May 2016
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May 31, 2016
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Commercial Hadoop distributors bring HDFS improvements
These three commercial distributions of Hadoop are alternative options for big data storage that can bypass data protection and performance problems common with HDFS. Continue Reading
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May 31, 2016
31
May'16
Analyst: 3D NAND technology could stick around for 20 years
3D NAND flash will probably stick around for 20 years, despite continued higher cost-per-GB of NAND flash vs. hard disk drives, says semiconductor analyst Jim Handy. Continue Reading
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May 27, 2016
27
May'16
Pure Storage's impressive sales growth diluted by losses
Pure Storage is finding that it’s expensive to grow sales in the all-flash storage market these days. While Pure increased revenue last quarter by 89% year-over-year, it was unable to reduce its ... Continue Reading
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May 27, 2016
27
May'16
Data storage technology trends debated in inaugural Tweet Chat
Data storage industry professionals discussed the appeal of technologies such as all-flash arrays, hyper-convergence and cloud storage during the first SearchStorage Tweet Chat. Continue Reading
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May 26, 2016
26
May'16
Symbolic IO's IRIS makes eyes at in-memory storage
Symbolic IO emerges from stealth, with a claim that its IRIS product can shrink memory-based storage, rehydrate it quickly in RAM and preserve it intact. Continue Reading
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May 26, 2016
26
May'16
NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud
With the worst part of its Clustered Data Ontap (CDOT) challenges behind it, NetApp is bringing out the next version of its Ontap storage operating system. Ontap 9 will focus on flash, coming as ... Continue Reading
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May 25, 2016
25
May'16
Flash accelerates Nimble sales, not profits
Nimble Storage received a quick jolt from its All Flash arrays last quarter, as the platform drove larger deals and helped bring in bigger customers. The vendor continued to lose money, however, ... Continue Reading
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May 25, 2016
25
May'16
Violin Memory's struggles continue
Violin Memory had little to show for its turnaround efforts last quarter. The all-flash vendor’s revenue declined and it continue to lose money, prompting the CEO to tell investors he feels their ... Continue Reading
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May 25, 2016
25
May'16
Investment firm picks Infinidat storage to boost performance
Meitav Dash Investments experienced problematic latency with its applications using NetApp filers before turning to newcomer Infinidat's hyperscale hybrid storage. Continue Reading
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May 25, 2016
25
May'16
Are SSD as cache appliances losing prevalence in the market?
As flash technologies and public cloud storage become increasingly common in enterprises, SSD caching appliances on hard disk drives may soon become outdated. Continue Reading
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May 24, 2016
24
May'16
3D NAND flash
3D NAND is a type of flash memory in which memory cells are stacked vertically in layers, in comparison to planar NAND, which uses a single layer of memory cells. Continue Reading
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May 24, 2016
24
May'16
hard disk drive (HDD)
Hard disk drives are a type of physical storage media that use spinning disk platters to store nonsequential data in personal computers and enterprise data centers. Continue Reading
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May 24, 2016
24
May'16
Permabit looks to reduce Linux storage in hybrid clouds
Permabit optimizes backup and chases enterprises that are building Linux storage clouds with its latest Virtual Data Optimizer deduplication software release. Continue Reading
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May 24, 2016
24
May'16
Datrium says new twist makes DVX run crazy fast
Datrium has added an “Insane Mode” feature that the startup claims can double host storage performance on the fly. Datrium took the Insane Mode tag from Tesla’s rapid acceleration technique for its ... Continue Reading
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May 23, 2016
23
May'16
Caringo Swarm
Swarm is software designed to store unstructured data on an object storage platform. Unique indentifiers allow objects to be tracked using the search function. Continue Reading
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May 23, 2016
23
May'16
Join us for a data storage industry tweet chat on May 25
Weigh in on today's hot data storage technologies at 3:00 p.m. EST during a Twitter discussion moderated by the SearchStorage team. Continue Reading
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May 23, 2016
23
May'16
Violin plans to stay competitive in all-flash array market
CEO Kevin DeNuccio said sales of the Violin Memory FSP are on pace to generate 25%-35% year-on-year revenue growth in 2016. Violin is pinning its hopes on FSP after failing to find a buyer. Continue Reading
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May 23, 2016
23
May'16
cloud archive
Cloud archiving is a storage procurement model in which data that is no longer accessed on a regular basis is managed and backed up remotely by a cloud storage service provider. Continue Reading
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May 20, 2016
20
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Brocade FC storage sales down, and will stay there for now
Brocade’s earnings for last quarter show a decline in storage sales consistent with what large array vendors have reported. The Fibre Channel switch vendor’s forecast for this quarter shows that ... Continue Reading
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May 20, 2016
20
May'16
file storage
File storage stores data in a hierarchical structure, usually in a NAS system. The system storing data and the client retrieving data see files and folders in the same format. Continue Reading