EMC Isilon’s new NAS products aimed at big data architects
EMC’s Isilon subsidiary announced new network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software aimed at becoming the infrastructure for business intelligence through big data applications.
Isilon touted two new clustered NAS arrays, the S200 and X200. The arrays are able to use a combination of serial ATA (SATA), serial SCSI (SAS) or solid-state drives (SSDs) in a tiered configuration, affording varying degrees of performance. The arrays use a single name space under which petabytes of data can be stored.
Is Tibco’s Buyout Rejection a Cloud Setback for HP?
Google Infrastructure Czar: Cloud Gets It Done
It was nearly five years ago when I last spent time with Urs Hölzle, Google’s infrastructure czar. (His official title is SVP of operations.) It was around that time he introduced me (and several others) to many of the concepts (such as cloud and big data) that are now part of the technology sector’s vernacular. Hölzle was company’s first VP of engineering, and he has led the development of Google’s technical infrastructure.
IBM, Akamai Partner to Boost Application Speed
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is partnering with Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) for new joint application acceleration solutions.
Fed’s Efforts to Boost IT Project Success Could Become Victim of Budget Cuts
It’s kind of ironic. The federal government’s effort to cut costs through better management of its IT projects might become a victim of cost cutting.
Data management ‘is key to virtualisation’
Firms or individuals tempted by the prospect of desktop virtualisation have been advised efficient data management is the key to successful adoption of the technology.
Robin Birtstone, writing for the Register, said implementing the capacity to safely store hundreds or thousands of pieces of information is a necessary step.
He noted getting the size of a data centre is important and suggested planning its arrival and initial operations is another wise move.
Lenovo collaborates with Intel on cloud-based applications service
Lenovo on Tuesday announced a hosted applications service that can detect the hardware capabilities of an end user’s laptop and tailor the service accordingly.
Secure Cloud Access (SCA) provides access to Windows applications that are hosted on a central server and optimises the services based on the available processing power, memory, graphics, battery life and bandwidth, said Bryan Thomas, manager of alternative client computing and server software at Lenovo.
Microsoft cloud ERP plans met with mixed reactions
Microsoft’s announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform drew significant interest from attendees of the Convergence conference in Atlanta, but some users and partners have questions Microsoft has yet to answer about its plans.
World’s Largest Modular Data Center Replaces Old New York Times Printing Plant
Watson Goes to Work in the Hospital
Designed to answer Jeopardy! questions, IBM’s Watson is of little use beyond the game show’s set. But some of the techniques that helped the computer defeat two human Jeopardy! champions in February are showing promise in a new context: the hospital. Researchers in Canada are using analytics like those that helped the computer decipher the language of clues to provide an early warning when babies in an intensive care unit acquire a hospital-borne infection.