Organizations are seeking ways to reduce their storage costs while also improving performance, reliability and manageability. Atlantis Computing believes that its USX addresses these requirements for virtual applications.
Solid state storage devices are all the rage. Storage suppliers have applied SSD technology to caches, storage volumes and even complete storage systems. BiTMICRO is bringing its SSD technology to the commercial market to address the needs of content delivery and big data analytics.
Fusion-io offers an array of flash-based storage devices and storage virtualization software. The company's Atomic series of ioMemory devices focuses on application acceleration.
Kaminario releases its newest generation of K2 storage servers. This generation addresses the need to take high-performance flash storage to a new level of scalability, reliability, performance, and cost effectiveness.
DataCore has released SANsymphony 10 to further expand what its virtual SAN software can do. Call it what you want: storage virtualization, software-defined storage -- or simply fast, reliable and easy.
Sanbolic believes companies want storage, not storage hardware. Is this the end of the storage business as we know it?
Distributed computing environments are increasingly complex mixtures of services hosted on physical, virtual and hybrid elements. Continuity Software, long focused on service availability, has reached out to manage the availability of SAN-based storage.
If you can't get people interested in your dance, maybe it is time to try to co-opt music from someone else's dance. PernixData is trying to co-opt "storage hypervisor" for it storage virtualization product even though what it does has nothing whatsoever to do with hypervisors. Don't we already have enough confusion in the market?
Virtualized environments can put a strain on the storage system because they use storage differently than physical systems. This generation of Kaminario K2 represents the newest effort to address these changing requirements.
Nexenta says that virtual desktops executing on a server use storage differently than do server workloads. The company has developed a virtual storage appliance designed to address that issue and offer higher performance than traditional server-oriented storage virtualization solutions.