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Results tagged "hybrid"

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Fusion-io Buys Hybrid Startup NexGen

April 25, 2013 02:17 PM
Fusion-io, a maker of PCIe flash cards, announced it was acquiring hybrid storage array startup NexGen, which sells a flash-optimized system. Fusion-io will sell NexGen’s software directly to integrators.

OpenFlow Test Deployment Options

April 08, 2013 12:54 PM
OpenFlow can be introduced into production networks in several ways. I’ll look at two options for deploying OpenFlow that network engineers can use to test the protocol and get their feet wet with SDN.

SSD/Hard Disk Hybrids Bridge Storage Divide

January 30, 2013 08:03 PM
Solid-state is creeping into every nook of the storage ecosystem. The next frontier could be the rebirth of hybrids. Case in point is a startup that combines SSDs and traditional disks to maximize both performance and capacity.

HP Unveils Vision Of The Cloud's Future

April 10, 2012 01:00 PM
HP is aiming to bring to the cloud the host of advantages and improvements virtualization technology has delivered to enterprises, with a new architecture that allows network managers to deploy cloud-based solutions in minutes, instead of weeks.

SSDs Continue Enterprise Penetration

April 04, 2012 09:00 AM
Flash/solid-state disk (SSD) drives are changing the way enterprise storage vendors are developing their products, says Gary Watson, CTO of disk-based data storage systems provider Nexsan, which just came out with its NST-Series of unified storage systems. The release follows LSI’s ongoing transition from spinning disks to solid state with its latest Nytro products, which are focused on bringing flash into the server. And in February, EMC announced that its PCIe/flash-based server cache technology, VFCache, is now available.

IDC: SSDs Reshaping Enterprise Storage

January 13, 2012 10:30 AM
After significant growth in the solid state storage market in 2011 that brought the total value of shipments to $5 billion, research firm IDC is expecting continued big growth through 2015. Within the enterprise market, there is increasing use of SSDs, a trend the research company expects to continue as prices fall and performance increases.

SAP, IBM Pair On 'Hybrid' CRM

February 02, 2006 05:30 PM
SAP on Thursday unveiled its hosted CRM game plan and, somewhat unexpectedly, its partner in the endeavor is IBM. The new CRM offering is designed to suit hosted and on-premise

NAS And SAN: Pals?

January 23, 2004 07:00 AM
With so much of the action in storage products these days concentrated on software solutions and storage-area network (SAN) products, network-attached storage (NAS) has fallen from the spotlight somewhat. But

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