Storage Soup
January 2014
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Quorum sets out to one-click its way to DR supremacy
- Editorial Director 31 Jan 2014 -
What does IBM’s server sale to Lenovo mean for storage?
- Evaluator Group 31 Jan 2014 -
With little growth in sight, EMC plans layoffs
- Editorial Director 29 Jan 2014
Data protection appliance vendor Quorum enters 2014 coming off what it claims are record sales with expectations to grow more this year, a fresh $10 million funding round and a still-emerging cloud ...
IBM’s sale of of its x86 server business to Lenovo raises questions about IBM storage. Lenovo did not buy any storage systems in the $2.3 billion transaction, but it will OEM and license IBM ...
EMC’s earnings report Wednesday served as another reminder that storage spending is not growing at anywhere near the rate that data is. With more data spread around on mobile devices and the cloud, ...
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Syncsort data protection becomes Catalogic
- Editorial Director 28 Jan 2014 -
Impediments to innovation
- Evaluator Group 23 Jan 2014 -
Cloud storage needs to be programmable
- Senior News Writer 21 Jan 2014 -
QLogic adopts Brocade's adapters
- Editorial Director 20 Jan 2014 -
SGI buys Starboard assets, engineering but not its arrays
- Editorial Director 17 Jan 2014 -
Convergence startup Nutanix makes investors hyper, pulls in $101 million in funding
- Editorial Director 15 Jan 2014 -
EMC adds another CEO to its boardroom
- Editorial Director 09 Jan 2014
Syncsort Data Protection has an official name, three months since splitting off from the Syncsort data integration company. The data protection vendor Monday said it is now called Catalogic ...
The computer storage industry seems interesting to many on the outside. Fellow engineers I associate with who are in different disciplines often ask pointed questions when we get together. The most ...
Kenneth Hui, open cloud architect at Rackspace, isn't a big fan of the term software-defined storage -- especially when discussing the cloud. He prefers "programmable storage" to describe capacity ...
Brocade last week revealed it is getting out of the adapter business, and it has sold off those products to QLogic. It’s easy to see why Brocade made this move. Despite being the Fibre Channel ...
The saga of Starboard Storage ended this week when SGI bought the intellectual property of the hybrid unified storage company. SGI will use the technology in its Active Archiving platform, but will ...
Nutanix released numbers this week that establish the startup as the far-away leader in the young hyperconverged storage market. The big news is it closed a massive $101 million funding round, ...
Joe Tucci found a way to make David Goulden EMC CEO without giving up his own CEO post. EMC Wednesday named Goulden CEO of EMC Federation, which consists of EMC’s core storage business. Tucci ...
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Spanning poised to extend cloud-to-cloud backup capabilities
- Editorial Director 06 Jan 2014 -
The truth about encryption
- Evaluator Group 02 Jan 2014
Spanning Cloud Apps CEO Jeff Erramouspe predicts 2014 will be a big year for cloud-to-cloud backup. That, of course, would be a good thing for his company, which provides backup for Google Apps and ...
When talking to IT professionals about encryption, I often notice a lack of understanding about information security. It often comes as a surprise that encryption inside of a disk storage system ...