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- Cloud gateways for primary storage: Benefits and challengesTip - Most IT shops that have ventured down the cloud storage road have restricted their use to backup or archiving. Now cloud gateways are making primary storage use cases feasible.
- Pare down primary storageMagazine - Data deduplication is moving from backup to primary storage. Dedupe’s great for trimming primary data stores, but there are other technologies that can do the job.
- Data storage optimization: The first step for data efficiencyFeature - Now that we've made storage, networks and servers more efficient by virtualizing them, it's time to focus on data storage optimization for greater data efficiency. Read storage industry expert and SearchStorage.com contributor Steve Duplessie for greater insight into today's virtualized environments.
Disk drives from searchStorage.com
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Week in review: Nirvanix completes new round of funding
News -In our week in review podcast, Senior News Director Dave Raffo talks about the week’s top storage news with Assistant Editor John Hilliard.
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Shortages -- real or not -- have hiked disk prices
Magazine -Find out what readers had to say about hard disk drive price increases and shortages. What types of compromises did they have to make when placing orders?
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Flash tech powers cloud storage and gives enterprises a boost
Magazine -Flash technology can be attractive for cloud service providers -- and enterprises -- looking for a highly available, scalable and efficient data storage solution.
Disk arrays from searchStorage.com
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Week in review: Nirvanix completes new round of funding
News -In our week in review podcast, Senior News Director Dave Raffo talks about the week’s top storage news with Assistant Editor John Hilliard.
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Using Nimble Storage, construction firm reconstructs storage set-up
News -Two Nimble Storage arrays replace hodgepodge of systems from EMC, NetApp, Dell and Buffalo for primary storage and backup at construction firm Graniterock.
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NetApp tops enterprise array field again
Magazine -If it hasn't done so already, NetApp is shaking off that "only NAS" label with yet another big win in the Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays.
Solid-State Storage from searchStorage.com
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Storage Radio: New Pure Storage all-SSD array; CloudSigma’s SigStore
News -Storage Radio: Listen to the week’s storage headlines, including news about Pure Storage’s upgrade of its all-flash storage array, CloudSigma’s launch of SLA-backed cloud service SigStore, and more.
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Storage Radio: New EMC VMAX, XtremIO bought; Symantec customers riled
News -Storage Radio: Listen to this week’s storage headlines, including EMC’s new VMAX 40K, its acquisition of XtremIO and Symantec user backlash.
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CloudSigma offers SLA-guaranteed SSD cloud
News -Cloud services provider CloudSigma AG has introduced its SSD cloud storage offering with SLAs that cover performance and availability.
RAID from searchStorage.com
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Nevex adds flash caching software, Overland revamps RAID for SnapServer
News -SNW Fall 2011 opens with startup Nevex adding flash caching software to eliminate I/O bottlenecks, and Overland Storage introducing SnapDragon with DynamicRAID.
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LSI CacheVault protects data with NAND flash; more data storage news
News -LSI’s MegaRAID CacheVault protects data with NAND flash and replaces Lithium-ion batteries with super capacitor; IBM, Violin Memory set file-scanning mark; and more storage news.
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RAID storage systems update
Report -Read our top content on RAID storage systems, advances in RAID technology, the value of erasure codes in RAID 6, and how to manage RAID data storage capacity.
Data Storage Management from searchStorage.com
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Violin tunes up for Big Data analytics
News -Violin Memory CTO of software Jonathan Goldick sees solid state playing a key role in storage for Big Data, and he’s not talking about scale-out NAS for large data stores.
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HDS rolls out private cloud services, eyes Big Data
News -Hitachi Data Systems is putting technology from its BlueArc and Parascale acquisitions to work in its private storage cloud and Big Data plans.
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Storage Magazine Online: Managing The Information That Drives The Enterprise
Promo -Storage Magazine Online offers storage professionals a must-read package of articles on the most relevant, groundbreaking and popular topics and technologies in storage today.
Primary storage capacity optimization from searchStorage.com
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Steady march toward storage virtualization
Magazine -Fifty-six percent of our readers have virtualized at least some of their installed storage. Those who have cite easier management of storage systems and data as a key benefit.
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The pros and cons of using data reduction systems
Feature -Analyst Stephen Foskett outlines the pros and cons of using data reduction systems to slim down your data center footprint.
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Jon Toigo's top tips on IOPS performance in the data center
Podcast -Jon Toigo suggests IOPS performance boosts through the use of SSD technology, automated storage tiering and virtualization components.
Primary Storage or Storage Hardware from searchStorage.com
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Storage Radio: New Pure Storage all-SSD array; CloudSigma’s SigStore
News -Storage Radio: Listen to the week’s storage headlines, including news about Pure Storage’s upgrade of its all-flash storage array, CloudSigma’s launch of SLA-backed cloud service SigStore, and more.
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Nimbus makes its all-flash storage enterprise ready
News -Nimbus adds dual controller architecture to the all-flash storage arrays it has been selling for nearly two years.
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VMworld 2010: Isilon ships clustered NAS with iSCSI
News -Isilon adds iSCSI for block storage to go with legacy file-based clustered NAS architecture; will it need Fibre Channel to be a mainstream storage array player?