While at SNW Fall we were given an opportunity to tour the DreamWorks Animation data center in Redwood City, California. The entertainment field is a massive consumer of storage, with the animation field specifically having a special set of technology needs as a movie or TV show winds through a typical multi-year development cycle. Storage
SGI has announced DataRaptor, a Big Data solution developed with MarkLogic for semi-structured and unstructured data that integrates SGI hardware and a tuned MarkLogic NoSQL database. SGI DataRaptor solutions start at five nodes with 80 cores, scaling to deployments that feature more than 300 cores, over 2,600GB of memory, and from 300TB to more than
Iomega has announced the worldwide availability of the latest line of products in their network storage solutions: the new Iomega StorCenter px2-300d Network Storage, a high performance, Intel Atom powered double-drive desktop network storage device with up to 6TB of storage, and the new Iomega StorCenter ix4-300d Network Storage, which is Iomega’s next-gen StorCenter ix
CA Technologies has announced enhancements to its ARCserve solutions to better extend data protection across IT environments with both virtual and physical systems, including systems on-premise, off premise, or in the cloud. ARCserve offers backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities via integrated solutions with a new licensing scheme.
QLogic has announced its next-generation line of FlexSuite 2600 Series adapters, which are now available through authorized QLogic channel partners. QLogic FlexSuite "dual-personality" adapters can easily fit into current installations as a 16GB Fibre Channel adapter and will provide end-user field upgradeability to a 10GBE-based converged network adapter (CNA) in the future.
Mellanox Technologies, provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has announced SwitchX-2, the next generation of their switch silicon optimized for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Mellanox’s new SwitchX-2 is equipped with advanced capabilities of remote configurable routing tables, lossless and congestion free networks, efficient control planes, and SDNoptimized software
Data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, has added two new models to its EonNAS 1000 Series – the EonNAS 1310 and 1510, which feature 2U/8-bay and a 2U/12-bay rackmount form factors respectively. These new storage solutions help SMB users to optimize file sharing, IP SAN applications, data storage, and data backup and are specifically designed to
IBM has announced its acquisition of Butterfly Software Ltd. which will become a part of IBM’s Software Group. Financial terms were not disclosed to the public. Butterfly is a privately held data analysis and migration software company based out of Maidenhead, England. They provide innovative applications that help organizations discover, analyse, and automatically migrate data centre
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) has announced the 500 GB Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive, their smallest portable hard drive yet, measuring in at only nine millimeters thick. This slim, compact drive comes in a brushed aluminum design, available in either black or silver. Additionally, its built-In USB 3.0 (backwards 2.0 compatible) interface significantly improves
Synology today announced the launch of an updated DS413 with hardware enhancements and DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1. The DS413 is a 4-bay network attached storage (NAS) device that features hot-swappable storage, hardware assisted 256-bit AES encryption, and 1GB DDR3 memory, double the amount of the previous version.
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