The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) today announced Release 1.3 of its InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 2, introducing data transfer speeds of 56Gb/s and 168Gb/s as well as enhancements to device, switch, and cable interoperability. InfiniBand is a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect solution with low processing overhead that facilitates carrying clustering, communications, storage, management traffic over a
WD has announced a new version of its My Book Studio external hard drive featuring USB 3.0 capability, which provides data transfer speeds up to three times faster than USB 2.0. Additionally, WD has added 4 TB capacity in a single-drive configuration making it an ideal solution for backing up large amounts of digital content.
Synology has announced the launch of the RS10613xs+ following last week’s release of the RS3413xs+. Built specifically for SMEs, the new 10-bay 2U RackStation is Synology’s most advanced hardware to date, providing fast and scalable storage at a reasonable price; the ideal storage solution between NAS and SAN. The RS10613xs+ can quickly scale to up
EMC Corporation today announced that the Isilon OneFS 7.0 scale-out NAS operating system will be generally available this week. According to EMC, OneFS 7.0 brings a 25% increase in single file system throughput, caching capabilities that reduce latency by 50% for I/O-intensive applications, and tighter integration with VMware.
SolidFire today announced general availability of its SF3010 and SF6010 all-SSD storage systems, designed to allow cloud providers bring performance- and uptime-sensitive applications like Oracle, SAP, Hadoop and NoSQL into the cloud. SolidFire storage systems combine up to one hundred SF3010 or SF6010 nodes over 10GB Ethernet, for more than 2PB total capacity and 5
Scalable Informatics has announced a new 240TB, 4U JackRabbit solution and updated performance data for siFlash that indicates sustained streaming data rates of more than 10GB/s and more than 300k random IOPs. siCluster systems assembled from JackRabbit and siFlash products are now capable of providing per rack throughput from 60GB/s to over 100GB/s and up
SGI has announced support for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor and NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPU Accelerators throughout its server product line. The Xeon Phi offers over one Teraflop double-precision performance per processor to handle parallel workloads in an x86 programming model, while the Tesla accelerators feature the GK110 GPU with 2496 cores, 1.17
Perhaps in-office visit is a bit confusing, near-office visit may be more accurate. Either way, Cintas has recently launched a hard drive destruction program, an offering within their document management services arm, which until recently was mostly focused on paper document destruction and document imaging and storage. The new hard drive destruction program is an
Mellanox Technologies, supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has added to its line of end-to-end FDR 56GB/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions by announcing its new 12-port non-blocking fixed switches. These new switches are part of the Mellanox SX6000 series of FDR 56GB/s InfiniBand switches, all of which have seamless
NetApp has announced new enhancements to its E-Series platform. Designed for high-performance applications and data-intensive workflows, the new and improved E-Series platform establishes a foundation for highly available, high-capacity, performance-optimized application workflows in critical vertical markets. This includes sectors such as healthcare, security, media and entertainment, and high-performance computing markets such as oil and gas,
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