Flash storage vendor SolidFire has raised $82 million as it rides the wave of excitement about storage performance over the past few years. The Boulder, Colorado–based company is one of a handful of similar companies that have had no problem finding investors.…
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Violin Memory has a new CEO
Troubled flash storage vendor Violin Memory (s vmem) has a new president and CEO, just months after a lackluster IPO and an…
Read MoreAWS can’t keep its new SSD-backed instances in stock
Amazon Web Services doesn't have enough capacity to handle demand for its new C3 instances, which has led to a rush order of new servers. In almost any other scenario, that would mean a big payday for someone like Dell or HP.…
Read MoreFacebook’s answer to serving 700TB of graph search data is lots of SSDs
Facebook's decision to include status updates and wall posts in Graph Search could be called great or creepy depending on the user, but it wasn't an inconsequential decision technologically. In fact, it put a significant strain on the feature's database infrastructure.…
Read MoreAWS beefs up cloud for super-fast data processing
Amazon Web Services has introduced its latest instance -- an 88-core, 240 GB SSD, 244 GB RAM and 10 GbE behemoth designed for real-time analytics with software like SAP HANA, as well as demanding scientific workloads.…
Read MoreNimble Storage gets $40M as IPO approaches
Flash storage startup Nimble Storage has raised another $40 million in preparation for an IPO within the next two years. The company, which builds appliances fusing both flash and hard disk drives, is part of a hot flash market that's raking in venture capital.…
Read MoreEtsy unveils its infrastructure (and its Supermicro love)
Etsy shared the details of its hardware architecture on Friday, showing the world a whole lot of Supermicro servers running everything from web servers to Hadoop. At this point, software is the name of the game at webscale, so hardware openness is just welcome community service.…
Read MoreFlash storage hype vs. reality
What a week for flash storage fans. IBM snapped up flash memory maker Texas Memory Systems; Skyera emerged from stealth mode with a jaw-dropping…
Read MoreTintri gets $25M to tune flash storage for VMs
A Mountain View, Calif., storage startup called Tintri has raised $25 million for its virtualization-focused flash storage appliances. The appliances, called VMstore,…
Read MoreEMC goes all-flash, buys XtremIO for $430M
EMC has bought Israeli flash-storage startup XtremIO for $430 million, according to Israeli news site Globes. The acquisition was expected after rumors began swirling in late April that EMC was courting the company, which sells a storage composed entirely of flash.…
Read MoreFlash storage never sleeps
Although the storage world is awaiting an M&A explosion if EMC actually acquires flash startup XtremIO, Violin Memory and Fusion-io are keeping the hits coming in the meantime. Fusion-io is bringing in new software partners, while Violin brought in another $30 million.…
Read MoreWhy Violin Memory is worth billions in an IPO
Violin Memory is a force to be reckoned with in the storage world. It's not just the industry shift toward solid-state drives replacing slower, less-efficient hard disk drives that's driving Violin's value through the roof, though, it's also the company's very strategic set of investors.…
Read MoreMorphlabs, Dell pitch all-SSD private cloud
Morphlab's latest mCloud uses uses all solid-state disks while also claiming Amazon Web Services-like pricing. The company's newest offering, which is part of a partnership with Dell, targets service providers that want to add private cloud computing capabilities that interoperate with AWS as needed.…
Read MoreSolidFire gets $25 million to boost flash-fueled cloud storage
SolidFire, which wants to bring all-solid-state storage to cloud providers serving you, raised an additional $25 million in venture capital bringing its total to $37 million. New investors in this second round include Data Domain veterans as well as former Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopolous.…
Read MoreNutanix 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.…
Read MoreViolin Memory CEO: IPO coming, acquisitions possible
Violin Memory released a new line of all-flash-memory storage arrays yesterday, but my recent discussion with CEO Don Basile was all about the company's future, which he says includes an upcoming IPO and possibly a flash acquisition or two.…
Read MoreMeet Valhalla Partners’ new storage whiz kid
In a Silicon Valley technology landscape where young hotshots tend to make their marks with innovative new startups, Farah Giga is different. After nine years in various mangement positions at Hitachi Data Systems and HP, Giga, now 27, has joined Valhalla Partners as a principal.…
Read More5 things I learned at VMworld
VMworld can be a lot to digest, but it also can be a good barometer of where IT is and where it's going. A couple days removed from the show, I gave some thought to the interesting trends I noticed and the insightful discussions I had.…
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One of the nicest things about getting a new computer is starting fresh, a computer uncluttered with accumulated files and a roomy…
Read MoreFacebook engineer: Cut power by slowing hard drives
The latest idea from Facebook on how to revolutionize the data center is elegant in its simplicity: put a switch on hard-disk drives that slows their speed when their data is no longer hot. I wonder if Facebook will take up the cause and build it.…
Read MoreCan the mid-market drive an infrastructure revolution?
Nutanix is counting on mid-size enterprises to drive its adoption of its converged infrastructure appliance. CEO Dheeraj Pandey's stance is that SMEs have the budgets, the IT demands and the right cultures to justify taking chances on new approaches to infrastructure. He could be onto something.…
Read MoreMoving 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.…
Read MoreSolidFire readies SSD storage systems for cloud providers
Cloud storage startup SolidFire is giving cloud providers early access to its solid-state-disk-based systems for storing customers' data. The Atlanta-based company is building SSD-based appliances that it says will help ease the migration of enterprise applications into the cloud by significantly boosting storage performance.…
Read MoreFusion-io’s IPO went well; who wins?
Flash-storage component manufacturer Fusion-io is trading well above its initial public offering price, signaling that investors believe solid-state drives might actually live up to their promise to displace large quantities of spinning disks in enterprise data centers.…
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