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Something's wrong when storage vendors pitch speeds and feeds
- Evaluator Group 11 Feb 2014 -
With little growth in sight, EMC plans layoffs
- Editorial News Director 29 Jan 2014 -
HP schedules EVA's funeral
- Editorial News Director 18 Sep 2013
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 ...
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, ...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has officially killed its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) SAN platform, telling customers it will stop selling the two remaining models next January. HP is steering customers ...
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EMC's RecoverPoint, SRDF shake hands
- Editorial News Director 03 May 2013 -
Actifio alters packaging, pricing for data protection
- Editorial News Director 29 Jan 2013 -
Quantum partners with Amplidata for object storage
- Editorial News Director 10 May 2012 -
Red Hat 2.0 supports unified file and object-based data
- Senior News Writer 09 Apr 2012 -
HDS enhances non-disruptive data migration to VSP
- Senior News Writer 17 Feb 2012 -
Red Hat brings GlusterFS to Amazon cloud
- Editorial News Director 10 Feb 2012 -
Why we keep data
- Evaluator Group 09 Dec 2011
EMC will make a bunch of product launches next week at its annual EMC World conference in Las Vegas. But there were upgrades the vendor couldn’t wait to announce, so it revealed a handful of data ...
Actifio bills itself as the “radically simple data copy storage company,” but apparently it’s pricing and packaging models weren’t radically simple enough. So Actifio 5.1 released today has new ...
Quantum will add object storage as a tier on top of its StorNext file system with the help of an OEM deal with startup Amplidata. Quantum revealed the OEM deal Wednesday, and said it will have a ...
Red Hat today rolled out the beta version of Red Hat Storage Software 2.0, used to build scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) for unstructured data. The upgraded version includes new features ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’ve attended two conferences recently where a speaker talked about storage efficiency and the growing capacity demand problem. The speaker said that a part of the problem is we don’t throw data ...
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Aptare expands storage management software
- Editorial News Director 06 Dec 2011 -
Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic
- Editorial News Director 22 Aug 2011 -
Xiotech changes name, improves ISE
- Editorial News Director 17 Aug 2011 -
Best of need vs. best of breed
- Evaluator Group 10 Jun 2011 -
Archiving's two primary use cases
- Evaluator Group 05 May 2011 -
Scale-out vs. scale-up: the basics
- Evaluator Group 23 Feb 2011 -
HP sticks with Hitachi for high-end storage array
- Editorial News Director 27 Sep 2010 -
Does Nimble dedupe?
- Editorial News Director 19 Jul 2010 -
EMC releases VPlex "active-active" storage
- Senior News Writer 10 May 2010 -
NetApp buys Bycast for object storage
- Editorial News Director 07 Apr 2010 -
HP refreshes and renames MSA, LeftHand platfroms
- Editorial News Director 16 Feb 2010 -
IDC: Storage spending fell off a cliff in first quarter
- Senior News Writer 05 Jun 2009 -
Behind the scenes at Carbonite's online backup service
- Senior News Writer 27 Apr 2009 -
SSDs: Your mileage almost certainly will vary
- Senior News Writer 15 Jan 2009 -
NetApp discontinues replication app
- Editorial News Director 09 Dec 2008 -
IDC: Unstructured data will become the primary task for storage
- Senior News Writer 29 Oct 2008 -
NetApp expert says pNFS not necessarily VMware solution
- Senior News Writer 15 Aug 2008 -
SSDs vs. 20,000 rpm drives: Who wins? I do!
- The Sasha Company 10 Jun 2008 -
Mendocino Software, R.I.P.
- Editorial News Director 20 Mar 2008
Storage software vendor Aptare is branching out to managing file storage. The vendor today launched Aptare StorageConsole File Analytics, which helps discover and analyze unstructured data. Or, as ...
Dell revamped its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN hardware today, adding new entry-level and midrange platforms with support for 2.5-inch SAS drives and multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for ...
Xiotech is changing its name to X-IO (pronounced X-I-O) Technologies as part of an overhaul that really started in 2008 when it launched its ISE architecture and accelerated with the appointment of ...
I was recently teaching a class on storage technology and systems to a group of IT professionals. I’m always interested in finding out what they know about storage products and what they hear about ...
Data archiving is often incorrectly assumed to be an extension of backup. That’s mainly because earlier technology limitations necessitated the use of backup software to store data on devices. ...
There's been a lot of talk about scale-out and scale-up storage lately, and I get a sense that a lot of people don't understand that these terms are not synonymous. And that causes confusion among ...
Hewlett-Packard is launching is version of Hitachi Data System’s new VSP system today, which should end speculation that HP will sever its OEM deal with Hitachi’s parent company for its enterprise ...
Nimble Storage Thursday came out of stealth with a storage system that the startup’s executives said combines primary storage with deduplication for backup in the same device. It makes sense that ...
This morning's big announcement at EMC World is called VPlex, which EMC says will allow for federation of data over geographic distance. VPlex was first publicly discussed at last year's VMWorld ...
Two weeks after Dell revealed plans to develop an object storage system, NetApp today disclosed its object storage strategy by acquiring privately held Canadian vendor Bycast. Bycast’s StorageGrid ...
This should be a busy year for Hewlett-Packard storage, with upgrades expected to each of its major SAN array platforms. HP started that process today by launching two new systems at the low-end of ...
This had been apparent from the earnings reports of the major storage vendors, but it's still startling to see the numbers all lined up at once: analyst firm IDC released its worldwide quarterly ...
Carbonite CEO David Friend in his Boston-area office "Do-it-yourself" infrastructure is a competitive differentiator among providers of storage services, I've learned in conversations with ...
Maybe this is what happens with any brand-new technology, but so far there's been such wide variability in the solid-state drives that have been announced for the enterprise since EMC added STEC ...
NetApp today quietly pulled the plug on its SnapMirror for Open Systems (SMOS) heterogeneous data replication software, acquired from startup Topio for $160 million in 2006. In a press release ...
According to a new IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released this week, transaction-intensive applications are giving way as the main segment of enterprise data to an expanded ...
After my article the other day about storage pros hoping for a VMware performance boost from pNFS, part of the new NFS 4.1 standard currently being ratified by IETF, I came across a response from ...
It's been a while since I've been able to spend some quality time behind the keyboard, I've been suffering from a gigantic "honey-do" list and it was difficult for me to use some huge work ...
Not all storage startups either went public or got acquired for big bucks over the past two years. Mendocino Software sold little of its continuous data protection (CDP) software and found no ...