The Chicago-based marketing performance company processes hundreds of millions of files for its business intelligence and marketing services. To improve extract, transform and load time, it added a Kaminario K2 solid-state disk (SSD) array to its Hewlett-Packard 3PAR and Nimble Storage hybrid flash arrays.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Allant speeds big data analytics with Kaminario K2 all-flash storage
When its heavy big data analytics processing required more storage and more performance to run in a timely manner, the Allant Group added an all-flash array to its storage collection.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
SolidFire launches its largest all-flash storage array with SF9010
Solid-state array provider SolidFire announced the addition of the SF9010 model to its line of all-flash storage arrays, with 2.5-inch 960 GB Samsung SSDs and an effective price below $3 per GB and $1 per IOPS. The company also announced a $31-million series C round of financing led by Samsung.
A single SF9010 node is a rackmount 1U form factor unit with 256 GB of memory and 9.6 TB of raw all-solid-state drive (SSD) capacity that provides 75,000 IOPS. With SolidFire's in-house thin provisioning and deduplication technologies, and industry standard compression algorithms, Jay Prassl, SolidFire's vice president of marketing, said a single node's effective capacity is close to 34 TB. He said the SF9010 can run in a 100-node cluster, bringing effective capacity to 3.4 PB.
Monday, July 15, 2013
The Fantasy Football Sage: Top 10 Rules for Fantasy Football Newbies (podcast)
What do new fantasy football players need to know once they join a league and start preparing for the draft?
A lot.
Listen to The Fantasy Football Sage's Top 10 Rules for Fantasy Football Newbies on The Football Educator sports talk radio show on Mile High Sports radio in Denver.
Follow The Fantasy Football Sage on The Football Educator sports talk radio show, Sunday mornings from 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Mile High Sports radio -- 93.7 FM/1510 AM. You can stream the show on TheFootballEducator.com and MileHighSports.com.
You can also follow @fanfootballsage on Twitter.
Friday, July 12, 2013
EMC and Western Digital make flash software buys
EMC Corp. and Western Digital Corp. strengthened their solid-state storage portfolios this week by acquiring startups with flash software technology to enhance their hardware products.
EMC signed a definitive agreement to acquire storage pooling software provider ScaleIO Inc. following weeks of speculation. The deal is expected to close this month.
Western Digital acquired VeloBit Inc., which sells server-based caching software for block-based primary storage and solid-state drives (SSDs). VeloBit will be integrated into Western Digital's wholly owned subsidiary HGST Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), which manufactures SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs).
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Coraid EtherDrive helps Emerson College simplify its VM management
When the three-person IT team at Boston-based Emerson College decided to simplify the communications and arts institution's data center, the first thing to go was tape. Fibre Channel was next.
The college replaced its direct-to-tape backup system with a disk-to-disk off-site replication product, according to Frankie Frain, Emerson's manager of network systems. No surprise there, since many IT groups have gone from tape to disk backup.
Switching from Fibre Channel (FC) to Ethernet storage is also not unheard of, although FC is far from being as endangered as tape. But what Emerson did that was different was to move to two Coraid EtherDrive SRX arrays, rather than a more common iSCSI Ethernet storage system, while it consolidated servers with VMware in May 2012.
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