IBM Corp. announced Wednesday new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics.
Toshiba announced Thursday its storage business strategy aimed at providing users with total storage innovation.
Xyratex Ltd., provider of data storage technology, announced Wednesday that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has chosen Xyratex as a strategic supplier. AMD selected the Xyratex OneStor Modular Enclosure as one of the building blocks for its big data and storage intensive solutions and optimized the SeaMicro SM15000 server to provide more than five petabytes of storage capacity in two racks for big data applications such as Hadoop and Object Storage. The combination of Xyratex and AMD products delivers an ultra-dense, high performance platform that eliminates excess hardware costs and cabling while simplifying installation and minimizing footprint requirements.
Attunity Ltd. announced Tuesday commercial availability of two Attunity CloudBeam services – a file replication service and a managed file transfer service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). Successfully emerged from public beta, both services offer high-performance and fully-managed secure data transfer capabilities that are designed to move Big Data to and from on-premises data centers and the AWS S3 cloud quickly, reliably and affordably for AWS customers.
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program Technology provider companies, HP, IBM and Quantum, announced Tuesday that they will offer Linear Tape File System (LTFS) compliance testing to demonstrate compatibility with the open standard Linear Tape File System specification. Tapes for the initial review cycle can be submitted to the LTO Program for testing starting May 1 through June 30, 2013. This process is intended to verify that an organization’s offering produces an LTFS formatted LTO cartridge that complies with the LTFS format specification.
