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News

• 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.'