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Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM Appliances Ease Deployment of DB2 BLU Analytics

October 11th, 2013 Comments Off on IBM Appliances Ease Deployment of DB2 BLU Analytics
Back in April, IBM put out a tech preview of its BLU Acceleration in-memory feature for its DB2 database. Now the software is shipping, and the company is packaging it up into an appliance to make it easier for ...

Spectra Logic Rides the Data Explosion Wave with Tape

October 11th, 2013 Comments Off on Spectra Logic Rides the Data Explosion Wave with Tape
If you listen to the quarterly conference calls of the big IT suppliers who play in the tape market, as we at EnterpriseTech do, invariably you hear them bemoan the fact that their tape storage businesses are on the ...

Facebook Gooses Performance on Open Source Flashcache

October 10th, 2013 Comments Off on Facebook Gooses Performance on Open Source Flashcache
Facebook likes to share some of the techniques it has developed to speed up the performance of its Web applications, and one of its key homegrown tools is called Flashcache. A new version of the open source Flashcache software ...

Whiptail Flash Is About Revving Compute, Says Cisco

October 10th, 2013 Comments Off on Whiptail Flash Is About Revving Compute, Says Cisco
There has been a lot of talk since Cisco Systems acquired flash array startup Whiptail for $415 million a month ago. Everyone wants to know if the networking giant is going to take on the incumbents in storage as ...

Yahoo, NASCAR Intrigued by Spectra DS3 Object Storage for Tape

October 10th, 2013 (1)
Tape is not dead by any stretch of the imagination at the largest data centers of the world. But it could very well be that the bell is tolling for traditional tape backup software. Tape library maker Spectra Logic ...

IBM Slashes Hardware Prices to Push Linux on Power

October 9th, 2013 Comments Off on IBM Slashes Hardware Prices to Push Linux on Power
As it had been hinting to EnterpriseTech that it would do, IBM has taken a page out of its mainframe playbook and is offering cut-throat prices on processing capacity and memory for its largest Power Systems machines when they run ...

Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters

October 9th, 2013 Comments Off on Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from none other than Unisys. The Forward systems, which go into ...

Dell CTO And Fellow Talk Enterprise Tech Convergence

October 9th, 2013 Comments Off on Dell CTO And Fellow Talk Enterprise Tech Convergence
Dell is no stranger to the enterprise data centers of the world and it is the dominant supplier of systems to hyperscale data center operators. The company also has built a few very large supercomputer clusters and is the ...

Integrated Systems Sales Are Booming, Says IDC

October 7th, 2013 Comments Off on Integrated Systems Sales Are Booming, Says IDC
Sales of servers and storage arrays may be looking a bit weak these days, but enterprise customers are starting to invest in integrated systems to boost the performance of their applications and to make their lives easier. And thus, ...

Verizon’s New Cloud Is AMD SeaMicro Inside

October 7th, 2013 Comments Off on Verizon’s New Cloud Is AMD SeaMicro Inside
Advanced Micro Devices has been looking for a big server maker to adopt its SeaMicro microserver chassis and integrated fabric interconnect, but has found no takers. AMD has, however, inked its first big technology agreement deal with none other ...
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