VMworld pushes vSAN HCI to the edge

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network |Sept. 11, 2018 FEATURED STORY VSAN beta adds file, cloud storage to its HCI Dave Raffo, Editorial Director VMware sees vSAN HCI software as a building block to move its virtualization from the data center out to the cloud and edge; beta release addresses cloud-native storage and data protection. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure) Advertisement NEWS   Pivot3 CEO: We're close to providing composable storage After starting out with a focus on media and surveillance, Pivot3 storage technology has turned to hyper-convergence. The vendor has now broadened to hybrid cloud and is targeting composable infrastructure. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   Panasas roadmap includes route to software-defined storage The Panasas ActiveStor storage platform has customers in academia, energy, government, life sciences and manufacturing. CEO Faye Pairman said NAS product innovations will involve disaggregated compute and hybrid storage. (SearchStorage)   Samsung launches Z-NAND SSD with new data center lineup The new Samsung data center SSD product line includes a new model using its latency-lowering Z-NAND technology; other options designed for channel sales include NVMe PCIe SSDs and SATA SSDs. (SearchStorage)   Nominate your favorite Storage Products of the Year for 2018 Don't forget to send us your nominations for Products of the Year. Check out our entry form and tell us your favorite storage products from the past year. (SearchStorage) EXPERT ADVICE   Why you need storage LUNs A LUN describes the location on hard disks of a specific volume of addressable block storage. LUNs also enable a host to distinguish among separate physical disks within a SAN or storage subsystem. (SearchStorage)   How best to deploy a multi-cloud environment A multi-cloud environment isn't right for every business. But for those that need service reliability, data privacy and flexibility in the cloud services they use and cost-effective services, a multi-cloud approach might be the answer. (SearchStorage)   Is it time to upgrade your Fibre Channel network? A Gen 6 Fibre Channel network doubles throughput compared with Gen 5. See how this performance benefit can meet the needs of new and evolving technologies and growing workloads. (SearchStorage)   Contrasting CI and HCI with composable infrastructure Composable architecture is the newest member of the convergence family behind its older siblings, converged infrastructure and hyper-converged infrastructure. Learn the differences and similarities among the three approaches. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure) 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.