EMC Finally Joins the All Flash Party
A year and a half after the purchase of XtremIO, EMC has finally joined the all-flash game with its XtremIO scale-out storage array, which has started shipping. Joining a ...Full Article
Cray Taps HSM Startup for Tiered Storage
Cray has aspirations in enterprise datacenters and that means putting together a complete set of storage as well as heavy-duty compute clusters. To that end, Cray is working with ...Full Article
Lustre Makes the Enterprise Grade with HSM
The Lustre parallel file system that was spawned and nurtured in supercomputing labs is now more appropriate as a high-speed file system for enterprise applications. With the launch of ...Full Article
Exar Compresses HDFS, Boosts Hadoop Performance
Here at EnterpriseTech, we are always on the hunt for any technology that can be used to push performance on large-scale systems. At the Strata/Hadoop World conference in New ...Full Article
Facebook Loads Up Innovative Cold Storage Datacenter
The next time you load an old photo from your Facebook archive, the odds are increasingly likely that it won't be coming out of one of the social network's ...Full Article
Violin Turns Flash Arrays Into Blazing Clusters
What is the fastest machine to run the new Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system from Microsoft? Ironically, it could turn out to be a storage array, and more ...Full Article
Windows Server Plus InfiniBand Speeds Storage, VM Migration
Microsoft will ship its R2 update to the Windows Server 2012 operating system at the end of this week, and one of the key improvements in the platform will ...Full Article
Facebook Gooses Performance on Open Source Flashcache
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 ...Full Article
Whiptail Flash Is About Revving Compute, Says Cisco
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 ...Full Article
Yahoo, NASCAR Intrigued by Spectra DS3 Object Storage for Tape
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 ...Full Article
