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Flash fever strikes the data storage industry

February 11, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

EMC VFCache

What a week for storage, specifically for flash vendors. It started early in the week with news that EMC’s officially unveiled VFCache (formerly “Project Lightning”), a PCIe add-on card for servers. That’s right, EMC’s is entering the flash cache field pioneered by Fusion-io. But rather than targeting web and cloud services providers, EMC wants those […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Storage Tagged With: EMC, flash storage, Hitachi, SSD, Virident

Green IT: Nicira intros network virtualization tech, EMC follows flash startups

February 7, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Nicira logo

Not that I planned it this way, but yesterday I wrote two articles for the IT Business Edge network, each with a neat little Green IT component. The first is about Nicira, a startup that emerged from stealth this week despite offering a product that’s been commercially available since July 2011. But let’s not get […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Storage Tagged With: EMC, network virtualization, Nicira, Storage, Virtualization

Electronic medical records’ green potential lies in the cloud

May 4, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

Can electronic medical records (EMR) help hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices go green? Yes, but not right away. Kaiser Permanente, a health care giant, used itself as a test case and the results are encouraging. Transitioning to electronic medical records can cut CO2 emissions by up to 1.7 million tons a year. The New York […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Green IT, Virtualization Tagged With: Cloud Computing, electronic health records, electronic medical records, EMC, EMR, GE Healthcare, healthcare, healthcare IT, healthcare records, VMware

Compellent: A green storage acquisition target?

October 28, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Is another round of M&A drama about to ensue, courtesy of Compellent? First, there was the epic bidding war over DataDomain during the summer of 2009. EMC claimed victory over NetApp in that episode. Then earlier this year, HP was victorious in snatching 3PAR from Dell’s waiting hands. Now, Compellent’s latest, record-setting revenue disclosure and […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: 3PAR, Compellent, Data Center, Dell, EMC, green storage, HP, M&A, NetApp, SAN, Storage, storage area networks, storage virtualization, thin provisioning

3PAR: Hints of a green storage bidding war

August 26, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Green IT, Storage Tagged With: 3PAR, acquisition, cloud storage, data deduplication, Data Domain, Dell, EMC, green storage, HP, M&A, NetApp, Storage, storage virtualization, thin provisioning

Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, September 22

September 22, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Fortune Expanding South Bay Data Center – GlobeSt.com Located at 2001 Fortune Drive, Fortune’s Phase 1 data center, its only data center, uses 30% less energy than the industry average. Sheputis says he’s confident the added capacity from phase two…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: EMC, Fortune Data Centers, Green IT, mini-SATA, mSATA, NetApp, News, Ocarina Networks, roundup, Storwize

Dedupe, Thin Provisioning Molding the Future of Enterprise Storage

August 25, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

I recently chatted with Analytico’s Tom Trainer about his new GigaOM Pro report, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required) and wrote about some of the insights I gleaned for Earth2Tech (thanks Katie!). I was encouraged to find out…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: data deduplication, dedupe, deduplication, EMC, energy efficiency, IBM, report, Storage, thin provisioning

Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 2

June 2, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Thomson Reuters reduces storage sprawl to save money, increase quality 2009 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards: Christopher Crowhurst – InfoWorld The server virtualization — paid for by the storage optimization savings — did more than consolidate servers. After five months,…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: EMC, Green IT, iPhone, News, OpenSolaris, roundup, Sun

AT&T and EMC Team for Cloud Storage

May 18, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

The cloud services space got a little more crowded today as AT&T announced that the company will be tackling online storage with the help of EMC. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service is being pitched to enterprises as a way…

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Tagged With: AT&T, Cloud Computing, cloud storage, EMC, Storage, storage as a service

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