Storage Soup
June 2011
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Scale-out NAS purchasing considerations
- Evaluator Group 30 Jun 2011 -
Oracle buys Ellison's storage company, Pillar
- Editorial Director 29 Jun 2011 -
IDC: data's rapidly increasing, staffing isn't
- Editorial Director 28 Jun 2011
Scale-out NAS is becoming popular, with most major vendors offering these types of products. As a reminder, scale-out NAS systems will increase performance and capacity at the same time – although ...
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today answered the question of what he will do with Pillar Data Systems, which he has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into. Oracle said it has ...
IDC today released the results of its annual EMC-sponsored Digital Universe study, which confirms what storage professionals see first-hand every day: data keeps growing unchecked and resources to ...
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BlueArc files for IPO, again
- Editorial Director 27 Jun 2011 -
Xiotech's SSD strategy: beat Fusion-io
- Editorial Director 23 Jun 2011 -
Misconcpetions about storage tiering in the mid-tier
- Evaluator Group 21 Jun 2011 -
Too much air time for Tucci?
- Editorial Director 17 Jun 2011 -
Lustre as a real storage system
- Evaluator Group 16 Jun 2011 -
Vendors’ Battling Business Units hurt customers most
- Evaluator Group 15 Jun 2011 -
Quantum pockets Pancetera for virtual server backup
- Editorial Director 14 Jun 2011
Following a year of large storage acquisitions, it looks like 2011 might be more IPO-friendly for storage vendors. Two weeks after solid-state storage vendor Fusion-io went public, clustered NAS ...
The people who run Xiotech are closely watching Fusion-io these days. That’s because the rollout of its Hybrid ISE solid state storage system this month has increasingly brought Xiotech into ...
During many of my discussions with IT managers and directors who would be classified in the mid-tier enterprise space (over 1,000 employees), it has become clear that few have deployed storage ...
EMC CEO Joe Tucci isn’t publicity shy, but he almost certainly wishes he could have avoided his front-page exposure in the Wall Street Journal this week. The Journal Thursday led a story on ...
In the high performance computing (HPC) world, Lustre serves as a clustered file system meeting needs for extremely large numbers of files and extremely large file sizes. The problem is, Lustre has ...
Understanding storage technology can be difficult enough without vendors adding to the problem with odd product positioning. Yet vendors often make things worse when talking to customers or ...
Quantum acquired startup Pancetera Software today, giving it virtual server backup for its DXi data deduplication family right away. In the long run, Pancetera can also add intelligent storage ...
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Best of need vs. best of breed
- Evaluator Group 10 Jun 2011 -
EMC ready to roll out Symmetrix VMAXe against 3PAR, XIV
- Editorial Director 08 Jun 2011 -
Is it time for Dell to scoop up Brocade?
- Editorial Director 02 Jun 2011
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 ...
EMC is preparing to launch a baby Symmetrix VMAX system called the VMAXe, which lacks mainframe connectivity and fills the gap between the vendor’s midrange VNX unified storage platform and the ...
Whenever there is talk of storage acquisitions – which is just about all the time these days – the name of Brocade comes up. The switch vendor was believed to be high on Hewlett-Packard’s shopping ...