No rest for the weary: Amazon launches new SSD-backed block storage
Don’t like your cloud provider’s block storage options? Well, you’re in luck because it’s likely that Google or Amazon (or Microsoft?) will have a deal for you.
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SolidFire scores $31M from Samsung to bring more flash to clouds
SolidFire is taking on $31 million in new funding led by Samsung’s venture arm to turn on more cloud providers to high-performance all-flash storage arrays.
Hard drive maker Western Digital to buy SSD experts sTec for $340M
Today’s SSD frenzy is being driven by data centers which are dealing with much heavier demands on the machines, and our need to access information quickly. That’s a key reason Western Digital is buying sTec.
Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data
The solution for better and faster storage may lie in DSSD, a stealthy chip startup backed by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, that counts several members of the Sun ZFS team as founders.
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ScaleIO joins the pack of pooled storage startups with $12M
ScaleIO, a Palo Alto storage startup that wants to create pools of storage resources using SSDs and existing storage hardware, has raised $12 million in first-round funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. It joins several other startups hoping to win big in storage.
Rackspace breaks out block storage with disk and SSD options
Rackspace’s new OpenStack-powered Cloud Block Storage comes in spinning disk and faster SSD tiers and lets customers mix and match block size with compute instances as needed, says company CTO John Engates.
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Flash is for everyone, says storage startup Skyera
Watch out hard drives — slick startup Skyera, launched by the founder of SandForce, says it really can put flash storage everywhere — without breaking the bank. It’s a bold claim but one that’s backed up with some pretty credible storage expertise.
Amazon launches high-performance SSD instances
Amazon’s new “High I/O Quadruple Extra Large” compute instances use SSD to store and retrieve lots of data fast — which should make them popular for interactive web and mobile applications where real-time response to user clicks and gestures is key.
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Nutanix gets $25M to help you scale like Google
Nutanix just closed a $25 million Series B round for its system that puts computing and storage on the same node, allowing companies to scale their storage layer without investing in a SAN. Khosla Ventures led the round, along with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital.
Acunu’s quest to make big data run faster
Big data can sometimes mean big infrastructure to run everything on, or perhaps it can mean slower performance as the hardware struggles to read from or write to a database, which is why we picked Acunu as one of our Structure 2011 Launchpad companies. Learn more.
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Moving cloud storage to primetime requires new tech
New types of storage technology will be needed in order to shift cloud storage from a backup service to a primary function, according to a panel made up of storage entrepreneurs and execs at Structure 2011 in San Francisco on Thursday.
SaberTooth ZX — a Tiny 1.8″ 128GB SSD
There aren’t too many computing devices still using the 1.8″ hard drives that we saw in the first UMPCs. But if you…
Dataram SSD Appliance Targets SAN Performance
Dataram today took the wraps off its XcelaSAN solid-state disk (SSD) appliance. The company made its name selling memory-optimization products for high-performance…
ExpressCard Gadgets for MacBook Pro
One of the ports included with all the new (and previous generation of) MacBook Pros is an ExpressCard slot. Having never had…
