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Survey: Virtual Storage Emerges as Key Cloud Need

Storage is a critical component of cloud services as providers seek to differentiate their offerings via storage platforms designed to handle more virtual workloads, an industry survey concludes. That ...Full Article

‘Composable Infrastructure’ and the Hole in My Back Yard

The restoration of my 1910 Craftsman bungalow means the house is effectively being torn down and rebuilt from the inside out. This includes a scale model in my back ...Full Article

When the Going Gets Tough, the Smart Optimize

IT departments are always asked to do more with less. But it is much easier to buy shiny new toys in a good economy than a bad one, which ...Full Article

Open Source Effort Targets Faster Nets, Storage

Networking is becoming a bottleneck as enterprises store, move and sift through vast quantities of structured and unstructured data from a growing list of sources. In an effort to ...Full Article

Canada’s CPAC Leverages DDN Storage Tech for Ballooning Data and News Content

For the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), the C-SPAN of Canada, 2015 posed two major challenges – one of them data intensive, the other operational. On the data side, ...Full Article

Storage Consolidation Quickens With NetApp-SolidFire Deal

The consolidation of the storage sector gained momentum at the end of 2015 with NetApp Inc.'s deal to acquire all-flash startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash. The deal ...Full Article

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Scale, Flexibility Place New Demands on Databases

In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts ...Full Article

I/O Project Looks to Bridge Memory-Storage Gap

A European-led initiative will seek to overcome I/O bottlenecks for HPC workloads resulting from too many processors communicating with slow disk storage. The project also would leverage Intel Corp.'s ...Full Article

DDN’s Bouzari on the Spread of Advanced Scale Computing into the Enterprise, and the Object-based ‘Connected Society’ of the Future

The entire HPC world – from traditional HPC research sites to advanced scale computing in the enterprise – is at a crossroads. Then again, has it ever not been? ...Full Article