Thank you Samsung and Toshiba A looming NAND flash memory bottleneck will be pre-empted by a tenfold increase in data rate due to a new industry standard being promoted by Samsung and Toshiba.… Full published article at: Read More »

Who, us? Hitachi Data Systems doesn't have its own compression/deduplication technology but looks set to get it.… Full published article at: Read More »

Bigger tape library and SnapServer Overland Storage has announced a larger and LTO-5-supporting NEO tape library as well as a higher-capacity SnapServer.… Full published article at: Read More »

Mainframe battles back IBM has launched its next-generation System z mainframe, the zEnterprise 196. Now we will get to find out, in the next few quarters or so, if the mainframe business still has some legs and can grow or the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 has permanently knocked it down a peg or two.… Full published article at: Read More »

Seagate single-sourcing show-stopper Why isn't Xiotech, the supplier of sealed ISE enclosures of Seagate disk drives, not getting any OEM deals with the likes of NetApp and Xyratex?… Full published article at: Read More »

Dave Bailey, Computing, Thursday 22 July 2010 at 17:29:00 IBM defends mainframe business with blade server extension IBM today announced the zEnterprise System, mainframe technology, a system that it argues will give 60 per cent more performance using the same amount of power. ZEnterprise combines the new z196 mainframe server, the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, and software for managing workloads running on the system, called the Unified Resource Manager. The product offers customers the ability to bring specific applications normally run on other systems in the datacentre, onto the IBM's zEnterprise system using the BladeCenter Extension....Read More »

Don't mess up and make everyone hate you Regcast So you’re thinking about desktop virtualisation. Are you mad? Most of your colleagues think so. Your users hate you already, because you want to take away their PCs. Your boss suspects you’re going to blow the budget on a bunch of ugly dumb terminals that take half an hour to boot.… Full published article at: Read More »

NAS gateway for block storage IBM has given its XIV block-access storage array product a SONAS gateway to enable it to store files. Big Blue has also created a low-end Diligent ProtecTIER deduplication appliance.… Full published article at: Read More »

Parallel Nsight plug-in for Visual Studio, too If GPU coprocessors are going to go mainstream as adjuncts to CPUs in workstations and servers, the programming has to get easier and developers have to be able to exploit the languages, libraries, and development tools they have traditionally been using to create applications for PCs and servers.… Full published article at: Read More »

An eye on ZeusIOPS SSDs? A Hitachi GST solid state drive (SSD) is being shown at the Hitachi uValue 2010 convention in Tokyo.… Full published article at: Read More »