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Latest DDN Launch Fills out its WOS Object Storage Line

DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once mainly restricted to ‘cold’ ar Read more…

Huawei, Startup Collaborate on Big Data Object Storage

Chinese networking giant Huawei has collaborated with a University of California at Berkeley spinoff on a big data storage acceleration platform with the goals of boosting the performance of analytics and other applicati Read more…

Software-Defined Storage Takes Off As Big Data Gets Bigger

The ongoing explosion of data is forcing users to adapt their storage methodologies beyond traditional file- and block-level storage. Object stores and software-defined storage mechanisms, in particular, are quickly gain Read more…

How Joyent Uses OS Virtualization to Deliver its Manta Object Storage Platform

The infrastructure service cloud provider, Joyent, has plunged deeper into the big data game with Manta, their own cloud object store and data services platform that they claim will serve to spur a wave of big data innovation in the cloud. We caught up with Joyent Senior Vice President of Engineering, Bryan Cantrill, who oversees the development of Joyent’s core platform, to talk about their latest step into the big data arena and where they are going with Manta. Read more…

How Object Storage and Information Dispersal Address Big Data Challenges

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As unstructured data volumes continue to grow, more and more companies will reach the petabyte milestone and confront the challenges associated with managing very large storage environments. Storage technologies that can deliver massive scalability while ensuring reliability and availability are already emerging to meet their needs. Object storage and information dispersal are being adopted by leading-edge organizations for whom the delivery and analysis of large amounts of unstructured data is mission-critical. Read more…

Object Storage and the Unstructured Data Boom

This week we caught up with object storage evangelist, Tom Leyden, to talk about how unstructured data is becoming the prevalent data type at many large and data-driven organizations and how storage needs to evolve to meet these challenges.... Read more…

The Application Angle to Unstructured Data

This week, Tom Leyden from Amplidata broke the interview-as-marketing vehicle mold when he thoughtfully addressed what big data needs he’s hearing about, the shifting nature of applications, and the role of cloud models... Read more…

Big Unstructured Data and the Case for Optimized Object Storage

The world of data storage is marked by ongoing innovation, but major paradigm shifts in technology are much less frequent. A really major transition in storage paradigm hasn’t occurred since the introduction of network storage including Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) and technology, to augment Direct Attached Storage (DAS) technology in the 1990’s. Read more…

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