Intel announced that an optical variant of their current Thunderbolt technology is in the works, which will allow greater cable distances than the current six-meter limit from the copper-version. Intel stated that these new cables would be backwards compatible, meaning the electronics for the transmitting and receiving end would be built into the cable and
Nirvanix announced that the National Geographic Society has moved its backup and archival of large unstructured multi-media files to the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network to take advantage of the economic and on-demand agility benefits that the cloud brings. With the growth of their unstructured content files, the National Geographic Society needed an alternative to the
OCZ Technology has announced that Colfax International will deploy Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs into their new lines of enterprise servers. Colfax recently updated many of their platforms to be compatible with Intel’s latest dual socket Sandy Bridge-EP platform, which enables up to 80 lanes of Gen 3 PCIe throughput, effectively letting the Z-Drive R4 operate at its
Nexsan has announced the formation of a Technology Alliance Partnership with Veeam Software, an innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery, and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments. Nexsan and Veeam plan to deliver storage, backup, and replication solutions to enable highly scalable, advanced data protection optimized for hypervisor-independent cloud computing.
Fusion-io has announced that BetOnSoft, a global online gaming software provider, is accelerating its Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database to improve customer experience by integrating Fusion’s ioMemory platform. As such, the BetOnSoft platform can perform player profiling, fraud detection, and marketing analysis in real-time, with applications taking immediate automated actions based on the results.
Icy Dock has added another drive adaptor to their extensive lineup of hard drive and SSD kits, the DuoSwap 2.5″/3.5″ SATA Hot Swap Drive Caddy (MB971SP-B). The DuoSwap gives users the flexibility to mount both a 2.5″ and 3.5″ drive simultaneously in a 5.25″ bay within a desktop.
In enterprise datacenters, the focus of IT managers is evolving from pursuing the latest technologies and resources to ensuring that existing available resources are used most efficiently. By optimizing efficiency, enterprises can better protect their investments and ensure they achieve a high ROI.
After what seems like an eternity and objections from more governments than should be reasonable, Western Digital can finally breathe easy after announcing the close of the acquisition of Viviti Technologies Ltd., formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. The terms called for $3.9 billion in cash payment and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued
Hitachi has announced that EMC is now shipping the Ultrastar SSD400S SSDs in its Flash-based VNX Unified Storage systems. The EMC VNX solution is designed for mission critical Microsoft and Oracle database environments. The 34m SLC-based 2.5" SAS interface Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400S was selected for its reliability and endurance for these heavy write intense workloads.
TwinStrata has announced it is offering customers fast and flexible access to data stored on Google Cloud Storage through the TwinStrata CloudArray storage gateway. Additionally, TwinStrata has released a free CloudArray virtual appliance capable of handling up to 1TB of data (expandable to 50 petabytes), which is available for download.
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