NVIDIA and IBM Partnership

NVIDIA and IBM Partnership

by | Nov 18, 2013 | Everything, Industry News

NVIDIA and IBM Partnership Putting NVIDIA Tesla GPUs  (graphics processing unit) into supercomputers to enable faster data crunching, statistical analysis and mathematics is nothing new. What is new is the NVIDIA and IBM partnership that will bring this GPU boosted...
Link: Can you use SVC with XIV as storage?

Link: Can you use SVC with XIV as storage?

by | Oct 28, 2013 | Everything, Industry News

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Great blog post by Roger Eriksson Can you use SVC with XIV as storage? XIV and SVC can be a great combination, we have many customers using this combo. Why? flexibility and support for operating systems the XIV does not  support. But don’t you have to pay twice...
Gigayear Storage

Gigayear Storage

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Everything, Industry News, Miscellaneous

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Gigayear Storage? Hard Drive Lifetime: 1-30 years Optical Media Lifetime: 3-30 years Magnetic Tape Lifetime: 10-40 years Solid State Drive Lifetime:  3-50 years (Averages of various sources) Scary, isn’t it? Here in the office, a quick poll shows we have seen consumer...
Link: Designing your hardware for Virtual SAN

Link: Designing your hardware for Virtual SAN

by | Oct 10, 2013 | Everything, Industry News, Miscellaneous

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A good article by Duncan Epping with some advice for choosing your hardware to test VSAN on. Duncan says: “Over the past couple of weeks I have been watching the VMware VSAN Community Forum with close interest and also twitter. One thing that struck me was the...
Follow-up: Cisco Completes Sourcefire Purchase

Follow-up: Cisco Completes Sourcefire Purchase

by | Oct 10, 2013 | Everything, Industry News

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Follow-up: Cisco Completes Sourcefire Purchase A follow-up on our blog from July 23, Cisco Gobbles Up Sourcefire for $2.7 Billion. The purchase is complete and all Sourcefire shares should be off the NASDAQ as of yesterday. As expected, the final tally was close to...