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DotCloud Cloud Adds Support for MySQL, MongoDB and Redis
DotCloud announced that its cloud management platform now supports three of the most popular databases used in cloud deployments: MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, a relatively new NoSQL database. DotCloud was founded in 2010 and launched less than half a year ago with support for 12 languages and databases. The company offers a platform-as-a-service to simplify ...
QLogic Latest IT Firm to Buy Back Stock
Networking gear vendor QLogic is the latest tech company that announced a stock buyback recently. In a press release that went out today, QLogic confirmed that its board has authorized a repurchase of $200 worth of its own shares over the period of the next two years. This news follows a couple of major updates ...
Quantum Updates Disk, Tape Offerings
Quantum announced the latest versions of its DXi8500 disk system and the Scalar i6000 tape library, as well as its Quantum Vision storage and backup analytics tool. DXi8500 features the new DXi 2.1 software, which the company claims makes its offering the “the fastest and highest-capacity single deduplication appliance.” It can scale from 40 to ...
AMD Challenges Intel with New Chip, Rapid Expansion
It seems some of the major storage vendors are starting to look beyond Intel. The chipmaker has some very ambitious plans to expand in areas where its market share is relatively small (namely mobile), though it’s seeing competition heating up in its home turf at the same time. This week Advanced Micro Devices debuted the ...
ScaleXtreme Adds to Cloud Management Platform
ScaleXtreme has launched Dynamic Server Assembly into general availability, a new feature that’s now included in its ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert cloud software. The solution, which is available in both a free and a premium edition, aims to help companies provision and run cloud deployments across a number of cloud service providers as well as in-house facilities. It ...
Revolution R 5.0: Hadoop Integration, New Features
Revolution Analytics launched the latest version of its software suite for analytics projects based on the R programming language, Revolution R 5.0. The solution now provides users with the ability to tap two of the biggest buzzwords in the big data analytics space today: Hadoop, and operation at scale. “Erik Segur, Michigan State University’s Information ...
Dell’s Take on I/O in the Cloud Datacenter
Dell recently released a case study about NIC partitioning (NPAR), a method that splits an Ethernet port into four virtual ports and consequently saves PCI Express (PCIe) slots. It also lets admins to provision bandwidth to VMs and software running on them regardless of the OS or hypervisor, thus reducing I/O bottlenecks. Dell has been collaborating ...
Nutanix Shows Off Its Fusion-Power
Scale-out SAN appliance maker Nutanix demonstrated the performance of its Fusion ioMemory-powered Nutanix Complete Cluster in 50-node benchmark. Each node was equipped with a 320 GB ioDrive. This marks the latest milestone for Fusion-io, a Utah-based manufacturer of flash storage systems and related software that are known for delivering significant performance boosts. “The innovative use of ...
Datacenter Virtualization: It’s Complicated
Companies are virtualizing to optimize their hardware resources, lowering the number of servers and consequently power needed to run jobs. Virtualization can also boost overall efficiency beyond just lowered costs, to include an increase in performance and agility as well, but you need to get it to work first. Bert Latamore wrote up a piece ...
Sony, Competitors Expand Gaming Strategy Amidst Mobile Takeover
Electronics maker Sony is hoping to push the borders of its gaming ecosystem outwards by opening up for developers. No official launch date has been announced just yet, but a beta version of the PlayStation Suite SDK will be offered to select developers in the U.S, Japan and Korea. It leverages C# and can be ...