The storage industry is awash with reports on the disappearing disk drive industry and many are hailing the end of the spinning disk drive. However before we get carried away in the euphoria of an all flash based industry it is worth standing back and taking a pragmatic look at the industry at large, the reason why Flash has become such a hot category and finally, how to best utilize flash technology within a big data environment. By Panasas.
Read MoreBy Seamus Crehan, President, Crehan Research Inc.
Read MoreInfortrend® has announced the addition of four new models to its groundbreaking 16G Fibre Channel (FC) storage solutions. Available in 4U/48 and 2U/24 form factors – and for a limited time the same price as 8G FC storage – these models provide users with the choice of higher capacity and density storages to take advantage of the cutting-edge performance, advanced hardware design and virtualisation offered by the 16G FC EonStor DS G7i models.
Read MoreCarmarthenshire County Council recently chose Trustwave SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) to reduce the cost of meeting regulations associated with the sharing of information on the Government’s secure extranet. The Welsh county council reviewed alternative solutions when its incumbent solution ran out of capacity and needed upgrading.
Read MoreWyre Forest District Council has selected ShoreTel for its UC platform and disaster recovery solution. The project underpins the consolidation of the council’s four buildings into one to contribute towards £500,000 annual savings and a reduction in CO2 emissions.
Read MoreX-IO, a recognised innovator in the storage industry, has won two awards at this year’s 2013 DCS awards. ‘Data Centre Appliance of the Year‘ for its ISE Storage System and ‘SSD/Flash Product of the Year’ for its Hyper ISE solution.
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