List/Grid Tag Archives: EMC
EMC’s Lightning Strikes
The storage cognoscenti have been all a twitter this morning as EMC announces the details of “Project Lightning”, the flash-based server cache solution they previewed last May at EMCworld. The first version of the renamed VFCache is now available and i…
EMC Delivers On Server-Based Flash Storage
Originally unveiled last May and scheduled to ship in 2011, EMC’s PCIe/flash-based server cache technology, code-named Project Lightning, is now available under the name of VFCache. The enterprise storage giant has been the leader in enterprise flash d…
OASIS Targets Cloud Portability
The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee recently formed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the not-for-profit open standards consortium, along with se…
Dell Moves Ahead Fluidly in Storage
The IT industry is always adapting to new trends, from client-server and the PC revolution of the ’80s and ’90s to cloud computing and big data today. These trends inspire successful new vendor entrants, but they can also be problematic for established…
Are There No Fans For The FAN?
A few years ago, Brad O’Neill, then an analyst with the Taneja Group, coined the term FAN (file area network) to describe a virtualized file storage system. Organizations that build FANs that integrate multiple heterogeneous file stores presenting a si…
Thai Flooding Drives Disk Prices Up, Warranties Down
The effects of fall’s record-setting flooding in Thailand continue to reverberate throughout the storage industry. The flooding put several factories that made both completed disk drives for Seagate and Western Digital and components like platters, spi…
Dell Eyes Enterprise Storage
Dell is continuing to reinvent itself as a storage OEM with a series of product announcements that leverage its acquisitions, move it up-market toward the lucrative enterprise space and create new opportunities in the burgeoning Microsoft SharePoint ma…
EMC Throws Out Big-Data Lifesaver
Hot on the heels of its survey that shows we are drowning in a growing big-data deluge, EMC is announcing a lifesaver: the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP). Intended to serve as a foundation for the company’s data analytics strategy, it bring…
EMC: Big Data Crippled By Huge Skills Shortage
The opportunity to profit from the intersection of big data and data analytics is huge, but a new study from EMC reports a “rampant scarcity” for the prerequisite skills necessary for a company to capitalize on these opportunities. Only one-third of th…
Our Most Popular Data Protection Posts of 2011
It’s that time of year again, when we look into our rearview mirrors and our crystal balls. I’ll save my 2012 data protection predictions for a future blog post, although I will note that my “100% Accurate, Guaranteed!” predictions for 2011 all came true! For now, I want to reflect on the past year of [...]
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