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Gridiron builds mutant monster using NetApp's 'other' array

Engenio plus TurboCharger = flash-handling, data-caching beast
BMC Software logo

Big mainframe shops embiggen, says BMC survey

And the small fries emsmallen or jump to other fires
K2

Kaminario's K2 data-gobbling champ squeezes out 2 million IOPS

BuT enterprise-class storage isn't JUST about the numbers

Opinion

HP snorage must wake up before biz bosses kick it out of bed

Blocks and Files At the HP analyst day this week, enterprise group executive vice-president Dave Donatelli laid it on the line for subsidiary 3PAR and the StoreOnce team: you gotta help get us out of this place.

Gather round, EMC's ol' man Tucci knows Big Data's 'killer app'

Oracle OpenWorld Joe Tucci, EMC boss and non-Oracle oracle speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, said that predictive real-time analysis would be the killer Big Data application.
US TSA

Varonis pushes out cloudy file transaction-tracking snitch

I was on a storage start-up press tour of the eastern USA, taking in Miami, Boston and New York – don't ever say this business doesn't have its moments – and a supplier had cancelled, so we went to see Varonis instead. The company's Data Goverance Suite has a DatAdvantage set of modules which look at file transactions: creations, reads, writes and deletes by users.

News

OCZ VeloDrive

'Seagate's OCZ gobble was real, but went sour in CEO row'

Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Hynix does DDR 4

DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power

JEDEC spec has hit the books – now wait a year or two

'Double Stuf' Power7+ sockets: Yummy, but so is overclocking

Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
turbine

Google charms Greenpeace with wind powered data center deal

Oklahoma: Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
Comment Bubble 16
HP's ProLiant Gen8 servers

HP pitches four-socketeer Xeon E5 borg boxes

Consolidation is not futile

Acronis sucks up another Red Hatter

We'll do anything to get out of the backup ghetto
Comment Bubble 10

NetApp insists it won't drop StorageGRID

The Register's storage desk has been told by insiders that NetApp is going to drop its bought-in StorageGRID product in favour of an internal object development from its Indian operation.
HDS array range
Comment Bubble 16

HDS's young HUS array gets BIG new brother

HDS has merged its high-end array code with its low-end HUS hardware. The unified file, block and object storage HUS 100 array is barely two months old and now has a larger brother.
Stradivarius violin reproduction
Comment Bubble 13

UK air traffic controller lands 6,000-seater VDI on flashy Violin arrays

The UK's national air transportation service is basing a 6,000 seat private cloud VDI system on flash arrays from VIOLIN Memory.

Spotlight

Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
US TSA
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Microsoft System Center logo
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
Oracle Sparc T4-4 server
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
OCZ VeloDrive
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land