[san-tech][03535] IBM GPFS V3.5 Release, EMEA, April 10, 2012

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:47:04 +0900
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EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) 対象で、
IBM GPFS (General Parallel File System) V3.5がリリースされました
(USでのリリース日は調べていませんが、リリース済みでしょう)：

"IBM GPFS V3.5 offers improved file and data management support (AAS)"
 IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP12-0057
 April 10, 2012
  http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0057
 PDF:
  http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&appname=gpateam&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0057&pdf=yes

At a glance
*)Offers standard file system interfaces on UNIX
  and Microsoft Windows operating systems
*)Allows concurrent reads and writes from multiple nodes
*)Provides high-bandwidth data availability
*)Supports failover and disaster recovery to minimize single points of failure
*)Offers scalable information lifecycle management to allow flexible support of
  different disk classes through policy-driven automation
  and tiered storage management
*)Provides multicluster support and use of multiple networks

[san-tech][03534] Violin Memory vRAID Technology

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:45 +0900
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2012/07/09
"Violin Memory Enterprise Flash Serviceability",
 2012/06/12, StorageMojo
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW3Gjvkr6vg
  "Violin Memory's V6000 flash storage array has exceptionally low
   and consistent latency as proven on audited TPC-C benchmarks.
   One reason: they don't use standard SSDs. Instead they use
   Violin Intelligent Memory Modules - VIMMs - that, unlike DIMMs,
   are hot swappable."

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2012/06/27
"Violin Memory Enterprise Flash Serviceability"
 2012/06/12, StorageMojo
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW3Gjvkr6vg
   "Violin Memory's V6000 flash storage array has exceptionally low
   and consistent latency as proven on audited TPC-C benchmarks.
   One reason: they don't use standard SSDs. Instead they use
   Violin Intelligent Memory Modules - VIMMs - that, unlike DIMMs,
   are hot swappable."

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StorageMojoによる Violin Memory (Hardware-Based vRAID) 技術紹介ビデオです：

"Violin Memory: a clean-sheet flash architecture"
 2012/04/11, StorageMojo, 4:41, 720p
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=L2VibZhNFbE

"Violin's clean-sheet architecture"
 11 April, 2012, StorageMojo
  http://storagemojo.com/2012/04/11/violins-clean-sheet-architecture/

[san-tech][03533] Fusion-io SDK Enables Native Flash Memory Access, April 18, 2012

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:52:57 +0900
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Fusion-ioから Software Development Kit (SDK) のアナウンスです：

"Fusion-io Software Development Kit Enables Native Flash Memory Access"
 ioMemory SDK First to Offer Developers Direct Access to Flash Platform
 for Unprecedented Application Acceleration
 April 18, 2012
  http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-software-development-kit-enables-native-flash-memory-access/

  "... today announced the first software development kit (SDK)
   to provide software developers with native access to the ioMemory flash
   platform. By integrating applications directly with this new persistent
   memory tier, developers will be able to optimize enterprise, web,
   and big data applications through direct programmatic access to
   the ioMemory computing layer for the first time."
※API一覧は後で

[san-tech][01496] CRAY Research, Solid-State Storage Device (SSD)

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:12:17 +0900
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[san-tech][03532] Integration of WhamCloud Chroma Central Management System into DDN ExaScaler, April 17, 2012

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:16:19 +0900
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Lustre管理ツール WhamCloud Chromaが DDN ExaScaler applianceに搭載
されました：

"First-To-Market: Lustre Made Simple by DDN, the HPC Storage Leader"
 Strategic Partnership with WhamCloud allows Integration of Chroma
 Enterprise Management Tools into DDN ExaScaler appliance, to Simplify
 & Accelerate Lustre File System Deployment & Administration
 April 17, 2012
  http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/2012/first-market-lustre-made-simple-ddn-hpc-storage-leader
  http://www.ddn.com/sites/default/files/DDN_Chroma_Release_FINAL.pdf
  http://www.whamcloud.com/news/first-to-market-lustre-made-simple-by-ddn-the-hpc-storage-leader/

  "... today announced that DDN is offeringWhamcloud's Chroma Enterprise
   with its ExaScaler parallel file storage product to radically simplify
   Lustre file system management and accelerate ExaScaler adoption
   within enterprise Big Data environments."

[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900
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2012/05/01
"New Name in Holographic Storage: hVault"
 April 30th, 2012, StorageNewsletter
  http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/optical/new-name-in-holographic-storage-hvault

"Holographic storage: this could work"
 April 18, 2012, Storage Bits, News & Blogs, ZDNet
  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/holographic-storage-this-could-work/1657

"HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity"
 HVault also has its eye on the consumer market
 April 17, 2012, ComputerWorld
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226284/HVault_announces_holographic_storage_system_with_petabytes_of_capacity
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新興 Holographic Storage Systemsメーカー登場です：

hVault Holographic Storage Systems
  http://hvault.com/

Launch Date: Spring 2012
See us at NAB, April 16 -19

[san-tech][03530] SONY: New Mass-Storage Optical Disc Archive Solutions, 「オプティカルディスク・アーカイブ」システム製品化へ、2012年04月16日

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:43:22 +0900
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2012/04/19
"第564回:NAB 2012レポート その2
 ～ソニーが4K対応予定のNXCAMや新ストレージ～"
  2012年 4月 19日、【小寺信良の週刊 Electric Zooma!】、AV Watch
  http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/zooma/20120419_527386.html

"Sony whips out new optical mass storage format"
 Hirai's bid for glory looks a lot like Blu-ray...
 18th April 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/18/sony_optical_disk_archive/

[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems
  Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900 
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ソニーからのプレスリリースです：

"大容量光ディスクアーカイブの市場創造に向けて
 － 「アドバイザリーグループ」設立とライセンスプログラム等の提供開始について －"
 2012年04月16日
  http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/201204/12-058/

"Sony Moves Industry toward the Creation of New Mass-Storage Optical Disc
 Archive Solutions"
 April 16, 2012
  http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201204/12-058E/index.html

[san-tech][03529] Slide: Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing (April 11-12, 2012)

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:06:28 +0900
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2012/04/26
[Links]: Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews, 2012/04/23 (22) & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology, 2012/04/24
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2012年 4月 11, 12日に開催された Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing

IDF 2012 Beijing - April 11-12, 2012
  http://www.intel.com/idf/beijing/

の講演資料が以下で公開されています：
Technical Session Catalog
  https://intel.activeevents.com/bj12/scheduler/catalog.do
※左端のカートでまとめダウンロード可能です。