The all-flash storage systems market is perhaps the most contested part of the overall storage systems market today, with at least ten notable vendors in the area. This makes creating differentiation difficult.
One company has emerged to challenge the market. Skyera, a San Jose, CA based company, with its Skyhawk all-flash storage systems has turned the market on its head. Unique to Skyera is that it owns the research, design, and engineering of every major component within the storage system – from the flash memory, to its flash controller, the storage system controller, and finally the storage services and management layer. In doing so, Skyera claims it has optimized all the interaction between components resulting in more attractive pricing and improved performance. It also uniquely leverages consumer MLC and integrates 40 ports of gigabit Ethernet.
Big Data is certainly the buzzword du jour; and Hadoop is the buzz of Big Data. However, despite the revolutionary value that it has created both for enterprises and society at-large, has long suffered from being not ready for most enterprises. After all, Hadoop was not developed with “typical” and traditional organizations in mind.
Symantec, in partnership with Hortonworks, has developed an add-on for Symantec’s Cluster File System (CFS). This no-cost add-on for existing Symantec CFS customers has removed many of the barriers and objections to using Big Data for “Big Business”.
At Neuralytix, we are strong believers that as it relates to Big Data, “if you’re not doing it, your competitors are!™“
There has been a lot of discussion over the use of solid state storage in the datacenter. Where should flash be integrated? At the server? At the storage? In the storage network?
Violin Memory has announced the integration of data management services into its all flash storage devices, resulting in a full featured storage system. This significantly increases the available market to Violin and places it in a strong competitive position against leading storage vendors.
Mellanox Technologies announced record revenues, growth and net income on July 18, 2012. Neuralytix expects that Mellanox will continue to post record quarters for the foreseeable future, but believes that Cisco and others are likely to fight back claiming Ethernet’s dominance and pervasiveness.
When it’s all said and done, Big Data is not about technology, but how technology creates business value. In this Communiqué, Neuralytix examines the possible refining or re-defining of the concept of Big Data. We propose an alternative to the standard “V”’s that most of the market research firms have adopted.
Instead, Neuralytix proposes the following definition for Big Data: “a set of technologies that creates strategic organization value by leveraging contextualized complete data sets.”
