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IBM Cognitive Storage Support Promises to Reduce Customers’ Technical Issues and Support Costs
Real-time insights from installed storage systems—combined with IBM storage support capabilities—should lead to more reliable and performant storage as well as happier customers
Read More- Premiered: 11/13/17
- Author: Jeff Byrne
Everybody Can Have Hybrid Block Storage - IBM Virtually Tiers All Storage To The Cloud
Once upon a time, when clouds were young, we thought that all our fancy storage arrays would shortly sport built-in cloud tiering mechanisms. It seemed natural to want to burst capacity to the cloud, maybe even replicate some data to a cloud DR clone, or archive corporate data into some big data lake in the sky. There were a few gateway products and 3rd party replication utilities rolled out here and there, but for the most part on-premise storage and cloud storage have been kept a world apart. ...
(but now) .... IBM Spectrum Virtualize, which is built into many IBM storage solutions (like Storwize and FlashSystem v9000) and available as a virtualizing solution over most 3rd party storage, is now inherently cloud-enabled.
- Premiered: 10/27/17
- Author: Mike Matchett
HPE acquires Nimble for $1B
On March 8, HPE announced it will be acquiring Nimble for approximately $1B. This acquisition comes on the heels of the acquisition of SimpliVity for $650M that closed on February 17, 2017.
Read More- Premiered: 03/15/17
- Author: Arun Taneja
Video: Mike Matchett explains how the storage management landscape is evolving
Mike Matchett discusses the storage management landscape.
- Premiered: 03/06/17
- Author: Mike Matchett
Pivot3 Expands QoS for HyperConverged Infrastructure Environment
It was evident after Pivot3 acquired NexGen (in March of 2016) that the focus would be to use NexGen’s strong IP regarding Quality of Service (QoS) and leverage it for HCI environments.
Read More- Premiered: 08/18/16
- Author: Jeff Kato
HPE gives software-defined storage a new twist with the StoreVirtual 3200
The recent trend for software-defined storage vendors has been to create hyperconverged platforms in order to continue to add greater functionality to the same X86-based servers they rely on.
Read More- Premiered: 08/17/16
- Author: Jeff Kato