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- December 09, 2020
09 Dec'20
Nutanix names VMware vet Ramaswami as CEO
New Nutanix CEO Ramaswami appears to have the SaaS model background the HCI vendor sought, after helping VMware move in that direction as COO of cloud services.
- December 04, 2020
04 Dec'20
Nutanix clusters files and objects into public clouds
Nutanix takes the next step in moving from hyper-converged infrastructure to hybrid cloud infrastructure by supporting file and object data in Clusters for public clouds.
- October 30, 2020
30 Oct'20
Composable storage startup Fungible chases hyperscalers
Fungible's composable storage includes FS1600 block storage server and Fungible Composer management backplane. Fungible offloads data services to its FS1 Data Processing Unit.
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- October 26, 2020
26 Oct'20
TrueNAS Scale arrays place open source HCI into spotlight
TrueNAS Scale gives iXsystems a foothold in converged systems. Customers can obtain it as open source software or as an integrated system based on TrueNAS storage servers.
- October 06, 2020
06 Oct'20
VMware bulks up vSAN against container-native threats
As VMware embraces Tanzu and Kubernetes, it expands vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure software to try to make it a better fit for developers who embrace containers.
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Sponsored News
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- September 30, 2020
30 Sep'20
Seagate's open source Cortx object store targets HAMR HDDs
Seagate launched new open source object storage software that is designed to exploit its highest capacity hard disk drives in supported Lyve Drive converged infrastructure racks.
- September 09, 2020
09 Sep'20
Retiring Nutanix CEO Pandey ponders what's next
As he prepares to hand over the reins of Nutanix, CEO Dheeraj Pandey said the vendor's next big question is, 'How will HCI morph in this world of hyperscalers?'
- September 08, 2020
08 Sep'20
Nutanix Next steps into cloud: Clusters available in Azure
The Microsoft deal is part of Nutanix's pivot from an HCI vendor to provider of cloud software as it battles VMware and faces the same challenges as other infrastructure companies.
- August 28, 2020
28 Aug'20
Nutanix CEO plans to step down, search for successor begins
Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey declared his intent to retire, pending the appointment of his replacement, following a $750 million investment from Bain Capital Private Equity.
- August 18, 2020
18 Aug'20
Chip startup debuts with Fungible data processing unit (DPU)
Fungible, backed with $300 million-plus in funding, launches data processing unit (DPU) chips it will use to build high-performance composable infrastructure storage systems.
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- August 12, 2020
12 Aug'20
Nutanix launches clusters for AWS
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix puts clusters on AWS, enabling common management of applications and workloads on premises and in the public cloud.
- August 10, 2020
10 Aug'20
World of technology changed forever by the pandemic
While most of the events of a remarkable 2020 would not be welcome again, changes to the IT and storage landscape will stay with us for the foreseeable future.
- July 29, 2020
29 Jul'20
Pivot3 Acuity streamlines streaming video with automation
Pivot3 Acuity refresh injects health analytics and tools to orchestrate system-wide HCI upgrades. The vendor targets organizations with dense streaming media.
- June 23, 2020
23 Jun'20
Dell EMC pushes VxRail hyper-convergence to the edge
Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure expands E Series models with AMD EPYC processors. New VxRail D Series is built to withstand extreme temperature and shock.
- May 28, 2020
28 May'20
Healthcare IT teams pivot around HCI during pandemic
When COVID-19 put stress on healthcare organizations, IT teams needed to respond quickly to enable telehealth remote access. Learn how HCI helped two organizations cope.
- May 20, 2020
20 May'20
Scale HCI systems add NVMe; Pivot3 spins to speed up compute
Scale Computing expands HCI systems with HC3000 line equipped with NVMe flash. Pivot3 Surveillance Series gets power from new Lenovo servers and AMD Epyc CPUs.
- May 13, 2020
13 May'20
Nutanix DR gets automated, adds orchestration, replication
Nutanix builds in disaster recovery capabilities to its HCI operating system to complement its Xi Leap DRaas and coming Nutanix Clusters running in public clouds.
- May 08, 2020
08 May'20
HPE HCI platform takes AMD road to Rome
HPE HCI product upgrades incorporate high-performance AMD Epyc Rome microprocessors to help companies provide dense, scalable virtual desktop infrastructure for work-at-home staff.
- April 06, 2020
06 Apr'20
Lenovo flash storage, Microsoft Azure eye mad rush to edge
New Lenovo ThinkAgile MX and Lenovo storage arrays target Microsoft cloud customers. Azure Stack HCI configuration mirrors qualified designs for VMware, Nutanix.
- March 05, 2020
05 Mar'20
HCI market grows as storage, servers shrink
Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise say their storage and server revenues declined sharply last quarter, while hyper-converged infrastructure sales keep growing.
- February 12, 2020
12 Feb'20
Nutanix Karbon upgrade focuses on non-Kubernetes experts
Nutanix aims Karbon at 'mere mortals' who want to run Kubernetes in on-premises data centers, but it faces plenty of competitors preparing for containers that need persistent storage.
- January 27, 2020
27 Jan'20
StorMagic SvSAN helps Sheetz hyper-converge at the edge
Retail chain Sheetz simplified its technology on the edge with StorMagic hyper-converged infrastructure software, reducing seven devices at each site to two servers running SvSAN.
- December 12, 2019
12 Dec'19
Pivot3, Scale Computing HCI appliances zoom in on AI, edge
Pivot3 Acuity automates data protection for self-healing node rebuilds. New Scale Computing HE150 HCI systems combine M.2 NVMe SSD, Scale networking software and Intel mini-PCs.
- December 03, 2019
03 Dec'19
HCI storage adoption rises as array sales slip
Dell goes against the grain by increasing storage sales, but much of its gains came from hyper-converged and data protection products rather than traditional primary storage arrays.
- November 12, 2019
12 Nov'19
Dell EMC PowerOne, On Demand add cloud-like pricing
Dell EMC expands storage-as-a-service pricing, launches PowerOne converged stack for IT users looking for the "Holy Grail" of cloud pricing and on-premises management.
- November 04, 2019
04 Nov'19
Dell EMC upgrades VxRail appliances for AI, SAP HANA
As hyperconverged infrastructure use cases expand, Dell EMC adds analytics, flash and network management to VxRail platform built on PowerEdge servers.
- October 28, 2019
28 Oct'19
HPE brings InfoSight AI to SimpliVity HCI
HPE brings technologies from two 2017 acquisitions -- predictive analytics and hyper-convergences -- together with InfoSight on SimpliVity in hopes of giving SimpliVity a sales jolt.
- October 15, 2019
15 Oct'19
Steel company mines value with Scale Computing HC3 cluster
Harrison Steel Castings outgrew its converged system and swapped it out for Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, which uses open source KVM virtualization.
- September 04, 2019
04 Sep'19
VMware vSAN HCI: Complete stack or 'vaporware'?
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says vSAN is crushing Nutanix, while Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says VMware sells 'vaporware' -- but users say they like the integrated stack for HCI.
- August 28, 2019
28 Aug'19
VMware vSAN HCI users share cloud strategies, battle scars
Hyper-converged infrastructure has meant change to IT organizations, and VMware vSAN customers consider evolving their cloud plans in an age of hybrid and multi-cloud options.
- August 13, 2019
13 Aug'19
Scale Computing HC3 gaining an enterprise foothold, CEO says
Scale Computing founder and CEO Jeff Ready claims demand for HC3 is pulling the vendor into more enterprise use cases as edge-created data prompts companies to consolidate IT.
- August 12, 2019
12 Aug'19
Composable architecture extends the reach of disaggregation
In composable architecture, IT components are broken apart and reassembled for specific applications. They can provide more flexibility than converged or hyper-converged systems.
- July 24, 2019
24 Jul'19
Beer maker brews up cloud alternative with Dell EMC VxRail
With breweries in Colorado and North Carolina, New Belgium Brewing Co. moved shared production apps from cloud to local cluster of Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure.
- July 17, 2019
17 Jul'19
VMware vSAN HCI multi-cloud setup keeps ambulance airbound
Angel MedFlight runs a multi-cloud setup, using a customer-built app and hyper-converged infrastructure built on VMware vSAN software and HPE ProLiant servers.
- June 20, 2019
20 Jun'19
HPE SimpliVity gets new features, competition
HPE exec says vendor's HCI strategy is 'SimpliVity, SimpliVity, SimpliVity' -- but don't forget HPE's competitive Nutanix and Nimble Storage dHCI products.
- June 18, 2019
18 Jun'19
HPE unveils Nimble dHCI, InfoSight on SimpliVity HCI
Is disaggregated HCI a thing? Hewlett Packard Enterprise says yes, with its new Nimble Storage-ProLiant server combo that looks more like converged infrastructure than hyper-converged.
- June 17, 2019
17 Jun'19
Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged hardware gets edgy
Scale Computing 1U edge nodes allow easy deployment by retailers in multiple sites that lack on-site IT. The Scale Computing storage layer removes the need for RAID-based data protection in the box.
- June 03, 2019
03 Jun'19
HCI market: Dell and VMware gain, as Nutanix stumbles
HCI pioneer Nutanix's revenue slid last quarter, as it goes through a business transition and greater competition from Dell appliances and VMware HCI software.
- June 03, 2019
03 Jun'19
New Toshiba M.2 SSD targets composable infrastructure
Toshiba takes aim at composable infrastructures, data centers and high-end workstations with new low-power, small-form-factor 2 TB M.2 SSD that uses dense 96-layer 3D NAND flash.
- May 31, 2019
31 May'19
HiveIO releases Hive Fabric virtualization framework update
Hive Fabric 7.3 has four main updates. New features enable admins to install GPUs, control acceleration, add multiple defined networks and manage server memory.
- May 13, 2019
13 May'19
Nutanix CEO: We'd love to replace VMware as Switzerland
Nutanix can benefit if Dell alienates VMware's other partners by abandoning its 'Switzerland of computing' strategy, according to the HCI vendor's CEO Dheeraj Pandey.
- May 09, 2019
09 May'19
Nutanix fights VMware with AHV hypervisor, cloud support
In the battle for HCI supremacy, Nutanix has hyper-converged history and now AHV, while VMware has virtualization dominance and a boost from its parent Dell's server hardware.
- May 08, 2019
08 May'19
With Nutanix Mine, HCI vet adds converged secondary storage
Nutanix prepares to launch its Mine converged secondary storage appliances as it expands beyond primary storage with an architecture that Cohesity and Rubrik have adopted.
- April 30, 2019
30 Apr'19
New NEC hyper-converged infrastructure appliance targets SMBs
NEC partners with Scale Computing to launch its first hyper-converged infrastructure appliance tailored to SMBs and remote offices in the U.S. and Europe.
- April 09, 2019
09 Apr'19
HPE-Nutanix deal expands roster of hyper-converged options
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Nutanix partnership sprang up on two fronts, bringing more layers of coopetition to the world of HCI. But where does this leave HPE SimpliVity?
- March 20, 2019
20 Mar'19
Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 mixes in Unity hybrid, Data Domain
Ten years later, VCE is gone, EMC is part of Dell and Vblocks have become VxBlocks. But the early converged infrastructure stack is still going, with new products coming online.
- March 11, 2019
11 Mar'19
Startup gives Datrium DVX subscription pricing
With Datrium Forward, the software-defined storage startup looks to deliver a 'cloudy feel' to pricing for its DVX storage that spans on premises and in Amazon Web Services.
- March 04, 2019
04 Mar'19
Nutanix HCI position under fire due to sales slump
Nutanix CEO says HCI sales slowdown is temporary because its technology remains strong; in the meantime, Dell-VMware is pushing HCI deeper into the enterprise.
- February 05, 2019
05 Feb'19
HCI software maker Maxta shuts down after funding failure
Maxta tried to carve a niche in hyper-converged infrastructure with MxSP software for industry-standard x86 servers -- the business model HCI pioneer Nutanix shifted to in 2018.
- January 16, 2019
16 Jan'19
Datera storage software trains for long run on HPE servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Datera combine on block-storage appliances and expect to compete against Dell EMC's ScaleIO-based VxRack Flex hyper-converged systems.
- January 03, 2019
03 Jan'19
Detroit Symphony tunes up performance on Scale Computing HC3
The nonprofit Detroit Symphony Orchestra refreshed its data infrastructure with a three-node Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged storage cluster to manage 10 TB of data.
- December 12, 2018
12 Dec'18
Amarillo hyper-converges IT with Dell EMC VxRail appliances
Hyper-convergence cut costs, streamlined operations and set up Amarillo to use the cloud for storage tiers, while shifting resources away from managing infrastructure.
- November 08, 2018
08 Nov'18
Dell EMC VxRail HCI builds on VMware Cloud Foundation
Dell EMC builds on VMware Cloud Foundation and plans to offer a new two-node VxRail entry point, with a flexible VMware vSAN license. Dell EMC also adds VMware integration to VxBlock.
- October 29, 2018
29 Oct'18
NetApp HCI aimed at hybrid clouds
Late to HCI, NetApp tries to play catch up against Dell EMC, VMware and Nutanix by pushing its SolidFire flash-based product into hybrid cloud deployments.
- September 26, 2018
26 Sep'18
X-IO Axellio hitches HCI star to Microsoft, NVMe
X-IO side steps VMware, enters hyper-competitive hyper-converged market with dense NVMe blades packed with Microsoft virtualization and storage software.
- September 26, 2018
26 Sep'18
Hitachi Vantara storage takes turn to NVMe, cloud
Hitachi Vantara updates its products and prepares to lay out a strategy for using its storage for IoT and distributed data management amid the multi-cloud movement.
- September 25, 2018
25 Sep'18
Dell EMC VxRail powers Mercy Ships' floating hospital DCs
Dell EMC hyper-converged appliances float the Mercy Ships IT team's boat. VxRail helps the medical charity consolidate IT technology in its floating hospitals and headquarters.
- September 06, 2018
06 Sep'18
VMworld pushes vSAN HCI to cloud, edge
Private beta for next vSAN version includes built-in snapshots, NFS file services and cloud-native storage, as well as improved cluster management for the HCI software.
- September 04, 2018
04 Sep'18
Pivot3 storage moves toward composable capabilities
CEO Ron Nash said Pivot3 and NexGen Storage are integrated as a single code base. NexGen gives Pivot3 automated QoS and dynamic provisioning for multi-cloud enterprises.
- August 29, 2018
29 Aug'18
VSAN hyper-converged users offer buying, implementing advice
Users provide tips on going from three tiers to tears-free hyper-convergence using VMware vSAN software or other HCI architectures proliferating in the data center and beyond.
- August 27, 2018
27 Aug'18
Dell EMC HCI and storage cloud plans on display at VMworld
Dell EMC promises to synchronize releases of VMware's vSAN on VxRail HCI appliances, although it may take 30 days to do it; fleshes out cloud support for storage, data protection.
- August 23, 2018
23 Aug'18
HiveIO seeks to create buzz in HCI market
HiveIO says artificial intelligence makes its Hive Fabric's Message Bus management unique; now, the HCI startup must prove it's really AI and not just an AI-wash.
- August 21, 2018
21 Aug'18
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX teases 'kinetic' compute and storage
Dell EMC composes its MX composable infrastructure story around SAS storage sleds that slide into in a single 14th generation 7U PowerEdge chassis, with OpenManage software.
- August 08, 2018
08 Aug'18
Western Digital OpenFlex composes storage infrastructure
Western Digital delivers OpenFlex architecture, an ambitious attempt to foster open standards for composable compute, network and storage as an alternative to hyper-convergence.
- July 11, 2018
11 Jul'18
Datrium DVX switches focus to converged markets, enterprise
Datrium approaches HCI in a nontraditional way, but its DVX architecture combines compute and storage while pumping up its data protection capabilities.
- June 21, 2018
21 Jun'18
Cisco hyper-converged HyperFlex adds NVMe-enabled model
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 software adds native DR and cloud-based Intersight Storage Analytics. The all-flash hyper-converged systems integrate Nvidia GPUs and Intel Optane NVMe SSDs.
- June 07, 2018
07 Jun'18
Hitachi UCP update includes NVMe cache, GPU server
Hitachi updates Unified Compute Platform (UCP) portfolio with new NVMe-based Intel Optane caching option and technology from partners VMware and Cisco.
- May 24, 2018
24 May'18
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud launches
Red Hat expands its hyper-converged infrastructure lineup with a cloud offering that combines OpenStack and Ceph. The new option joins Gluster-based HCI for Virtualization.
- May 10, 2018
10 May'18
Nutanix .NEXT 2018: CEO Pandey talks Xi, Cisco, multi-cloud
Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey discusses why Xi Cloud Services are taking so long to deliver, blames Nutanix No. 1 HCI market share loss on 'funky accounting.'
- May 09, 2018
09 May'18
Nutanix Flow, Beam, Era highlight .NEXT 2018 launches
Nutanix uses small acquisitions to fuel further expansion of its core HCI into an enterprise cloud OS with Flow, Era and Beam, which were announced at the Nutanix .NEXT 2018.
- May 02, 2018
02 May'18
'Software-defined' Dell EMC HCI gets hardware boost
Dell EMC VxRail customers discuss their use of the HCI platform inside and outside the data center; platform moves to faster 14th gen PowerEdge servers powered by NVMe flash.
- April 18, 2018
18 Apr'18
VxRack Flex at the center of Medicity's SaaS cloud
Hungry for power, healthcare SaaS provider Medicity installed Dell EMC VxRack Flex rack-scale HCI for private cloud to store petabytes of data for its customer network.
- April 17, 2018
17 Apr'18
VMware pulls vSAN 6.7 deeper into vSphere
By giving the vSAN 6.7 release more of a vSphere look and common management, VMware hopes to lure more of its customers to use its hyper-converged storage software.
- April 12, 2018
12 Apr'18
Emergencies force Safelite to break glass, add NetApp FlexPod
An auto glass supplier chooses FlexPod to consolidate and retire aging storage from several vendors. NetApp AFF supports VMware, and SolidFire arrays support growing claims management.
- April 02, 2018
02 Apr'18
Nutanix HCI, Nakivo backup go straight into Compton schools
The Compton, Calif., school district reduces its data center server and storage footprint with Nutanix hyper-convergence and simplifies data backup with Nakivo software.
- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
Pivot3 vSTAC HCI helps Charleston airport IT fly
The Charleston airport IT team expanded its Pivot3 implementation from video surveillance to its main infrastructure stack after deciding hyper-convergence was the way to go.
- March 14, 2018
14 Mar'18
Pivot3 Acuity X3 eyes big opportunities in smaller spaces
Pivot3 expands its Acuity hyper-converged line with X3 Series. The NVMe flash appliances help smaller departments consolidate mixed application workloads on a common system.
- February 22, 2018
22 Feb'18
Nutanix HCI helps keep NFL's Chicago Bears in the game
The Chicago Bears' Nutanix hyper-converged clusters provide cloud-like access to coaching staples, like playbooks, schedules and scouting reports across the NFL team's facilities.
- February 13, 2018
13 Feb'18
With VxBlock 1000, Dell EMC AMPs up converged platform
Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 lets customers mix and match VMAX, Unity, XtremIO and Isilon arrays in a block with Cisco servers and networking. Will that reverse market share decline?
- February 05, 2018
05 Feb'18
Software-defined storage leaders talk 2018 trends in SDS, HCI
Software-defined storage, fueled by hyper-converged infrastructure and scale-out object/file storage, will grow in 2018, but terminology and product architectures may change.
- November 30, 2017
30 Nov'17
Datrium DVX adds cloud option for Amazon Web Services
Startup Datrium is readying a new Cloud DVX option for Amazon Web Services to provide customers with an off-site option for backup and disaster recovery.
- November 06, 2017
06 Nov'17
Datrium storage system injects flash into the equation
Software-defined Datrium DVX storage is mostly used with standard servers. New Compute Nodes and Data Nodes with end-to-end flash expand on proprietary hardware launched in April.
- October 23, 2017
23 Oct'17
Maxta hyper-converged MxSP helps services firm fuel growth
Maxta MxSP was deemed the most cost efficient hyper-converged product to help services provider Trusource Labs to add call centers amid rapid growth.
- October 11, 2017
11 Oct'17
Comtrade upgrades HYCU Nutanix AHV backup software
Comtrade Software improves the performance of its HYCU backup application that protects virtual machines running on hyper-converged vendor Nutanix's AHV hypervisor.
- October 09, 2017
09 Oct'17
NetApp-SolidFire storage operating systems nudge closer
NetApp's SolidFire skeleton gains some flesh with Ontap 9.3 and Element 10 integration. Notable features include enhanced security and SnapMirror replication between OSes.
- October 04, 2017
04 Oct'17
NetApp HCI launches at subdued user show
NetApp rolls out HCI based on the SolidFire flash array, consisting of two VMware compute nodes and two SolidFire storage nodes, at abbreviated user conference.
- August 29, 2017
29 Aug'17
VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN highlight VMworld 2017 news
At VMworld 2017, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and Lenovo launched new and upgraded hyper-converged and hybrid cloud products based on VMware's vSAN and Cloud Foundation software.
- August 29, 2017
29 Aug'17
Dell EMC VxRail 'billion-dollar business' soon, Sakac says
The growth of Dell EMC VxRail and other hyper-converged appliances is the result of a shift toward software-defined storage, according to the vendor's converged platforms boss.
- August 23, 2017
23 Aug'17
Hyper-converged technologies give higher-ed IT teams a lift
Higher-education IT budgets often pale in comparison to enterprises, so hyper-converged technology can stretch resources while meeting demands.
- July 25, 2017
25 Jul'17
Hyper-converged infrastructure architecture changes IT admin role
IT leaders who have adopted a hyper-converged architecture say it streamlines costs and eliminates silos and finger-pointing, but also brings a fear of the unknown to their staffs.
- July 19, 2017
19 Jul'17
Scale Computing HC3 family grows denser, flashier
Scale Computing adds all-flash HC1150DF and high-end HC5150D hybrid arrays to HC3 family. The hyper-converged specialist adds deduplication in HyperCore upgrade.
- July 18, 2017
18 Jul'17
Datrium DVX to support Red Hat Virtualization, containers
Datrium will expand its DVX system beyond VMware environments to offer storage options for Red Hat Virtualization, KVM on CentOS Linux and Docker containers on bare-metal servers.
- July 03, 2017
03 Jul'17
Nutanix CEO Pandey talks Google, cloud journey, HCI rivals
CEO Dheeraj Pandey on Nutanix HCI: large server vendors were late to hyper-converged, and now the focus has shifted to building hybrid clouds across data centers.
- June 29, 2017
29 Jun'17
Nutanix Xi Cloud Services revealed at Nutanix .NEXT 2017
Xi Cloud Services brings hyper-converged vendor Nutanix into the public cloud game as it seeks to tie on-premises data to the cloud with the help of Calm orchestration software.
- June 22, 2017
22 Jun'17
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure joins the parade
Red Hat launches open source-based hyper-converged product combining Gluster file system, KVM hypervisor, enterprise Linux, Ansible deployment tool and CloudForms management.
- June 05, 2017
05 Jun'17
NetApp HCI system brings vendor belatedly into hyper-convergence
NetApp's HCI incorporates flash hardware and quality of service from SolidFire, which NetApp acquired in 2016. Traditional NetApp software also runs on the HCI appliance.
- May 23, 2017
23 May'17
Consultant firm pins enterprise cloud storage on HCI
TBConsulting picked Nutanix hyper-convergence to tame virtual desktop problems, then quickly expanded its use for enterprise cloud storage in place of its three-tier architecture.
- May 10, 2017
10 May'17
Dell EMC World 2017: XC, VxRail sold in coopetition
Dell EMC sticks with both VxRail and XC hyper-converged appliances, putting them on 14G PowerEdge servers, with cloud-style pricing and $25,000 entry-level models.
- April 25, 2017
25 Apr'17
Pivot3 Acuity combines QoS, NVMe flash from NexGen
Pivot3's new Acuity brings together quality of service and NVMe flash from NexGen Storage, as well as data services from Pivot3 into a hyper-converged infrastructure platform.
- April 19, 2017
19 Apr'17
Promise Technology VSkyCube HCI handles cloud migration
VSkyCube is Promise Technology's hyper-converged infrastructure for midsize businesses and cloud hosting providers. VSkyMotion moves storage between Promise hardware and AWS.