Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Reg Storage: Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud [Wed Aug 21 2013]

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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

Samsung's cooking 3D NAND flash chips. WHAT did you say the specs were?
Oh right... you didn't
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/samsung_launches_damp_3d_ssd_squib/

Flash cheaper than disk? 'Customers aren't buying that', says NetApp
CEO
Tom Georgens puts the boot into NAND hype
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/netapp_philosophising_about_flash/

Seagate: Storage industry ill-prepared for onrushing big data tsunami
At current rates, capacity will be half what's needed by 2020
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/14/storage_industry_unprepared_for_coming_data_needs/


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*** Block Storage ***

Don't let the SAN go down on me: Is the storage array on its way OUT?
You can't hide behind the cache anymore
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/death_of_a_storage_array/

Brocade boss drops F-bomb: 'Everyone's for 32Gbps Fibre Channel'
Biz escapes red ink of sliding sales with patent payday win
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/brocade_profits/

Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud
But holds back on sensitive gov and financial stuff
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/08/15/capita_office_365/

Nimbus fattens up Gemini twins with smaller flash chips
Flash arrays go faster too, leapfrog Violin in flash capacity stakes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/14/nimbus_leapfrogs_violin_in_flash_capacity_stakesjust/


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*** File Storage ***

Imation's $120m baby delivers NST6000 hybrid storage mutant
NAND cache and faster controllers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/nexsan_caches_flashes_and_dashes/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

GreenBytes guts its arrays, turns self into chompable doughnut
Plus they've scooped up an ex-IBM dude for the board
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/greenbytes_becoming_software_doughnut/

SimpliVity intros swollen and shrunken rip-'n'-replace boxen
Server-killing, array-crushing OmniCube gets some new sizes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/simplivity_omnicube_outpouring/

Is that a flash stick in your pocket, VMware, or are you pleased to see
us?
Virtual machines are so 2000s - now servers have fat NAND caches to
provision
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/15/vmware_is_a_storage_lightweight/

Do you think spinning rust eats flash's dust? Join the hard drive
daddies club
Hard disk jockeys form Storage Products Association
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/14/keep_the_platters_spinning_club_formed/


*** And finally ... ***

EMC CTO: I called flash a 'performance tier' but don't like the phrase
'Compute-affinity tier' might be closer to the mark, or maybe you can
do better
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/14/emc_cto_i_called_flash_a_performance_tier_but_dont_like_the_phrase/



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