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VC Money—Who Needs It?
January 07, 2013 12:02 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
A pair of storage companies are turning their backs on the traditional venture capital model and its demands of tight control and fast returns.
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EMC's Storage Strategy
December 27, 2012 01:06 PM
Posted by David Hill
The rise of non-structured data and the demand for flash-based storage have rattled the storage market. I’ll look at how EMC has responded to these trends.
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Flash Vendors Acquire the Cache
December 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Samsung’s acquisition of caching vendor NVELO hints that SDD caching may be moving from servers to desktops.
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How to Speak Data Center: IT Power Supplies
December 14, 2012 01:12 PM
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Knowledge of IT equipment power use and efficiency are essential in the data center. Here’s how to get started.
Hot Flash: Researchers Use Heat to Counter NAND Flash Wear-n-Tear
December 10, 2012 11:40 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Engineers have announced a new technique using heat to extend flash write/erase cycles from 10,000 to 100 million or more. But while tech breakthroughs are great, prudent management may be a better solution to flash’s lack of endurance.
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The Rise of Data-Driven Intelligence
December 05, 2012 04:57 PM
Posted by David Hill
An emerging concept called data-driven intelligence is a model for a new perspective on gathering insight from a vast pool of data. I’ll contrast data-driven intelligence with more familiar application-driven intelligence models.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
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: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
