ONOS Releases Falcon Software for Service Provider SDN and NFV

The ONOS community announced its latest open source SDN Network Operating System release - Falcon, featuring additional support for Central Office Re-Architected as a Data Center (CORD), many new applications and more support for southbound protocols. This marks the 6th software release since the ONOS project became public in December 2014. Some highlights of Falcon: ONOS is now a part of the OPNFV distribution called Brahmaputra, thanks to the...

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Pure Storage Scales All-Flash to Multi-Petabytes at <$1/GB

Pure Storage introduced an all-flash storage platform designed to scale to multi-petabyte data sets at economics of less than $1/GB usable. The company said its new FlashBlade architecture makes all-flash storage affordable for even the largest file and object environments, opening up the performance gains of flash to a wide range of applications. Pure's new FlashBlade architecture combines commodity hardware components with custom software and...

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Video: Infinite Storage Bandwidth

We're facing a really big problem in shared storage because CPU bandwidth is not keeping up with network bandwidth or SSD bandwidth, says Fritz Kruger, Engineering Fellow and Chief Hardware Architectu for SanDisk System and Software Solutions. This video looks at the widening performance gap between network, storage and DRAM bandwidth. YouTube: https://youtu.be/JHcIVhq199Q ...

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HPE Intros Hyperconverged Appliance

Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduced an all-in-one compute, software-defined storage and intelligent virtualization appliance for mid-sized companies and remote office branch offices. HPE's new Hyper Converged 380 (HC 380), which is optimized for rapid VM rollout, is built on HPE StoreVirtual VSA. Built in analytics and tools enables IT to reduce VM sprawl and over-provisioning of VMs by 90 percent. "Hyper-convergence presents a huge opportunity...

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