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
Hybrid Storage Seen as Safer Bet For Virtual Workloads
Akin to their cloud deployments, enterprises are hedging their bets on storage by adopting a mix of storage options for virtualized infrastructure in datacenters. Hence, a new vendor survey ...Full Article
Scale, Flexibility Place New Demands on Databases
In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts ...Full Article
Netlist, Samsung Partner on Memory Channel Storage
Analytics and other data intensive applications continue to drive new enterprise memory and storage approaches along with device manufacturing partnerships needed to scale production of emerging memory channel storage ...Full Article
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more ...Full Article
All-Flash Startup Leverages QoS as a ‘Differentiator’
With all-flash arrays making inroads into enterprise storage infrastructure, the growing list of vendors of PCIe flash arrays are looking for ways to differentiate themselves while persuading potential customers ...Full Article
