Intel has announced that it may invest up to $5.5 Billion to manufacture memory chips in China. The money will be spent on converting Intel’s first Chinese facility, located in Dalian, to start producing 3-D NAND, versus the semiconductors that are currently produced there. Initially Intel planned on keeping the factory behind the production of
October is the month for major acquisitions apparently. Last week Dell acquired EMC for $67 billion in what amounted to the largest tech merger in history, or the largest so far. In slightly smaller announcements, Imation acquired Connected data and Western Digital was granted permission to further integrate HGST into WD. Today marks the second major acquisition announcement of the
A few months ago Dell announced its new Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) line of business. This line of business is aimed at businesses that normally fall through the crack between traditional datacenters and hyperscale (web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations). Today at Dell World 2015, Dell Inc. is announcing
Today at Dell World, Dell Inc. is now offering what they claim to be the industry-leading All-Flash cost-per-gigabyte. Based off of Dell’s 13th generation Poweredge server platform, the arrays combine the new flagship Dell Storage SC9000 storage array controller, new 12Gb SAS expansion enclosures and next generation array software to deliver the lowest cost/GB of
This year at the Spectra Summit in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Spectra Logic unveiled its latest disk-based product, the ArcticBlue. ArcticBlue leverages both Spectra’s BlackPearl deep storage gateway system and SMR technology to deliver the first nearline object storage that responds like disk storage with the longevity of tape. The Artic Blue can deliver up to 6.1PB
Today IBM announced the launch of its new enterprise hybrid storage family, the IBM DS8880 family. This new family of next generation of storage is designed to accelerate business critical applications and real-time data insights for clients requiring increased performance, data protection and uncompromised, nonstop availability.
Today InfiniteIO announced the general availability of its NSC-110. The NSC-110 is what InfiniteIO calls the world’s only Network-based Storage Controller. InfiniteIO states that the NSC-110 can integrate private or public cloud storage into existing environments with no changes to applications, storage systems, or the user experience.
In Part 1 of our X-IO Technologies ISE 860 G3 Review we laid out the overview of what the ISE 860 G3 is and we looked at application and synthetic benchmarks. In a brief recap, the platform performed extraordinarily well across everything we threw at it, including MySQL, SQL Server and synthetic workloads. For the second part
Today INFINIDAT announced that it was expanding its InfiniBox Storage Family. The InfiniBox line now offers unified block and file support in a single rack. Though the InfiniBox known for having very high capacity (2PB per rack), it is now being offered in a more midrange system starting at 250TB, the InfiniBox F2000. And INFINIDAT
As more and more companies look to software-defined storage (SDS) and software-defined data centers (SDDC), they have to begin to rethink their own data center architecture. More and more vendors and startups are coming out with products that challenge traditional storage (software-defined, Hyper-Converged) they do run into various limitations. This is where Hedvig enters the
Amazon