Which new technologies will genuinely gain traction in the data center industry? 451 Research sees Flash storage as the leading disruptive force, according to an analysis released at this week's Uptime Symposium. The technology we're least likely to see? Onsite clean power generation.
News this week comes from Hewlett Packard with a new storage system aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and government agencies, the availability of the StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance, and NASA selecting the IceWeb IceBOX cloud collaboration platform.
Technical evolution moves at different rates and for different reasons. Unlike other areas of computing, for example, storage solutions for distributed systems have evolved as a result of proliferation, rather than more traditional reasons such as price, performance and technical advancements. In other words, when organizations have bought a particular storage technology, they’ve grown with it whether they planned to or not.
May 13, 2013 -- Internet giant Google announced on Monday via its Google Drive Blog that it is increasing its free storage allotment for users from 5GB to 15GB.Keep on reading: Google Offers 15GB of Free Storage Across Cloud Services
Seagate, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, has announced four new Solid State Drives (SSDs) that will spearhead its new flash strategy. The new drives include consumer-friendly 600 SSD and 600 SSD Pro models, enterprise-grade 1200 SSD, and even a superfast flash PCIe appliance for the data centre developed jointly with its partner Virident, the X8 Accelerator, which Seagate claims is “twice as fast as the nearest competitor”. By launching several new product lines, the company hopes to own the broadest storage device portfolio in the industry.
EMC says ViPR will abstract out a company's storage and automate how it gets divvied up by the workload. The company will roll out its software-defined data center plan this week.
May 2, 2013 -- Most companies allocate 25 percent of their IT budget to data storage, according to a survey released on Wednesday by web hosting provider NaviSite.Keep on reading: Enterprises Spend 25 Percent of IT Budgets on Data Storage: NaviSite Study
Imagine being able to access information from a remote source with almost the same speed as a storage device within a computer. While the speed of light will always provide limits to the speed and apparent latency of data access from a distance it will be possible to build computer architectures that can use resources, including digital storage, that are located far away from the user and that ...
SGI announced that iVEC and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
April 30, 2013 -- Cloud storage provider Datacore Software announced on Tuesday it has released the results of its third annual State of Virtualization Survey Storage survey, which saw that storage-related costs and I/O performance issues remain significant obstacles for organizations in virtualizing their applications.Keep on reading: Datacore Software Study: Virtualization Hindered by High Storage Costs, Performance
April 30, 2013 -- Phoenix NAP announced on Tuesday that its Secured Servers offering with both firewall and storage capabilities is available out of its data center in Ashburn, Virginia, as well as its hardware-as-a-service offering.Keep on reading: Phoenix NAP Offers Updated Secured Servers, HaaS in Ashburn Data Center
Cisco (CSCO) announced new MDS storage networking solutions for storage area networks, to help customers address rising cloud and big data requirements.
Marking a strategic expansion of its product portfolio, Fusion-io (FIO) announced that it has acquired hybrid storage appliance company NexGen Storage for $119 milion. NexGen appliances are based on Fusion ioMemory, and targeted at small to medium size enterprises.
The disaggregated server concept designs floated at Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit last January are designed for data centers built at frighteningly large scale, but don’t scale down to small installations very well. AMD SeaMicro’s chassis was designed as a disaggregated server and it provides disaggregation benefits for small server deployments, down to 10 rack unit (10U) increments, as well ...
Headlines from the storage industry include SGI unveils InfiniteStorage Gateway; Violin Flash Memory Arrays are now certified with SAP Sybase; and LSI Flash accelerates IBM Servers.
Amazon Web Services said today that its Simple Storage Service (S3) has now hit 2 billion objects. That works out to 20 objects for every human that has ever been born, according to Amazon's Jeff Barr.
With more users, devices and connection points to the Internet – data is being generated at very rapid speeds. In fact, a recent Digital Archive Market Forecast showed that by 2015, the total worldwide cumulative digital archive capacity is projected to be at 300,000 petabytes.
Large or small – infrastructure is what has been keeping organizations operational. Within the data center, numerous technologies all work together to help bring powerful technologies to other sites, branches and the end-user.
IBM is betting big on flash storage for the data centre, announcing a $1 billion initiative to research the technology and releasing a line up of all-Flash storage appliances.
Big Blue said flash could unlock plenty of Big Data potential, due to its ability to speed up read and write processes, compared to standard disk drive technologies still widely used by businesses today.
IBM will invest $1 billion in research and development to design, create and integrate new Flash solutions into its expanding portfolio of servers, storage systems and middleware.
With the move, Big Blue is the latest on the bandwagon to aggressively push flash into data centers. IBM's flash push comes courtesy of its Texas Memory Systems acquisition. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
April 10, 2013 -- Cloud storage provider Dropbox announced on Wednesday that it has rebranded its Dropbox for Teams to better represent its business use, simply renaming it Dropbox for Business, and will introduce single sign on next month.Keep on reading: Dropbox for Business Adds Single Sign On for Secure Access
With the new release, OpenStack continues to add features and perks to its cloud infrastructure stack. What it needs to start showing now is real end-user customers outside the tech bubble.
Several converging trends, such as IT consumerization, increased number of users, more devices and a lot more data, have pushed the storage environment to a new level. Because of these new initiatives and new ways to deliver data, the data center has been forced to evolve to support more agile and...