Storage Study Warns of Growing ‘Databergs’
The ability to sweep up, store and organize vast amounts of data, then turn the connections among data points into insights and strategies is creating new revenue streams for ...Full Article
First 10 GB/s SSD Flash Drive Coming This Summer – And It’s OCP-Compliant
Seagate Technology today unveiled what it said is the fastest single flash-based solid-state drive (SSD), with throughput performance of 10 GB/s. Targeting hyperscale data centers, data-intensive enterprises and HPC, ...Full Article
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
100 Million IOPS: Brocade’s New Gen 6 Fibre Channel Switch
Fibre Channel market leader Brocade today announced the G620 Switch, which the company says is the industry’s first Gen 6 fixed port Fibre Channel SAN switch designed to support ...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
Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage
The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely ...Full Article
Pivot3 Adds Dynamic Provisioning With NextGen Deal
The convergence of the hyper-convergers continues with infrastructure specialist Pivot3's deal to acquire flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc. Privately held NexGen, Louisville, Colo., was spun out a year ...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
