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AWS introduces a new infrequently accessed S3 storage tier
- TechTarget 25 Sep 2015 -
IDC backs up on appliance revenue drop
- Evaluator Group 23 Sep 2015 -
Tegile expands all-flash portfolio through SanDisk partnership
- Evaluator Group 22 Sep 2015
Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolled out a new type of storage for infrequently accessed data within the S3 tier that cost 1.25 cents per GBs to store but only 1 cent per GB to access. The cloud has ...
IDC Tuesday correccted the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market tracker numbers it issued last week, giving market leader EMC more than $55 million in additional revenue for the second ...
SanDisk is putting its investments in private storage companies to good use. Two of the companies it has invested in – Nexenta and Tegile Systems – have signed on as OEM partners for SanDisk’s ...
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New LTO-7 tape specification is now available for licensing
19 Sep 2015 -
Dell'Oro: Hyperscale DAS use drives storage revenue growth
17 Sep 2015 -
Survey finds companies' disaster recovery testing is inadequate
- TechTarget 14 Sep 2015 -
External storage sales down as market shifts to hyperscale and server-based storage
- TechTarget 08 Sep 2015 -
Formation Data Systems CEO offers take on hot storage trends
07 Sep 2015 -
Drilling down into copy data management
- Evaluator Group 28 Aug 2015 -
EMC pronounces XtremIO its billion-dollar baby
- Evaluator Group 27 Aug 2015
Hard disk drives (HDDs) are up to 8 TB and 10 TB, and flash storage may be all the rage, but tape keeps rolling along. Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and Quantum – the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program ...
Market research firm Dell’Oro Group’s mid-year snapshot showed that total storage systems revenue is on track to grow 1% in 2015, driven largely by sales to hyperscale service providers of ...
Despite all the talk about disaster recovery testing, most organizations still don’t do it enough. And recovery point objectives (RPOs) are still way too high to facilitate adequate DR, according ...
External storage sales are shrinking. The total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew to an $8.8 billion during the second quarter of 2015, according to IDC. However, sales are ...
Formation Data Systems CEO Mark Lewis has strong opinions on the direction that storage needs to take. He sees the adoption of on-demand, "as-a-service" cloud models as the future, in contrast to ...
Copy data management (CDM) is a relatively new term for many in Information Technology. At first literal consideration, its meaning seems self-evident. However, it is really a topical area that ...
EMC says its XtremIO all-flash array has cracked the $1 billion cumulative bookings mark in 588 days – or roughly six quarters – while remaining on track to do $1 billion of business in calendar ...
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Scality raises another $45 million in Series D funding
- TechTarget 25 Aug 2015 -
Declining storage sales are the new normal
- Evaluator Group 24 Aug 2015 -
NEC enhances Hydrastor with universal dedupe transfer, OST Accelerator
- TechTarget 19 Aug 2015 -
Sale (instead of spin) doesn't change Veritas strategy
- Evaluator Group 14 Aug 2015 -
Toshiba unveils SAS, NVMe PCIe SSDs at Flash Memory Summit
13 Aug 2015 -
Pure takes first step to go public, files for IPO
- Evaluator Group 12 Aug 2015 -
Box hires former EMC Syncplicity chief
- TechTarget 12 Aug 2015 -
Symantec sells Veritas to Carlyle Group
- Evaluator Group 11 Aug 2015 -
Dot Hill revenues, income climb
- Evaluator Group 06 Aug 2015 -
Tintri picks up $125 million, targets NetApp, IPO
- Evaluator Group 05 Aug 2015 -
Amazon adds new features to S3 and zero-downtime migration for Aurora
- TechTarget 31 Jul 2015 -
Quantum stumbles at closing time
- Evaluator Group 31 Jul 2015 -
EMC comes off the bench(mark), publishes SPC numbers for VMAX, VNX
- Evaluator Group 30 Jul 2015 -
FalconStor lands OEM deals with Kaminario, X-IO
- Evaluator Group 30 Jul 2015 -
Storage should take high priority
- Evaluator Group 30 Jul 2015 -
Is Veeam’s gain causing Commvault’s pain?
- Evaluator Group 29 Jul 2015 -
Google ramps up partnerships for its Storage Nearline service
- TechTarget 27 Jul 2015 -
EMC tempers expectations, accelerates shift to emerging storage technologies
- Evaluator Group 22 Jul 2015 -
SimpliVity says sales still surging
- Evaluator Group 20 Jul 2015 -
SIOS launches iQ, seeks more intelligent analytics
- Evaluator Group 17 Jul 2015 -
Storage islands leave data management plans adrift
- Evaluator Group 29 Jun 2015 -
Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product
27 Jun 2015 -
PernixData plans platform proliferation
- Evaluator Group 26 Jun 2015 -
NetApp’s Kurian ‘not constrained’ from making changes … or not making them
- Evaluator Group 24 Jun 2015 -
Backup appliance revenue grows, but leader EMC's shrinks
- Evaluator Group 24 Jun 2015 -
VMware gives EVO:RAIL hardware partners more options
- Evaluator Group 08 Jun 2015 -
Disk storage increases over Q1 2014, but networked storage declines
- Evaluator Group 08 Jun 2015 -
HDS fully digests Pentaho
- Evaluator Group 05 Jun 2015 -
Violin still searching for right notes
- Evaluator Group 03 Jun 2015 -
NetApp names new CEO
01 Jun 2015 -
Rubrik pulls in $41 million in funding for cloud backup
- TechTarget 28 May 2015 -
All-flash could be on Nimble's roadmap
- Evaluator Group 27 May 2015 -
SteelStore becomes NetApp AltaVault
- Evaluator Group 27 May 2015 -
Commvault takes next step in file sync/share
- TechTarget 26 May 2015 -
How vendor conferences help customers, analysts and press
- Evaluator Group 26 May 2015 -
Brocade, HP see storage sales decline
- Evaluator Group 22 May 2015 -
Clustered OnTap complexities clobber NetApp
- Evaluator Group 20 May 2015 -
Barrall spins out Drobo, keeps Connected Data
- Evaluator Group 20 May 2015 -
Axcient adds appliance-less recovery to its cloud services
- TechTarget 15 May 2015 -
Nutanix: Try our software for free
- Evaluator Group 12 May 2015 -
Quantum expects to scale StorNext products, sales this year
- Evaluator Group 11 May 2015 -
Nimble gets SAP certification, offers SmartStack for HANA
05 May 2015 -
EMC opens up ViPR, hope developers take to it
- Evaluator Group 05 May 2015 -
HDS extends VSP virtualized storage, moves into hyper-convergence
- Evaluator Group 28 Apr 2015 -
EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation
- Evaluator Group 23 Apr 2015 -
Storage was a star at NAB
- Evaluator Group 22 Apr 2015 -
SanDisk sees PCIe flash take a dive
- Evaluator Group 17 Apr 2015 -
EMC: Information glut will change what storage looks like
16 Apr 2015 -
SIOS offers high availability in Azure with Microsoft's backing.
- TechTarget 15 Apr 2015 -
IBM says it can put 220 terabytes in the palm of your hand
- TechTarget 14 Apr 2015 -
Diablo wins round against Netlist but legal fight isn’t over
- Evaluator Group 26 Mar 2015 -
Red Hat gives storage software products new names
- Evaluator Group 24 Mar 2015 -
Condusiv wants to defrag your SAN
- Evaluator Group 20 Mar 2015 -
Cloud DR vendor Quorum picks new CEO
- Evaluator Group 12 Mar 2015 -
EMC: DSSD box will melt your face
- Evaluator Group 11 Mar 2015 -
Bifurcating enterprise storage
- Evaluator Group 09 Mar 2015 -
Violin Memory still playing out of tune
- Evaluator Group 06 Mar 2015 -
Storage revenue picked up in Q4, led by ODMs and smaller vendors
- Evaluator Group 06 Mar 2015 -
Western Digital adds Amplidata object storage to HGST fold
- Evaluator Group 03 Mar 2015 -
Fibre Channel helps Nimble Storage grow revenue in Q4
28 Feb 2015 -
IBM sheds light on work to boost flash endurance
27 Feb 2015 -
Dell to ship 2nd wave of XC Series hyper-converged appliances
26 Feb 2015 -
Avago buys Emulex for $606M to expand storage portfolio
- Evaluator Group 26 Feb 2015 -
Pivot3 pockets $45M to ride hyper-convergence wave
- Evaluator Group 25 Feb 2015 -
Cloud provider Axcient raises another $25 million in funding
- TechTarget 19 Feb 2015 -
IBM's spectrum of new storage brands
- Evaluator Group 17 Feb 2015 -
NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints
- Evaluator Group 12 Feb 2015 -
HDS acquires Pentaho, wants to store, analyze Internet of Things
- Evaluator Group 11 Feb 2015 -
Veritas Rising
- Evaluator Group 09 Feb 2015 -
Veritas product revenue grows while Symantec shrinks
- Evaluator Group 06 Feb 2015 -
Veeam revenues still on a roll
- Evaluator Group 04 Feb 2015 -
Scale-out startup Qumulo gets $40M, prepares to launch
- Evaluator Group 04 Feb 2015 -
Quantum hopes StorNext gains can outscale tape woes
- Evaluator Group 02 Feb 2015 -
CommVault now sees a point in smaller bundles
- Evaluator Group 30 Jan 2015 -
CloudBerry Box targets SMBs to sync and share mobile devices
- TechTarget 30 Jan 2015 -
EMC to lay off workers; Tucci to stay past February
- Evaluator Group 30 Jan 2015 -
How stealthy money affects technology
- Evaluator Group 27 Jan 2015 -
Box shares surged on the first day as a public company
- TechTarget 23 Jan 2015 -
Kaminario snares another $15 million in funding
23 Jan 2015 -
NetApp: No SSDs have worn out
23 Jan 2015 -
SanDisk says enterprise SSD prospects still strong
- Evaluator Group 22 Jan 2015 -
EMC gives ViPR flash-related upgrade
- Evaluator Group 20 Jan 2015 -
How storage controllers differ
- Evaluator Group 04 Dec 2014 -
Calculating capacity utilization can be challenging
- Evaluator Group 20 Oct 2014 -
A look at access methods for open systems and mainframes
- Evaluator Group 10 Oct 2014 -
EMC's XtremIO 3.0 adds compression with disruptive upgrade for existing users
30 Sep 2014 -
Scality adds support for VM storage, VAAI and VASA on the roadmap
- TechTarget 08 Sep 2014 -
Is the term elastic storage a new category, or a stretch?
- Evaluator Group 19 May 2014 -
Defining storage virtualization
- Evaluator Group 04 Mar 2014 -
Something's wrong when storage vendors pitch speeds and feeds
- Evaluator Group 11 Feb 2014
Object storage vendor Scality has raised $45 million in investment that will be used to expand its North American sales force, continue international expansion and build out its reseller program. ...
NetApp, Brocade and Hewlett-Packard last week all reported storage revenues that were better than expected, impressing Wall Street analysts and investors. Yet in each case their revenue declined ...
NEC Corp. of America has enhanced its Hydrastor scale-out backup and archive storage platform with a Universal Dedupe Transfer and added an Open Storage Technology (OST) Accelerator for Veritas ...
The executives who have been working to turn Veritas Technologies into a standalone company say their plans have not changed with the $8 billion sale to The Carylye Group. Symantec disclosed last ...
Count Toshiba among the group of drive makers demonstrating new enterprise PCI Express (PCIe) and SAS SSDs at this week’s Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. Toshiba unveiled three ...
Pure Storage today filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in hopes of becoming the second all-flash storage array vendor to go public following Violin Memory. In its filing with the U.S. ...
Box today has hired the former CEO of EMC Syncplicity. Jeetu Patel, the former general manager of EMC Syncplicity enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS) business unit, has joined the ...
Symantec’s spin-out of Veritas took a twist today when The Carlyle Group and other investors agreed to purchase Veritas for $8 billion. That’s $5.5 billion less than Symantec paid for Veritas in a ...
Add Dot Hill Systems to the list of smaller storage vendors who are growing revenue significantly while their large rivals stumble. Dot Hill is unlike the other vendors who are bucking the trend of ...
Tintri, which sells storage built for virtual machines, today closed a $125 million funding round that it plans to use to step up its attack on NetApp’s installed base and take the startup public ...
Amazon his week made enhancements and added features to its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and its Amazon Aurora relational database. The S3 has been upgraded with more event notifications ...
Add Quantum to the list of storage vendors that struggled last quarter. Quantum Thursday reported revenue of revenue of $110.9 million, down around $17 million from last year and below its original ...
EMC, which has downplayed the significance of industry benchmarks, today published its first Storage Performance Council (SPC) block benchmarks for its unified storage systems. Results for the VMAX ...
FalconStor’s 2015 revenue has been paltry at the mid-way point of the year, but the vendor is crowing about new OEM deals for its FreeStor data services software. FalconStor said it signed three ...
Few people argue that information is important. The value of information varies and changes over time but is the most critical resource for most organizations. Yet, we see storage products where ...
Commvault’s revenue keeps sliding while data protection software rival Veeam makes steady gains. Coincidence, or is Veeam taking deals that Commvault used to win? Commvault's revenue of $139 ...
Not only did Google offer new incentives with its Cloud Storage Nearline service to tempt customers to switch from Amazon and Microsoft Azure last week, the company also beefed up its ecosystem to ...
EMC executives reduced their 2015 revenue forecasts for the second time this year following a quarter of tepid growth. They also said the vendor will implement plans to cut costs by $850 million a ...
SimpliVity claims its second quarter sales bookings increased 250 percent over last year, fueled by its Cisco partnership and an avalanche of interest in hyper-convergence. SimpliVity does not give ...
Data protection software vendor SIOS Technologies is branching out into IT analytics. The vendor this week launched SIOS iQ, an analytics platform developed for virtual machines and their ...
A major problem that IT professionals have dealt with over time is the creation of islands of storage. A common cause of islands is when organizations purchase and deploy new systems with their own ...
One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ...
PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ...
New NetApp CEO George Kurian today said he has a free hand to make any changes he believes are necessary at the company while giving no indication that any sweeping changes are coming. Kurian, who ...
EMC remains the leader in backup appliance sales but its grip on the market is loosening. While backup appliance revenue increased seven percent year-over-year in the first quarter of this year, ...
VMware is giving its hardware partners more options for building EVO:RAIL hyper-converged appliances. Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, and Supermicro are among the hardware vendors ...
Disk storage revenue grew 6.8 percent during the first quarter of 2015, with server-based and hyperscale storage picking up the slack for SAN and NAS sales according to IDC's latest storage tracker ...
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of Pentaho this week, which means Pentaho’s big data analytics technology will be showing up in HDS storage products soon. Pentaho software will be ...
The red hot all-flash array remains ice cold for Violin Memory. Violin reported revenue of $12.1 million for last quarter. That was down 33.3 percent from last year and 41 percent from last ...
NetApp announced a changing of the guard at CEO and chairman of the board after the market close today, less than two weeks after another disappointing earnings report. CEO Tom Georgens departed ...
Rubrik has raised $41 million in Series B funding and also unveiled more details behind its integrated backup appliance that does hybrid cloud backup, deduplication, compression and data ...
Now that Nimble Storage is growing revenue from its Fibre Channel support, it’s time for Nimble executives to think about what they will add next. An all-flash array would be one logical addition. ...
NetApp has rebranded the SteelStore cloud backup appliances it acquired from Riverbed last year, and will sell it on NetApp hardware. NetApp is selling AltaVault as a physical product on FAS ...
Like many data protection vendors, Commvault added file sync and share capabilities within the last few years. Today, Commvault expanded its Edge file sync platform with Edge Drive, which lets ...
I recently attended EMC World and the IBM Edge conferences in Las Vegas, and was struck by how these shows have changed the industry. Not too long ago, industry-wide shows such as Storage ...
Considering the poor numbers coming from storage array vendor’s recent earnings, it’s no surprise Brocade Thursday said its storage switch revenue declined from last year. EMC, NetApp, IBM and ...
NetApp’s earnings report today disappointed investors as the vendor missed its previous revenue forecast, and it issued lower than expected guidance for this quarter. NetApp today also revealed ...
Drobo is under new ownership again. Founder Geoff Barrall is spinning low-end NAS vendor Drobo out of Connected Data, marking the third major management shift in Drobo’s 10-year-history. A group ...
Cloud Provider Axcient launched an appliance-less, direct-to-cloud recovery service aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses or remote office data protection. The company has been selling a ...
Perhaps looking to head off software-only hyper-convergence competitors down the road, Nutanix will make a free version of its software available beginning next month. Nutanix will launch a public ...
Quantum’s forecast for the next year includes more StorNext and scale-out archiving products, sales and vertical markets. The sales bump has already started. Quantum last week reported its ...
Most of the storage news this week is happening at EMC World in Las Vegas, but there’s also a bit of activity at the SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida. Nimble Storage announced that ...
LAS VEGAS -- You don’t usually associate EMC with open or free, but at EMC World today the vendor said it is making ViPR an open-source project and is offering a free non-production version of its ...
LAS VEGAS -- Hitachi Data Systems opened its HDS Connect conference today with smaller versions of its flagship Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage array and two hyper-converged systems. The ...
EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ...
Las Vegas – The storage presence at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show last week continued to grow due to the increasing demand to store files in the media and entertainment ...
SanDisk became the PCIe flash market leader with its 2014 acquisition of server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io. Less than a year later, there is a lot less to that market and that is having a ...
There’s a lot of data out there, and there’s going to be even more in the future, and businesses need to figure out better ways to use and deliver it because the always-connected “information ...
In a sign that more companies are moving important applications to the cloud, SIOS Technology Corp. achieved Microsoft Azure certification to provide customers with high-availability clusters in ...
IBM is working on putting 220 terabytes of storage in a palm-sized tape cartridge. The company has developed breakthrough technology that shrinks the size of bits for magnetic tape and offers ...
Diablo Technologies claimed a “decisive victory” in the lawsuit brought by Netlist over technology used in Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage architecture. However, Netlist vowed to fight on with its ...
Red Hat today rebranded its storage software platforms in hopes of clarifying their intended use cases. Inktank Ceph Enterprise becomes Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Storage Server becomes Red ...
Condusiv Technologies this week launched Diskeeper Server software to defrag disks connected to SANs. Wait, is fragmentation even a thing for SANs? You never hear SAN vendors or even customers talk ...
Quorum today hired John Newsom as CEO to help the disaster recover as a service (DRaaS) startup navigate a rapidly growing market with a crowded field of competitors. Newsom replaced Walter ...
Amid all of the financial numbers and strategy talk at the EMC Strategic Forum Tuesday, the vendor gave a detailed description of the first product that will spring from its 2014 DSSD acquisition. ...
The enterprise storage market is splitting into two areas that are still indistinct but will become a lot less so. It’s important to understand this evolution if you are to make sense of storage ...
Violin Memory initiated a turnaround plan under a new CEO a year ago and still has little to show for it. It’s been a busy year for Violin under CEO Kevin DeNuccio, with several new product ...
Storage revenue rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2014, no thanks to the large vendors. Total storage revenue grew 7.2 percent to nearly $10.6 billion and external (networked) storage increased ...
Western Digital, which has been collecting flash-related startups over the past few years, today beefed up its archiving portfolio by acquiring object storage vendor Amplidata. Amplidata will ...
Nimble Storage exceeded expectations with $68.3 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by a new wave of Fibre Channel-based arrays that factored into about 10% of the company’s ...
IBM has finally hopped onto the bandwagon with solid-state array vendors that use multilevel cell (MLC) NAND technology and guarantee the read/write endurance of flash modules. Those changes came ...
Dell plans to ship the second version of its XC Series of hyper-converged appliances next week, just four months after getting the first wave of products out the door in November. The XC Series ...
Networking and wireless chip maker Avago Technologies is pushing deeper into enterprise storage with its planned acquisition of storage networking vendor Emulex. Avago said Wednesday evening that ...
Pivot3, the hyper-convergence vendor that concentrates on the surveillance and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) markets, picked up $45 million in funding this week to expand sales and marketing ...
Cloud-based startup Axcient raised $25 million in a series E funding round this week, bringing the total amount it has raised to $113.5 million. The company plans to hire more engineers, build out ...
IBM has rebranded storage products and introduced XIV as a software-only offering under a new overarching identity – IBM Spectrum. The decoder ring for these products is: This name change will take ...
A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ...
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) acquired data analytics software vendor Pentaho this week, and it will share that technology across Hitachi as part of an initative that stretches beyond storage. Pentaho ...
Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original Veritas, which Symantec acquired in ...
Symantec is on track to make Veritas an operational company by October, a few months ahead of the original plan to split by the December. Symantec CEO Michael Brown added details about the spinoff ...
Virtualization data protection specialist Veeam Software said its 2014 bookings revenue hit $389 million, up 40 percent over the previous year. Veaam’s growth far outpaces the rest of the data ...
Qumulo, the file storage startup founded by engineers who designed Isilon's clustered NAS, closed a $40 million B funding round today and plans its initial product launch “really soon.” The ...
Quantum had a rough quarter revenue-wise to end 2014 because of poor tape sales, but its prospects are looking up in other areas. StorNext scale-out file system sales increased 77 percent ...
For years, CommVault boasted about how it sold one application that handled all data protection and management needs. That is changing, as its tries to perk up tepid financial growth in a more ...
Cloudberry Lab is one of the latest to jump into the crowded file sync-and-share market. The cloud backup provider recently announced its CloudBerry Box, a private and public cloud product that ...
EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci indicated Thursday that he will stay on after his contract expires next month. Others at EMC won’t be given that option, as the company also said it will cut jobs to ...
By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ...
Box Inc. had an excellent coming out party as a public company today. Box priced its initial shares at $14 Thursday. Those shares today opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange and rose to ...
All-flash array startups remain a hot target for investors. Kaminario announced today an additional $15 million in funding, raising the company's overall total to $143 million since 2008. Newton, ...
The prospect of flash drives wearing out is a non-issue, according to NetApp. Mark Welke, NetApp’s senior director of product marketing, said the company has not had a single solid-state drive ...
The fourth quarter of 2014 was tough for solid-state storage vendor SanDisk. Still, the vendor said its enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) sales increased and it remains on track for $1 billion in ...
EMC last week quietly upgraded its ViPR software-defined storage and ScaleIO hyper-convergence software, broadening support for platforms and emerging technologies. One of the selling points of ...
All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types ...
The capacity utilization for storage is one area where storage vendors have made a lot of improvements. Advanced features such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, and storage virtualization have ...
The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don't understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for ...
EMC Corp. made available the 3.0 release of its XtremIO all-flash array today with new inline compression capabilities and performance improvements – but existing customers who want the software ...
Scality's Ring software came into the market focused on object storage and added support for unified file storage last year. Now Scality has extended Ring's reach with VMware support. Philippe ...
EMC and IBM recently launched storage products with the term “elastic” in their names. These announcements were significant for the companies and for the IT community in understanding a direction ...
The term storage virtualization has been with us since 1999, and the concept continues with new product offerings that are variations of the original. The longevity of storage virtualization in a ...
I’m surprised to hear from IT people that storage vendors are still using “speeds and feeds” in their sales pitches. Salesmen for these companies talk about how fast and how big the storage systems ...