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
HighPoint has announced availability of the RocketRAID 4500 series RAID-on-Chip HBAs, their latest 6GB/s SAS RAID product line. The 4500 series is built with a comprehensive suite of management and recovery features designed to secure critical data investments while its onboard RAID processor and integrated memory allow for high-performance and reliability. With its dedicated 800MHz,
Zetta.net has announced the launch of its appliance-free approach to hybrid cloud backup featuring Smart Cloud and new Lean Local Copy technology. Zetta.net’s Smart Cloud puts an end to the need for a local appliance by integrating the functionality of backup, snapshot and replication technology. With the new Lean Local Copy feature, Smart Cloud advances
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
Visual effects (commonly shortened to Visual F/X or VFX) have become a core part of any modern video production, including films, commercials, or online videos. Visual effects include the various processes to integrate realistic computer-generated imagery with live-action footage. Visual effects and computer generated scenes are usually created (rendered) through multiple iterations from mathematical models.
Overland Storage’s new SnapScale clustered NAS solution is built on Overland’s RAINcloud OS, which can unify up to 512 petabytes under one global namespace. SnapScale is designed to compete on price with other rapid scaling solutions while offering redundancy, snapshots, automatic failover, replication, and flexible provisioning functionality.
The iXsystems Titan iX-316J is a 3U storage expansion shelf (JBOD). The iX-316J features 16 hot swappable 3.5" SAS/SATA drive bays across the front, capable of supporting up to 64TB of raw storage with 4TB hard drives. The unit also includes a pair of high-efficiency 1200W power supplies (1+1) and offers fault tolerance via redundant
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
Dell has announced an update to their Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance line – the QSDW2000 supports up to 12TB, doubling the prior QSDF1000 offering that was announced earlier this year in July. The appliance is a converged offering that’s based around Dell’s 12th generation PowerEdge servers, coupled with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse Appliance
Patriot Memory, provider of high-performance memory, NAND flash, storage, and enthusiast computer products, has announced that it is expanding its Gauntlet external storage line with the launch of the new Gauntlet 320 portable wireless external HD. The Gauntlet 320 has a capacity of 320GB of onboard storage, which makes it a handy all-in-one wireless storage
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