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Application storage

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  NetApp flash offerings push into cloud, edge and IoT

  At the NetApp Insight user show, the vendor advocates for flash to replace disk for backup, cloud and object storage. NetApp HCI expands, and StorageGrid gets flash.

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Elastifile adds automated tiering to cloud object storage

  Cloud file system startup Elastifile is making it easier to shift data to object storage in Amazon and Google using ClearTier policy-based automated tiering.

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Red Hat updates Gluster Storage for OpenShift container apps

  Red Hat beefs up its Container-Native Storage with block and object interfaces and a significant increase in persistent volume density for use with its OpenShift Container Platform.

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  Action! Storage for your video storage system

  Video and other multimedia production is no longer the exclusive domain of Hollywood studios and post-production services. Today, companies of all kinds have video and audio operations that rival that of professional media outfits. And those ...

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  PernixData wants to cache your mission critical apps

  Caching software startup PernixData’s recent funding round was heavy in cash and even heavier in cachet. The $35 million funding round was far from the richest of the year – Nutanix last week ...

• December 01, 2011 01 Dec'11

  Business critical applications drive storage requirements

  Discussions for buying storage typically begin with determining the company's requirements,  and usually focus on meeting the needs of business critical applications -- also known as tier 1 ...

• April 06, 2011 06 Apr'11

  Storage buying requires an application perspective

  Much information provided about storage systems reflects details about the specifications of the storage systems – known as speeds and feeds. This has been the norm, and if that information was not ...

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Survey: More than 60% of SMBs don't use email archiving software

  A recent survey says more than 60% of U.S. small businesses don't use email archiving software; ProStor announces 200 InfiniVault customers; and more news.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  HP-Microsoft alliance produces storage appliances for Exchange, SQL; other data storage news

  HP-Microsoft alliance produces storage appliances; Nasuni delivers data migration service for cloud storage providers; Western Digital adds 6 Gbps SAS hard drives; and other data storage news.

• January 06, 2010 06 Jan'10

  Iomega portable hard drives can store and sync virtual PC images with v.Clone

  Iomega prepares to ship new software later this month for Iomega portable hard drives that allows users to synchronize and mount a virtual PC image on a secondary machine.

• February 17, 2009 17 Feb'09

  Healthcare IT eyes medical record digitization hurdle

  Part of President Obama's economic stimulus plan calls for the digitization of medical records, but healthcare IT people worry their industry may not be prepared to take on the project.

• June 06, 2008 06 Jun'08

  Storage Decisions: Application-centric storage becoming a reality

  Application-centric storage is close to becoming a reality, according to storage administrators at the Storage Decisions conference in Toronto. But the only way to get there is through a natural storage replacement cycle, rather than rip-and-replace.

• May 30, 2008 30 May'08

  EMC adds VMware features to Exchange, SQL Server

  Exchange and SQL Server play nice with VMware; Voltaire certifies InfiniBand; Bakbone enhances Oracle 11g recovery features; HP brings out Emulex-based HBAs for Integrity servers.

• May 02, 2008 02 May'08

  Storage vendors boost support for Microsoft apps

  Brocade, Emulex add support for Virtual Machine Manager; Dell/EqualLogic integrates Exchange snapshots; Bocada reports on DPM inside Microsoft.

• April 09, 2007 09 Apr'07

  Colorado State picks EqualLogic over EMC for Exchange

  The university, an Exchange 2007 beta tester, says performance improvements in the updated Microsoft release make iSCSI more practical for email storage.