MIT researchers resort to flash for big data storage

	MIT researchers resort to flash for big data storage | Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute
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	Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% First, Amazon dropped the price of its S3 cloud storage service by 22%. Now, Microsoft has followed suit by cutting the price for Azure by up to 50% to keep up. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Website Security Threat Report 2013 This research report provides an overview of the online threat landscape over the last year, along with how you can protect your company and your infrastructure. Read Now>> In this Issue MIT researchers resort to flash for big data storage Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute EMC to lean on VMware for public cloud Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service WEBCAST: IBM Tame the data explosion with IBM Real-time Compression Learn about IBM's unique Real-time Compression technology that can enable storing up to 5x as much data in the same storage space. Learn More MIT researchers resort to flash for big data storage An MIT research team next month will show off a networked system of flash storage devices they say beats relying on DRAM and networked hard disks to handle Big Data demands. Read More Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute Microsoft has chosen OneDrive as the new name for its SkyDrive cloud storage service, which it had agreed to rebaptize after losing a trademark dispute last year with British broadcast TV and broadband provider BSkyB. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tintri Virtual Storage Roadmap: What You Need to Know When you have a lot of virtual machines, managing your storage needs and ensuring that your environment is optimized to deliver sufficient performance and reliability is a challenge. Here's a roadmap of the options along with their strengths and weaknesses. Read now! EMC to lean on VMware for public cloud In lieu of launching its own public cloud lineup, storage giant EMC has decided to resell the cloud products of its VMware subsidiary, Network World has learned. Read More Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Amazon Web Services has improved the performance of its Redshift data warehouse with new SSD-based nodes, which can also lower the cost of the service as long as storage capacity needs are also low. Read More
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