Agnes Lamont

GridIron Systems, a pioneer in Big Data acceleration, will showcase OneAppliance, a comprehensive suite of data storage and compute solutions designed especially for accelerating Big Data analytics, at PASS SQLRally in Dallas, Texas this week. IT professionals at the event will have the opportunity to see how OneAppliance can transparently accelerate existing data infrastructures and expand production, test and development environments, including Data Marts. Using OneAppliance solutions, applications based on SQL Server can deliver data to more concurrent users at optimal speeds. This allows organizations to increase productivity even as they reduce the cost, complexity and footprint of their IT infrastructure for structured, unstructured and mixed data. OneAppliance solutions integrate high performance Flash and unique software that analyzes data access workload a... (more)

GridIron Fast Tracks Big Data on Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehouses

GridIron Systems is demonstrating how its revolutionary TurboCharger™ data acceleration appliance can transparently accelerate “big data” in large, demanding, SAN-based data warehouse environments that rely on Microsoft SQL Server. GridIron’s TurboCharger acceleration appliance delivers data to SQL Server users at the fastest solid state memory speeds without the expense of using solid state disks as primary storage or arraying hundreds of new hard disks. Sitting between the servers and storage, the TurboCharger uses proprietary Set-Ranking™ analytics to identify what data is cu... (more)

3X Systems Introduces “Private Cloud” Backup Appliance

3X Systems has announced the 3X RBA Enterprise Series, a unique remote backup appliance for larger organizations and distributed users. 3X Systems’ “private cloud” architecture ensures users’ data is safe and easy-to-recover, yet confidential, and always under their own control – critical considerations for organizations such as those in healthcare, financial services, non-profit, and professional services that need to comply with regulations governing electronic data. With the new 3X RBA Enterprise Series, larger, distributed organizations can back up all of their Microsoft Wi... (more)

3X Systems & Tushaus Partner to Deliver Private Cloud Computing Appliance

3X Systems, a provider of “private cloud” backup appliances, on Friday announced that Tushaus Computer Services, a Milwaukee-based provider of leading edge technology solutions, is offering managed backup and business continuance solutions that incorporate the 3X RBA (Remote Backup Appliance) into its DataVault offering. Through this solution provider partnership, Tushaus deploys, hosts, and manages 3X RBA systems for small to medium business customers in its cloud hosting centers in Milwaukee and Appleton, Wisconsin. Because each customer’s data is automatically and securely p... (more)

Texas Memory Systems’ Solid State Disk Certified

Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World's Fastest Storage®, today announced its RamSan-500 solid state disk system has been certified as interoperable with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008.  The RamSan-500 is an enterprise-class cached Flash storage system that delivers high performance, large capacity storage more economically than adding a similar capacity high-end hard disk-based RAID system. The RamSan-500 can deliver more than sixteen times the performance while using 50% less power. Solid state storage devices like the RamSan-500 are deployed in enterprise data centers to a... (more)