Flash storage vendor Violin Memory has acquired Gridiron Systems for an undisclosed sum and plans to use the company's application acceleration smarts with its flash arrays. Gridiron's operations units have already been integrated into ...
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With all the computer-generated (CG) imagery that DreamWorks Imagination Studios produces, you'd think their data center infrastructure would be cloud-enabled, virtualized and fat with solid-state storage. You'd be mostly wrong. About 15% ...
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NetApp today unveiled upgraded FAS3220 and FAS3250 Fabric-Attached Storage arrays, improving their performance by up to 80% and more than doubling the storage capacity. The upgraded midrange FAS storage systems run v8.1.2 of NetApp's ...
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Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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Former McCusker & Company President Rob Howe named Chief Executive Officer at IceWEB. McCusker & Company, a leading worldwide provider of extended warranty services for the consumer electronics industry, is creating a key partnership with ...
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VMware has got eyes for storage.For a couple of years now the server virtualisation giant has incorporated useful features into its hypervisor to help manage shared storage. But now VMware wants more,and it is setting out a vision to ...
Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) version, announced on Monday and available immediately starting at US$350,000, is designed to ...
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It's arguable that two key things have driven developments in storage this year; server/desktop virtualisation and the relentless expansion of data. The first of these has led to real changes, namely the growth of flash in the datacentre. ...
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X-IO is set to launch a new product in its Hyper ISE 7-series hybrid flash/HDD array line, the 740, which will double existing SSD capacity from 1.6TB to 3.2TB. The new product, revealed to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe, aims to fulfil ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
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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 ...
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NetApp has no plans to join the fray in the all-flash array market. That’s according to NetApp CTO Jay Kidd, who spoke to Computer Weekly at NetApp’s Insight partner event in Dublin this week. Jay Kidd says NetApp does not ...
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