It’s been a big week here at NexGen. Our channel program received a significant award and ESG released a report validating the storage QoS features of our storage system. We also had some great interactions with European bloggers and press at a Silicon Valley event.
Here’s a quick summary of the week:
On Monday, we announced that NexGen was recognized as a 5-Star Partner...
A lot of us at NexGen spent years selling shared storage solutions for heterogeneous application environments in past lives. Every single customer always had the same questions.
How many applications can I run on your SAN?
AND
If I add more applications do I have enough performance and what will happen to my existing applications?
We never had good answers. This is exactly why John and Kelly founded NexGen Storage. The NexGen n5 Storage System was...
The recent post ("Are SSD array's a bad idea") at Storage Mojo resulted in a great discussion/debate, so I thought I'd throw NexGen's hat into the ring.
At the end of the day, solid state is a component not a solution. As such, I think everyone has good, valid points because solid state will find its way into a...
If you pop the hood on most SAN and NAS controllers there are one or two disk/RAID controllers. Each controller is connected to an x86 motherboard via the PCIe slot. Even if you have 1000s of disks behind the PCI-e connected controller, all I/O must pass through it. The maximum performance to the backend disks is limited to whatever the PCI-e slot can push. On the other hand, one PCI-e based flash card can saturate an x8, and in some cases an x16 PCIe slot’s bandwidth. What does that...
I’m proud to announce that we’ve been named a Virtualization Product of the Year finalist for the Green IT Awards. It’s a great honor to be acknowledged for something that we care so much about, as well as being recognized alongside other finalists like HP, Dell, IBM, Rackspace and Cisco. And of course, as an environmentally conscience, working, socially conscience, second generation hippie, I couldn’t be happier...