List/Grid Tag Archives: storage
What are the difficulties in creating any form of Integrated data storage?
I’m doing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. The Course is Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence refers to a conceptual framework for decision support. It combines architecture, databases(or data warehouses), analytical tools, …
Thought Experiment–Forget ROI
Boys and girls, today’s homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CXO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is, of course, one catch: You may not factor in ROI. We’re dropping ROI…
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…
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…
Year In Review: Virtualization Hot in 2011
Virtualization was second only to cloud computing as a priority for 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries in Gartner’s 2011 CIO Agenda survey, released in January. Whi…
Big Data A Big Pain In The Network
Data center-to-data center connectivity is a “silent killer” for big data deployments, according to a study by Infineta Systems, a provider of WAN optimization systems for big traffic, with a vested interest in big data networking. The study, conducted…
Rapid Backup And Retrieval With Riverbed’s Whitewater
Cloud storage brings cost effective offsite backup and retrieval capabilities to small and midsize businesses, but using cloud storage as an external disk is not as effective as it seems, particularly as the data set grows. It takes time to send and re…
Red Hat Acquires Storage Firm Gluster
Gluster has been acquired by the open source vendor Red Hat, forming the core of a storage unit that is being created around the acquisition and that will be headed by both Gluster and Red Hat staff. With the acquisition, users will be able to use open…
How The BlueArc Acquisition Tightens HDS’ Storage Strategy
On the one hand, the recent acquisition by HDS of BlueArc simply affirmed the symbiotic relationship that the two companies have. But in another sense, it represents tighter integration, such as for product development plans and resources allocated to …
