Following 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 ...
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Following 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 ...
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Computerworld - 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. ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array ...
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Dell 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 ...
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Solid state drive (SSD) hardware supplier Fusion-io has entered the networked flash appliance arena with the launch of its ION Data Accelerator software. Positioning itself in the networked flash acceleration market to compete with the ...
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Light - not electric signals - is the future of information transfer, says IBM as it reveals a "major advance" in chip technology. Calling the tech "silicon nanophotonics", IBM reckons it integrates optical components alongside electrical ...
IT 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 ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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Shares in technology giants Intel and IBM dropped as both companies showed weakness in their third quarter revenues. Chip manufacturer Intel reported a quarterly revenue of $13.46bn (£8.32bn), down from $14.23bn (£8.8bn) in ...
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IBM is to acquire human resources solutions provider Kenexa for about$1.3bn(£821m)as it looks to compete against the likes of Oracle,SAP and Salesforce.com in the software-as-a-service(SaaS)market. Kenexa uses cloud-based technology ...
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IBM has bought flash storage specialist Texas Memory Systems,a 34 year-old,100-employee,developer of solid state memory modules. TMS has a flash based storage product family for servers called RamSan which IBM says it will incorporate ...
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Computer giant IBM has acquired high-performance Flash memory maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) for an undisclosed sum. The Houston, Texas-based company employs about 100 staff and has been developing solid-state disk accelerator ...
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IBM has announced it is buying Texas Memory Systems (TMS) for an undisclosed sum. Texas Memory Systems (TMS) was founded in 1978 and has become one of the most prolific suppliers in the flash storage market, specialising in its RamSan ...
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