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EMC’s DSSD purchase legitimizes low-latency storage
EMC’s purchase of flash storage startup DSSD, a venture EMC and SAP partly funded, has legitimized the very low latency storage marketplace, writes Wikibon Cofounder and CTO David Floyer in “EMC to acquire DSSD”. Developed by storage OS engineers Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore to extract maximum performance and capacity from flash chips, DSSD is ...
EMC World a must see in storage | #EMCworld2014 | #CIOAngle
EMC World 2014 is the largest event in storage, and growing. Forty percent of this year’s attendees are new to the conference, and 165 journalists and 105 analysts are attending. EMC dominates the storage industry and is expected to make a series of important announcements. If you can’t be at EMCWorld this year, follow all ...
IBM turning the corner at Impact | #IBMImpact2014
IBM has bet its future on cracking the high growth business cloud services market dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). At February’s IBM Pulse 2014, it announced its 100 percent realignment behind this make-or-break effort. At the just completed Impact 2014 it showed that it is turning the corner to become a 21st Century cloud ...
The cost of migrating to new storage arrays hikes prices 54%, adds complexity
The cost of migrating to a new storage array adds about 54 percent to the price of the new array and involves complexities including application downtime, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Cost of Storage Array Migration in 2014”. This discourages migration to new array technologies such as Server SAN and solid-state storage, delaying their ...
The mainframe dinosaur roars at 50 | #CIOangle
IBM’s System z mainframe is celebrating 20 years of double-digit growth in annual installed capacity, driven by the Internet and mobile computing. System z mainframes process 30 billion business transactions daily and up to 150,000 transactions a second in peak loads. Not bad for a system that traces its ancestry back 50 years to the ...
IBM Impact promises insight into IBM cloud progress | #IBM Impact | #CIOangle
If IBM Pulse in February was about IBM’s strategic realignment around a cloud services strategy built around SoftLayer, Impact promises insights on IBM’s progress in building presence in the cloud market dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). And while it is not yet matching AWS in growth, IBM will show evidence that it is building ...
IBM Announces Cloud App Store for the Enterprise | #IBM Impact
IBM kicks off Impact 2013 this morning by announcing the first cloud service marketplace for the enterprise, a single place on the IBM Cloud where customers can see all the SaaS, major infrastructure pieces and developers’ tools available on IBM SoftLayer. The IBM cloud marketplace is organized into three sections for the three major constituencies ...
Server SAN boosts MySQL performance by 3X
Companies can increase MySQL performance by 3 times by using the new Linux Atomic Write and NVM compression extensions in a Server SAN configuration, attaching flash storage either through PCIe or DIMM and eliminating SCSI code designed to support slow spinning disks, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “MySQL receives over 3X Boost ...
SolidFire expands into Asia-Pac
All-flash storage system vendor SolidFire has announced the opening of an Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and the expansion of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) team. The new and expanded offices will support its growing number of international customers, both companies building private clouds and public cloud service providers. Over the last year SolidFire ...
Watson becomes everybody’s personal shopper
IBM’s cognitive computing platform, Watson, will become your personal online shopping concierge thanks to an alliance between IBM and Fluid Inc., announced today. The Fluid Expert Shopper (XPS), built on Watson, will absorb vast quantities of product information and match online shoppers to the products that best fit their needs. Need a tablet with a ...