PCIe flash module maker Fusion-io today unveiled software than can combine NAND flash storage capacity in industry-standard servers into a single pool of high-performance network storage. The company's new Fusion ION acceleration software ...
Tags: PCIe flash module, software, flash storage capacity, servers
AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
Tags: AMD, NAND flash storage, IT Operations, HDD
Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
Tags: SSD, Prices Plunge, solid state drive, hard drive
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
Tags: storage vendors, EMC, HP, NetApp, server, software, networking
Dell and VMware announced a partnership this week through which the two companies will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Dell's new vStart for VDI is ...
Tags: Dell, VMware, VDI, server, network, storage components
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, has launched a powerful new, high quality server to further bolster the Fasthosts Dedicated Server range. The new Fasthosts DS1200 server boasts Solid State Drives (SSD) and 2 x 2TB of ...
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Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny ...
Start-up Nimble Storage announced new, scalable flash storage arrays with a range of performance and storage shelves. The new products are designed to offer easy-to-deploy storage clustering and are being marketed for use in ...
Tags: Nimble Storage, flash storage arrays, storage shelves, SSD
Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Rather ...
Tags: Amazon.com, EC2, SSDs, instagram's speed
eAegis Inc, announces its incomparable price offer for the entry level powerful 8-bay NAS server, QNAP TS-869 Pro with 28TB of storage. It has the capability to house up to eight 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA NAS hard disk drives and is capable ...
Tags: eAegis, NAS server, hard disk drive, hardware
Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny ...
Tags: MIT, new magnetism, communications, computing, data storage technologies
Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). Nvelo is privately held and based in Santa Clara, California, and the terms of the deal were not ...
Tags: Samsung, SSD Caching Vendor Nvelo
HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over a decade. On the eve of the HP Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt, the company gathered international press to reveal ...
Tags: architecture, converged, data, Frankfurt, highlightedpost, HP, hp discover
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
Tags: big data, converged it, Hitachi, IT, social innovation
Cisco and Fusion-io have announced a partnership to incorporate Fusion-io’s flash technology into Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The deal will make Fusion-io an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner of the ...
Tags: Cisco, flash technology, UCS blade servers