Conceptually, object storage makes sense. Servers are getting bigger and, as virtualisation hosts, are addressing more storage. Right now, virtual servers inside that host use VMDK (or equivalent) ...

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Chasing data-center trends, top server makers have made storage and memory capacity a priority in their new servers. Servers with Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v3 server chips, code-named Grantley, were ...

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Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

If you’re listening to VMware ’s CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMWorld yesterday, the question of whether ARM-based processors might fit well into storage servers boils down to a straight-up processor ...