 60 customers (half in past 3 quarters), but with interesting names and new deployments in life sciences (Counsyl, OMRF) and media & entertainment (Rockstar Games, Tata Communications).

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Cohesity is embracing the cloud power

12 April 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutesCohesity announced its hybrid cloud strategy that empowers customers to leverage the cost efficiency and agility of cloud infrastructure. Cohesity Hyperconverged secondary storage is a unified, intelligent storage platform designed from day one to integrate seamlessly with public and private cloud services, and enables organizations, but the public cloud integration was still limited also in v2 of its data platform with just an archival tier connected to Google Cloud Storage™, Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3 and OpenStack.

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