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Enterprise Storage: IT's Next Revolution February 15, 2012 
Enterprise storage is currently in the midst of a great transformation the likes of which have not been seen in well over two decades. There's been an unprecedented amount of activity in the storage space this year, with a host of promising new companies launching and major storage vendors beginning to drastically retool their architectures.
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Cache as Cache Can: New SSD Options Boost Performance February 14, 2012 
Last week saw a pair of announcements by major vendors that reflect the degree to which solid state disk or flash caching technologies are moving into the mainstream: 1) IBM announced several key enhancements to its latest XIV Gen3 solutions; and 2) EMC announced VFCache, a new server flash caching solution that increases throughput by 3X while reducing latency by 60 percent.
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Is GDrive Ready to Come Out of Its Shell? February 10, 2012 
Google may soon launch a paid cloud storage service called "Drive," five years after it first came up with the idea. Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google's servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device, according to a report.
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Storage Tech Sizzles With Hot, Hot Hard Drives February 09, 2012 
An international team of researchers led by the University of York in England has demonstrated fast data recording on hard drives using heat. They used an ultra-short pulse of heat to reverse the poles in a ferrimagnet in order to write the data.
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Legit Megaupload Users Could Be Out of Luck January 30, 2012 
The U.S. Attorney's Office handling the case against Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom and associates has informed the court it's OK to begin deleting the Megaupload data beginning on Feb. 2, according to press reports. The two storage companies that host Megaupload data are free to sweep their servers clean.
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Big Data's Big Challenges for Content Management January 25, 2012 
As many know, content is getting bigger -- way bigger -- and this is scary to many technologists. At the same time, it's also getting smarter. Applications are growing more complex, challenging IT pros as never before. How will these changes impact content management technologies? It's difficult to predict exactly, but there are insights to be found and used to plan for the future.
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gTLD Security Threat Less Than Meets the Eye January 16, 2012 
Despite the pleas of some regulators and the advertising industry, the overlords of the Internet -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- plunged forward last week with its plan to drastically expand the number of generic top level domains on the Net.
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IBM Discovers How to Store Data in a Dozen Atoms January 13, 2012 
Researchers at IBM's Almaden Labs have created a 12-atom magnetic memory bit, in a continuation of work on atomic-level memory storage first posited in 1959 by American physicist Richard Feynman. Disk drives currently use about 1 million atoms to store a single bit of information, according to IBM.
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EMC's Atmos Smooths the Path to Cloud-Based Storage as a Service December 06, 2011 
New enhancements to EMC's Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform are designed to ease the way enterprises and service providers implement and access public and private cloud storage. VMware vApp packaging should simplify installation, and improved visibility and reporting tools provide the means to expand cloud metering services and improve administrative reporting and controls
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Big Money for Big Data November 09, 2011 
Accel Partners is launching a $100 million fund to identify -- and fund -- entrepreneurs at every layer of the big data stack, in particular, those developing projects for the Apache Hadoop platform. The Accel Big Data Fund is aligned with Cloudera, which is pushing development in Hadoop.
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How to Publish Your Own DVDs Now That Lulu Has Quit November 05, 2011 
Open publishing platform Lulu is known for making a global print-on-demand, disc manufacturing, and distribution and fulfillment network available to independent authors, filmmakers and other individuals. For several years, creators have been able to make everything from hard-cover and paperback books to photo calendars, CDs and DVDs available in both Web-based and brick-and-mortar outlets around the world.
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IBM Aims to Whittle Big Data Down to Size October 27, 2011 
IBM debuted industry-specific data analytics tools for the healthcare and communication sectors at its Information on Demand conference. These packages are part of IBM's drive to help companies manage their information processes and data storage needs as efficiently as possible. For the communications analytics appliance, IBM is leveraging the technology it acquired through Netezza.
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Dropbox Collects a Trunkful of Cash October 19, 2011 
Dropbox has completed a $250 million Series B financing -- a windfall for a company whose fundraising up until now has netted $7.2 million. The financing was led by Index Ventures. Dropbox plans to use its new riches to accelerate its growth, make acquisitions, pursue partnerships and otherwise grow the company.
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VDI Planning Guide: Highly Available Desktops October 05, 2011 
A key advantage of virtualization is the ability to decouple an operating system from its hardware layer. This improves flexibility and maximizes uptime. Virtual server infrastructure commonly utilizes this flexibility to provide high availability, moving virtual servers between hosts.
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Red Hat Grabs Gluster in Big Data Play October 05, 2011 
In a move to expand its enterprise cloud storage capabilities, Red Hat will spend $136 million to acquire Gluster, a storage company that builds management tools for data centers and cloud services. The companies announced the deal Tuesday, and the deal is expected to close by the end of the month.
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IBM to Build Super-Storage Phenom August 29, 2011 
IBM is working on a 120-petabyte storage array that will consist of 200,000 disk drives, according to the MIT Technology Review. The array is expected to store about 1 trillion files. It's being developed for a client that needs a new supercomputer for detailed simulations of real-world phenomena.
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