Software-defined storage specialist Nexenta launched the first version of it block and object storage package designed to provide inline data compression and deduplication on petabyte-scale clusters. The scale-out storage solution targets OpenStack and big data infrastructures, the company said. The Santa Clara, Calif, storage management vendor said its NexentaEdge 1.0 storage platform is tailored to ...Full article
IBM has only recently caught the KVM bug, and has even gone so far as to create a variant of the KVM hypervisor that runs atop its Power8 systems when they run Linux. But if new performance statistics coming out of IBM Research are any guide, it looks like Big Blue will be porting the ...Full article
Big Blue has cleared the last major hurdle block its proposed $2.3 billion sale of its System x X86 server business and the licensing of key software and storage technologies to Lenovo Group. IBM issued a statement last Friday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a regulatory body that looks ...Full article
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. From the late 1860s to 2003, the total amount of statistical data on the game amounted to about 2 gigabytes. With the installation of sensor and ...Full article
Keynotes Include: “One Part Moneyball – Two Parts Netflix: The Big Data Approach to Baseball Analytics” Speaker: Vince Gennaro, President, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) “HPC – Turning Big Data Into Deep Insight” Speaker: Ren Wu, Distinguished Scientist, Baidu IDL “The Fusion of Supercomputing and Big Data” Speaker: Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray, Inc. Click ...Full article
Search engine giant Google is talking about another innovative data store that it has come up with, perhaps spawning yet another round of innovation in the open source community that often mimics what Google does to solve complex scale issues. Google plans to talk about a massive data warehousing system called Mesa at the 40th ...Full article
Networking giant Cisco Systems is struggling in its core switching and routing markets and feeling the effects of economic and political turmoil in emerging markets, all of which put a damper on sales and profits as it closed out its fiscal 2014 year in July. The declines in the final quarter were modest, but Cisco ...Full article
Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said that he had seen the light and wanted Oracle to control its own hardware and created specialized machinery tuned up to run Oracle's software stack. Despite ...Full article
The latest version of SUSE Cloud, the variant of the OpenStack cloud controller developed by commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux, adds support for the Ceph distributed storage system along with VMware capabilities. In rolling out SUSE Cloud 4, the Linux distributor said new automation features are intended to smooth the adoption of OpenStack in enterprise ...Full article
The Docker application container system developed by platform cloud provider dotCloud, now known as Docker Software, has been gaining momentum in recent months and is on the way to become an alternative virtualization method alongside of full-on server virtualization. Docker is far from being complete, however, and some hosting experts who know a thing or ...Full article
At the Hot Chips 26 conference being hosted in Silicon Valley this week, upstart ARM server chip maker Applied Micro is presenting details on its roadmap for its X-Gene family of 64-bit processors. The ARM server ramp is taking a bit longer than many had expected, but Applied Micro is keeping the pedal to the ...Full article
The cloud ecosystem continues to expand as a group of ex-VMware engineers have emerged from stealth mode to launch a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at managing private clouds. Platform9, based in Sunnyvale, California, also announced its first funding round that raised $4.5 million from investor Redpoint Ventures. Noting that enterprises continue to struggle in ...Full article
The reason why online retailer Amazon started its cloud computing unit was not just because it wanted to break into a business selling raw compute and storage capacity to developers who had to work on a slim-to-none capital budget. That was an after effect. What drove the creation of AWS was the realization that turning ...Full article
The annual Hot Chips conference is underway this week in Silicon Valley, and there is not much on the enterprise front on day one. Japanese supercomputer makers NEC and Fujitsu are both showing off their next-generation SX-ACE and Sparc64-XIfx processors aimed at, respectively, massively parallel vector and scalar supercomputing workloads, and DE Shaw is talking ...Full article
A market survey of more than 400 public cloud developers found that they are releasing applications with greater frequency, the cloud creates more opportunities for collaboration and that security is often an afterthought in the public cloud. Market researcher Evans Data Corp said the greater frequency of cloud application updates reflects steadily improving software quality ...Full article
A bunch of file system experts who worked on the Veritas clustered file system that was a mainstay of Unix deployments and that is now controlled by Symantec have teamed up to launch a new server-side solid state drive caching company called CacheBox. Rather than tie its caching software to a specific type or brand ...Full article
Dell is no longer a public company, so we can't look at its quarterly financial results to get a sense of how its various business units are doing. But, Dell is a major IT supplier and it wants to let customers and partners alike know how things are going since it became public last November, ...Full article
The first generation of flash-based memory channel storage from Diablo Technologies and SanDisk is ramping up in high-end Xeon E5 and E7 machines made by IBM and is now getting put into machines by Supermicro. Diablo makes the chips that provide the interface between the memory bus and SATA-based flash memory, and SanDisk creates the ...Full article
The list of Things-as-a-Service keeps growing. Zadara Storage has rolled out the latest entry with the introduction of On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS), targeting private clouds that include managed storage area network and network-attached storage. The twist here is a flexible "pay-as-you-go" pricing model similar to other cloud-based options, eliminating upfront costs while allowing on-demand storage purchases. The ...Full article
Hyperscale datacenter operators and enterprise storage suppliers just got a new tool from PMC to help them build out zippier storage infrastructure. PMC, a venerable semiconductor maker founded three decades ago to provide equipment to the telecommunications market, moved into the enterprise storage market seven years ago and has just put together a non-volatile memory ...Full article
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