Fusion-io: Apple, Facebook customer concentration hurts (for now)
Apple and Facebook have stocked up their data centers with solid state flash storage and have paused spending, but Fusion-io should be able to diversify its customer base.
Apple and Facebook have stocked up their data centers with solid state flash storage and have paused spending, but Fusion-io should be able to diversify its customer base.
The storage system is designed for applications such as seismic processing, financial modeling, machine learning and fluid dynamics.
The move, the latest in a series of partnerships forged by LenovoEMC, highlight how the company is broadening out its tools to better target small and mid-sized businesses.
Facebook's photo storage system holds 850 million photos and costs a lot of dough. Niall Kennedy has a nice overview of what Facebook is doing to minimize its storage costs.
Flash arrays are gaining momentum in the data center and technology buyers need to ponder a storage system swap when older gear is retired.
U2 used to use dozens of USB flash drives and a backpack to port its video and data around. The band has now grown into an all-flash storage array as it plays to two massive screens.
NetApp cuts employees for the second time in a year as it deals with the storage shift to cloud computing and tighter IT budgets for hardware.
The company's storage operating system adds performance improvements for Splunk, Hadoop and NoSQL workloads.
Cisco builds out its storage lineup as the company creates a complete data center arsenal that's integrated and a potential threat to partners.
The company launched its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with the combined with its Greenplum HD appliance will link together to combine storage, analytics and Hadoop.