The major limitation of the scale-up storage arrays has been the storage controller, which often becomes the performance bottleneck. This limitation gave birth to the scale-out phenomenon that has dedicated controller… Read more »
EMC’s CEO has not met with activist investor Elliott Management yet, but when he does, he’ll likely argue that breaking up (the federation) is hard, and the wrong thing to do. 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 »
Box for Office 365 supposedly puts Box front and center and will allow for users to share attachments in Outlook via Box. Additionally, the file-sync and sharing company is giving away… Read more »
The file-sync and storage company claims that users won’t have to wait so long to sync large files as syncing times are now potentially twice as fast. Read more »
Hybrid cloud storage startup Cloudian has landed $24 million in funding, which the company said in a release that it will use to expand operations and ensure that its products are… Read more »
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is still evolving. Conceptually, SDS abstracts and moves the traditional storage controller core engine and adjacent management functions from the storage array to software – just about… 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 »
The social network giant’s new database management system will supposedly improve reliability and cut down on the downtime that occurs when a region server fails. Read more »