It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
On May 5, in the university complex of Monte Sant’Angelo, an appointment was held to compare the experiences of the two universities (Fed II and Cambridge) in the field of high-performance computing. The agenda that also saw the involvement of entities such as Dell, Intel, Mellanox and Nvidia was technically intense and full of excellent […]
3PAR Inc, known to most for its canary yellow storage systems on a black background, has been sailing with a stock on the stock market for at least ten years that has remained stable at $10, but never rose above $15. Now, after the first acquisition proposal by Dell and the very recent proposal by […]
Eucalyptus, an opensource project that we have already talked about in NASA’s Nebula project, in Canonical’s support in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and in our meeting organized with the AWS User Group Naples, amazes us more and more. The compatibility of the Enterprise solution with all hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi), storage support (iSCSI, […]
When we attended a conference in Rome (Data Center Evolution), Cisco described its vision for the Unified Computing System (UCS), focusing on the FCoE (Fiber Channel Over Ethernet) protocol and how Cisco supported this rather than the more performing Infiniband. We asked the speaker Roberto Missana (Channel Product Sales Specialist of Cisco and Vice Chairman […]