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Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Facebook Unveils Homegrown Ethernet Switch
June 18th, 2014 (2)
Social media giant Facebook is one step closer to ousting Cisco Systems as its primary datacenter switching supplier with the launch of a new top-of-rack engineering project inside of the company code-named "Wedge." As in the front of the ...
NetApp Shoots High And Low With FAS Hybrid Arrays
June 17th, 2014 (1)
Network-attached storage pioneer NetApp is pushing back against the army of upstart makers of hybrid and all-flash storage arrays with upgrades to its FAS line of hybrid devices, extending the performance and scalability of its high end and offering ...
Airstone Clusters Drive Down Latency With Custom Network
June 17th, 2014 (1)
Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as crazy as this might sound, Airstone has been compelled by ...
SanDisk Gets Deeper Into Enterprises With Fusion-io Deal
June 16th, 2014 Comments Off on SanDisk Gets Deeper Into Enterprises With Fusion-io Deal
SanDisk may have become a player in flash storage through the consumer market, but it has been making headway in the past couple years establishing itself as a key supplier of flash technologies to enterprises. With its $1.1 billion ...
HP 3PAR 7450 Is All-Flash For The Price Of Disk
June 13th, 2014 (3)
In the early days of flash-accelerated storage, it was all about making a subset of the data available on storage that had higher I/O so applications would speed up. With the falling cost of flash storage and more sophisticated ...
AMD Reorganizes, SeaMicro Founder Takes A Break
June 12th, 2014 Comments Off on AMD Reorganizes, SeaMicro Founder Takes A Break
Chip and server maker AMD has reorganized its operations, setting the stage for a key executive who was brought in to run the company's business units to one day be chief executive officer of the company. Concurrently with the ...
HP Puts Memristors At The Heart Of A New Machine
June 12th, 2014 Comments Off on HP Puts Memristors At The Heart Of A New Machine
It is not every day that a major IT company throws down the gauntlet to its peers and declares a new computing architecture that will wipe away current system designs, but that is precisely what Hewlett-Packard did in a ...
Simplivity Not Selling Itself To HP – Or Anyone Else
June 11th, 2014 (1)
Rumors have been going around this week that Simplivity, one of the converged systems upstarts that is heavily funded and trying to take on the incumbents in enterprise datacenters, is in talks to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard. This is ...
In-Memory Boosts Oracle OLTP By 2X, Analytics By 1000X
June 10th, 2014 (1)
With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead of it when it comes to in-memory processing. After years ...
Docker Software Containers Go Commercial
June 10th, 2014 (1)
The next wave of virtualization, and one that has the potential to displace hypervisor-based virtualization on Linux platforms, is upon us now that Docker, the software container and application packaging system originally created by platform cloud provider dotCloud, has ...