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EMC, Veritas lead in worldwide PBBA revenues
- TechTarget 20 Jun 2016 -
Cavium pays $1 billion for QLogic, storage
- Executive News Director 16 Jun 2016 -
IDC: NetApp jumps to No. 2 in Q1 all-flash
- Senior News Writer 10 Jun 2016
Unlike overall disk storage, purpose-built backup appliances' total worldwide factory revenue increased in the first quarter of 2016, according to International data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide ...
After months of shopping itself, storage networking vendor QLogic has a buyer. Networking semiconductor vendor Wednesday said it will pay $1 billion for the FC and Ethernet adapter company in a ...
EMC remained No. 1 and NetApp jumped to No. 2 in all-flash array (AFA) revenue for the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s new market share statistics. EMC had $245.6 million in revenue and ...
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HDS storage 'freezing' really a focus on future
- TechTarget 10 Jun 2016 -
Iguaz.io promises AWS-like storage in the data center
- Executive News Director 09 Jun 2016 -
IDC: Q1 HPE storage sales soared, rivals tanked
- Executive News Director 03 Jun 2016 -
Qumulo pockets $32.5M to fund data-aware storage
- Executive News Director 03 Jun 2016 -
IT resilience vs. disaster recovery: What's better for your business?
- Senior Site Editor 02 Jun 2016 -
Pure Storage's impressive sales growth diluted by losses
- Executive News Director 27 May 2016 -
NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud
- Executive News Director 26 May 2016
There has been some noise in the storage space lately, based on the English translation of a Japanese IT website that said Hitachi Data Systems was "freezing" investment in its high-end storage ...
Newcomer iguaz.io is the latest software startup that will try and deliver the Holy Grail of storage -- the ability to provision and manage on-premise capacity the same way as in Amazon Web ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) bucked the trend of storage revenue declines in the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s quarter enterprise storage systems tracker. HPE was the only member of ...
Qumulo, the scale-out data-aware NAS startup founded by Isilon veterans, today added $32.5 million in funding to expand its sales operation. Qumulo’s C funding round brings its total funding to ...
DR may be dying. The term DR, that is, not the actual process of disaster recovery. There is a move in the industry to replace the phrase with "IT resilience." At last week's ZertoCON business ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Violin Memory's struggles continue
- Executive News Director 25 May 2016 -
Datrium says new twist makes DVX run crazy fast
- Executive News Director 24 May 2016 -
Brocade FC storage sales down, and will stay there for now
- Executive News Director 20 May 2016 -
Nexsan, EMC fight over 'Unity' name
- Senior News Writer 13 May 2016 -
Datto expands into file sync and share with a free, one-year service
- TechTarget 13 May 2016 -
Quantum revenues sink, with upsurge predicted
- Executive News Director 12 May 2016 -
Gridstore chairman takes CEO reins
- Executive News Director 05 May 2016 -
EMC goes Nitro with all-flash Isilon array
- Executive News Director 04 May 2016 -
Commvault Systems posts second straight quarter of revenue gains
- TechTarget 03 May 2016 -
Cinder still No. 1 OpenStack storage project, but Manila interest picks up
- Senior News Writer 29 Apr 2016 -
FalconStor's playing beat the clock with FreeStor
- Executive News Director 28 Apr 2016 -
Scality's RING now pre-integrated with new Dell cloud storage system
- TechTarget 27 Apr 2016 -
Panzura enables 'in-cloud NAS' for Microsoft Azure
- Senior News Writer 25 Apr 2016 -
Pure founder: FlashBlade has more potential than FlashArray
- Executive News Director 21 Apr 2016 -
Gridstore to CEO: Great job, now get lost
- Executive News Director 20 Apr 2016 -
EMC sales decline, says Dell deal on track
- Executive News Director 20 Apr 2016 -
Microsoft Azure adds Talon's CloudFAST to marketplace
- Executive News Director 19 Apr 2016 -
Cohesity adds cloud to its converged data protection
- Executive News Director 12 Apr 2016 -
IBM Research builds 'cognitive' system to cut big data storage costs
- Senior News Writer 11 Apr 2016 -
Drobo launches mobile file sharing for unstructured data
- TechTarget 08 Apr 2016 -
Veeam sets out to orchestrate DR
- TechTarget 08 Apr 2016 -
Dell’Oro: FC back on top in networked storage ports in 2015
- Senior News Writer 07 Apr 2016 -
Dell keeps hyper-converged options open
- Executive News Director 05 Apr 2016 -
Red Hat Ceph optimized for SanDisk InfiniFlash storage
- Senior News Writer 31 Mar 2016 -
EMC adds weight to ScaleIO
- Executive News Director 31 Mar 2016 -
NetApp prepares SANtricity for Splunk
- Executive News Director 29 Mar 2016 -
IDC: Backup appliance revenue grew for 2015
- Senior News Writer 28 Mar 2016 -
Commvault adds big data and cloud support to its data platform
- TechTarget 24 Mar 2016 -
Violin Memory fuses with Stream, creates FlashSync
- Executive News Director 24 Mar 2016 -
Worldwide storage revenue down in Q4, barely up for 2015
- TechTarget 18 Mar 2016 -
Pivot3 closes funding round to develop ‘new toys’
- Executive News Director 17 Mar 2016 -
Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most
- Executive News Director 15 Mar 2016 -
HPE turns 3PAR array from all-flash to hybrid
- TechTarget 15 Mar 2016 -
IBM ships new Storwize V5000, rolls out software package for Apache Spark
- Senior News Writer 14 Mar 2016 -
Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4
- Executive News Director 11 Mar 2016 -
Seagate demos fast, dense PCIe SSDs that support OCP specs, NVMe
- Senior News Writer 09 Mar 2016 -
Riverbed adds AWS and Azure support to its SteelFusion
- TechTarget 09 Mar 2016 -
Nimble’s all-flash investment causes pain before gain
- Executive News Director 04 Mar 2016 -
HPE's Whitman grows hyper for hyper-converged
- Executive News Director 04 Mar 2016 -
Brocade VP: Flash spurs coordinated Gen 6 Fibre Channel launch
- Senior News Writer 03 Mar 2016 -
Pure Storage accelerates flash revenue
- Executive News Director 03 Mar 2016 -
CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud
- TechTarget 25 Feb 2016 -
Michael Dell: 'Ignore click-baiting cratering media'
- Executive News Director 19 Feb 2016 -
Object storage has dual uses
- Evaluator Group 18 Feb 2016 -
NetApp revenue slips keep showing
- Executive News Director 18 Feb 2016 -
FalconStor CEO: We’re normal again
- Executive News Director 17 Feb 2016 -
Asigra signs OEM deal with Oracle to sell ZFS appliances
- Executive News Director 29 Jan 2016 -
Commvault takes a revenue leap forward
- Executive News Director 28 Jan 2016 -
EMC aims for all-flash, all-the-time primary storage
- Executive News Director 28 Jan 2016 -
Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion
- Executive News Director 27 Jan 2016 -
Pivot3 buys NexGen, combines hyper-converged with all-flash storage
- Executive News Director 27 Jan 2016 -
Netlist launches new DDR4 NVDIMM
- Senior News Writer 21 Jan 2016 -
Caringo adds support for Microsoft Azure to its Swarm software
- TechTarget 20 Jan 2016 -
Actifio adds central copy data management interface
- Executive News Director 19 Jan 2016 -
Veeam kicks off 2016 with V9 GA
- TechTarget 18 Jan 2016 -
Avere launches new FXT Edge filers
- TechTarget 15 Jan 2016 -
Diablo Technologies names new CEO, raises $19 million
- Senior News Writer 14 Jan 2016 -
New CFO hopes to take Tegile public
- Executive News Director 13 Jan 2016 -
Nimbus CEO: We're still alive
- Executive News Director 06 Jan 2016 -
SimpliVity cozies up to Microsoft, Hyper-V
- Executive News Director 05 Jan 2016 -
Archive redefined
- Evaluator Group 31 Dec 2015 -
Backup appliance revenue up slightly
- TechTarget 23 Dec 2015 -
Nutanix prepares for 2016 IPO
- Executive News Director 23 Dec 2015 -
NetApp buys flash startup SolidFire, discontinues FlashRay
- Senior News Writer 21 Dec 2015 -
Metalogix retools its Essentials for Office 365
- TechTarget 18 Dec 2015 -
Exablox lets users pick their dedupe style
- Executive News Director 17 Dec 2015 -
Nakivo adds Synology support to its backup software
- TechTarget 11 Dec 2015 -
Tintri adds entry-level all-flash, teases analytics
- Executive News Director 08 Dec 2015 -
IDC: HPE gained share, other large disk vendors tumbled in Q3
- Executive News Director 07 Dec 2015 -
Pure Storage reports revenue spike in 1st earnings report since IPO
- Senior News Writer 03 Dec 2015 -
Did Violin Memory just hang a ‘For Sale’ sign?
- Executive News Director 03 Dec 2015 -
Brocade ties its hopes to storage capacity, not pricing
- Executive News Director 24 Nov 2015 -
Nimble's sales slow down, losses expand
- Executive News Director 20 Nov 2015 -
NetApp still struggling with Clustered OnTap conversions
- Executive News Director 19 Nov 2015 -
Pure goes TLC 3D NAND route
- Executive News Director 17 Nov 2015 -
Datto gets $75M to fund data protection services
- Executive News Director 17 Nov 2015 -
Open Storage Platform – Why Now?
- Evaluator Group 12 Nov 2015 -
ClearSky pockets $27M for managed cloud storage service
- Executive News Director 02 Nov 2015 -
Formation Data CEO: Dell-EMC deal doesn't guarantee innovation
- Senior News Writer 30 Oct 2015 -
Data protection vendors (except for Veeam) struggled last quarter
- Executive News Director 30 Oct 2015 -
VMAX, VNX the new minority among EMC storage products
- Executive News Director 22 Oct 2015 -
Imation buys Connected Data
- Executive News Director 15 Oct 2015 -
By the way, EMC's storage revenue shrunk last quarter
- Executive News Director 13 Oct 2015 -
Microsoft Azure strengthens its backup and recovery services
- TechTarget 09 Oct 2015 -
OpenStack Manila project leader previews Liberty, Mitaka releases
- Senior News Writer 09 Oct 2015 -
IBM's new Linear-Tape Open Ultrium 7 will hit the market later this month
- TechTarget 08 Oct 2015 -
Dell is EMC's latest potential dance partner
- Executive News Director 08 Oct 2015 -
Veritas moves further toward freedom, cloud backup
- Executive News Director 07 Oct 2015 -
FalconStor acquires cloud-based analytics for FreeStor
- Executive News Director 30 Sep 2015 -
Flash storage and cleaning house
- Evaluator Group 29 Sep 2015
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The product name Unity is at the center of a trademark dispute in the data storage industry between Nexsan and EMC. Nexsan Technologies filed a complaint against EMC on May 6 in the U.S. District ...
Data Protection specialist Datto is giving away its new file sync and share service for a year. The Datto Drive service for SMBs is hosted on the vendor's 200 PB private cloud within nine worldwide ...
Like many storage vendors, Quantum’s revenue took a dip last quarter and for the full year. The backup and scale-out storage specialist predicts it will rally beginning this quarter, however, due ...
Gridstore chairman Nairman Teymourian took over as CEO today, with plans to install a utility services model for delivering hyper-convergence. Teymourian has been Gridstore’s chairman since ...
LAS VEGAS -- EMC dropped a surprise at EMC World today by previewing an all-flash version of its Isilon clustered NAS system. C.J. Desai, president of EMC's Emerging Technologies Division, said ...
Data protection vendor Commvault Systems generated $159.6 million in revenues in the fourth quarter, hitting the second consecutive quarter of sequential growth after three quarters of declining ...
Cinder still has the highest adoption rate among OpenStack storage projects, but interest in the nascent Manila file-share service is picking up, according to a 2016 user survey released this month ...
The bad news for FalconsStor is it lost $3.2 million last quarter. If there is good news, it’s that its new FreeStor software is picking up OEM and managed service provider (MSP) customers and ...
Dell and Scality recently added a highly dense, purpose-built cloud storage system that is pre-intergrated with the RING object storage software to their reseller product lineup. The SD7000-S cloud ...
Panzura’s Global File System (GFS) is certified to run in Microsoft Azure, giving customers a second “in-cloud NAS” option with a major cloud provider. The GFS, running on Panzura’s Cloud ...
Since introducing its FlashArray all-flash SAN array in 2012, Pure Storage has sold more than $600 million worth of a type of storage array that didn’t exist before Pure was born. The man who led ...
Gridstore apparently grew so fast under CEO George Symons that its board decided to change CEOs to keep up with the rapid growth. Gridstore founder and CTO Kelly Murphy has moved back into the CEO ...
EMC’s storage sales declined more than expected last quarter as the vendor waits to become part of Dell. EMC executives offered several reasons for the drop in sales, but not the most obvious one. ...
Microsoft Azure is throwing its weight behind startup Talon Storage, offering Talon’s CloudFAST file sharing and acceleration software available from the Azure Marketplace. CloudFAST for Azure ...
Cohesity, which bills itself as convergence for secondary data, is adding public cloud support to its data protection platform. Cohesity’s converged data protection strategy combines data ...
IBM researchers are developing a cognitive storage system designed to automatically differentiate high- and low-value data and determine what information to keep, where to store it and how long to ...
Drobo this week unveiled DroboAccess to enable mobile file sharing on its NAS boxes. DroboAccess lets customers access and share files stored on Drobo NAS from any device or location. The ...
Veeam Software moved further beyond pure virtual machine backup this week by unveiling Veeam Availability Orchestrator, a multi-node hypervisor orchestration engine for disaster recovery. The Veeam ...
Fibre Channel (FC) took back the port count lead over Ethernet in external storage systems in 2015, after Ethernet had gone ahead in 2014, according to Dell'Oro Group's latest numbers. Chris DePuy, ...
Still months away from closing its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, Dell today said it would immediately start reselling several EMC federation converged products and updated others it already ...
Red Hat Ceph Storage software is now officially tested, optimized and certified to run on SanDisk’s InfiniFlash storage system thanks to a strategic partnership between the two vendors. The ...
Private and hybrid cloud storage is a big piece of EMC’s strategy, and this week the vendor upgraded one of the key building blocks for that strategy with the release of ScaleIO 2.0. ScaleIO is ...
NetApp today rolled out an upgraded version of its SANtricity software for its E and EF Series of high performance arrays, with the focus on making Splunk and other data analytics applications run ...
Factory revenue for backup appliances soared to $1.05 billion in the fourth quarter and $3.35 billion for 2015 – up 2.5% over 2014 – according to statistics released last week by International ...
Commvault Systems Inc. this month rolled out the latest version of its backup and data management portfolio to add support for Hadoop, Greenplum and IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS). It ...
Violin Memory is trying to push its all-flash arrays into the financial services market through a partnership with U.K. software vendor Stream Financial. The vendors have combined to launch what ...
Despite slipping in the fourth quarter, overall worldwide storage revenue increased 2.2% in 2015. External (networked) storage declined 2.3% for the year, according to International Data ...
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 closed a $55 million funding round this week to support expansion following a merger with flash array vendor NexGen Storage. Pivot3 CEO Ron Nash said the bulk of the ...
Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ...
For years we’ve seen storage vendors take systems designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and add solid-state drives (SSDs) to them. Now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking hardware that ran all SSDs ...
IBM recently rolled out a pair of new storage offerings: the “Gen 2” Storwize V5000 hybrid system, with upgraded Spectrum Virtualize software, and a “Platform Conductor” for Apache Spark data ...
Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ...
Seagate is demonstrating a new PCI Express (PCIe) flash drive this week at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit that it claims meets OCP specifications and delivers throughput of 10 gigabytes per ...
Riverbed Technology this week announced its hyper-converged SteelFusion solution now supports both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure so customers can leverage the cloud as a secondary storage ...
Even as it waits for its new all-flash array (AFA) to hit the market, Nimble Storage did better than expected last quarter. However, its forecast for this quarter was below expectations, with the ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is planning to go after Nutanix and other hyper-converged vendors with an appliance based on its ProLiant server line. HPE CEO Meg Whitman revealed the vendor’s ...
Brocade, QLogic and Broadcom coordinated this week’s shipments of the first switches and adapters to support Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. We caught up with Jack Rondoni, vice ...
Pure Storage is looking at more competition and more opportunity than ever, and handling both well. The all-flash vendor bucked industry trends by growing revenue significantly last quarter despite ...
Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ...
Michael Dell and other Dell executives have told employees the $67 billion acquisition of EMC will go through despite reports that his group is having trouble securing financing for the deal. Dell ...
The latest object storage systems are often misunderstood by potential buyers. This may be because these systems, capable of storing extremely large numbers of object and files, serve more than one ...
NetApp’s latest earnings report shows the vendor is still in a hole with a lot of digging to do before it returns to revenue growth. NetApp reported another quarter of declining revenue Wednesday ...
With 2015 in the rear-view mirror, FalconStor CEO Gary Quinn says the storage software vendor has completed its transition phase and is ready to reverse its years-long streak of losing money. “We ...
Asigra is packaging its Cloud Backup software on the Oracle ZFS Appliance for cloud providers who would rather not purchase and maintain their own hardware. Toronto-based Asigra for decades have ...
Is Commvault back on track? The backup vendor snapped a string of four quarters of year-over-year revenue declines when it reported of $155.7 million last quarter, up 2% from the previous year. ...
While waiting to become part of Dell, EMC is planning a massive flash injection into its storage systems. David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure, teased new product launches to the ...
Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ...
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 today acquired hybrid flash vendor NexGen Storage, combining small private companies that play in two hot technology areas. NexGen CEO and founder John Spiers said the ...
Netlist unveiled its new DDR4-based non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM) yesterday at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)’s Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Summit in San Jose. ...
Caringo has expanded its Swarm object storage to Microsoft Azure. The company recently said its object storage software, which already has Amazon S3 support, now is available on the Azure cloud so ...
Nearly five years into sales of its copy data virtualization, Actifio is finding customers are looking for a simpler way to manage data across its appliances. Today the vendor launched Actifio ...
Veeam Software has started off the year by making Veeam Availability Suite 9 generally available to customers. The software has more than 250 features, according to Veeam. While the data protection ...
Avere Systems rolled out a new high-end and midrange FXT Edge physical appliances that offer more performance and storage compared to the previous systems that will be replaced. The new 1U ...
Flash memory vendor Diablo Technologies named a new CEO and secured $19 million in Series C financing as the company tries to rebuild momentum for its memory technology business after fighting off ...
Flash and hybrid storage array vendor Tegile Systems has hired a CFO with experience bringing companies public, and CEO Rohit Kshetrapal said he is aiming Tegile in that direction. “We don’t see an ...
Nimbus Data has not “vanished,” as I wrote in a story about storage vendors facing challenges in 2016. The all-flash vendor has just been keeping “very quiet” for the past 18 months or so. Nimbus ...
Hyper-converged pioneer SimpliVity has opened a research and development office in Seattle near to Microsoft, a sign that it is close to adding Hyper-V support. SimpliVity’s OmniCube appliances ...
When the word “archive” is used in conversations about storing data, it brings up preconceptions depending on the individuals and their roles in IT. The most common thought is that an archive is ...
Worldwide factory revenues for backup appliances grew 2.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter this year, with revenue totaling $813.6 million, according to International Data Corp.'s ...
Hyper-converged vendor Nutanix set itself up to become the first storage vendor to go public in 2016. Nutanix filed an S-1 statement, which is the first step towards an initial public offering ...
NetApp filled a gap in its flash storage portfolio today with an $870 million deal to buy SolidFire and finally threw in the towel on its long-delayed FlashRay product line. The SolidFire ...
Cloud software provider Metalogix recently announced an enhanced version of its Essentials for Office 365 with backup support for Exchange Online mailboxes, a granular migration function and a ...
While Exablox describes its object-based OneBlox appliance as a production storage system, many of its customers use it for backup. This week the vendor added a useful backup feature – ...
Nakivo this week upgraded its Backup and Replication software, adding support for Synology RackStation and DiskStation NAS devices for virtual machine backup in VMware environments and to the ...
Virtual machine-storage specialist Tintri rounded out its all-flash product line today with an entry level version priced at $125,000 for 5.34 TB of raw capacity. The VMstore T5040 is the third ...
Enterprise storage revenue increased 2.8 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2015 while networked storage declined 3.1 percent, according to IDC’s disk tracker numbers. Perhaps a better ...
Pure Storage’s first earnings call since its October IPO was a rosy one on the revenue side. The all-flash array vendor’s revenue hit $131.4 million in its fiscal 2016 third quarter – a 167% ...
All-flash pioneer Violin Memory can’t sell enough all-flash arrays to make money. So its next move could be to sell itself in its entirety. After another disappointing quarter, Violin CEO Kevin ...
If the largest storage array vendors that sell Brocade’s SAN switching are getting hit with declining revenue every quarter, that’s bad news for Brocade, right? If you agree with that, then you’re ...
Nimble Storage’s drive for profitability took a major hit last quarter. Nimble, which was believed to be one of the smaller competitors eating away at large storage vendors’ sales, won’t hit ...
NetApp’s latest earnings report told a familiar story. NetApp Wednesday night said its revenue last quarter – although higher than expected – continued to decline with the vendor’s most established ...
Pure Storage became the latest flash vendor to support TLC 3D NAND drives that lower the cost of solid-state storage. The vendor also expanded its Pure1 cloud-based management, adding predictive ...
Datto, which sells backup and disaster recovery as a service, today closed a $75 million funding round although its founder and CEO says the vendor is already profitable. The B round brings the ...
While it’s nothing new for information technologists to look at alternatives for their infrastructure, there seems to be more interest in that today than ever before. There is so much interest that ...
ClearSky Data, which in August launched its managed service for primary storage, today closed a $27 million Series B funding round to expand sales and marketing teams. Polaris Partners led the ...
Dell’s pending $67 billion acquisition of EMC has sparked plenty of discussion about overlapping products. Yet despite the enormity of their potential merger, the newly fused Dell-EMC may not have ...
Not only the big storage array hardware vendors are seeing revenues declines from last year. This week, backup vendors Commvault, Quantum and FalconStor said they lost money and had revenue ...
EMC provided more detail on its revenue and earnings last quarter, and the results could play into its product strategy leading into and following its acquisition by Dell. EMC Information ...
Did you hear about the storage acquisition this week? No, I don’t mean Dell-EMC. Everyone knows about that one. But you might have missed Imation’s acquisition of file sharing vendor Connected Data ...
Almost lost in the noise around Dell’s estimated $67 billion acquisition of EMC this week was another down sales quarter for EMC storage. EMC reported preliminary revenue totals Monday on the call ...
Microsoft Azure is strengthening its backup portfolio. The company now offers backups of Micosoft SQL Server, Hyper-V virtual machines, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and Windows clients in ...
The OpenStack Manila file share service is growing up. During a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)-sponsored webcast this week, Ben Swartzlander, a NetApp architect who is the project ...
IBM still hasn't given up on tape. The company today announced its new 6TB IBM Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 7 (LTO-7) drive that performs at 300 MB per second and has double the capacity of the ...
The EMC rumor machine is in full force again today. This time it’s Dell that is reportedly interested in buying all or some of EMC. Of course, if the sources for these rumors were 100% reliable, ...
Veritas completed operational separation from Symantec last Friday, and this week made a minor upgraded to its flagship NetBackup software with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp ...
FalconStor is preparing to add predictive analytics monitoring to its FreeStor storage virtualization software, which the vendor compares to Nimble Insight and Pure1 cloud-based analytics. ...
A recent discussion with a client got me thinking about precipitating events that cause IT professionals to “put their house in order” regarding the information they store. In this case, there was ...