HP held its third annual big data conference earlier this month in Boston. A broad mix of organizations large and small participated, gaining insights on the future of big data via keynotes from the likes of Facebook, Michael Stonebraker, Nate Silver and many more. There were also over 40 breakout sessions that were driven by customers who
Today Primary Data unveiled a storage-agnostic data virtualization platform that allows data mobility across multiple different storage tiers (including server flash, SAN, NAS and cloud storage), DataSphere. DataSphere takes existing storage tiers from isolated silos pinned to an application and transforms it into globally available, infinitely scalable resources that enables applications to access the data
EMC Corporation has revealed that its XtremIO product line has achieved $1 billion in aggregate booking in 588 days or six quarters. In 2012 EMC acquired XtremIO and has since offered several flash product within the XtremIO line. EMC speculates that this makes XtremIO the fastest growing product in IT history (thought they have yet to do
Today SanDisk Corporation introduced three new reference architectures designed for VMware Virtual SAN 6.0. These solutions utilize SSDs and Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators include: Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Solution with All-Flash Virtual SAN, VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop and Applications Solution with All-Flash Virtual SAN, and Horizon Virtual Desktop Solution with Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN. SanDisk’s
HP has announced the mt42, dubbed the world’s thinnest, lightest and most powerful quad-core mobile thin client weighing in at just 3.41lbs and measuring only .74 inches in thickness. Offering up to 3.0 GHz with AMD quad-core processing technology, the HP mt42 provides 10% higher clock speed as well as an additional two cores of
Back in June of this year, Google Cloud Platform released their Container Engine into beta. Now after several months and several users having a chance to try it out and provide feedback, Google is launching its Container Engine to general availability. This follows the pattern Google recently set with the release of its Nearline, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and the release
SimpliVity has announced its new OmniStack 3.0 Data Virtualization Platform, indicating that its release is the most significant product launch since the company was founded. OmniStack is the transformational technology behind SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, offering multi-site deployments with a new Unified Protected ROBO solution and a new optimized platform.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled new hyper-converged infrastructure solutions and software enhancements for VMware environments. These solutions are designed to help remove complexity, protect workloads, and reduce the always increasing operational expenses that hit enterprises. Ideal use cases include partners and customers looking to transform their traditional data centers into private and hybrid cloud
Today IBM announced it was adding new features to its Spectrum Storage Software Offerings. The new features will enable companies to prepare for using and backing up to the cloud. These new features are part of IBM’s $1 billion investment in software-defined storage (SDS), along with its other products for hybrid-cloud. IBM also stated that they
Today Hedvig announced a partnership with ClusterHQ that will offer modern enterprises an integrated solution that simplifies storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. This collaboration combines ClusterHQ’s Flocker container data management software with Hedvig’s software-defined storage solution to develop the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker.
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