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Nexenta delivers SDS for All-Flash Arrays, VMware Horison 6.0, and VMware Virtual SAN at VMworld 2014

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

This new release of Nexenta solutions bring unmatched economic benefits to high-performance all-flash storage; improved data reduction, analytics, reporting, availability, reliability, and management; widest range of platform and protocol support, while delivering full-featured file services managed through VMware vCentre on Virtual SAN deployments.

Published in Flash Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers

Qsan Technology, Inc. has announced the appointment of its new UK and Ireland channel manager, Simon Atkinson. Simon, whose experience at Qsan distributor CMS Distribution makes him an ideal choice to manage Qsan’s channel relationships in the UK and Ireland, has come on board after more than five years working with Qsan arrays in his previous position. His new role includes recruiting resellers, growing Qsan’s channel locally and supporting new and existing customers.

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

Nexenta has announced the launch of NexentaEdge 1.0 – the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage solution designed to deliver high performance global inline deduplication on petabyte scale clusters. NexentaEdge is ideally suited for next-generation open source cloud infrastructures and Big Data repositories requiring performance, scale and low total cost of ownership. The solution will be demonstrated for the first time at VMworld US 2014, August 24-28 in...

Published in BC/DR Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), a non-profit legal and protection advocacy agency based out of Austin, Texas, has attained a new level of agility and productivity by going virtual and software-defined with DataCore and Microsoft Hyper-V. DRTx started out on its virtualization journey by successfully implementing a redundant pair of DataCore SANsymphony-V software empowered “nodes” (SAN 1 and SAN 2) in Austin. DRTx leveraged the storage virtualization and synchronously mirroring...

Published in BC/DR Carriers + Service Providers Cloud + MS DC Facilities + Colo Device Security Flash Infrastructure Infrastructure + Hardware Management Networking Networks + Telecoms Security + Compliance Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation Wireless

According to a new IT spending forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2018, with an estimated 2013–2018 CAGR of 4.1%. Analyzing current IT spending, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $11.6 billion in 2014, with electricity companies accounting for the largest share of spending, at 67% or $7.7 billion of the total.