INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
At a glance…
Pure Storage releases
FlashBlade and
FlashArray//m10
with UCS, network with ACI and SDN solutions,
to now HyperFlex for storage.
Earlier this year, Cisco announced its intent
to acquire CliQr Technologies Inc. The CliQr
CloudCenter platform will provide customers
with comprehensive yet simplified, application-
centric orchestration for private, hybrid and
public clouds. CliQr provides customers with a
single, intuitive platform that helps customers
manage the entire application lifecycle across
hybrid IT environments, whether simple or
complex. The CliQr platform ties business
applications to heterogeneous data centre
infrastructure, running across bare-metal,
containers and virtualised environments.
These announcements are the first of many
hardware and software innovations Cisco plans
to bring to market in 2016. The goal is to help
customers achieve highly secure, simplified,
scalable and cost-effective data centres that keep
pace with the speed of business, and accelerate
adoption of hybrid cloud environments.
Cisco HyperfFlex Systems
Based on Cisco’s UCS technology, Cisco
HyperfFlex Systems represent the next
generation in hyper-converged infrastructure
with a leap in technology that delivers
the industry’s first complete end-to-end
hyper-converged solution. The HyperFlex
portfolio extends Cisco’s UCS and converged
infrastructure businesses, which together have
over 50,000 customers worldwide.
The HyperFlex series makes an ideal platform
for customers deploying enterprise applications
in their data centres, and for remote and
branch offices where hyper-converged
infrastructure is expected to become a multi-
billion industry over the next three to four years.
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Pure Storage has announced the regional release of FlashBlade, an
all-flash storage platform designed to store data and FlashArray//
m10, a new entry-level model of its flagship purpose-built all-flash
storage array. Together, Pure Storage FlashBlade and the Pure
Storage FlashArray form a complete platform for organisations to
build their all-flash cloud.
FlashBlade is built on an innovative elastic scale-out architecture,
which combines commodity hardware components with
unique software and ultra-dense packaging to achieve extreme
performance, scale, density and efficiency, at a cost of less than
$1 per usable GB. “The value that can be gained from efficiently
storing and analysing unstructured data has a transformative
effect on business,” said John Hayes, Co-founder and Chief
Architect, Pure Storage. “FlashBlade unlocks new capabilities
and use cases that are simply not possible with today’s existing
solutions by delivering real-time analytics at massive scale and
blazing speeds to enable the future of innovation.”
FlashArray//m10 is a storage solution for mid-sized IT, as well as
an affordable entry point to flash for larger enterprises looking to
flash-enable a first key business application. It offers small-to-medium
(SME) size enterprises the same simple, reliable and performant
storage previously available only to large enterprises. FlashArray//m10
provides SMEs the ability to accelerate business-critical applications,
virtualise everything and implement an internal all-flash cloud.
“This addition to the FlashArray family allows us to provide an
entry-level, cost-effective option for companies that want to try
purpose-built all-flash for the first time, and accelerate their journey
to an all-flash datacenter,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Products,
Pure Storage. “Cost as a barrier to all-flash adoption is a relic of the
past. Companies of all sizes can now experience the simplicity, high-
performance and reliability that comes with all-flash from Pure.”
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