December 2014
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December 17, 2014
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Dec'14
Google's public cloud storage advanced little in 2014
Google Cloud Storage rolled out its Cloud Storage Connector in 2014 but not much else. The connector and price cuts were the biggest announcements for the year. Continue Reading
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December 17, 2014
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Dec'14
Western Digital expands flash portfolio with array startup Skyera
Western Digital's latest flash deal comes six weeks after Skyera beefed up the capacity to 136 TB of its single-controller 1U skyHawk all-flash array Continue Reading
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December 17, 2014
17
Dec'14
The rise of scale-out network-attached storage
Scale-out NAS is being implemented across the storage landscape, with major vendors and startups releasing new and upgraded products. This guide discusses product offerings and how organizations use scale-out. Continue Reading
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December 16, 2014
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Dec'14
Can I get a status update on the Resilient File System?
Brien Posey explains the benefits of the Resilient File System and examines the reasons why it has remained relatively unused. Continue Reading
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December 16, 2014
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Dec'14
Experts make enterprise flash technology predictions
Technologists and industry analysts predict enterprise-flash adoption will increase as new, cheaper and denser technologies emerge to help drive down costs Continue Reading
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December 16, 2014
16
Dec'14
Kryder's Law
Kryder's Law describes the rate at which former Seagate CTO Mark Kryder predicted disk drive density would grow. Continue Reading
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December 16, 2014
16
Dec'14
Azure cloud storage 2014: New features offset by embarrassing outages
Microsoft Azure added redundancy features and a new StorSimple hybrid array in 2014 -- now if it could just avoid those outages. Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
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Dec'14
FLAPE
FLAPE (flash plus tape) is an approach to tiered storage that allows administrators to archive data as soon as it is written. Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
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Dec'14
Top five VMware Virtual SAN takeaways of 2014
Now that VMware's VSAN has been generally available since March, we take a look back at analyst and customer feedback to see what we've learned about software-defined storage. Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
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Dec'14
With Amazon Zocalo and Glacier, AWS held off tough competition in 2014
AWS adds Amazon Zocalo, upgrades to Amazon Glacier and EBS in 2014 as it tries to defend its No. 1 position in cloud storage. Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
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Dec'14
Panzura fortifies global file locking, adds element locking
The enhancement enables users in multiple geographies to access different portions of a file simultaneously, without overwriting to shared cloud storage. Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
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Dec'14
What are the benefits of using the Boot to VHD feature?
Boot to VHD may be seen as a novelty feature, but it also has practical uses in the workplace. Brien Posey explains in this expert answer. Continue Reading
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December 12, 2014
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Dec'14
Tintri embraces Hyper-V, prepares for the multi-hypervisor age
Tintri, which has earned a good reputation for providing storage for VMware virtual machines, this week made its Microsoft Hyper-V support generally available on its VMstore systems. That paves the ... Continue Reading
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December 12, 2014
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Dec'14
VersaStack, FlashStack are more reasons why Cisco won't buy EMC
Keep Cisco off the list of possible EMC suitors -- Cisco is too promiscuous a storage player to tie itself exclusively to one partner. Continue Reading
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December 12, 2014
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Dec'14
What is the application-aware Hyper-V checkpoint process and why is it important?
Expert Brien Posey explains the importance of application-aware checkpoints and how they differ from hypervisor snapshots. Continue Reading
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December 11, 2014
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Dec'14
Pure Storage launches FlashStack converged offering
Pure Storage hooks up with Cisco, VMware and channel partners to enter the hot converged infrastructure space with new FlashStack CI offerings. Continue Reading
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December 11, 2014
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Dec'14
Storiant adds NFS protocol support for NAS private cloud storage
Startup Storiant aims to serve the growing market for long-term cloud storage for unstructured data in regulated industries at a lower cost than public cloud storage. Continue Reading
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December 11, 2014
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Dec'14
EMC Syncplicity takes a wider view of file sharing with Panorama
EMC Syncplicity adds Panorama for end users looking to manage online storage on mobile devices from multiple repositories. Continue Reading
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December 10, 2014
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Dec'14
Data Dynamics StorageX automates Microsoft DFS namespace management
StorageX 7.5 includes Microsoft DFS automation tools and CIFS-based disaster recovery; vendor plans to target object storage and Hadoop in next release. Continue Reading
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December 10, 2014
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Dec'14
VP dishes on EMC products and 'invigorating' competition
Chief of EMC's Core Technologies Division talks about changing storage buying patterns and how technologies like flash, cloud and hyper-convergence affect EMC. Continue Reading