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EMC's RecoverPoint, SRDF shake hands
- Evaluator Group 03 May 2013 -
Quantum partners with Amplidata for object storage
- Evaluator Group 10 May 2012 -
HDS enhances non-disruptive data migration to VSP
- TechTarget 17 Feb 2012
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Red Hat brings GlusterFS to Amazon cloud
- Evaluator Group 10 Feb 2012 -
Aptare expands storage management software
- Evaluator Group 06 Dec 2011 -
Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic
- Evaluator Group 22 Aug 2011 -
Xiotech changes name, improves ISE
- Evaluator Group 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
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 ...
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 ...
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HP sticks with Hitachi for high-end storage array
- Evaluator Group 27 Sep 2010 -
Does Nimble dedupe?
- Evaluator Group 19 Jul 2010 -
EMC releases VPlex "active-active" storage
- Senior News Writer 10 May 2010 -
HP refreshes and renames MSA, LeftHand platfroms
- Evaluator Group 16 Feb 2010 -
SSDs: Your mileage almost certainly will vary
- Senior News Writer 15 Jan 2009 -
NetApp discontinues replication app
- Evaluator Group 09 Dec 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.
- Evaluator Group 20 Mar 2008
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...