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By: Exclusive: Big Data Startup Acunu Raises Small Funding : Cloud Computing News «

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:48:59 +0000

[...] today’s applications want access — and quickly — to a much larger percentage of data stored in memory or on memcached servers or SSDs near the web server. But that speed comes at a cost, and the closer [...]

By: Venture Capital’s Data Side Story

Venture Capital’s Data Side Story — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:10:07 +0000

[...] Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage [...]

By: Storage Pain Is Fusion-io’s $45M Gain

Storage Pain Is Fusion-io’s $45M Gain — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:49:30 +0000

[...] them up over the user’s broadband connection. To speed this process up startups in the last three years have been tweaking storage gear and focusing on new types of databases. The gear helps send the bits where they need to go quickly, [...]

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:04:18 +0000

@snyggast – here’s an article you may enjoy:

http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/05/citrix-and-amazon-not-the-best-deal-for-service-providers.html

a short snippet >>

Thanks to all the media coverage that Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) has received, there is a widely-held belief that the total cost of cloud storage is roughly “15 cents a GB/month.”

This is a false assumption. What the 15 cents does not include is:

- Price for inbound bandwidth
- Price for outbound bandwidth
- Price for puts/gets

more – http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/05/citrix-and-amazon-not-the-best-deal-for-service-providers.html

By: Fusion-io Gets $47.5M And Flash Storage Gets Interesting

Fusion-io Gets $47.5M And Flash Storage Gets Interesting — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:31:19 +0000

[...] and Sumitomo Ventures, return for this round of funding. The company is one of several trying to deal with the data deluge by using Flash memory to speed up access to stored information inside the data [...]

By: chris

chris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:19:54 +0000

Egnyte.com is a great on demand file server that is getting great reviews.
check it out. I am a user.

By: Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM

Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:01:17 +0000

[...] Three trends are making storage startups…well, if not sexy, then at least a focus for IT managers: virtualization, the incredible increase in data, and the opportunities offered by cloud computing. Paul Gottsegen, a V-P of marketing for HP’s enterprise server and systems group, told me that companies building out large-scale computing systems to deliver software as a service, and even computing clouds, are far more interested in better storage features than tweaks for servers. And they’re willing to pay extra for them. That focus on storage is one of the reasons that HP said on Wednesday that it had agreed to spend $360 million to buy LeftHand Networks, whose software can be used to create virtualized storage clouds on an Ethernet network. [...]

By: Most Online Videos Are 3-Day Wonders | Alex McFarlane

Most Online Videos Are 3-Day Wonders | Alex McFarlane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:11:11 +0000

[...] which means keeping them requires a trade-off between fast access and cheap storage. A range of companies are trying to address these sorts of storage problems through compression, caching and even Flash memory in the data [...]

By: Video Data Helps Generate Cache - GigaOM

Video Data Helps Generate Cache - GigaOM — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:27:47 +0000

By: Apple is Not Fruit » Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage?

Apple is Not Fruit » Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage? — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:08:20 +0000

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