Sold state Flash storage has seen strong adoption in consumer devices like the iPad, and is now making its way into the data center. In this video, Gary Orenstein of Fusion-io discusses the benefits of flash storage and provides an overview of the...
Servers and networks will soon be considerably faster, enabling companies to crunch more data and improve application performance. That’s the view of Andy Bechtolsheim, who knows a few things about servers and networks
Wednesday's Structure Big Data explored the world of huge datasets and the technology needed to mine its secrets and convert them into business intelligence. From the data center perspective, storing and processing all that data becomes more...
Facebook's appetite for solid-state storage has made it the largest customer for Fusion-io, which this week announced plans for an initial public offering. Facebook's use of SSD aligns with the company's relentless focus on performance and speed.
Although there is a fair amount of hype about the words "big data," it's also clear that there is value in scale and efficiencies of the information factories. Here's a look at some of the big numbers and trends in this area.
In a major deal in the storage industry, Western Digital announced Monday that it will acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for about $4.3 billion. Here's a roundup of notable analysis and commentary from around the web.
News from the SSD frontier: Fusion-io says it has sold 15 petabytes of enterprise flash storage in 2010, while Intel rolls out its new SSD 510 Series NAND Flash product.
Disk manufacturers are putting a new spin on an old product: Solid State Drives. EMC reports that it shipped more than 10 petabytes of SSD capacity last year. Will 2011 be the Year of the SSD?
Corporations have tried unsuccessfully to ditch tape in favor of other media for years. The arguments for replacing tape with SAN are compelling, but tape has two significant advantages over other media: cost and portability.