In April, I had the opportunity to attend the National Association of Broadcasting event (NABSHOW) in Las Vegas now in its 80th something year, where we co-exhibited with our industry partner Intel. The tag line for this year’s NABSHOW was “Where Content Comes to Life”...
Everything you always wanted to know about Butser II, but were afraid to ask! If you are involved with support for the Butser II platform, then I have news for you. We have just announced a new online training class for anyone who would benefit from a broad technical...
It seems that everyone these days is bundling server motherboards and large quantities of drives into a single box and calling it a “Storage Server” or “Application Platform.” While you can consider these systems to be a server with a large data storage component; for...
German engineering became synonymous with products (cars) that were designed with reliability, quality and a positive user experience over the time that you own the product – an ownership period that far exceeded other products. It doesn’t matter if the product you purchased...
The Orlando LUG was probably the most productive event that I’ve attended recently. The community turned out in large numbers (Yes) for this year’s meeting and they were very active in helping to set the foundation for the “post Oracle” era of Lustre. Xyratex was happy...
I spent yesterday at the Lustre User Group meeting in Orlando and I couldn’t help but notice the change in the atmosphere. Last year’s meeting had a dark cloud of uncertainty hovering over it versus the sense of stability that has surrounded this year’s meeting. Who...
Big Data is a term used to describe IT environments where the amount of data, the number of files, and/or the number of objects exceeds the ability of traditional methods to ingest, transform, manage, analyze and understand the meaning behind the data. For example, HD video...
Last week’s announcement of Network Appliance’s (NTAP) intention to acquire the Engenio division of LSI has created a lot of speculation about Xyratex’s relationship with NTAP. We have enjoyed a long and mutually beneficial partnership with NTAP and continue to work...
Welcome to Xyratex “Storage Insights”, our new communication forum. We’ll be sharing our insights about data storage industry news items and events through the eyes of Xyratex’s leading architects, developers and industry influencers. Please subscribe to “Storage...
We all have watched (or helped) the tablet market take-off over the past year. And it doesn’t take a long time standing in an Apple Store trying out an iPad to see why these devices are so popular! But does the popularity of tablets translate into the demise of the PC industry...
