The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Western Digital today introduced a new version of its My Book Studio desktop drive for Mac OS X systems that offers USB 3.0 connectivity and as much as 4TB of storage capacity in a single drive. Drives with USB 3.0,also known as ...
Tags: Western Digital, My Book Studio desktop, Mac OS X systems
Computerworld-SugarSync today released the public beta of a complete revamp of its cloud storage and content-sharing service that replaces its file directory-style look with a GUI-style menu along with drag and drop file transfer features. ...
Tags: Sugarsync, Sharing Service, search functionality, cloud storage
DataDirect Networks(DDN)has announced a clustered NAS storage platform,the SFA7700 hybrid flash storage appliance. The SFA7700 uses DDN's SFA OS operating system in a dual-controller storage platform.The base system supports up to 60 ...
For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
Tags: Cray, supercomputer, I/O, Cray's XC30, XC architecture
Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
Tags: Teradata, SQL, data warehouse, MapReduce, Hadoop, Aster
Dutch cloud provider McCloud has chosen Amplidata object storage to support its remote backup services,over clustered NAS products from HP and NetApp. McCloud–which spoke to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe in Frankfurt this ...
Tags: Cloud backup, Amplidata object, remote backup services, NAS
Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, storage software, Nexenta, cloud computing platform
Network World-The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week,but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small ...
Tags: Linux, bug, filesystem, 'lance Armstrong'
As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use. This week, Cloudera and MapR both ...
Tags: Hadoop software, enterprise software, data processing platform
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
Tags: NAS capability, CERN, Clustering, file system
LAS VEGAS--SAS Institute this week unveiled tools it says makes it easier for its enterprise customers to use the company's business analytics software to analyze data stored in Hadoop environments. At its Premier Business Leadership ...
Tags: LAS VEGAS, SAS, Hadoop Distributed File System, dataflux
CIOs will look to new manufacturers for their work mobiles over the next five years, leaving behind the traditional default of Research in Motion (RIM), according to a new study published by Virgin Media Business today. The study showed ...
Tags: CIOs, BlackBerry, new manufacturers, Research in Motion
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is not suitable for enterprise use due to its serious security failings,according to security specialist Context Information Security. Research conducted by Context Information Security examined the three most ...
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
Tags: Hitachi, HDS, entry-level, storage subsystem