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Storage and Storage Software

Toshiba Buys OCZ SSD Business

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Toshiba Buys OCZ SSD Business

Following declaration of bankrupcy OCZ Technology finds a buyer-- Toshiba acquires all assets relating to the Japanese NAND flash maker's consumer and enterprise SSD business for all of $35 million.

The sale covers OCZ proprietary controllers, firmware and software, as well as the teams working on such solutions, sales channels and the OCZ brand.

"We value OCZ's SSD business and technology in both the consumer and enterprise markets, and we are confident that it will reinforce our capabilities and help us to secure leadership in the SSD market," Toshiba states.

The company adds “OCZ will continue to operate and serve existing and future customers during this process,” but fails to clarify whether it will continue supporting existing customers or honour waranties after the sale closes.

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Hybrid Storage Arrays and the Importance of Software

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Hybrid Storage Arrays and the Importance of Software

Guest Editorial by Ken Clipperton, Senior Analyst at DCIG

The growing importance of software in storage systems was certainly on display at VMworld 2013. I'm not talking about virtualization and the software defined data center; though virtualization is a critical driver of this trend. I am talking about impact of software on the design of storage systems and how that software delivers capabilities of value to businesses.

As I have noted elsewhere, traditional storage architectures have trouble delivering the performance businesses expect. Storage has always been the bottleneck in overall system performance, and advances in processor, memory and networking technology--especially when coupled with virtualization--have made that bottleneck painfully obvious. Now smart software engineers at well-known storage companies as well as startups are delivering storage systems that actually leverage these hardware advances to bring storage performance in line with current requirements.

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Veeam Gets Microsoft, VMware Support

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Veeam Gets Microsoft, VMware Support

A v7.0 RT update adds vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V support to Veeam Backup & Replication, making the software the first to support the latest versions of both platforms.

VMware support includes vSphere 5.5 (including support for 62TB virtual disks) and vCloud Director 5.5. Microsoft support includes Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and free Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (including Generation 2 virtual machines), Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1 (as guest VMs), and System Centre 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

Users can install Veeam Backup & Replication and related components on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.

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EMC Makes XtremIO Flash Available

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EMC Makes XtremIO Flash Available

EMC officially launches the fruits of the May 2012 XtremIO acquisition-- the XtremIO all-flash storage array, one the company claims "redefin[es] what's possible with all-flash array storage."

The XtremIO is based on modules EMC calls "X-Bricks." Available in 10TB capacities (20TB to follow in 2014), X-Bricks carry 256GB of RAM, and customers can cluster up to 4 together, with in-line deduplication allowing the configuration of around 250TB of effective capacity within a single cluster and performance reaching 1 million IOs per second.

Clusters scale from 2 to 8 controllers and up to 128 cores, allowing for the handling of OLTP databases, virtual servers and VDI workloads with active data services.

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Second Gen 19nm NAND Flash from Toshiba

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Second Gen 19nm NAND Flash from Toshiba

Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) launches an e-MMC compliant flash memory module range, using NAND chips fabricated via second generation 19nm technology.

The modules are designed for a wide variety of applications, including smartphones, tablets and video cameras. All are compliant with JEDEC e-MMC version 5.0, achieve high read/write performance via HS400 interface standard and carry 64-Gigabit (equivalent to 8GB) 19mm NAND flash.

The package measures all of 11.5 x 13 x 1.0mm.

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