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
IBM Doubles Up All-Flash Arrays, Texas Style
The first fruits of IBM's labors after the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems back in August have come to market, and the new FlashSystem 840 is the first all-flash ...Full Article
Nutanix Raises $101 Million To Push Storage Server Hybrids
Upstart system maker Nutanix, which has created a mashed up distributed file system and virtual server environment that can be clustered to support a variety of enterprise workloads, has ...Full Article
Seagate Buys Xyratex To Build Out Enterprise Array Business
Seagate Technology is one of the three suppliers of disk drives in the world alongside Western Digital and Toshiba, and now it is getting into the enterprise disk array ...Full Article
Dell Previews Fluid Cache Acceleration for SANs
At its DellWorld extravaganza in its hometown of Austin, Texas this week, Dell was showing off a new implementation of its Fluid Cache caching software, this one tuned up ...Full Article
Dell Cranks Up EqualLogic Capacity and Performance
A month ago Dell went private, getting Wall Street off its back for the first time in many decades, and the DellWorld customer and partner event this week down ...Full Article
HP Revamps Storage For The New Year
The storage system engineers at Hewlett-Packard are goosing the performance of various arrays this week through a mix of software updates and peppier components. The idea is to make ...Full Article
Lustre Running Better Than Expected On AWS
A few weeks ago, Intel made its variant of the Lustre file system, popular at supercomputing centers and seeing more and more uses among enterprises that need zippy access ...Full Article
