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Sick of hearing about it @PDAguerrilla
As an e-book reader and advocate going back 15-plus years, I am getting thoroughly sick of hearing about the wonderful heft and smell and feel of physical books. Every time I hear a discussion (usually a podcast) someone waxes poetic about the physical experience of books. In this case I was listening to the “To ...
Fusion-IO, EMC take early Xflash lead
Xflash, low-latency (microsecond to nanosecond) server SAN storage (LoLaSeS) storage, is the last unfilled segment of the NAND flash market, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “Enabling Real-time Big Data Processing with Xflash – Very Low Latency Server SANs.” This architecture combines RDMA over Infiniband for extremely high bandwidth networking over very short ...
IBM, Marist College testing instant long distance VM transfer
IBM and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, are testing a system they codeveloped to support near-instant network reconfiguration to allow dynamic movement of VMs over long distances between data centers in emergencies. The methodology, which requires a software-defined network, allows network administrators to pre-program network reconfiguration and move VMs and associated data out of harms ...
Treasure Data leads public cloud big data services market — for now
Treasure Data has taken a leadership position in providing the first end-to-end public cloud-based big data analysis service, writes Jeff Kelly in “Treasure Data Looks to the Cloud to Unlock Big Data Value”. The just announced service provides a complete workflow from data ingestion through transformation & storage, to processing, analytics and visualization. The real ...
Automate Management of Your Cloud for Efficiency, Agility
Businesses of all sizes with private or hybrid clouds, and particularly smaller organizations, should automate provisioning and management of their cloud resources to increase flexibility and efficiency, writes Consultant Amy Bishop in “Maximize the Private Cloud with Automation Strategies“. Although she does not identify any by name, she writes that several good tool sets are ...
Battle is joined in flash storage | #TheCIOAngle
A war is waging in the storage industry and the skirmish is shaping up between large established players as well as upstarts. The new battleground is flash storage. Industry giant IBM made an acquisition to enter the business (Texas Memory Systems) while HP chose to develop internally on top of 3PAR. EMC took the acquisition ...
IBM, Nvidia Announce Partnership Around Power Servers
IBM and high-end GPU processor manufacturer Nvidia have announced a partnership to accelerate the floating point processing of IBM’s high-end Power Systems servers with Nvidia Tesla GPU chips. This will be the first time that the Nvidia GPUs, popular in high-performance computing (HPC) and used on about 50 of the top 500 supercomputers in operation ...
Scale up or scale out – the choice depends on the need
In his latest professional Alert, “Business Needs Dictate the Importance of Scale Up vs Scale Out Storage”, Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe makes an important point that is often lost in the discussion of new online architectures, Big Data, and other ‘sexy” subjects – while scale out is great for some applications, scale up ...
EMC’s long-awaited XtremeIO flash array : less than overwhelming
Thursday November 14 EMC made its long awaited announcement of general availability of the first version of the XtremIO all flash array technology, 18 months after it purchased the flash storage startup and nearly eight months after starting a limited release to a few favored customers. Overall the initial announcement is less than overwhelming, considering ...
Got server sprawl? Consider a mainframe. The CIO Angle
Reality today for many midrange-to-enterprise level IT shops is a “one of everything” environment that demands lots of individual attention, and, in increasing numbers of cases, a data center that is running low on power, cooling, and space. Server virtualization can help some by extracting operational management of individual servers to an overall software level, ...