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Many Enterprise Storage Systems Include Two or More Types of Hard Disk Drives
Jun 12, 2013Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs. Dell has modified the ...
Tags: Dell, Computer Products, Automatic Tiering
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IBM Invests $1b in Research and Development to Design and Integrate Flash-Based Products
Apr 16, 2013Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last fall, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products
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IBM Plans to Make a $1 Billion Investment in Flash Development
Apr 14, 2013Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
Tags: IBM, Flash-Based R&D
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Dell Consolidated Itself Internally and to Build a Bridge Across Its Storage Platforms
Apr 2, 2013As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
Tags: Dell, Flash Arrays, Unified Software
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It Has Consolidated Itself Internally While Also Planning to Build a Bridge
Mar 29, 2013As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
Tags: Dell, Unified Software, Fluid Cache
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Violin Memory Announced a New Customer in The Shape of Finsphere
Mar 1, 2013Finsphere says flash storage reduced cost per IOP by nine times Flash storage array vendor Violin Memory announced a new customer in the shape of Finsphere, a provider of identity authentication services to global financial institutions. ...
Tags: Finsphere, flash storage, IOP
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NetApp Said It Will Begin Selling an All-SSD Array This Year
Feb 22, 2013Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
Tags: NetApp, Computer, solid state drives
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Violin Memory Has Acquired Gridiron Systems for an Undisclosed Sum and Plans
Jan 23, 2013Flash 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 ...
Tags: Violin Memory, flash storage, application acceleration
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Fred Deployed a 6TB All-NAND Flash Storage Array Into a Virtual Server Test Environment
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - 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 ...
Tags: Fred Abounader, performance systems, flash storage array
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NetApp Has No Plans to Join The Fray in The All-Flash Array Market,Says CTO Jay Kidd
Dec 24, 2012NetApp 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 ...
Tags: NetApp, flash array market, high performance applications, compant news
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Dell Announced Upgrade to DELL Compellent Storage Center SAN Operating System
Dec 24, 2012Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
Tags: Dell, operating system, Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN
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AMD Deployed a 6TB NAND Flash Storage Array Into a Virtual Server Test Environment
Dec 21, 2012AMD 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
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EMC and NetApp Have Entered Into Agreements with Server, Software and Networking Vendors
Dec 21, 2012While 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
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A Majority Data Storage Professionals Have No Plans to Deploy Big Data Analytics
Dec 21, 2012A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
Tags: IT managers, data storage professionals, big data analytics, TheInfoPro
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IT Consortium Charityshare Has Deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series All-Flash Array
Nov 30, 2012IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
Tags: Charityshare, Violin Memory, TMS, Gartner
