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Toshiba achieves VMware 6.0 certification for enterprise drives

Published in Flash Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers

Toshiba Electronics Europe announces that its 12Gbit/s SAS 15,000 RPM enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs) – the AL13SX Series – and enterprise solid state drives (eSSDs) – PX03SN Series – have earned VMware Virtual SAN™ 6.0 and 5.5 certification for VMware vSphere® environments. Virtual SAN for VMware vSphere® 6.0 is a new hypervisor-converged storage platform that was released in March to deliver the benefits of software-defined storage to the data centre....

Published in Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Actifio has announced the winners of its Channel awards at this year’s Actifio Live Community Forum in London on September 14-15. Trusted adviser and cloud service provider Versutus IT as well as copy data management provider TheBplan scooped the top awards on the night – Actifio’s Partner and MSP Awards 2015.

Gartner says the future of the data centre Is software-defined

The software-defined data centre (SDDC) is crucial to the long-term evolution of an agile digital business according to Gartner, Inc. It is not, however, the right choice for all IT organisations currently.

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

SolidFire CEO Dave Wright told the recent Managed Services and Hosting summit in London that service providers and cloud channels generally were missing a lot of business. He showed how his business was built specifically to work with service providers: “We sit behind many of the largest service providers in the world, with 100,000 customers. As a storage company we probably have the largest percentage in the service provider space of any storage company today. So this is an area we know...