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 -
For HP storage, there's 3PAR and subpar
- Editorial News Director 23 Feb 2012 -
Symantec set to hop on Hadoop, tackle 'big data'
- Editorial News Director 22 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 -
Actifio banks on IBM giving it a PAS with service providers
- Editorial News Director 17 Feb 2012 -
HP goes all-flash with new LeftHand iSCSI system
- Editorial News Director 16 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 ...
Despite good results with its 3PAR SAN arrays, Hewlett-Packard (HP)’s storage sales are sinking. HP’s earnings report Wednesday was filled with poor results, and storage was no exception. HP said ...
Symantec will jump into the “big data” market this year with an application designed to make Hadoop MapReduce more enterprise-ready. Don Angspatt, VP of product management for Symantec’s storage ...
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 ...
IBM and Actifio struck up a partnership this week that startup Actifio hopes will bring its Protection and Availability (PAS) platform to the cloud and IBM sees as a way to fill data protection ...
Hewlett-Packard today quietly launched an all solid-state drive (SSD) version of its LeftHand iSCSI SAN array. Unlike the server and services announcements HP made at its Global Partner Conference, ...
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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 -
Is Starboard Storage a startup or Reldata 2.0?
- Editorial News Director 13 Feb 2012
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 ...
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, ...