Lucas Mearian

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Fusion-io doubles flash card’s speed, halves price

A single flash card has up to 2.4TB capacity. The new ioDrive2 Duo has 3GBps total bandwidth, offering up to 700,000 read I/Os per second and over 900,000 write IOPS

Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to its drives

The Toshiba Canvio Basics and Canvio 3.0 drive lines have been updated to add support for the USB 3.0 standard. The backup software also scans the user's system and recommends which files to back up to hosted systems, and which are best stored on the disk drive

EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform

The company's Hadoop Data Computing Appliance allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics

IBM’s Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients

The game-show-champion supercomputer will help doctors sort through the body of knowledge on patients' conditions

Fusion-io brings virtualization to flash I/O acceleration cards

Fusion-io has bundled IO Turbine's hypervisor software, which allows cache storage on servers to be shared across multiple virtual machines through its ioCache adapter card. The ioCache adapter card offers up to 1.28TB of capacity for VMs.

Silver Peak unveils free WAN accelerator

VX-Xpress is an entry-level product aimed at organizations just starting WAN optimization and at small branch or remote offices of larger companiesrn rn

Start-up releases unified VMware server, storage appliance

Nutanix's Complete Cluster puts VMware servers, storage under one management GUI. Each 2U enclosure can grow by adding blocks, each of which is connected to the last through a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet connection

Dell unveils next-gen EqualLogic arrays

The new Dell offerings include the first sub-$10,000 EqualLogic storage system model. Both PS series' come with Dell EqualLogic's new firmware, version 5.1, which Vigil said can boost performance by up to three times

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