NexGen Storage offers performance guarantee for hybrid storage array

NexGen Storage Inc. today declared it will back up its performance claims with a promise to upgrade customers for free if its hybrid solid-state storage array falls short. NexGen guarantees that its n5-150 combination PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state and hard disk drive array will increase the performance of a customer's previous disk storage system by 10 times, triple the IOPS per rack unit of hybrid storage arrays, or triple the raw capacity per rack unit of all-SSD arrays. Read more

Greenbytes revs IO Offload Engine to spark VDI adoption

Greenbytes Inc. today introduced its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) IO Offload Engine, built to separate VDI system traffic from data traffic and process that system traffic on an inline appliance. With the new appliance, Greenbytes is shifting from a storage array vendor to one dedicated to selling systems for VDI, although Michael Robinson, vice president of marketing communications, said Greenbytes will continue to support its GB-X, HA-3000 and Solidarity storage arrays. Read more

Virsto Software digs deeper into VM storage management

Virsto Software Corp. today expanded its VMware storage management features with Virsto for vSphere 1.5, adding more integration into vSphere workloads, rapid-deployment wizards for VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, and improved migration with Storage vMotion. Read more

Upcoming Nimbus all-flash storage array to offer 10-year warranty

Nimbus Data Systems Inc. today said its third-generation all-flash storage array will include a new process and significant improvements in speed and capacity when it is released later this year. The Gemini flash array can scale to 48 TB in a 2U device. Nimbus claims it can sustain 1,000,000 IOPS and will offer a 10-year warranty -- about twice as long as the expected maximum life of most flash systems. Read more

SanDisk releases FlashSoft flash caching software for vSphere

SanDisk Corp. today introduced the VMware vSphere server virtualization version of its FlashSoft flash caching software, which is designed to accelerate application performance and virtual machine (VM) density. FlashSoft released Windows Server and Linux versions of the flash caching software prior to its acquisition by SanDisk in February 2012. Read more

Skyera releases all-flash array for $3 per gigabyte

Startup Skyera Inc. entered the all-flash enterprise storage market today with a series of iSCSI arrays that use consumer-grade multi-level cell (MLC) NAND to bring the price to less than $3 per gigabyte. And that price is before deduplication and compression.

CEO and founder Radoslav Danilak said the vendor dropped the price to about one-third or less than most enterprise flash storage systems by improving the life of the consumer-grade MLC instead of using more expensive single-level cell (SLC) flash. He said Skyera employed techniques such as lower write amplification and adaptive error correction codes (ECCs) to improve the life expectancy of the consumer-grade flash to five years of enterprise use.

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Tegile adds all-flash array to multiprotocol storage lineup

Tegile Systems today added an all-flash array and a higher-end hybrid solid-state drive (SSD) system to the startup's Zebi lineup of multiprotocol storage arrays. Tegile upgraded its controller to support an all-SSD array, and its metadata-accelerated storage system (MASS) now includes the option to pin volumes to SSDs to improve performance and minimize delays due to caching algorithms or tiering policies. Read more

Skyera releases all-flash array for $3 per gigabyte

Startup Skyera Inc. entered the all-flash enterprise storage market today with a series of iSCSI arrays that use consumer-grade multi-level cell (MLC) NAND to bring the price to less than $3 per gigabyte. And that price is before deduplication and compression. CEO and founder Radoslav Danilak said the vendor dropped the price to about one-third or less than most enterprise flash storage systems by improving the life of the consumer-grade MLC instead of using more expensive single-level cell (SLC) flash. Read more

Nimble builds hybrid solid-state storage to scale

Nimble Storage this week adopted a scale-out architecture for its hybrid solid-state drive (SSD) iSCSI SAN arrays, adding a performance platform and a series of expansion shelves to grow capacity. The CS400 series of arrays and ES expansion shelves are the key hardware pieces of what Nimble calls a "scale to fit" architecture. The new Nimble OS 2.0 enables scale-out clustering with any of the vendor's storage products. Read more

Virident FlashMax II MLC PCIe flash card hits 2.2 TB

Virident Systems Inc. today unveiled the second generation of its FlashMax solid-state storage server PCIe cards, which more than double the capacity of its multi-level cell (MLC) NAND device. Shiva Shankar, Virident's director of product marketing, said the PCI Express (PCIe) Virident FlashMax II series announced today includes models with both MLC and single level cell (SLC) flash. But going forward, the card series will focus on NAND MLC flash storage for its cost benefits, he said. Read more