VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

IBM has expanded its flash storage portfolio to help clients more quickly extract value from data. IBM launched three new all-flash array products incorporating industry-leading performance – a minimum latency of 250μs (microsecond) – to solve the challenge of accessing the massive amounts of data quickly for cloud-based applications and workloads. Consumers today are demanding cloud-based applications that are fast, easy and intelligent. IBM MicroLatency technology transfers data within the flash array via hardware instead of the added layer of software. Also built into the solutions are features designed to solve cloud requirements such as quality-of-service (QoS) to prevent the impact “noisy neighbour” problems have on application performance, secure multi-tenancy, thresholding, and easy-to-deploy grid scale out... Read more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM(NYSE:IBM)  has unveiled a strategic initiative to drive  Flash technology  further into the enterprise to help organizations better tackle the mounting challenges of  Big Data . IBM has announced the availability of the  IBM FlashSystem line of all-Flash storage appliances , which are based on technology acquired from Texas Memory Systems. The IBM FlashSystem provides organizations instant access to the benefits of Flash. The IBM FlashSystem 820 is twenty times faster than spinning hard drives, and can store up to 24 terabytes of data - more than twice the amount of printed information stored in the  US Library of Congress. "The economics and performance of Flash are at a point where the technology can have a revolutionary impact on enterprises, especially for transaction-intensive applications. The confluence of Big Data, social, mobile and cloud technologies is creating an environment in the ...