You can add another member to your list of storage startups being swallowed up by storage giants like Sandisk and EMC. This week, flash-storage startup Skyera was bought out by HGST,… Read more »
Flash’s balance between speed and cost opens provides opportunities for emerging big-data applications as well as applications that are otherwise input/output intensive. Read more »
Flash storage vendor SolidFire has raised $82 million as it rides the wave of excitement about storage performance over the past few years. The Boulder, Colorado–based company is one of a… Read more »
With the industry now preparing to make the leap from HD to 4K Ultra-HD a pair of announcements this week at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin suggested we could… Read more »
Linode Founder and CEO Chris Aker has no illusions about challenging Amazon Web Services in the cloud, but that doesn’t mean he cant build a quality cloud. As he explains in… Read more »
Elliott Management will use its $1 billion stake in EMC to push for change and divestiture of federation companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more »
The week in analytics news this past week did not disappoint. There were announcements aplenty, around data visualization favorites on new platforms; support for Hadoop 2.0 and YARN; new products; as… Read more »
Fusion.io’s software expertise will bolster SanDisk’s hardware business, echoing Western Digital’s recent purchase of server-side flash storage company Virident. Read more »
Google is adding persistent flash storage and http load balancing to its Google Cloud platform. The load balancing is an awesome example of how software-defined networks can change cloud computing. Read more »