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Data center storage

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

  Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology?

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Lenovo-NetApp partnership targets rivals Dell and HPE

  Lenovo and NetApp go after Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise with a multiyear partnership to bolster enterprise storage offerings and create a joint venture company in China.

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  New enterprise 14 TB HDD options cater to cloud-scale users

  Enterprise-class 14 TB HDDs from Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital target cloud-scale users in need of economical, high-density storage to cope with exponential data growth.

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Lustre-based DDN ExaScaler arrays receive NVMe flash

  High-performance computing specialist DataDirect Networks spruced up its ExaScaler SFA-based flagship with nonvolatile memory express flash, and it bought Lustre from Intel.

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality storage update adds three-server option

  Scality Ring 7.4 file and object storage software takes aim at easing installation and ongoing management, and it adds a lower-cost three-server entry configuration.

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  Updated IBM storage products focus on cost savings and cloud

  IBM storage enhancements focus on data deduplication expansion, cloud-based Storage Insights, VM-based Spectrum NAS and Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Hitachi VSP boosts performance and analytics

  Hitachi Vantara outfits new Virtual Storage Platform models with more and faster processors and memory, adds midrange arrays, but makes no NVMe promises yet.

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Dell EMC storage strategy talk buzzes Dell Tech World

  Dell EMC World is no more. The combined vendor has renamed its annual user summit Dell Tech World, where data storage product upgrades will touch flash, HCI and software-defined.

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Datrium storage software adds AWS cloud backup

  Datrium DVX 4.0 adds enterprise features such as AWS' cloud backup and recovery service, Oracle RAC support, VM fault tolerance and FIPS 140-2 security validation.

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Report: Dell-EMC storage aftermath may trigger IPO

  Is the Dell EMC storage merger causing buyer’s remorse? According to published report, Dell Technologies is considering a return to the public market to satisfy the massive debt incurred from its ...

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Pure Storage FlashStack is recycler's renewable resource

  Food waste recycler Valley Proteins chose Pure Storage's all-flash converged infrastructure to replace Dell EMC VNX-Cisco UCS for 24 TB of usable storage with Cohesity backup.

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Enterprise storage arrays: 2017 Products of the Year finalists

  All-flash and hybrid products comprise the bulk of the 14 storage arrays chosen as finalists in the 2017 Products of the Year contest. Only two arrays rely predominantly on disk.

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Startup Liqid looks to make a splash in composable storage

  Liqid composable storage infrastructure is based on Liqid Grid's custom PCIe fabric switch and orchestration to provision bare-metal servers from disaggregated devices.

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Storage market trends of 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud gain steam

  Disruption in the enterprise storage market appears unlikely to subside anytime soon. AI analytics, cloud, HCI, mergers and NVMe flash highlight key themes heading into 2018.

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Microsoft Azure taps NetApp Ontap for native NFS storage

  NetApp Ontap will become available in Microsoft public cloud as the Azure Enterprise NFS Service. Will we see NetApp do the same for Amazon Web Services?