Today NetApp announced that the DoE has selected the company to provide the storage foundation for its pending 20 Petaflop Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Based on the IBM Blue Gene/Q architecture, Sequoia is expected to start shipping in 2011 and be fully deployed in 2012. Sequoia’s supercomputing capabilities will provide LLNL with […]
SDSC Launches Massive Data Storage Cloud for Researchers
September 28, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.sdsc.edu (share this clip) This week the San Diego Supercomputer Center announced the launch of what is believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S., specifically designed for researchers, students, academics, and industry users who require stable, secure, and cost-effective storage and sharing of digital information, including extremely large […]
Sponsored Post: Whitepaper – The New Reliability Requirements: Tape Libraries
September 27, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.spectralogic.com (share this clip) What is Reliability? Very often in the tape storage market, the word “reliability” appears, yet it is difficult to find a comprehensive definition of reliability. In some cases, it means redundant hardware: in others, read‐ after‐write technology. While reliability is an important factor in tape library technology, if a […]
HP Storage Hobbled by Board's Indecision
September 22, 2011 by
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Opinion The future of HP’s vibrant storage business has been made uncertain by HP CEO and board shenanigans, culminating with the latest uncertainty over CEO Leo Apotheker. Before his dismissal, former CEO Mark Hurd relaid the foundations of the storage business by hiring David Donatelli away from EMC, buying […]
DDN Rolls Out "World’s Fastest Integrated Block and File Storage Appliance"
September 21, 2011 by
This week DataDirect Networks unveiled what it called the “World’s Fastest Integrated Block and File Storage Appliance.” The DDN SFA10K-X is a high-performance, scalable solution that will meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s data-intensive organizations,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and cofounder, DataDirect Networks. “Our relentless focus on solving the challenges of the Big Data […]
AMAX Showcases Accelerated Storage Technologies at SEG 2011
September 20, 2011 by
This week AMAX is showcasing scalable Big Data storage solutions at the SEG 2011 conference. The AMAX StorMax-X2 iSCSI clustered storage and StorMax-X3 Scale-Out NAS storage solutions are designed to service customer demand for smaller meta-data as well as large datasets used in applications like 3D seismic imaging and Reverse Time Migration. With the appropriate […]
Are We Not Learning Our Lessons About File Systems?
September 17, 2011 by
Our favorite storage pundit Henry Newman continues his two-part series, “The Evolution of Stupidity,” explaining how file system issues seemingly resolved more than 20 years ago are again rearing their heads. In the mid-1980s, most of the open system file systems came as part of a standard Unix release from USL. A few vendors, such […]
Intel Shows Off New Technologies on Road to Exascale
September 16, 2011 by
Jack Clark from ZDNet reports that many-core processors, power-saving chips and advanced memory technologies will all come into play if Intel is to reach its goal of developing an exascale computer by 2018. The challenge here is generating that much computing power within a modest 20 megawatt-power budget. Today a petaflop[-scale] computer is burning something […]
Podcast: BlueArc to Help HDS Conquer HPC & Unstructured Big Data
September 13, 2011 by
In this podcast, I interview Mike Gustafson and Bjorn Andersson of BlueArc. The company was recently acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. Questions: BlueArc already did a lot of OEM business with Hitachi Data Systems. What do you think was the most compelling reason why they decided to acquire BlueArc? I always thought of HDS as […]
Podcast: CDM's Big Data Summit Comes to Miami Nov. 8-10
September 12, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.bigdatasummit.us (share this clip) In this podcast, Rich Brueckner from inside-BigData.com discusses the challenges and rewards of Big Data Analytics. Brueckner’s new site is a proud sponsor of CDM’s first annual Big Data Summit, which will take place in Miami on November 8-10, 2011. The Big Data Summit is an opportunity for C-level […]
