Storage + Servers

Maximising the value of flash storage

The latest release of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor adds support for EMC XtremIO and Pure Storage all-flash arrays, helping IT improve performance, capacity planning and overall ROI.

Hawai‘i Medical Service Association improves performance by more than 40%

Independent health insurer, Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA), has selected the InfiniBox™ enterprise proven storage array to improve its customer experience by better managing the sheer volume growth of its data, consolidating its storage infrastructure, and boosting application response times. Since installing InfiniBox in both its Kapolei and Honolulu data centres, HMSA has improved its overall storage performance by more than 40 percent.

We Are Cloud selects Tintri for simplified management of hosted cloud services

We Are Cloud (WAC) is using Tintri’s VMstore to simplify management of its virtualised workloads. Since deployment, WAC has eliminated the need to hire or retrain specialised storage admins and has clearer visibility into its servers, network and storage.

Cost remains a barrier to Flash adoption in EMEA

Growth in demand for SSD storage drives Hammer and Samsung partnership

Hammer has signed an EMEA-wide agreement to include Samsung Semiconductors’ range of SSD and DRAM products.

Western Digital introduces FlashSoft 4 software

Western Digital has introduced two virtualization solutions designed to significantly improve virtual machine performance and density in VMware® vSphere® environments. These include the availability of the new FlashSoft® 4 software for VMware vSphere 6, and the introduction of the Flash Virtualization® System, a new flash-based hardware and software solution. FlashSoft 4 leverages a Western Digital and VMware VAIO co-design partnership for vSphere 6.