by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Kaminario has introduced the world’s fastest SAN storage, the K2. If time is money, this is for you. DRAM Kaminario’s K2 is fast because DRAM, not disk, is the primary storage. DRAM’s low latency, high bandwidth and durability breaks the tight link...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Clusters, Video |
Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They’d raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Brilliant NetApp is buying Bycast, the little-known but likely most successful scale-out file storage company. Bycast has several hundred customers, many installed petabytes, leadership in a growing market segment – medical imaging – and a compelling value...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company’s assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They’ve had some success with their containerized compute/storage...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
I moderated a panel on cloud storage at Tom Coughlin’s Storage Visions 2010 conference. Some good stuff came out of it. 4 companies presented: IBM, Bycast, Cleversafe and Asankya. IBM, now a services company, talked about the service needs of cloud providers or...
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