Storage this week pretty much covered the gamut of the entire industry, from hyper-convergence to optical discs that blow Blu-Ray out of the water, it had a taste of all of the delicacies emerging technology has to offer.  Here’s a recap of this week’s top stories and news developments in the storage place.  Enjoy!

Hyperconvergence: the Next Tidal Wave in IT Infrastructure

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Organizations have traditionally acquired the biggest servers, storage and networking equipment money could buy, all to get the best performance and capabilities. But with virtualization now making its way into the enterprise, these traditional solutions are no longer enough. Enter Converged Infrastructure: all of the features every CI should have and why the buck stops with virtualization.

Diablo Technologies Emerges with Revolutionary Flash Technology That Could Change the Industry

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Diablo Technologies came out of stealth this week with a technology platform known as Memory Channel Storage™ (MCS) and it is designed to fit into the DRAM memory channels of any server. The storage can then be presented to the system as either storage or RAM. No other vendor has approached flash architecture in this way and once it takes hold in the marketplace, latency will largely be a thing of the past – this will have a massive effect on the systems that drive big data, cloud, databases, and virtualization.

Flash-Aware Applications Take Step toward Reality with Fusion-io Announcements

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According to Wikibon CTO David Floyer, “Fusion-io has added atomic writes, eliminating the problem of partial writes and the need to use technologies such as the double-write buffer in MySQL.” Fusion-io recent donated a flash-aware demand paging extension to allow flash as a target for demand paging and an NVMKV interface to the Open Source community. The result is a huge increase in performance of MySQL and other databases, particularly when hybrid or all-flash arrays are integrated with flash on the server, ensuring that database performance will keep pace with the advances in processing power.

Viewing The World Through A PRISM – Part II

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In Part II, we explore how and if large-scale intelligence gathering schemes could or should be dismantled. Rounding out the article will be an exploration of some of the ways one might try to maintain even a modicum of privacy in their waking lives.

4K Video Demands Better than Blu-Ray : Sony + Panasonic Create Next-Gen Optical Disc

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Sony and Panasonic have signed an agreement principally to unite their efforts in developing the next generation of optical media. The goal is to expand the capacity of optical archiving digital media by 2015, while providing a compatible system with older generation devices. The two companies have thus met the growing demand of the storage market, especially for the video industry, but also for cloud computing. Currently, Blu-Ray is the larger standard among companies, with a storage capacity ranging from 25 to 100 GB (depending on the number of layers used).