Nominations now OPEN for Products of the Year!

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network |Aug. 21, 2018 FEATURED STORY Nominate your favorite Products of the Year for 2018 SearchStorage Staff It's that time of year again! We're now accepting nominations for Products of the Year. Check out our entry form and tell us your favorite storage products from the past year. Don't hesitate, nominations close September 21! (SearchStorage) Advertisement NEWS   XL-Flash, Xtacking, 4D NAND get flash up to speed NAND flash manufacturers launched new flash technologies -- including XL-Flash, Xtacking and 4D NAND -- to boost performance and bit density and lower costs. (SearchStorage)   IBM racks up array and mainframe with DS8882F IBM DS8882F all-flash array installs in the same 19-inch rack used for IBM Z ZR1 and LinuxOne Rockhopper II mainframe servers for a new take on converged infrastructure. (SearchStorage)   All-flash revenue surge shows growth for NetApp NetApp said its all-flash run rate topped $2 billion last quarter. Highlighting product rollouts for the vendor was the NetApp All Flash FAS A800 NVMe array. (Storage Soup)   Western Digital previews OpenFlex composable storage At the 2018 Flash Memory Summit, Western Digital launched OpenFlex. The open architecture includes NVMe-over-Fabrics-connected storage appliances for flash and disk and an open management API. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure) EXPERT ADVICE   Open source vs. commercial Ceph storage Software-defined storage is having a moment in the storage world, and Ceph is one way to take advantage of it. But is open source or commercial Ceph better suited to your organization? (SearchStorage)   How hyper-converged technology is evolving Organizations can use modern hyper-converged products to run their mission-critical workloads and support highly distributed environments, such as companies with hundreds or thousands of small branch locations. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   Open convergence lets DVX users expand more flexibly Datrium touts its DVX open converged infrastructure system as having the ease of management of CI and HCI, but with greater flexibility in scaling compute and storage resources. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   The benefits of NVMe over Fabrics NVMe-oF capitalizes on NVMe, providing a common architecture that supports a range of storage network fabrics and scales out to multiple devices over greater distances. (SearchStorage) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.