Reinventing distributed data storage?

After three years of stealth development, Hedvig has emerged with the announcement of $12.5 million in venture funding and a mature software-defined storage platform that fundamentally changes the economics of enterprise data storage and management. With the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform, cloud and data center professionals can consolidate storage of any type or location into a virtualized pool that drops the provisioning time and costs to small fractions of what it would take with...

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Wirehive achieves optimal security, scalability, flexibility, resilience, and performance management 

Nexenta has been chosen by Wirehive, a UK based digital hosting company, to meet its demand for a storage solution to support its public cloud offering. Wirehive required a solution that could perform at the highest level, while remaining cost effective and covering peak demands for critical customer requirements.

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IBM Cloud introduces storage options for SoftLayer Cloud Servers

IBM haslaunched Block Storage and File Storage for bare metal and virtual servers from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, with new Endurance and Performance classes of both solutions. The new storage offerings give SoftLayer users even more choice, flexibility, and control over their storage type, speed, and durability, letting them further optimize their cloud infrastructure’s performance and cost.

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Red Hat unveils unified open software-defined storage portfolio

  Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage together give enterprises a comprehensive offering for emerging data storage workloads.

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Success for helium-filled HDDs

With more than one million helium-filled hard disk drives (HDDs) deployed, HGST has achieved a new milestone in reliability as the only manufacturer with drives field-proven and rated for two and a half (2.5) million hours mean time between failure (MTBF). Today’s news demonstrates that HGST’s helium HDDs are poised to become the mainstream choice for data center applications where storage density, reliability and power efficiency are paramount. Now shipping its second generation...

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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