NetEx shows performance data for HyperIP

NetEx just released a report that provides details about the performance enhancements their HyperIP software provides when migrating VMware machines using vMotion over WAN links (spoiler: up to 10x). The report also provides more technical details about HyperIP. [...]

EMC and VMware expanding their cooperation

EMC and VMware have expanded their business and technology alliance; EMC is now a fully authorized reseller of VMware vCenter AppSpeed. AppSpeed will be offered as part of EMC’s Ionix portfolio, expanding the management capabilities for their customers physical and virtual infrastructures. [...]

Iomega offers SMB NAS appliance with VMware certification

EMC daughter Iomega has just released a new NAS appliance that has support for both NAS and SAN technologies; it allows a multitude of connection options including iSCSI, SMB, NFS and AFP.

Iomega StorCenter IX4

Iomega StorCenter IX4-200d

It offers the traditional “SMB/Home office” features such as a printserver, mediaserver, Time Machine backups etc; but in addition to that it also has more advanced features like block-level replication to a second offsite unit, and it is VMware certified for use with both NFS and iSCSI. Continue reading Iomega offers SMB NAS appliance with VMware certification

Lots of virtualization-related news

With VMworld starting next week, there’s lots of virtualization-related storage news. Here’s a quick summary of the main items for today: Continue reading Lots of virtualization-related news

Isilon get VMware Ready status

Isilon Systems has just received the VMware Ready status for their IQ products, meaning that their NAS products have been tested to work VMware’s products and vSphere management tools. [...]