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Reading Time: 2 minutesDell Storage portfolio has grown in those years, also from some acquisitions (EqualLogic and Compellent) and some partnership (like the recent with Nutanix for the XC Series) becoming more complete and spread. Actually there are three main lines in the “traditional” storage world that include: MD3 series (based on NetApp technologies), PS series (based on EqualLogic) and SC series (based on Compellent). And new solutions for the hyper-converged world, including the XC series and VMware EVO:RAIL appliances (but also other partnership, like the one with Nexenta or RedHat).

Reading Time: 5 minutesCon la nuova Technical Preview 2 di Windows Server 2016 vi sono molte funzionalità interessanti, come già descritte in questo post precedente. Alcune di queste novità riguardano lo storage che a partire con Windows Server 2012 ha subito grosse rivoluzioni con l’introduzione di SMB3, della de-duplica, del nuovo filesystem (ReFS), degli storage spaces e dello Scale-Out File Server. Con Windows Server 2012 R2 poi è stato introdotto il multi-tiering. Con Windows Server Server 2016 poi saranno aggiunte altre interessanti funzioni come la Storage Replica (utile, ad esempio, in scenari di stretched cluster), ulteriori migliorie nello storage QoS, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesMaxta, a storage company that provide hyper-converged solutions, announced MxInsight and MxCloudConnect, confirming a recent trend both in the analytics applied to the storage and also in the cloud based management solutions available as SaaS. Other vendors (not only in the storage area, see for example Meraki in the network area with a real unique management solution) are moving in one or both of this directions. Of course those aspects are not related to the core technology (for Maxta the hyper-converged storage), but on the services that you can have in order to simplify the IT management.

Reading Time: 3 minutesZadara Storage is a USA company (with a Research & Development Center in Israel) with a unique approach at the storage: their solution is an enterprise-class Storage-as-a-service (STaaS). The company’s as-a-service model offers enterprises, SMBs and startups a flexible, agile and cost-efficient storage infrastructure, available on-premises and through public cloud providers. There is a wide range of worldwide cloud and colocation providers, including value-added relationships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. And now available also through Cloudreach’s Cloud Platform offering.

Reading Time: 4 minutesSyneto is a young European storage vendor with main offices in Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and Romania, and with customers spread in all major European countries. Honestly this is a rare case, considering that most storage vendor came from US (and most of them from Silicon Valley) but it’s nice see some exception and that something good arrive also from the old continent. This company has a clear market target (the SMB segment) and a clear vision, trying to solve this common dilemma (for the SMB market): SMEs needed storage solutions with powerful enterprise features, manageable […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesSeems the all flash (or full flash) storage momentum: most of the storage vendor are announcing a full flash solution, in the past months. For sure means more attention (and probably more demand) of this kind of storage, considering that some years ago there were only few solutions available. X-IO is a storage vendor with a really long term (over two decades with different names) of expertise to deliver unmatched price/performance for enterprise applications. I’ve already wrote about their history, their approach and their vision… and also why their solution are different and unique from […]

Reading Time: 8 minutesScale Computing è un’azienda americana (con sede principale ad Indianapolis, invece che la “solita” Silicon Valley, benché abbia un ufficio anche a San Matteo) con un’interessante soluzione iperconvergente: la sia piattaforma HC3® fornisce funzionalità di “data center in a box” per realtà tipiche da PMI (benché possa anche essere utilizzata in alcuni casi di ambienti enterprise). Questa soluzione è studiata in modo specifico per il mercato SMB (che in realtà in America rappresenta anche aziende più grandi che nostro mercato PMI) con l’obiettivo dichiato di semplificare la gestione e la complessità di una soluzione di […]

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