Data Center
Cloud company foraged for hard drives to stay afloat
Backblaze employees banned by COSTCO after PLUNDERING stores
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Cisco lobbied telco customers to steer clear of Huawei
Marketing campaign painted Chinese firm as a threat
Compuware puffs up Outage Analyzer to fight performance anxiety
Ad serving and web analytics services have high failure rate... who knew?
TLC NAND could penetrate biz with flash-to-flash backup
VMworld Barcelona Who'll lead the dash to flashedy-flash?
NetApp and Cisco waggle shrunken ExpressPod at Hitachi and friends
VMworld Get a load of our converged convergement
Tintri's VDI flash disk mix: The kit that booted 1,000 virtual desktops
VMWorld Barcelona Legion of clones spawned in just 9 seconds each
Unisys pumps up ClearPath mainframes with Xeon E5s
Just about all Intel Inside and all done with homegrown CPUs
Opinion
Flashboys: HEELLLP, we're trapped in a process size shrink crunch
The NAND flash industry is facing a process size shrink crunch and no replacement technology is ready. Unless 3D die stacking works, we are facing a solid state storage capacity shortage.
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog While at IBM’s Smarter Computing Summit last week, I had the great pleasure of hearing Big Blue's Bernie Meyerson talk about limits to today’s tech, and the associated implications.
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.
News
ARM upstart Calxeda pours $55m into server chip war chest
Hints at future 64-bit processors
Integrated storage hardware is DEAD, software firm says
VMworld It's the food and the service that count, not the plates
VMware crams more cloudy calories in vCloud Suite's cakehole
VMworld Europe Chubby control freak now with more to grab hold of
Face-recognising spy drone tech tapped up by... Quantum
Storage giant jumps into live video processing game
Citrix XenServer 6.1 fires live VMs from cannon across servers
Wanna avoid downtime? Well, just put this helmet on...
IBM wrestles controls, pulls midrange array sales out of death dive
EMC strato-jet looks down as other flap wings, gasp
This supercomputing board can be yours for $99. Here's how
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
IBM unchains new storage monsters to spook upstart hybrids
What you need to know from Big Blue's latest info dump
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.
Cloud storage exempt from Ninefold's uptime boost
Australian public cloud company Ninefold is claiming new levels of reliability and availability but still runs its cloud storage service from a single data centre.
Oracle nudges Sparc T5s back out to 2013
OpenWorld 2012 This time last year at Oracle's OpenWorld extravaganza, John Fowler, Oracle's executive vice president of hardware, revealed a faster-paced roadmap for Sparc processors that showed the Sparc T5 chip being pulled into late 2012 from its original early 2013 delivery date. It now looks like Oracle needs a little more time to put the spit and polish on the Sparc T5.
Spotlight
Comment Stuck faucet? Force it
How can we escape the dreaded NAND-woes?
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
