The 25 nm Ultrastar drives use multi-level cell NAND flash and range in capacities from 200 GB to 1 TB. HGST is pitching the drives for high-performance applications, such as online banking, big data analytics and cloud computing.
Showing posts with label big data. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
HGST pumps out 12 Gbps SAS SSDs
Western Digital Corp.'s HGST subsidiary this week launched what it claims are the industry's first 12 Gbps SAS solid-state drives.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Quantum tunes up StorNext for 'big data' files
Quantum Corp., is updating its StorNext file management and archiving software to better handle "big data" files. According to Quantum, the product is designed to handle large numbers of files as well as large single files generated by industries that deal with lots of data, including media and entertainment, oil and gas exploration, video surveillance and life sciences.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Protecting petabytes: Best practices for big data backup
One of the issues created by holding voluminous data sets (also called "big data") in your storage environment is how to protect that data.
Petabyte-size data stores can play havoc with backup windows, and traditional backup is not designed to handle millions of small files. The good news is that not all big data information needs to be backed up in the traditional way.
Nick Kirsch, director of product management for EMC’s Isilon scale-out NAS platform, said it helps to be more intelligent about the data you have when doing big data backups. He advises that, before you consider how to protect your data, you should take a good look at what data needs to be protected. Machine-generated data – report data from a database, for instance – can be reproduced easier than it can be backed up and recovered.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Symantec aims Data Insight 3.0 at unstructured data management
Symantec Corp. took another step toward integrating its storage management and security technologies this week when it released Data Insight 3.0 for unstructured data management items such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Tucci at Oracle OpenWorld: Cloud transition will prove disruptive
Private cloud storage, cloud computing and virtualization will be the keys to dealing with the massive data deluge hitting the IT world, EMC Corp. CEO Joseph Tucci said Monday in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote address in San Francisco.
The theme of EMC World 2011 in May was “cloud meets Big Data,” and Tucci and EMC president Pat Gelsinger brought those topics to Oracle customers this week. Tucci and Gelsinger didn’t make any stunning announcements during their keynote presentations, but they did reiterate EMC’s commitment to the cloud, VMware’s virtualization platform and solid-state storage.
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