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Qumulo Q0626 Pricing

Qumulo, a new enterprise data storage company, came out of stealth today to introduce the world’s first data-aware scale-out network-attached storage (NAS). Qumulo Core™ was designed by the inventors of scale-out NAS to help enterprises intelligently manage and store billions and trillions of files. Qumulo Core is generally available today and in production by leading customers in commercial high performance computing industries.
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The Qumulo Q0626 hybrid storage appliance is a 1U node that provides 24TB of raw HDD capacity and 1.6TB of raw SSD capacity. Qumulo’s data-aware scale-out NAS can be scaled from four to over 1000 nodes in a single cluster and single namespace.
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Qumulo Core software and Qumulo Q0626 hybrid storage appliances are available immediately and are the first products in Qumulo’s data-aware scale-out NAS portfolio. Entry pricing for a four node 100TB raw capacity Qumulo Q0626 hybrid storage cluster begins at $50,000. For pricing and more information, email info@qumulo.com.

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Dell SC4020 Pricing

Dell SC4020 Pricing

To compete with big business, you need efficient, real-time data access to quickly turn customer interactions into transactions and information into insights. The Dell Storage SC4020 puts the high IOPs and low latency your applications demand within reach.

A six drive configuration lists for around $25,000. SC4020 configuration is unique for a few reasons, primarily though it’s the lowest-priced all flash configuration from a top-tier enterprise storage vendor. Granted, it’s not a high-capacity offering, though out of the gate it only uses six of the available 24 bays. The goal in this case is simple. Besides playing well in ROBO with existing Compellent storage at the enterprise, this SC4020 has the promise of offering some of the highest performance per dollar, which is an increasingly valuable metric. For those with low capacity needs, this configuration works well to satisfy latency-sensitive applications with a mature stack and robust support infrastructure. Of course the SC4020 can scale to higher capacity demands too, giving this $25k configuration plenty of headroom as requirements scale

Product Configurations

Internal Storage
24 x 2.5” drive bays

Supported expansion enclosures
Dell SC200: 12 x 3.5” drive bays
Dell SC220: 24 x 2.5” drive bays

Maximum drive count
120 (24 internal, plus 96 external)

Total storage capacity
408TB based on maximum number of drives (120) and current largest capacity supported drives

Supported drive types
HDD: 15K, 10K, 7.2K RPM; SDD: write-intensive SLC, read-intensive MLC (different drive types, transfer rates and rotational speeds can be mixed in the same system

Controllers
2 controllers per SC4020 array

Processor
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1265L v2, 2.50GHz, 4 cores

Memory
32GB per SC4020 array (16GB per controller)

Network/server connectivity (front-end)
8 x 8Gb FC ports per SC4020 array (4 per controller)

Internal drive connectivity (back-end)
4 x 6Gb SAS ports per SC4020 array (2 per controller)

NAS deployment connectivity (optional)
Supports file-based storage via FS8600 NAS appliance

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PIvot3 vSTAC pricing

This article was an announcement by Olivier Thierry, chief marketing officer at Pivot3

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VMware-focused virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance provider Pivot3 has announced both the vSTAC R2S P Cubed appliance, a fully pre-configured and ready-to-deploy environment for VMware Horizon Suite, and the new vSTAC R2S appliance line, an upgraded version of its existing R2 family.

Pivot3 sells 100% through the channel, so both these products are core channel products, but the vSTAC R2S P Cubed appliance seems especially likely to turn some partner heads.

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The Pivot3 vSTAC R2S P Cubed ready-to-deploy Horizon Suite environment includes pre-configured trial licenses of all essential VMware Horizon Suite software – not just View.

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The vSTAC R2S P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance’s pre-configured components include: a P3 Scale-Out Virtual SAN (vSTAC OS) with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Express, VMware vCenter, and VMware vSphere; VMware Horizon Workspace 1.0; VMware Horizon View 5.2, and VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0.

The vSTAC R2S P Cubed also leverages the new vSTAC R2S appliance, which is also being announced. The vSTAC R2S is compatible with the existing R2 family, and incorporates new processor upgrades (2 x dual 8 core Ivy Bridge E5-2650 v2 processors) that deliver 24% more desktops per appliance while reducing corresponding per desktop infrastructure costs by up to 14%.

“The R2S is the next turn of the crank for us in terms of density,” Thierry said. “The effective price is also lower. “While the list price is higher than the R2 ($31,999, up from $29,999), the R2S supports more desktops. While the R2 range was 95 to 125, the R2S range is 117 to 154, so it’s cheaper per desktop.”

Both Pivot3’s vSTAC R2S appliance and vSTAC R2S P Cubed appliance will be available for order in October 2013. List pricing for the vSTAC R2S starts at $USD 31,999. List pricing for the vSTAC R2S P Cubed starts at $USD 34,999.

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Nutanix vs. Tintri cost comparison

Nutanix vs. Tintri (pricing only comparison)

This is a brief excerpt from the original article at ZDNet.

“The race, therefore, is on to virtualise storage to make it a better fit for the software-defined datacentre as well as more affordable and easier to manage. All the big names are busy doing something — including virtualisation leader VMware, which recently released its own Virtual SAN technology (VSAN) built into the kernel of its ESX hypervisor. But there are other solutions, and for this feature we opted to examine two quite different approaches to the problem: one from Nutanix, the other from Tintri.”

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Nutanix Comparision Cost vs. Tintri

Nutanix NX

Nutanix Price
From $74,250 (£43,963) for a 3-node appliance

Tintri VMStore

Tintri Price
From $74,000 (£44,246) for the VMstore T620

For a great article highlighting both solutions, check out Nutanix vs. Tintri at ZDNet.

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Coho Data Datastream 1000 – 39TB Raw MSRP

Excerpt from the original article at Tom’s IT Pro

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The most recent newcomer to the hybrid storage landscape, Coho Data, emerged from stealth-mode in October of 2013, introducing its first and only hybrid product, the DataStream 1000. Currently, the DataStream 1000 is a VMware-only supported hybrid storage device, however the company’s focus on fast scalability and rapid deployment could prove to be an advantage as the product and its maker mature.

Coho Data DataStream 1000 MSRP for 39TB Raw

Estimated Cost: $130,000 USRP (this includes: 2 x Coho DataStream MicroArrays in a 2RU Chassis + 1 x 52 port OpenFlow-enabled 10GbE DataStream Storage Switch)

Standard Support & Warranty: 1, 2 or 3 yr 24×7 Phone Support with Premium (Next Business Day Parts Replacement) or Premium Plus (4 hr onsite parts replacement)

Available Storage Interfaces/Protocols: VMware NFS

Total Max Raw HDD Capacity: 39TB

Total Max Operational HDD Capacity: 17TB

Total Max Raw Flash Capacity: 3.2TB

Total Max Operational Flash Capacity: 3.2TB PCIe flash

Maximum IOPS: 180K IOPS (random 80/20 r/w, 4K block size)
Max Read Bandwidth: 3 GB/s
Max Write Bandwidth: 2 GB/s
Hard Drive Type: 12 x HGST 3TB SATA 7200 rpm HDDs
Solid State Drive Type: 4 x 800 GB Intel 910 PCIe SSDs
Power Requirement: Input voltage: 100 – 240V, Input frequency: 50-60 Hz, Amp: 8.6 4.3 A, Typical Thermal Rating: 3468 BTU/hour

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VMWare EVO:RAIL pricing is speculation at this point

VMWare has been quite elusive in its response to the hyper-converged platforms like Nutanix, SimpliVity and Scale Computing. Behind the scenes, though, there seems to be an emerging “appliance” that may be showing up soon.

VMWare EVO RAIL pricing

Since VMWare does not want to be in the hardware business it is most likely turning to its parent, EMC for the physical device to power the new hyper-converged platform. Code names “Project Marvin”, “Project Mystic” and “Project Starburst” all seem to point to the same system…only time will tell.

While the cost of the VMWare evo rail platform is a bit mysterious, it seems to be based on per virtual machine, per hour charging. For instance,

This excerpt from Enterprise Tech spells it out:

VMware is not providing specific pricing for the EVO:RAIL setup at the moment, and part of the reason is that it will not be generally available until later this year. (Precisely when is not clear, all VMware says is the second half of 2014, which we have been in for nearly two months already.)

“It will be priced competitively to the players that are in the space today, and we think we will be priced just right to compete in the hyperconverged market,” Van Der Walt says, adding that including hardware, software, and support over a 36-month term, the numbers will work out to under 10 cents per hour per virtual machine.

VMware is not setting the pricing on the EVO:RAIL appliances, so it has to be a bit cagey about it. But if you work the math backwards on that, at 10 cents per hour, a 16-node appliance with 400 generic cloud virtual machines would cost just over $1 million. Presumably Van Der Walt did not mean the VDI images, which would push the price up to $2.6 million for the same setup. Even that would be too high for VMware. But that said, it is hard to figure how this even gets to $1 million. The vSphere Enterprise hypervisor bundle costs $2,875 per socket and vSphere Enterprise Plus costs $3,495 per socket. Virtual SAN costs $3,595 per socket. Take the worst case pricing here and you are talking about $7,090 per socket. The 16-node cluster running just these two pieces of software has a license and support cost that is close to $400,000 over three years. The rest is presumably made up in hardware, hardware support, and the EVO:RAIL engine and other VMware components to reach that $1 million figure. There is probably some margin in there for the hardware appliance partners, too.

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DataGravity Pricing

datagravity_boxNASHUA, N.H., August 19, 2014 – DataGravity today announced the launch of the DataGravity Discovery Series, the first ever data-aware storage platform that tracks data access and analyzes data as it is stored to provide greater visibility, insight and value from a company’s information assets. The DataGravity Discovery Series delivers storage, protection, data governance, search and discovery powered by an enterprise-grade hardware platform and patent-pending software architecture, enabling midmarket companies to glean new insights and make better business decisions.

As more than 80 percent of the data being produced today is unstructured, companies are struggling to maintain, much less benefit from, their rapidly growing stores of human-generated data. Companies are paying a premium for storage infrastructure, layered management applications and siloed processes that only introduce greater complexities without offering real-time insights. DataGravity is addressing this challenge with the Discovery Series, a unified storage platform that offers insights at the same richness of intelligence, regardless of whether the data is block or file. It supports NFS, CIFS/SMB and iSCSI LUNs, with the additional capability to manage virtual machines natively.

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The DataGravity solution delivers these all-inclusive features at a price competitive with other primary storage solutions, with an MSRP between $50,000 and $100,000. The DataGravity Discovery series will initially be offered in two models, the DG2200 and DG2400, with 48TB and 96TB capacity levels respectively. The Discovery Series will be exclusively sold through the DataGravity Partner Network of resellers.

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Nutanix Pricing for the Virtual Compute Platform NX1000 and NX6000

….Nutanix cost for new models….

Like the NX-3000, the NX-1000 starts with four nodes in a 2U system. NX-6000 systems start with two nodes.

The NX-1050 includes 12 CPU cores, 4 TB of hard drive capacity and 400 GB of solid-state storage per node, with up to four nodes in a 2U rack. That makes for 48 cores, 16 TB of hard drives and 1.6 TB of flash in a four-node system, compared to 64 cores, 15 TB of hard drive storage and 3.2 TB of solid-state drives in the largest of Nutanix’s flagship NX-3000 model.

Pricing for a four-node NX-1050 is $90,000 versus $144,000 for an NX-3000.

A 2U NX-6000 includes 32 cores, 32 TB of hard drive capacity and either 1.6 TB (NX-6050) or 3.2 TB (NX-6070) of flash. The NX-6050 costs $120,000 for two nodes, while the NX-6070 is priced at $180,000 for two nodes.

We’re still waiting Maxta pricing, or any indication of Maxta cost….anyone got it?

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