April 2008 Archives

NEC's Vice President of Advanced Storage Products, Karen Dutch, recently brought out some salient points about storage management in her Spring 2008 SNW presentation, "Defining Storage Solutions in the Data Center 2.0". Specifically, she described the features that new storage architectures should deliver in order to keep storage management manageable as storage growth in organizations continues. Of course, the not-so-subtle message is that NEC's HYDRAstor delivers on these new features. (read more)

A well-known study released by IDC in 2007 forecast that by 2010 the amount of information that will be copied and created in the global digital universe will climb to nearly 1 zettabyte (that's 1 million petabytes). That number was based on the assumption that there was approximately 160 exabytes of information in existence in 2006 and that global data growth will continue to grow at a year over year rate of 57%. Assuming that forecast holds true, this puts the total global store of information at or over 400 exabytes by the end of this year. (read more)

In part one of this two-part series, NEC's Director of Business Development, Dr. Christian Toelg, answered some specific technical questions about how Accelerator Nodes and Storage Nodes differ from one another. This second part takes a look at what specific advantages NEC's HYDRAstore grid storage architecture has over siloed, two controller storage system architectures when performing deduplication. (read more)