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Pure Storage’s beefy new flagship flash array is faster, smarter and more efficient
Pure Storage Inc. is upping the ante for flash storage with the debut of a new flagship array that incorporates homegrown solid-state memory modules to provide massive improvements across every major operational metric. The launch comes on the same week as the introduction of another new system from one of its top competitors. But whereas ...
SanDisk’s new 2TB SSD is a storage workhorse for cloud providers
Flash moved another step closer toward displacing mechanical storage in the data center this morning after the introduction of a dense new solid-state drive from SanDisk Corp. that can pack up to two terabytes of data on a single tray. It’s geared towards the requirements of hyperscale clouds that place a particular emphasis on hardware density. ...
Logentries goes after Splunk with new log analytics language
Now that data visualization is off the checklist, the self-service movement in the enterprise is turning its eyes towards machine-generated transmissions, with Logentries Inc. leading the charge. The cloud-based log management provider is rolling out a new query syntax that promises to simplify the manipulation of information collected through its namesake platform. Analytics Language includes ...
What you missed in Cloud: Hybrid helpers
The hybrid model of combining private and public clouds returned to the center of attention last week after EMC acquired Virtustream Inc. in $1.2 billion deal to bolster the off-premise component of its grand federation strategy for addressing the evolving operational requirements of the enterprise. The acquisition buys the storage giant not only the infrastructure ...
Teradata embraces BSON to court MongoDB adopters
Teradata Corp. is continuing its strategic shift toward supporting unstructured data at MongoDB World 2015 this morning with the addition of support for two new JSON variations to its namesake relational system aimed at accommodating modern web services, particularly those running on the popular document store. MongoDB is the single most widely-used NoSQL flavor in ...
HP flashes new 3PAR all-SSD arrays at under $1.50/gigabyte
Flash storage has passed another milestone on Wikibon’s downward cost reduction curve thanks to the introduction of new arrays from HP packing what are described as the biggest solid-state memory drives on the market with 3.84 terabytes of usable enterprise multi-level cell (eMLC) capacity each. The increased density is claimed to have helped bring the ...
What you missed in Big Data: Application analytics
Last week saw the emergence of yet more new applications for managing unstructured information after several major analytic players stepped up their competitive efforts. Salesforce.com Inc. led the charge with the release of new connectors that, for the first time, allow the integration of external data sources into its cloud-based business intelligence platform. That will ...
CA plunks down $480 million for Rally Software to get into the Agile development game
While the development community is adopting containers en masse for their potential in accelerating the creation and implementation of new code, the traditional enterprise is also moving toward cutting release cycles, albeit at a more calculated pace. CA Technologies Inc. hopes to seize that trend with the acquisition of Rally Software Development Corp. for appropriately ...
More momentum for vertical cloud computing as ClearDATA scores $25 million
The trend of top infrastructure-as-a-service giants pushing smaller players into niche markets has caught many traditional providers off guard, but you wouldn’t know that from ClearDATA Inc.’s new $25 million funding round. The capital will help fuel the development of its namesake public cloud, which has gained a tremendous amount of momentum on the back ...
Unprecedented IRS breach sees hackers make off with 100,000 Americans’ personal info
After a long string of attacks against private companies, it became the Internal Revenue Service’s turn to step into the sights of the black hat community this week after a massive attack that claimed the most sensitive private information of over 100,000 tax-paying citizens. The breach saw the agency’s own fraud prevention system turned against ...
