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Dell Takes A Long View On Datacenters
One of the things that Dell committed to do once it went private was to invest more in research and development. Last summer, while the privatization effort was still ...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
Cisco Refreshes Nexus Switches, Integrates Whiptail Flash With UCS
If you are in the hunt for new switches in your datacenter, Cisco Systems has just revamped portions of its Nexus line of top-of-rack and end-of-row devices. Cisco has ...Full Article
Amazon Cranks Up I/O On New EC2 Cloud Slices
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says ...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
New IBM Xeon Server Designs Leverage Flash
Big Blue will kick off the new season of server announcements at an event held at the New York Stock Exchange on January 16 and in a webcast that ...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
NetApp Says Flash Is All About Predictable Performance
Disk and flash array maker NetApp showed off a refresh of its E-Series machines at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week. The E-Series are not the biggest, baddest arrays ...Full Article
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
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