Storage vendors
This topics page collects the latest information on storage vendors and product information, including buying guides. It covers top enterprise storage vendors, data storage vendors, and cloud storage and online storage providers, and tracks mergers and acquisitions, executive shuffles and funding information. The news section tracks leading storage vendors and startups.
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Report
17 Jan 2024
TechTarget Storage Products of the Year 2023 nomination form
Nominate your favorite or best storage products for the annual TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Aug 2023
TechTarget Storage Products of the Year judging criteria
This article discusses how products are judged for the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Answer
30 Jun 2015
What's the difference between EMC VNX series and ViPR?
Brien Posey explains how two of EMC's virtual storage products work and for what use cases they work best. Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Jun 2015
Data Dynamics StorageX
Data Dynamics StorageX is a software suite that specializes in data migration and Microsoft Distributed File System management. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jun 2015
Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product
One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Jun 2015
PernixData plans platform proliferation
PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jun 2015
HDS fully digests Pentaho
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of Pentaho this week, which means Pentaho’s big data analytics technology will be showing up in HDS storage products soon. Pentaho software will be ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Jun 2015
Violin still searching for right notes
The red hot all-flash array remains ice cold for Violin Memory. Violin reported revenue of $12.1 million for last quarter. That was down 33.3 percent from last year and 41 percent from last ... Continue Reading
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Buyer's Guide
29 May 2015
SAN basics: All the tools you need to purchase a storage-area network
Whether you're purchasing a SAN for the first time or looking to upgrade, this guide walks you through the buying process from start to finish. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 May 2015
Quantum expects to scale StorNext products, sales this year
Quantum’s forecast for the next year includes more StorNext and scale-out archiving products, sales and vertical markets. The sales bump has already started. Quantum last week reported its ... Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2015
EMC World 2015: Expect backup, flash, future directions
EMC will roll out products in its Data Domain, XtremIO and ViPR platforms at EMC World 2015, but what about a CEO succession plan? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Apr 2015
EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation
EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Apr 2015
EMC: Information glut will change what storage looks like
There’s a lot of data out there, and there’s going to be even more in the future, and businesses need to figure out better ways to use and deliver it because the always-connected “information ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Apr 2015
IBM says it can put 220 terabytes in the palm of your hand
IBM is working on putting 220 terabytes of storage in a palm-sized tape cartridge. The company has developed breakthrough technology that shrinks the size of bits for magnetic tape and offers ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Feb 2015
Fibre Channel helps Nimble Storage grow revenue in Q4
Nimble Storage exceeded expectations with $68.3 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by a new wave of Fibre Channel-based arrays that factored into about 10% of the company’s ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Feb 2015
Dell to ship 2nd wave of XC Series hyper-converged appliances
Dell plans to ship the second version of its XC Series of hyper-converged appliances next week, just four months after getting the first wave of products out the door in November. The XC Series ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
12 Feb 2015
Vendors predict the future of data storage 2015
The future of data storage isn’t easy to predict. While some vendors see it clearly, others prove that, going into 2015, their crystal balls may be a little hazy. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Feb 2015
NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints
A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ... Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2015
Atlantis USX 2.0
Atlantis Computing's USX 2.0 claims the silver medal in the storage system software category in Storage magazine's Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2015
Nimble CS700
Nimble Storage adds a higher-capacity model to its iSCSI hybrid arrays, plus an all-flash shelf to bulk up performance. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2015
Scality Inc. Ring 5.0
Scality's Ring 5.0 software-defined storage shares the bronze award in the Products of the Year storage system software category with VMware's VSAN. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2015
HP OneView for VMware vCenter 7.4.2
HP OneView for VMware vCenter management software provides a complete look into virtual environments, spanning both physical and virtual layers. Continue Reading
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Guide
11 Feb 2015
Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year
A panel of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors voted these 19 products the best of 2014. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Feb 2015
Veritas Rising
Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original Veritas, which Symantec acquired in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jan 2015
CommVault now sees a point in smaller bundles
For years, CommVault boasted about how it sold one application that handled all data protection and management needs. That is changing, as its tries to perk up tepid financial growth in a more ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2015
How stealthy money affects technology
By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ... Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2015
Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists
Vendors that describe their products as ‘software-defined storage’ dominated the 2014 Products of the Year storage system software category. Continue Reading
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News
25 Aug 2014
Infinio adds block storage support to RAM cache engine
The latest version of Infinio's RAM cache tool, Infinio Accelerator 2.0, borrows idle memory from servers to support large VDI deployments. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Jul 2014
What is object storage technology (and why should you care)?
Object technology offers scalability, economical operation and better data management; but it's very different from file and block storage systems. Continue Reading
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Guide
23 Jun 2014
Flash storage: Guide to all-flash storage arrays
TechTarget's all-flash storage array guide navigates the hotly contested market with a comparison chart and snapshot profiles of 15 products. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 May 2014
Violin 6000 arrays feature proprietary flash modules, memory fabric
Violin 6000 Series all-flash storage arrays use proprietary flash modules, memory fabric architecture and RAID to improve performance and latency. Continue Reading
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Guide
10 Jan 2014
Data storage systems: 2013 Storage Products of the Year finalists
These 52 data storage systems products are finalists for the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2013 Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Apr 2013
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data. Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Feb 2013
Tegile Zebi HA2800 Storage Array
The Tegile Zebi HA2800 multiprotocol array can be used as an all-flash system or in front of a pool of hard drives as a hybrid array. Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Feb 2013
NexGen Storage Inc. n5-150 Storage System
IT admins using the NexGen Storage n5-150 Storage System can guarantee performance to each app and isolate workloads from one another on the SAN. Continue Reading
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Podcast
18 Jan 2013
RHEV 3.1 storage: Functionality and considerations
Virtualization expert Sander van Vugt explains how RHEV storage works and discusses some of the new storage features in version 3.1. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
09 Jan 2013
Data storage companies focus on flash M&A potential
Find out which data storage companies have made significant flash storage purchases and why. Continue Reading
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Tip
06 Jun 2012
Citrix StorageLink integrates SAN with virtualization environment
Find out what benefits Citrix StorageLink delivers to Citrix XenServer, such as access to advanced features on the storage array, offloading of storage operations to the array, and more. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Mar 2012
Choose an integrated stack for efficiency, easy storage implementation
An integrated stack bundles servers, storage and networking in a preconfigured product and is easy to install and manage. Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2011
FCoE still lacking support
Brocade showcased its 1860 Fabric Adaptor at Storage Networking World (SNW). The appliance gives customers the option to implement 16 Gbps Fibre Channel, 10 GbE or FCoE connectivity. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Oct 2011
The importance of Symantec's OpenStorage Technology in backup today
Learn about why Symantec's OpenStorage Technology (OST) and its role in backup and recovery today. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Sep 2011
Hospital system addresses IBM SVC performance, stability problems with alternative configuration
Spectrum Health breaks up IBM SVC eight-node cluster, taking uncommon tiered approach to improve stability and performance of storage virtualization system. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Aug 2011
Data storage startups: 10 emerging vendors worth watching
The best of today’s storage startups stand out in the areas of solid-state storage, cloud storage, virtualization and SAN/NAS. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Aug 2011
Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic
Dell revamped its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN hardware today, adding new entry-level and midrange platforms with support for 2.5-inch SAS drives and multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2009
Top 10 technology IPOs of 2007
The market for tech IPOs heated up in 2007, and while EMC spinoff VMware attracted investors beyond anyone's expectations, other stocks tailed off late in the year. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
23 Jun 2009
Data backup and recovery software best practices: A tutorial
Learn about data backup and recovery software best practices in our collection of tutorials. Learn EMC NetWorker, Symantec Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Linux, and open-source data backup best practices. Continue Reading
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News
08 Nov 2007
Storage blog: Another former Veritas exec defects from Symantec
Executive holdovers from Veritas are growing fewer and farther between at Symantec, following the disclosure by Symantec in an SEC filing this week. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2007
Data Domain shares spike in debut
Shares of data deduplication vendor, Data Domain soar on opening day of trading on the NASDAQ. Continue Reading
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News
15 Dec 2006
Double-Take IPOs, raises $82.5M
Data protection backup software firm, Double-Take went public Friday raising $82.5 million, following its competitor in this space, CommVault, which went public in September. Continue Reading
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News
15 Dec 2006
Isilon IPOs, raises $108.6M
Clustered NAS upstart, Isilon Systems has raised $108.6 million in an initial public offering Friday, following Riverbed and CommVault's IPOs in September. Continue Reading