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IDC has just published its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey, ranking IBM as the world’s top supplier of Software-defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P). SDS-P is described as ”a new functional market added to the total storage software market that covers …
Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data
EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The rumor came from Andrew Dauncey on The Odd …
Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”
Comcast yesterday denied allegations it’s threatening to cut off customers who use the anonymous Tor web browser. Jason Livingood, VP of internet & communications engineering at Comcast, penned a blog post which insisted, “Comcast is not asking customers to stop using Tor, or …
Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM
Gartner Inc. has ranked three upstarts ahead of the likes of EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and IBM in its latest solid-state appliance critical capabilities report: namely, Kaminario, Pure Storage and SolidFire Inc. Gartner’s latest assessment differs from its most recent Magic Quadrant …
Google’s offering a cool $100,000 for startups to use its cloud
Google Inc. is seeking to temp entrepreunerial startups with a cool $100,000 in credit so long as they power their apps using its cloud platform rather than their rivals. The new program is called Google Cloud Platform for Startups, and was announced …
The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal
“There is no such thing as death. People die only if we forget.” Immortality has long been a dream of humankind; even since before Juan Ponce de Leon sought the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” the ancients pondered everlasting life. These days, some optimists …
HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz
In a shock announcement this morning Hewlett-Packard Company has revealed it’s buying up Eucalyptus, the open-source hybrid cloud software maker that’s been such a hit with customers of Amazon Web Services. HP has acquired Eucalyptus ostensibly to bolster its Helion Cloud offerings, …
EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware
EMC Corp. has reportedly denied that it plans to offload its stake in VMware Inc., just hours after rumors of an impending sale re-emerged via the New York Post. Whispers of this news have been bubbling just under the surface for several …
Seagate lights up the data center with new Cloud Systems and Solutions
Seagate Technology PLC has just created a new “Cloud Systems and Solutions group” that it says will lead to a raft of new storage arrays, enterprise disk drives and more importantly, storage rigs for cloud operators. The company is justifying the move …