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
SGI Snaps Up FileTek For Active Archiving Smarts
SGI has a long history in dealing with large data sets, and it is one of the major players in active archiving with its venerable Data Migration Facility (DMF) ...Full Article
Oracle Intros New Logging and Recovery Appliance
Oracle is adding a new twist to the backup appliance, announced Andy Mendelsohn this week at their Oracle OpenWorld event. The new appliance, part of their “engineered system” hardware ...Full Article
Violin Launches New Software as IPO Approaches
Violin Memory, a developer of Flash memory-based storage systems, last week unveiled new software that aims to make it easier for organizations to move their legacy data to a ...Full Article
The Evolution of EMC
Founded as a storage company in Massachusetts in 1979, EMC has developed into a major IT company with two principle parts, its information infrastructure business and its VMware virtual ...Full Article
Dell Shows Off Avoton Atoms In Cold Storage Array
Intel launched its first respectable server-class Atom processor, the "Avoton" Atom C2000, three weeks ago, and one of the interesting new uses for the eight-core chip is not in ...Full Article
