A look back at the 2014 data storage market

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  Cloud disaster recovery tops DR trends in 2014

  Cloud disaster recovery became the overarching theme for DR in 2014, dominating products and services from new and established vendors. Read Now

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  New technologies emerge to ease data protection pains

  The lines between backup, DR, archive, file sync and primary storage blurred in 2014 to streamline processes, reduce redundant copies and help with protecting and restoring data. Read Now

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  All-flash arrays stand out in a year of flash highlights

  Startups and legacy vendors alike rolled out all-flash platforms to highlight 2014 in flash, underscoring solid-state's steadily increasing footprint in the enterprise. Read Now

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  Enterprise file sync and share heats up in the data storage market

  The crowded enterprise file sync-and-share market is poised for change, as functionality increasingly becomes a feature of larger products, analysts predict. Read Now

1Flash and cloud see biggest purchases in 2014

Cloud acquisitions and mergers were numerous in 2014, with EMC alone snapping up four cloud storage companies. However, flash technology made up the bigger buys of the year, with SanDisk's billion-dollar acquisition of Fusion-io, and large purchases for Samsung and Seagate.

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  Backup trends, acquisitions and spinoffs in 2014

  Backup got a lot of attention, with companies such as Hitachi and NetApp making big acquisitions. Backup software spinoffs from Symantec and CA Technologies also made headlines.  Read Now

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  2014 brought major acquisitions in cloud and flash storage

  Cloud storage acquisitions were common in 2014 with EMC, NetApp and Microsoft getting into the act, but flash brought in the big bucks. Read Now

2Cloud providers duke it out

Cloud technology continued to evolve in 2014, with Microsoft, Amazon and Google duking it out for the top public cloud vendor title. Cloud providers confronted outages while releasing new features, and companies like EMC and NetApp got into the cloud game with their own acquisitions.

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  Google's public cloud storage slim on updates in 2014

  Google Cloud Storage rolled out its Cloud Storage Connector in 2014, but not much else. The connector and price cuts were the biggest announcements for the year. Read Now

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  Outages overshadow new features for Azure cloud

  Microsoft Azure added redundancy features and a new StorSimple hybrid array in 2014 -- but outages held it from the top cloud spot. Read Now

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  AWS holds No. 1 cloud spot despite stiff competition

  AWS adds Amazon Zocalo, upgrades to Amazon Glacier and EBS in 2014 as it tries to defend its No. 1 position in cloud storage. Read Now

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  Top five cloud news stories in 2014

  This year was a big one for cloud storage, with new product innovations and emerging trends. See what stories made the biggest impact on SearchCloudStorage. Read Now

3VMware VSAN makes a big splash

Hyper-converged infrastructure dominated virtual storage news in 2014. The most talked about products were VMware's Virtual SAN (VSAN) and EVO: RAIL, which brought the server virtualization vendor into the storage spotlight. Startups Nutanix and SimpliVity also made headlines with upgrades to their hyper-converged products.

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  VMware VSAN and EVO: RAIL top virtual storage news

  We take a look back at the most-read content on SearchVirtualStorage during 2014 to see what trends are shaping the industry. Read Now

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  What we learned about VMware VSAN in 2014

  Now that VMware's VSAN has been generally available since March, we take a look back at analyst and customer feedback to see what we know about the software-defined storage. Read Now

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  Hyper-converged, flash and cloud dominate storage news

  Hyper-converged, all-flash and cloud storage formed a three-legged stool of dominant storage news in 2014, while the Symantec breakup stunner added an element of surprise. Read Now