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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.

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.

Reading Time: 4 minutesAlla fine i rumors di questi mesi si sono rivelati fondati: Dell venderà la divisione Dell Software a Francisco Partners e Elliott Management Corporation, due nomi poco conosciuti in Italia, ma abbastanza influenti nella California. Questo annuncio è arrivato pochi mesi dopo l’altro annuncio relativo ad un’altra vendita: Dell ha rivenduto Perot Systems (acquistata qualche anno fa) a NTT Data (sottocosto visto che ha perso $800 million). Chiaramente entrambe le mosse servono a far cassa per permettere l’acquisto di EMC. Mosse in fondo abbastanza scontate e dettate da logica: Perot non si è mai integrata veramente con i […]

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 […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesBenché ancora non si sappia nulla di quali sanno gli impatti dell’acquisizione di EMC da parte di Dell, almeno sulla linea dei prodotti storage dove esiste un po’ di sovrapposizione, diventa sempre più chiaro che il mondo delle soluzioni Dell Storage si stanno focalizzando sempre più sui prodotti della famiglia Compellent, a scapito delle famiglie PowerVault MD3 ed EqualLogic. Del resto, il portfolio delle soluzioni di Dell Storage ha visto nuovi prodotti Compellent in settori prima occupati da altre soluzioni, come ad esempio il SC4020 (che copre il segmento mid-size, storicamente occupato da EqualLogic) e il nuovo SC2000v (che […]

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.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs promised in the last VMworld, now VMware has introduced two new less-expensive versions of its NSX product targeted for the mid-enterprise. Also on NSX there are now different editions with different prices and, of course, features. The full version will be the Enterprise one (sigh… on vSphere Enterprise has gone, wasn’t better call it Enterprise Plus), the intermediate Advanced and the starter just Standard. No Essential or Essential Plus, but will be difficult and non sense (yet) apply this kind of technology to the small business.

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