The LSI Nytro application-acceleration product line features PCIe cards with multiple form factors that can connect internally to direct-attached storage or externally to SANs with both SATA and SAS interfaces.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
LSI Nytro PCIe cards get capacity, feature upgrades
LSI Corp. expanded its Nytro application-acceleration product line this week with a 3.2 TB WarpDrive PCI Express (PCIe) flash card and two new MegaRAID PCIe intelligent flash acceleration and storage cards.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tips to lower data storage costs: Don't always fall for the new stuff
Last week's Storage Decisions in Chicago provided a fountain of storage tips for storage administrators as experts delivered advice on how to reduce data storage costs when buying and deploying emerging technologies.
Jon Toigo, CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, opened the second day of the show with his keynote, "Sharks in the storage pool: 10 ways to cut your storage costs now." A main theme of his presentation was that tape archiving and other, less sexy storage media, including refurbished systems, have a place in a sound, economical storage strategy.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Flash storage arrays take center stage at Storage Decisions
Solid-state storage was a hot topic at the Storage Decisions Conference in Chicago last week, as expert presenters explained its benefits while warning attendees not to go overboard in deploying expensive flash storage arrays.
Presenters suggested instead using flash as a tool in a sound, economical storage strategy that also includes spinning hard disk drives, tape archiving and cloud services.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
HP turns StoreOnce into virtual storage appliance
Hewlett-Packard (HP) today added to its disk and tape backup portfolios with a virtual appliance version of its StoreOnce deduplication technology and a midrange tape library.
The StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) is a software appliance system that runs as a virtual machine (VM) on industry standard hardware. The StoreOnce VSA runs the same software as HP's StoreOnce disk-based dedicated backup hardware appliances, so it includes federated deduplication and cross-family replication.
HP slapped the software-defined storage tag on the VSA.
HP brings out 3PAR all-flash array
Hewlett-Packard (HP) today joined the all-flash storage array parade with a version of its 3PAR StoreServ system configured specifically for solid-state drives (SSDs).
The 3PAR StoreServ 7450 is a scale-out all-flash array that can provide up to 550,000 IOPS with less than 0.7 milliseconds latency, according to HP, and it utilizes the same core architecture found in HP's 3PAR hard disk drive (HDD) arrays.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Whiptail Technologies scales flash array down to SMB
Whiptail Technologies Inc. today added a smaller version of its all-flash array platform for small and medium-sized businesses and branch offices. The WT-1100 is a 1U box that runs on the same Racerunner operating system as Whiptail's midrange Accela and enterprise-level Invicta arrays.
The WT-1100 will be available with 2 TB or 4 TB of multi-level cell, or MLC, flash supplied by Whiptail investor SanDisk Corp.
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