How high will they go? HP one-upped Dell with a roughly $2.1 billion bid to snag storage virtualization and thin provisioning firm 3PAR. At stake is nothing less than cloud domination! Actually, no, but close. IT vendors are scrambling to build their cloud portfolios, which rests on offering technologies and platforms that can scale to [...]
Read more 3PAR bidding war update: HP offers $2.1 billion
by Pedro Hernandez on September 2, 2010
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Last year, EMC and NetApp battled it out for DataDomain, whose claim to fame was a strong data deduplication portfolio. Data deduplication, as its name suggests, helps data center operators keep their energy and storage hardware costs in check by eliminating identical sets of data that would otherwise take up room on oftentimes pricey storage [...]
Read more 3PAR: Hints of a green storage bidding war
by Pedro Hernandez on August 26, 2010
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How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all [...]
Read more Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play
by Pedro Hernandez on August 23, 2010
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Fusion-io has added new hardware to its PCI Express based storage card lineup, giving servers a lot more high-performance solid-state storage to make short work of all those transactions. The company’s new ioMemory Module doubles the storage capacity of their existing PCIe card lineup, up to 1.28TB and boosting sustained IOPS to 285,000. Not too [...]
Read more Fusio-io expands product line, signs Dell as OEM
by Pedro Hernandez on August 19, 2010
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When it comes to green data storage, data deduplication ranks right up there with SSDs in my book, but those aren’t the only ways to make storage systems more energy efficient and better performing. And VCs are taking notice. Avere Systems announced today that it has secured $17 million in Series B funding from Tenaya [...]
Read more Avere lands $17M in funding
by Pedro Hernandez on August 6, 2010
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A green PC is the sum of its parts. Credit: bit-tech.net A “green” PC isn’t really energy efficient if it consumes less electricity at the expense of performance. That’s the subject of bit-tech.net’s excellent article that tackles the green…
Read more Green PCs: Energy Efficiency and Performance
by Pedro Hernandez on February 24, 2010
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Companies Report That Virtualization Investments Are Indeed Paying Dividends – eWeek The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, a Cisco Systems gold-certified partner, revealed June 24 that its hardware and virtualization tools are enabling clients…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 26
by Pedro Hernandez on June 26, 2009
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Twitpic Spotlight: @greenwombat’s Deutsche Bank carbon counter in NYC The new kid on the virtualization block – Grumpy Apache An obvious minus, however, is the integration of VMware. I am using VMware server 1, which is almost unsupported on Fedora…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 18
by Pedro Hernandez on June 18, 2009
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Infortrend’s green ESVA attacks the storage virtualisation market – IT-Director.com The five ESVA systems announced today–three for fibre channel (FC) and two for iSCSI SAN protocols–provide much more functionality while maintaining its green theme. The cabinets come populated with disk…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 17
by Pedro Hernandez on June 17, 2009
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