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
Nutanix Raises $101 Million To Push Storage Server Hybrids
Upstart system maker Nutanix, which has created a mashed up distributed file system and virtual server environment that can be clustered to support a variety of enterprise workloads, has ...Full Article
Seagate Buys Xyratex To Build Out Enterprise Array Business
Seagate Technology is one of the three suppliers of disk drives in the world alongside Western Digital and Toshiba, and now it is getting into the enterprise disk array ...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
Dell Cranks Up EqualLogic Capacity and Performance
A month ago Dell went private, getting Wall Street off its back for the first time in many decades, and the DellWorld customer and partner event this week down ...Full Article
HP Revamps Storage For The New Year
The storage system engineers at Hewlett-Packard are goosing the performance of various arrays this week through a mix of software updates and peppier components. The idea is to make ...Full Article
Lustre Running Better Than Expected On AWS
A few weeks ago, Intel made its variant of the Lustre file system, popular at supercomputing centers and seeing more and more uses among enterprises that need zippy access ...Full Article
Spectra Logic Aims TS1140 Drive at Enterprise Libraries
Tape may seem retro to a lot of people, but it is still the cheapest way to store huge amounts of data for the least amount of money. The ...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
Hedge Fund Scraps DIY Lustre Cluster for Terascala
When high performance is needed, some enterprises have no choice but to get out there on the bleeding edge and experiment with new technology and put it into production ...Full Article