The Reg Storage: We flew our man Jack Clark into Facebook' s desert DATA TOMB. This is what he saw [Wed Nov 27 2013]

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*** Data Storage Hardware ***

LSI's less-explosive Nytro: Smaller bangs for hyperscale DCs
Cheaper flash and less of it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/lsis_lessexplosive_nytro_smaller_bangs_for_hyperscale_dcs/

DDN: Parallel file systems hit the wall? Let them eat
super-duper-charged cache
Infinite Memory Engine
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/ddns_superdupercharged_cache/

Flash stash on toppa platta: WD's tasty Black² 1TB combo for LAPTOPS
Sort out your laptop like it's a PC, play Crysis, etc
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/wd_seeing_double_with_twofer_one_drive/


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*** Block Storage ***

Shares PLUNGE as Violin posts $34 MEELLION loss
Sales growth less than loss growth... just two months after IPO
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/mistuned_strings_on_violin_cause_financial_discord/

DataDirect Networks beefs up its 1.7 MILLION IOPS monster
It's big, it's bad, it's the SFA12KX
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/ddn_launches_big_data_boss_array/

NetApp springs update surprise on Engenio flash array
E540 gets elder bro - the E550
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/netapp_springs_update_surprise_on_engenio_flash_array/


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Cloud storage: Lower cost and increase uptime
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*** File Storage ***

Infinio CEO: It's VNAS not VSAN. Chuh!
Ever since Oracle bought our little firm for $1bn, I've been a startup
guy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/infinio_ceo_arun_agarwal_says_his_piece/

EMC borgs VMAX and VNX: Arrays in a merger, no new storage bed
VNXMAX and DPAD? It's all change at Hopkinton
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/emc_reorgs/

Speedy brother joins Xyratex ClusterStor: And 9000 makes four
Brace yourselves: Quad prod range gets shinier
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/xyratex_clusterstor_gets_more/

World's first selfie found on Wayback Machine
Will there ever be a better time for storage admins to ask for a proper
archiving budget?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/first_selfie_found/


*** Data Protection and Management ***

We flew our man Jack Clark into Facebook's desert DATA TOMB. This is
what he saw
Your personal snaps held in suspended animation
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/facebook_dc_tour/

Dude, relax – it's Just a Bunch Of Disks: Our man walks you through how
JBODs work
Trevor Pott puts AIC's DAS subsystem through its paces
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/review_das_jbod_subsystem_aic_xj30004243s/

EMC's flashy XtremIO? I Xpect it will be great... in a few years
All-flash arrays will work wonders - when we all have all-flash storage
environments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/xpect_more/

Sweet little lies: Rumours from the flash world reach El Reg's scribe
LSI redundancies, new IBM array, and what's Dell up to?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/flash_rumours/

You can't touch this: It's HAMR time for WD
One year later, Seagate rival unveils its own hot-pressing drive
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/wd_hamrpowered_pressy/


*** And finally ... ***

Big Data is getting too damn big - and nobody is helping to fix this
See that nettle? Time to pop your gardening gloves on, chaps
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/_in_with_the_new/

Kaminario in amazeballs all-flash K2 streaming-storage benchmark brag
From now on, you'll need solid state to beat this thing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/kaminario_cleans_up_on_spc_with_screaming_streamer/

What, another one? Violin appoints its third EMEA boss this year
To lose one is misfortune; losing two is careless; but THREE?!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/lost_one_violin_memory_svp_emea/



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