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Reading Time: 6 minutesWith the announce of the new vSphere 6.7 Update 1 you should expect also a new version of VMware vSAN (the bits are included in vSphere) and that’s it: vSAN 6.7 Update 1 (strange that has not been used the name vSAN 6.8). VMware vSAN has grown very fast in those years, not only in the number of versions (quite impressive) but also in the customers’ adoption, with more than 14000 organizations using vSAN and with a 110% growth year-over-year.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Virtual Instruments has announced a new partnership with SANBlaze Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in SAN Emulation and validation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. The partnership is centered on bringing NVMe workload modeling and analytics to both enterprise IT and technology vendors through a joint reselling agreement and includes integrations between the WorkloadWisdom and SANBlaze VirtuaLUN products. SANBlaze embedded computing products and high-performance NVMe-over-Fibre Channel emulation systems are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. WorkloadWisdom is deployed broadly across both storage technology vendors as well […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesScality it’s well know by its product Scality RING, used for large scale data storage designed usually for private cloud, with and impressive uptime (see Scality guarantees 100 percent uptime for private cloud storage environments). But Scality has also other interesing products, for example Zenko, a free open source multi-cloud controller allows you to stay in control of your data across any cloud.

Reading Time: 3 minutesTintri has laid off 80 per cent of its staff, including its top sales bod, leaving just 40 to 50 staff behind, however it still expects to run out of cash on June 30. And there are a lot of rumors with impending news of bankruptcy. That’s not good at, considering the history of the company and the quality of their products.

Reading Time: 4 minutesDurante il Dell Technologies World 2018 non sono mancati innumerevoli annunci di prodotti nuovi o nuove versioni di prodotti esistenti. Nel campo dello storage, non poteva mancare un prodotto di punta e questo è rappresentato dal succere di VMAX che è PowerMax. Benché tragga spunto dall’architettura del VMAX (che a sua volta era il successore del Symmetrix), il nuovo Dell EMC PowerMax è un progetto sostanzialmente nuovo disegnato sulla base dello stato dell’arte tecnologico e su quelle che si prospettano essere le nuove tendenze.

Reading Time: 4 minutesSolo un anno fa, VMware aveva annunciato il rilascio di vSAN 6.6… considerando la crescita veloce di questo prodotto, ora non deve stupire l’annuncio di vSAN 6.7, ovviamente contestuale all’annuncio di vSphere 6.7. VMware vSAN è la soluzione di Software Defined Storage (SDS) di VMware che rappresenta l’unica soluzione di tipo hyper(visor)-converged implementata nel VMkernel di ESXi.  Benchè il prodotto sia venduto a parte, in realtà è già tutto incluso all’interno di ESXi (e del vCenter per quanto riguarda la gestione). solutio. Although is a separate product, the core functions to implement it are already […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesVeeam has started an interesting collaboration with Pure Storage some years ago, but probably the most notable collaboration was during the last Pure Storage Accelerate at San Francisco where both the companies have provided a compelling solution for businesses that are undergoing a digital transformation. The main intent was to provide a storage integration between Veeam Backup & Replication and Pure Storage. This integration was planned to be available early 2018 to provide businesses with the ability to leverage storage snapshots for significantly improved RPO and reduced infrastructure impact.

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