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‘Stale,’ ‘Orphan’ Data Hogging Storage, Index Finds

Companies are spending a lot of dough to store and archive data while trying to stay within increasingly strict data governance rules. Nevertheless, a new report on the "composition of enterprise data" concludes that mor Read more…

Western Digital Acquires Flash Vendor SanDisk

The recent spate of technology mergers resumed this week as storage specialist Western Digital Corp. announced it was acquiring flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp., for about $19 billion. Along with acquiring greater ac Read more…

Zettaset Patents Data Access Approach

Big data security specialist Zettaset said it has been awarded a U.S. patent for a technique designed to boost data access and performance in distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and NoSQL. Zettaset said this Read more…

Deep Dive Into HP’s New HPC & Big Data Business Unit

When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary of course. The split is meant to let the ‘new Read more…

Deep Gooses MySQL Performance with New Database Math

Deep Information Sciences today unveiled a new storage engine for MySQL that it claims will blow any other database engine out of the water in performance and scalability. The secret to creating a 1 trillion row database Read more…

Big Data Survey Finds Growing Need for CEP

A global survey of software developers working on big data and advanced analytics projects found that the large majority of respondents require real-time, complex event processing for their applications. The survey, r Read more…

Demand for Software-Defined Storage Is Up: Survey

Software-defined storage (SDS) is helping to simplify management of disparate storage devices while enabling IT administrators to "future-proof" enterprise networks, according to annual survey of the SDS market. Read more…

New Enterprise Economics of Storage: Cloud in Your NAS

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The explosion of data collection morphed into not only “big data,” but big unstructured data. According to an IDC Digital Universe published in late 2011, some 1.8 zettabytes of data would be created just that year. The rate of growth is expected to continue to climb, increasing exponentially year after year. Enterprise Strategy Group’s 2013 survey concluded that “rapid growth and management of unstructured data” was the most commonly named primary storage challenge among respondents. This data growth is putting a strain on IT infrastructure. Read more…

Top Five Use Cases Where All-Flash Arrays are Most Cost Efficient

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Solid state or flash based storage is a more expensive storage media when compared to HDDs on a dollar per gigabyte basis ($/GB). Yet, when intelligently integrated into a system with storage optimization technologies, storage vendors lower the acquisition cost and overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Moreover, $/IO is lowest with the use of solid state storage and dramatically lowers cost in several use cases. Read more…

Cisco Jumps Into the All-Flash Storage Array Game

There’s a new kid in the all-flash storage array business that's not really a kid at all. Networking giant, Cisco has signaled their intention of becoming a player in the budding flash arena with the acquisition of the all-flash storage vendor, WHIPTAIL. Announced last week, the acquisition will come with a price tag of approximately $415 million dollars and is expected to finish in Q1 of 2014. Read more…

Huawei, CCTV Partner to Dev on High Density ‘Big Data’ Storage

Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, will not be sitting on the sidelines as the world rolls out solutions aimed at supporting the big data technology trend. According to a report this morning, the company is partnering on a media storage device with energy efficiency aims that may turn heads. Read more…

DDN Casts Hadoop with HPC Hook

Between the ingestion, storage, processing and distribution of large, multi-structured data volumes, there is bound to be complexity, especially when it’s happening within a Hadoop cluster. However, according to HPC storage company, Data Direct Networks (DDN), all it takes to remedy the hassles is a Hadoop appliance that... Read more…

Gridstore Files Down Rip and Replace

The traditional model of jettisoning your old system and migrating to a new one in order to scale with your data is no longer necessary, according to storage startup Gridstore. The company recently discussed this traditional mode of addressing outgrowing.... Read more…

Quartz Crystallizes Long-Term Data Storage

The future of cheap, long-term data storage may be in DNA, where the wealth of human existence can essentially be crammed into a few grams and then plopped into a refrigerator for years. But after some joint tests carried out by Japanese electronics company Hitachi and Kyoto University’s Kiyotaka Miura, now know that the future of very long-term data storage may lie in quartz. 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…

Panasas Gets Real About Hadoop

The realms of HPC and enterprise big data have been thrust together via the tectonic force of the Hadoop push, but according to Panasas CTO, Brent Welch, it leaves a deep chasm for many use cases that can only be filled by rethinking storage approaches. More specifically, Welch believes high performance network attached storage (NAS) can Read more…

Researchers Target Storage, MapReduce Interactions

Increasing Hadoop’s efficiency is an important aspect of continuing its growth. As a result, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yahoo conducted a unique study on how MapReduce was accessing files in various Hadoop clusters... Read more…

DNA to Carry New Data Burden

Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute have taken a significant step forward, encrypting 700 terabytes of data such that a single gram of DNA would carry almost a zettabyte of information, defeating the previous DNA information density record by a factor of a thousand. Read more…

Objectfying Big Data Storage

Conversations about the viability of object-oriented storage for big data have been frequent lately, so we checked in with NetApp's lead of messaging behind their big data products to talk about what makes this storage paradigm work for some... Read more…

The Big Data Slice and Dice

Several companies have emerged, especially those boasting in-memory capabilities (SAP, SAS, IBM, Oracle, etc) for pulling together the variety to create real-time actionable information. Add to the list TIBCO, which today announced that it is.... Read more…

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