Storage Soup
February 2012
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Amplidata gets funding from Intel, others for object storage
- Editorial News Director 29 Feb 2012 -
Data protection in transition
- Evaluator Group 28 Feb 2012 -
Backup vendors take cloud cover
- Editorial News Director 24 Feb 2012
Object-storage startup Amplidata picked up $8 million in funding and a new strategic investor today. New investor Intel Capital joins previous Amplidata investors Swisscom Ventures, Big Bang ...
The increase in data capacity demand makes it difficult for Information Technology to continue with existing data protection practices. Many organizations have realized their protection methods are ...
Backup vendors are paying especially close attention to the cloud these days. Asigra, Imation and CA launched backup products and services this week with various degrees of cloud connectivity. ...
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Dell expands its backup plan with AppAssure
- Editorial News Director 24 Feb 2012 -
Organization structures need optimization
- Evaluator Group 21 Feb 2012 -
HDS enhances non-disruptive data migration to VSP
- Senior News Writer 17 Feb 2012 -
NetApp developing server-side flash software
- Editorial News Director 16 Feb 2012 -
SanDisk acquires FlashSoft to accelerate flash performance
- Editorial News Director 15 Feb 2012 -
Today’s data growth requires new management approaches
- Evaluator Group 15 Feb 2012 -
IBM wants EMC's storage customers
- Senior News Writer 14 Feb 2012
Dell made its fifth storage acquisition in a little over four years today when it acquired AppAssure and its backup and replication software for virtual and physical machines. Dell did not disclose ...
One of the most important parts of optimizing the data center involves improving storage efficiency. And that requires more than implementing the latest technologies. While working with IT ...
Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has added a non-disruptive data migration capability to its flagship Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) that minimizes downtime for hosts and applications when moving data ...
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens says he expects server-side flash to become a key part of his vendor’s flash strategy. However, NetApp will take a different approach than its rival EMC. Asked about EMC’s ...
One by one, solid-state flash vendors are adding caching software to enhance their products. SanDisk picked up startup FlashSoft today in a move designed to make applications run faster with ...
Information Technology storage professionals are looking at a grim situation. The amount of capacity they need to store their organizations’ data is beyond the scope of what they can deal with ...
IBM Corp. is gunning for EMC with its XIV storage system, and "Big Blue" claims it is making a dent in EMC's lead. IBM last week added a multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive (SSD) cache to its ...
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Is Starboard Storage a startup or Reldata 2.0?
- Editorial News Director 13 Feb 2012 -
Red Hat brings GlusterFS to Amazon cloud
- Editorial News Director 10 Feb 2012 -
IBM puts SSD cache in XIV
- Editorial News Director 09 Feb 2012 -
Beware of IT inertia
- Evaluator Group 08 Feb 2012 -
EMC's Gelsinger: We don't want to sell servers
- Editorial News Director 07 Feb 2012
Starboard Storage Systems launched today, portraying itself as a brand new startup with a new technology and architecture for unified storage. But Starboard is in many ways a re-launch of Reldata, ...
Red Hat has been tweaking and expanding the NAS storage products it acquired from Gluster last October. This week Red Hat brought GlusterFS to the cloud with an appliance for Amazon Web Services ...
EMC rolled out its VFCache (“Project Lightning”) server-side flash caching product to great fanfare this week. IBM made a quieter launch, adding a solid-state drive (SSD) caching option to its XIV ...
In information technology, the part of Newton’s laws of motion regarding inertia where a body at rest tends to stay at rest is often prevalent. In IT, this law means changes are increasingly ...
EMC executives say the storage vendor’s VFCache strategy is to work with server vendors, not to take their business. During Monday’s VFCache launch, EMC president of information infrastructure ...