Pure Storage upgrades FlashArray as competition increases

Pure Storage, which sold all-flash storage systems when it was a niche market, today rolled out a larger, faster FlashArray system with the intention of bringing its products into the mainstream.

Along with the Pure Storage FA 400 series storage controllers, the startup upgraded its Purity operating system and added a cloud support model.

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Law firm uses NexGen hybrid array to keep cases moving

Chief Information Officer Rich Wills said he doesn't consider his law firm on the cutting edge of technology. But rapid data growth pushed Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK) to buy a hybrid flash array from startup NexGen Storage Inc. when traditional hard drive arrays failed to keep up with his IOPS requirements.

"We're a law firm," Wills said. "We don't really do new stuff. Cutting-edge [technology] and law firms do not necessarily exist in the same technology plan."

However, data growth and e-discovery are common in law firms, and that was the case with Cincinnati, Ohio-based KMK.

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Micron ships first MLC PCIe flash card

Micron Technology Inc. has expanded its flash product line with its first MLC PCIe Express NAND card, two years after launching its first SLC PCIe flash card.

The P420m multi-level cell (MLC) card should help Micron sales because MLC cards are more commonly deployed than single-level cell (SLC) in the enterprise. MLC cards are cheaper than SLC and software enhancements have improved MLC's reliability and performance. Micron was slow to the MLC market, as most of its major competitors already have MLC PCIe flash cards.

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Dell Foglight management tools upgraded, rebranded

Several Dell Foglight applications -- picked up in last year's Quest Software acquisition -- were upgraded and rebranded this week. The upgrades include Foglight for Storage Management and Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition.

The Dell Foglight products were part of the vendor's $2.4 billion acquisition of Quest in July 2012. Quest picked up the virtualization management technology when it acquired vKernel in November 2011. The storage management technology was acquired by Quest when it scooped up the assets and staff of Monosphere Inc. in January 2009.

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