Archives for August, 2010
Microsoft douses VMware with cold cloud shower
‘We have the apps you trust’
Microsoft has told users they’ve got “nothing to lose” by checking out the company’s Azure cloud and hosted applications before committing to a deal with archrival VMware.…
Hitachi GST IPO may be coming
Reuters saying – so it isn’t spin
Via Aaron Rakers of Stifel Nicolaus I’m hearing Hitachi GST may be being prepped for an IPO.…
EMC embracing benchmarks
Celerra gateway excels
EMC has darted getting enthusiastic about benchmarks, the latest being the SPECsfs2008-nfs v3 one. It submitted a Celerra VG8 Gateway system, that’s a NAS head sitting atop either Symmetrix VMAX or CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage. This VG8 is a bit of a monster with up to eight data movers, called X-Blades, which contain [...]
IT engineer fights spider with improvised flamethrower
Can of deodorant + lighter = hospital
An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.…
Free On-Demand Webcast – Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
Toshiba Announces 24nm NAND Flash Memory
Toshiba has announced it has started mass production of 24nm NAND flash memory, hot on the heels of Intel’s recent 25nm announcement.
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Project Horizon: VMware’s plan to restitch the desktop
Your cloud identity
VMware has released new versions of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its ThinApp application streaming software, while promising some sort of consumer “cloud identity” offering sometime next year.…
VMware blows vCloud across skies public and private
Project Redwood is go
VMware has officially lifted the curtain on Project Redwood, its long-expected platform for building so-called infrastructure clouds. Now known as vCloud Director, the platform underpins Amazon EC2-like public clouds from VMware partners such as Verizon, but it’s also a means of building similar services inside private data centers. The idea is to [...]
Quantum soups up midrange DXi
DXi6700 gets Fibre Channel
Quantum has added Fibre Channel access to its DXi6500 mid-range to make the DXi6700 with a 3.5TB/hour data rate.…
Free On-Demand Webcast – Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
BlueArc goes for deduplication
Permabit is the lucky guy
Fast filer supplier BlueArc is going to embed Permabit’s Albireo deduplication software into its products, enabling more data to be stored in the same disk capacity.…
Physicists, biologists pick ScaleMP to manage memory
Bigger is better
Blog ScaleMP made some HPC news lately by announcing that the Bielefeld University Physics Department has selected ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation software.…
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