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NetApp Better Leverages Flash with ONTAP Update
Today storage vendor NetApp announced the newest release of its widely-used storage OS, Data ONTAP. The update introduces a few major additions to the software with a big emphasis on security and automation. The platform can scale to 20 petabytes according to NetApp, “without the need to add more people to manage the environment.” The ...
SolidFire Announces Next Generation System with Double Capacity
Flash hardware vendor SolidFire announced a new system named SF6010, the successor of the SF3010 in many regards. It packs a raw hardware capacity of 6 terabytes and ‘effective capacity’ of up to 24TBs: SolidFire’s solution comes with deduplication and compression software that allows users to be much more efficient in the way they store ...
MemSQL Emerges from Stealth with $5M in the Bank
MemSQL is a brand new Y Combinator startup that announced a $5 million funding round today. A number of venture capital firms participated along with angel investors Paul Buchheit, Max Levchin, Aaron Levie and Ashton Kutcher, who has among other things Hollywood-related, also made a name for himself in the Silicon Valley VC scene. MemSQL ...
Xeround Adds the Joyent Cloud to its Support List
Xeround is a company that offers a database-as-a-service for MySQL apps that runs on platforms such as Amazon Web Services. The firm already optimized its solution for the majority of the more prominent names in the IaaS industry, and as of late it has started taking the smaller ones into account as well. Today Xeround ...
MapR Teams with Amazon for Hadoop-as-a-Service
There’s a lot of talk about organizations catching up with their data using technologies such as Hadoop, but for the most part that only applies to larger companies with the resources to maintain such an environment. There’s a big opening for more affordable analytical solutions, and MapR just jumped on the bandwagon. There are quite ...
FalconStor Shines in Emerging Markets Amidst Plans for Recovery
Data protection firm FalconStor received a Network World Asia Information Management Award this month in recognition of its virtual tape library solution. The company managed to come out on top in the backup category, one of the 21 industries that were reviewed by panelists. “We wish to congratulate FalconStor for developing a backup-and-recovery solution that ...
SAP Eyes Banking Sector for HANA Growth
SAP announced a number of Rapid Deployment solutions assembled specifically for the banking and financial services industry, an area that the company is also targeting with its HANA in-memory analytics platform and other products. These latest offerings bring together hardware, software and services in pre-set packages that individually target different areas. SAP is offering two ...
Intel Powers Up Supercomputers with Xeon Phi
High performance computing environments are a point of interest for several chip makers, and Nvidia in particular has been capitalizing on the huge potential of GPUs in such environments. These chipsets are compromised of hundreds of smaller cores rather than just a few of the more standard kind, and this proved handy not only for ...
Permabit Hires New VP of Sales
Permabit is the company behind the Albireo deduplication software that’s touted as being miles ahead of the competition in terms of speed – a claim that is backed up by several studies over the course of recent years. As of right now Permabit is an OEM supplier, working with enterprises to build data efficient technologies. ...
This Week in Big Data: Hadoop Summit, AvatarNode
This week Yahoo and Hortonworks, a spin-off from the internet portal operator, hosted the fifth annual Hadoop Summit. The press floodgates were opened even before the vendors had a chance to settle in their booths. The day before Hadoop Summit kicked off, Hortonworks announced its highly anticipated first product: The Hortonworks Data Platform. It does ...