Fusion-io scored big last year when it developed the ioDrive, a solid state drive solution that resembled RAM more than it did regular SSDs and that connected to the motherboard through the PCI Express x4 instead of SATA or PATA interfaces. As if the respective read and write speeds of 800MB/s and 680MB/s were not enough to clearly indicate the high performance delivered by the Fusion-io storage solution, the company again scored back in November, when it released the ioDrive Octal card. Eager to make use of this high-speed SSD storage solution, IBM licensed the ioMemory technology and plans to use it in its next lines of High IOPS PCIe solid-state drives."Working with Fusion-io, System x servers are delivering technology that optimizes these data-heavy workloads, allowing systems to not only handle the increases, but do so more efficiently," Robert Galush, vice president, IBM systems and technology group, said.
The new IBM High IOPS Adapter will drastically improve the application performance for database and server applications. Operations that would normally take hours to process could be completed in minutes when using the Flash Memory Tier (the server-deployed storage tier) for data-heavy graphics and 3D renderings instead of disk-based storage modules. The adapters will be used exclusively in IBM's Sy... (read more)
One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems faced by education systems world... (
Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha... (
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers celebrate love right on their desktops. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a new desktop theme designed to integrate seamlessly into the desktop of their Windows 7-power computers. The Lacy Hearts is, as the software giant has put i... (
The latest development milestone of Office 2010 has made it into the wild, even though Microsoft never intended to have the general public get their hands on the release. Earlier this week, the Redmond company revealed that the next iteration of the Office System reached a key milestone in the evolution to RTM, namely the Rel... (
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