It was a massive week in storage news, good luck storing it all in your brain!  This week included IBM’s attack on Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Black Hat USA 2013 conference, long-tail news from IBM’s EDGE conference last month, O’Reilly OSCON 2013 and Google sharpening its storage teeth. Enjoy!

IBM’s Ambuj Goyal Declares War in Storage #Edge

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Six months after taking leadership of IBM Storage, Ambuj Goyal has declared war on his competitors. The inflection points are flash and software-defined storage (SDS) based on open systems, and IBM is going to make a major push in the storage marked based on them.

Black Clouds On The Computing Horizon

Black Hat USA 2013 was this past week, and here was a preview of some of the talks and presentations. SiliconANGLE focused on the exploitative vulnerabilities associated with Big Data and how those vulnerabilities can be limited.

Big Blue Bets Big On Data Management

At last month’s IBM EDGE, SiliconANGLE sat down with Ambuj Goyal, general manager of storage and networking for IBM. Furrier, Vellante and Goyal discussed the history of storage, its current iteration within a data management architecture and the future relationship storage will have with the enterprise. Below is a video of that conversation:

Fusion-io + Open Source : Drive New Flash-Aware Marketplace

O’Reilly OSCON 2013 concluded today. OSCON is an open source convention that is all about how the close partnership between business and the open source community is building the future. Fusion-io made gobs of news at the event, first with Fusion-io Lead Architect Nisha Talagala presented “Flash Aware Applications,” wherein she discussed flash-aware open-source database applications, a Key Value interface to flash that enables NoSQL databases to become more flash aware. Second with Fusion-io announcing new milestones in the development of its flash-aware applications, such as the Fusion-io Atomic Writes API, which contributed standardization notes to the T10 SCSI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee, now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 and Percona Server 5.5.31 as well as the upcoming Percona Server 5.6.

How Google’s New Cloud Storage Feature is Helping Developers Move Data Faster

Google announced new features to its Cloud Storage service, making it easier to manage objects, and faster to access and upload data. The search giant introduced Object Lifecycle Management, which allows users to configure auto-deletion policies for your objects and can be used Object Versioning to limit the number of older versions of your objects that are retained.

The Rise of the Machines: It’s Not All Bad

Machines as a back-line of defense. From a presentation at Black Hate US 2013 by Alexandre Pinto, we learned that the use of Machine Learning can be used to automatically prioritize and classify potential events and attacks as something that might be regarded as benign, something that could be blocked automatically, or something that requires the immediate attention of your security analyst.

How Healthcare Will Benefit From Big Data: An MIT CDOIQ Symposium Round-Up #MITIQ

From this weeks MIT Chief Data Officer Information Quality Symposium, here is a recap of great theCUBE interviews with guests:

• Anthony Donofrio, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President with Truven Healthcare Analytics
• Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Healtcare Transformation with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Michael Nix, Director of Analytics of the James M. Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness, Fletcher Allen Health Care

Vulnerability Statistics Suck

From the Black Hat USA 2013 conference, this post recaps the presentation: Buying Into The Bias: Why Vulnerability Statistics Suck’ offered by Steve Christey and Brian “Jericho” Martin. Christey and Martin explore the limitations of improperly gathered and analyzed statistics and how they could ultimately be harmful to an organizations bottom line.

Black Hat USA 2013 Preview Round-Up

Black Hat USA 2013 was a conference that dealt with the issues pertaining to Big Data and data storage and management. Here we provide a recap of just some of the sessions from this weeks conference.

Google Tweaks its Cloud Storage Platform for Enriched Dev Data Management

Google has decided to introduce three new features on its Cloud Storage platform to accelerate and simplify the management of data and objects.The update additions include Object Lifecycle Management, Regional Buckets, and automatic parallel composite uploads via gsutil. The new features aim to make it easier for developers to manage, access and upload data into the cloud.

How The Financial Sector Will Benefit From Big Data: MIT CDOIQ Symposium Round-Up

Here is a curation of videos from the MIT Chief Data Officer Information Quality Symposium, focusing on the financial sector’s security issues and how it stands to benefit from Big Data. The interviews include:

• Justin Magruder, President and Senior Managing Director at Noetic Partners
• Tony O’Brien, associate lecturer at the Sheffield Business School
• Derek Strauss, CDO was created at TD Ameritrad

SolidFire Gets Ahead in the Cloud with Cheaper-Than-Disk SSD Storage

Big Data, flash storage provider SolidFire has just secured a new round of series C funding to the tune of $31 million. At the same time, it’s also rolled out an expanded product line, offering SSD storage at a lower cost than traditional disk-based storage, something that’s sure to cause a few ripples in the market.