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2VMware Taking a Cue From Apple?
3SolidFire and the Drone
SolidFire offers a primary storage system designed specifically for cloud service providers using an all-solid-state, scale-out architecture. It has patented IT for reduced power, cooling and capacity consumption; the system can scale performance to thousands of servers from a single storage system. The company was giving away a radio-controlled drone helicopter at the show.
4SuperMicro Gets an EVO:Rail Job
The San Jose, Calif.-based computer maker that provides end-to-end green computing solutions for HPC, data center, cloud computing, enterprise, Hadoop/big data and embedded systems worldwide was named one of six VMware partners to provide the servers for the new EVO:RAIL hyperconverged systems. See eWEEK’s conference coverage for more details.
5Druva’s Data Monster
End-user data backup and security provider Druva is always showing people how to fight the so-called “data monster”—the ever-increasing piles of incoming data that enterprises are engulfing due to BYOD, in-house computing, siloed data, customers and many other sources. Here the Monster takes a break from the data center to confront an eWEEK journalist making the rounds at the conference.
6Barracuda Now in the Cloud
7Nexenta: Ahead of the IT Curve
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company made its mark by being far ahead of the curve on software-defined storage; in fact, the company pioneered it about 10 years ago. The hardware-agnostic, play-with-all-hypervisors systems can fit like a glove into basically any IT system and scale out storage like few other providers can.
8Data Corey Introduces Himself
DataCore, a smaller but highly regarded company based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is another Switzerland-like software-defined storage provider with a loyal customer base; it works on any hardware, with any hypervisor and with any type of array. Its mascot, Data Corey, who has his own Facebook page, Twitter account and LinkedIn page, is of undetermined origin.
9VMware Shows Its Video Side
10SimpliVity Gives Away a McLaren
San Francisco’s local McLaren agency and scale-out storage provider SimpliVity gave away a 2014 McLaren MP4-12C at the show. One lucky person out of the 25,000 on site was to be awarded the car through a drawing. Side note: About 70 percent of the companies at the show made products that are storage-related.
11HGST Shows Liquid-Tight Hard Drive
12Yoda Visits VMTurbo
VMTurbo is an award-winning Intelligent Workload Management solution for cloud and virtualized environments. It uses an economic scheduling engine to dynamically adjust resource allocation to meet business goals. It was an award-winner at VMworld 2014.