Breaking The Storage Bottleneck In The Datacenter
As more applications are virtualized, storage is said to be emerging as a bottleneck in datacenter performance. These performance issues mean many applications cannot take full advantage of the ...Full Article
Calls For EMC-VMware Breakup Get Louder
IBM has sold off its System x division to Lenovo, eBay is spinning off PayPal, and Hewlett-Packard is breaking itself into two. Suddenly the idea of conglomerates that have ...Full Article
Nutanix Goes All-Flash For Server-Storage Hybrids
The competition in the hyperconverged system market is heating up, and companies that once worried about taking on incumbent server and storage makers with their server-storage hybrids now have ...Full Article
SolidFire Aims Lower With All-Flash Arrays, Raises Cash
All-flash array upstart SolidFire, which was founded by a team of techies with expertise in online gaming, cloud computing, and enterprise storage, is launching smaller-scale versions of its eponymous ...Full Article
Heftier Gluster Storage Helps Red Hat Tackle Big Data
Just because Red Hat bought Inktank for its Ceph clustered object storage software does not mean it has forgotten about its commercial variant of the Gluster clustered file system, ...Full Article
Price Erosion, Weak Demand Rattle Storage Market
Weak demand continues to slow the global external disk storage market as storage prices continue a steady decline despite the inexorable rise of big data. The upshot is stiffening ...Full Article
Oracle Takes On All-Flash Makers With Hybrid FS1 Arrays
Despite the naysayers that still contend that Oracle should not have gotten into the hardware business through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems nearly five years ago, Oracle co-founder and ...Full Article
Risks And Rewards Of Moving Data To The Cloud
The cloud is flying high in the IT sky; but a number of anxious companies remain firmly anchored on the ground, because they are concerned that moving to cloud-based ...Full Article
EMC Seeking Merger Partner?
Storage specialist EMC is looking for another merger partner while exploring other options after negotiations with rival Hewlett-Packard on a blockbuster corporate marriage reportedly broke down in recent weeks. ...Full Article
NetApp Gives A Sneak Peek At Future FlashRays
After several years of development, storage array maker NetApp is starting to ship its FlashRay family of all-flash arrays to selected customers and partners and is looking to ramp ...Full Article
