vSAN Pricing: Virtual Storage Costs Like Virtual Servers
VMware previewed its Virtual SAN software late last week, and EnterpriseTech gave you the feeds and speeds. The software is available today, and for some reason VMware didn't want ...Full Article
SGI LiveArc Data Management Advances Cancer Research
Established in 2000, the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Brisbane, Australia has become leading center for molecular bioscience research. The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics ...Full Article
Users Line Up For VMware Virtual SAN Storage
VMware was the first mover on virtualization for X86 systems and has benefitted mightily from the wave it started a decade ago to push up the utilization on servers ...Full Article
Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of ...Full Article
Using Flash To Scale In As Well As Up And Out
When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this ...Full Article
New Hybrid Memory Cube Spec Doubles Data Rates
When it comes to Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), the innovative 3D technology that Micron Technology is counting on to replace standard DDR3 memory modules, all signs point to go. ...Full Article
Micron Pushes Memory Roadmap On Several Routes
Memory maker Micron Technology has a bullish roadmap for DRAM, flash, and other technologies that will very likely be in a system, switch, or other device near you in ...Full Article
Big Banks Discover Atlantis Storage Virtualization
Atlantis Computing has carved out a niche for itself in the datacenter by virtualizing desktops and storing them in main memory in server farms for fast access. Some of ...Full Article
MIT Prototypes Zippy Flash-FPGA Hybrid Storage Array
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with funding from server maker Quanta and flash chip maker Samsung, are combining flash storage and field programmable gate arrays in ...Full Article
Facebook Crafts Cold Storage Library From Blu-ray Discs
Social media giant Facebook has been pushing the limits of cold storage with disk technology, and as it hinted it might be doing a year ago, the company has ...Full Article