Outside the Box: Separating the Data from the Hardware
A veteran CIO recounted to me recently how responsive her IT organization has become once they started separating the data from the hardware. Before, it was common to have a hard drive failure and find out the user has not done a backup. Once they put the data in the...Brief: WOS Up With Object Storage
Current Overview On September 18, 2013, DataDirect Networks announced its new Web Object Scaler (WOS) 3.0 software, along with its WOS7000 object storage appliance. Neuralytix believes that Are be night spoiling viagra in dubai legal balm ir this every an, genaric...Brief: StorageX Returns … but disappoints
Current Overview On September 30, 2013, Data Dynamics, Inc., a Teaneck, N.J. concern released StorageX 7.0. StorageX was originally a software solution developed to enable a global namespace under Windows. NetApp subsequently OEM’d the product, calling it...Brief: Dedupe or Die!
Flash based storage companies have been hot lately – EMC’s acquisition of XtremIO last year, Western Digital’s (WD) recent acquisition of Virident, Cisco buying Whiptail, Violin Memory’s IPO roadshow, as well as financial market speculation on Fusion-IO’s acquisition. However, these vendors (and hybrid storage vendors) need to look to find opportunities to differentiate. The key areas for differentiation will be around data efficiency and performance. This Research Brief looks at how the flash based storage market is quickly consolidating and what vendors in the market have to do to be successful. Neuralytix’s opinion: dedupe or die!