A First Look at Pure Storage’s FlashBlade

On March 14, 2016, Pure Storage announced its new FlashBlade solid state array. Differentiated from its flagship product, FlashArray//m, FlashBlade focuses more on capacity and sharing data. According to Pure Storage’s own press release, the FlashBlade, which consists...

Report finds SLC not more reliable than MLC

Introduction At the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’16) held in Santa Clara, CA from February 22, 2016 to February 25, 2016, researchers Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto, Raghav Lagisetty and Arif Merchant, Google Inc. concluded...

Cloud Computing Drives a New Era in IT Business

Executive Summary by Janet Waxman, Tom Petrocelli, Jean Bozman Cloud computing represents a shift in enterprise IT. It affects how IT resources and applications are created, purchased, and deployed. Colloquially known as The Cloud, this paradigm of computing has also...

FTC clears Dell acquisition of EMC – now what?

On February 23, 2016, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cleared the way for Dell’s  acquisition of EMC to go ahead.  Now all that’s left for the acquisition to move forward is the shareholder vote. Assuming that the vote is in favor of the acquisition, Neuralytix...