Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM Appliances Ease Deployment of DB2 BLU Analytics
October 11th, 2013
Back in April, IBM put out a tech preview of its BLU Acceleration in-memory feature for its DB2 database. Now the software is shipping, and the company is packaging it up into an appliance to make it easier for ...
Spectra Logic Rides the Data Explosion Wave with Tape
October 11th, 2013
If you listen to the quarterly conference calls of the big IT suppliers who play in the tape market, as we at EnterpriseTech do, invariably you hear them bemoan the fact that their tape storage businesses are on the ...
Facebook Gooses Performance on Open Source Flashcache
October 10th, 2013
Facebook likes to share some of the techniques it has developed to speed up the performance of its Web applications, and one of its key homegrown tools is called Flashcache. A new version of the open source Flashcache software ...
Whiptail Flash Is About Revving Compute, Says Cisco
October 10th, 2013
There has been a lot of talk since Cisco Systems acquired flash array startup Whiptail for $415 million a month ago. Everyone wants to know if the networking giant is going to take on the incumbents in storage as ...
Yahoo, NASCAR Intrigued by Spectra DS3 Object Storage for Tape
October 10th, 2013
Tape is not dead by any stretch of the imagination at the largest data centers of the world. But it could very well be that the bell is tolling for traditional tape backup software. Tape library maker Spectra Logic ...
IBM Slashes Hardware Prices to Push Linux on Power
October 9th, 2013
As it had been hinting to EnterpriseTech that it would do, IBM has taken a page out of its mainframe playbook and is offering cut-throat prices on processing capacity and memory for its largest Power Systems machines when they run ...
Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters
October 9th, 2013
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from none other than Unisys. The Forward systems, which go into ...
Dell CTO And Fellow Talk Enterprise Tech Convergence
October 9th, 2013
Dell is no stranger to the enterprise data centers of the world and it is the dominant supplier of systems to hyperscale data center operators. The company also has built a few very large supercomputer clusters and is the ...
Integrated Systems Sales Are Booming, Says IDC
October 7th, 2013
Sales of servers and storage arrays may be looking a bit weak these days, but enterprise customers are starting to invest in integrated systems to boost the performance of their applications and to make their lives easier. And thus, ...
Verizon’s New Cloud Is AMD SeaMicro Inside
October 7th, 2013
Advanced Micro Devices has been looking for a big server maker to adopt its SeaMicro microserver chassis and integrated fabric interconnect, but has found no takers. AMD has, however, inked its first big technology agreement deal with none other ...
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