Flash Array Maker Pure Storage Rakes In Venture Cash
If market valuation is a reliable indicator, then Pure Storage appears to be pure gold to its growing list of investors. Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array startup, ...Full Article
Accelerating Virtual Storage With RAM And Flash
Virtual storage shifted to a higher gear this week with new software from PernixData aimed at accelerating virtual applications running on servers equipped with VMware's virtualization wares. PernixData announced ...Full Article
Violin Scales Back Windows Flash Array – For Now
Violin Memory was the first of the new breed of flash array companies to go public and the company is trying to stay ahead of the pack by more ...Full Article
Dell Preps Fluid Cache SAN Accelerator For June Launch
The Fluid Cache for SAN acceleration software that Dell has created to boost the performance of its Compellent storage area network arrays is closer to coming to market. Dell ...Full Article
Genome Researchers Battling Data Storage Bottlenecks
Genome sequencing designed to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism is generating petabytes of raw and processed data that is proving extremely difficult to manage and store. ...Full Article
Lustre File System Moving From Lab To Big Data Apps
Proponents of the Lustre file system maintain it is poised to make the jump from HPC installations into the enterprise, driven by the surging amount of data that companies ...Full Article
Terascala Rides Herd With Lustre Into The Enterprise
It is still early days for the commercialization of the Lustre parallel file system. But the brisk business that Terascala, one of several companies that have put some polish ...Full Article
Fusion-io Tweaks Flash To Speed Up MySQL Databases
Server flash memory maker Fusion-io has tuned up its ioMemory PCI-Express flash cards with two new features that will significantly speed up the performance of MySQL databases. The new ...Full Article
Flash Spreads Around The System, Accelerating As It Goes
UlltraDIMM memory channel storage, which puts flash memory in the same slots as main memory in servers, is starting to ship from IBM, and its advent has a lot ...Full Article
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to ...Full Article
