A terabyte of storage on your fingertip? If Tadahiro Kuroda and his team of researchers from Toshiba and Keio University in Tokyo have developed a technique that packs 128 NAND flash chips and a controller into the area of a…
Green IT News Roundup: Tuesday, July 28
Is the Cloud a Bandwidth Hog? – ITBusinessEdge For some time now, I’ve been saying that networking is the key element to cloud architectures. While that’s still true, it’s probably more accurate to say that adequate bandwidth will make or…
Sun Gives Entry Level Storage a Dash of Flash
Sun is adding oomph to entry-level enterprise storage arrays with solid-state drives. Not to worry, the flash-packing storage devices play a supplementary role in the Sun Storage 7310, acting more like cache to improve performance. That cache can swell up…
IBM: 800 Percent DB2 Performance Hike with SSDs
IBM is touting massive DS2 Database performance gains by employing solid state drives and using software tools, like those present in the “targeted data placement” smarts of the IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS), in zSeries and DS8000…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 14
Oracle Snaps Up Virtual Iron, Plans Virtualization Push – ChannelWeb Oracle said Virtual Iron’s dynamic resource and capacity management technology complements the core features of Oracle VM by providing tools for capacity management, power management and easy virtualization integration with…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 12
Cisco Beckons Carriers to the Cloud – Light Reading Cisco is announcing a blueprint called Unified Service Delivery (USD), which it claims will simplify the carrier data center and let carriers make better use of virtualization — the technology that…
Windows 7 *Hearts* Solid State Drives
The difference between SSDs and traditional hard drives go well beyond energy savings and fast I/O rates. There are some fundamental ways flash chips store data, which makes regular defrag and other drive optimization techniques that operating systems employ unsuitable…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 27
Lowering data center cooling costs with airflow modeling and perforated raised-floor tiles – SearchDataCenter.com An Uptime Institute study of 19 computer rooms with a total of 204,000 square feet determined that most facilities are ill prepared to remove current heat…
Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers
Sun Fire X4270 Sun today launched a slew of new Sun Fire systems based on the quad-core, virtualization-friendly Intel Xeon 5500 series of processors. Sun provides this helpful breakdown of where in the data center their new gear slots in:…
