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February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17

Datrium storage adds Blanket Encryption for end-to-end data protection

Datrium's Blanket Encryption software encrypts deduplicated and compressed data from servers to storage, but doesn't yet support third-party key management products.

February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

IBM flash storage key to turnaround, says GM Walsh

Ed Walsh takes over as general manager of IBM storage to reignite sales. He says customers 'challenged by disruption' turn to flash storage to modernize IT.

February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

HPE storage sales slipped sharply in late 2016

Storage is among the casualties of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's struggles following the break-up of Hewlett-Packard. The vendor reported HPE storage revenue declined 12% year-over-year to $730 ...

February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

Nexsan Unity adds compliance archive appliance

Nexsan Unity arrays integrate optional secure compliance archive for petabytes of unstructured data. Data files written to primary storage are immediately copied to the archive.

February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

NAND flash shortage has SSD supply, pricing impact

Flash shortage could slow price declines and constrain SSD supplies through the end of 2017 as manufacturers make difficult transition from 2D/Planar to 3D NAND technology.

February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17

Cloudian, Panzura expand cloud data archiving options

Cloudian and Panzura have come up with new cloud data archiving products to help organizations move on-premises data to the cloud. Cloudian's new HyperStore 4000 is a 7U scale-out object storage ...

February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

NetApp hyper-converged entry: Better late than early?

NetApp is entering the hyper-convergence arena with the latecomer's cry: We may be last into the market, but we'll be the best. Emboldened by the recent strong revenue growth of its late-to-market ...

February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

Dell EMC VxRail hitches ride on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

Dell EMC’s VxRail turned one today, and the vendor marked the anniversary by adding the hyper-converged platform to its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud package. Dell EMC claims over 1,000 customers for ...

February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

Caringo FileFly cleans data off Windows Storage Servers

Caringo FileFly powers Secondary Storage Platform that works with Microsoft DFSR and ReFS to offload passive, unstructured data from a Windows storage server.

February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?

Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017.

February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

Announcing the best data storage products of 2016!

This year marks the 15^th edition of the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year awards, recognizing the best storage products of the past year. Nominated products competed across six categories, with the top in ...

February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

Businesses use enterprise file sync-and-share market to collaborate

Enterprise file sync and share solves numerous business problems by offering organizations a way to provide more secure document sharing and collaboration.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Tegile Systems IntelliFlash HD

Tegile Systems IntelliFlash HD intended to appeal to medium and large enterprises looking to consolidate multiple workloads on a single all-flash array.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays (AF-Series)

Nimble's first all-flash array family scales from 20 TB to petabyte and 8.2 PB of usable storage and 1.2 million IOPS per four-node cluster.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Hitachi Data Systems Virtual Storage Platform VSP F800

Modular rack-mounted Hitachi Data Systems VSP F800 runs the vendor's SVOS operating system software and is equipped with custom-designed flash storage modules.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

VMware vSAN 6.2

VMware's vSAN 6.2 upgrade -- featuring dedupe/compression, QoS and erasure coding -- wins 2016 Storage Products of the Year gold in the server-based storage category.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Formation Data Systems FormationOne

Formation Data Systems' FormationOne scores in value, innovation and functionality to take silver in server-based storage in the 2016 Products of the Year competition.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe

The VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe stops companies from needing to send captured packet data back to vendors and wait for the analysis to identify performance problems.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.8

Data Dynamics upgrades StorageX with new data protection features and functions, and makes it so users can customize their own data mobility policies with a REST API and SDK.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Zadara Storage Cloud

Zadara Storage Cloud provides block, file and object storage-as-a-service either on-premises hardware managed by Zadara, in the cloud, or both.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays (CS-Series)

Nimble Storage jumped on the all-flash bandwagon in 2016, but didn't forget its disk fans by upgrading its CS-Series mixing flash and hard disk drives.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N)

Building on its NAS Edge filer technology, Avere rolled out Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) product, which puts file and object storage in one system that spans on-premises and the cloud.

February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

Best data storage products 2016: Products of the Year

Learn more about the best data storage products for 2016 in backup/DR software, backup hardware, storage and SAN management, server-based storage, and all-flash and disk/hybrid.

February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

Qumulo QC update adds flexible file quotas, PB array

Qumulo NAS upgrade allows data to move between quota domains without rewriting the file system. QC360 hardware is a petabyte-scale addition to its QC-Series hybrid disk lineup.

February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

Microsoft Office 365 backup included in Acronis Backup 12 update

Acronis has added cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft Office 365 in the latest version of Acronis Backup. Acronis Backup 12 protects Microsoft Office 365 and 15 other platforms, all under one ...

February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

Kaminario K2 array boosts performance, capacity

New Kaminario all-flash array features higher performance and capacity, improves data reduction guarantee to 4:1 and offers faster storage networking options.

February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

Nakivo Backup & Replication for Hyper-V gets ready for prime time

Nakivo Inc.'s latest backup and replication product offers support for VMware vSphere 6.5, Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, VMware vSphere 6.5 and Windows Server 2016 Backup along with a way to delete ...

February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

Pivot3 vSTAC sales soaring, CEO says

Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 said it more than tripled its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 from the previous year, and grew total revenue 84% in 2016 from 2015. Pivot3's growth came in part ...

February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

Stratoscale buys Tesora, adds AWS database services

Stratoscale acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora Inc. in a move aimed at strengthening its AWS database services. The hyper-converged software startup added Tesora's open platform for ...

February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

Open source object storage startup OpenIO adds hardware

Up to 96 nano nodes fit in OpenIO's SLS-4U96 chassis. Each ARM CPU manages a single high-capacity disk and a small amount of flash storage for fast metadata access.

February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

'Alexa, provision my Tintri storage'

Want to manage your Tintri storage the same way you turn on lights, set an alarm, or choose music with an Amazon Echo or Dot device? Tintri Inc. launched a proof of concept that lets customers ask ...

February 02, 2017 02 Feb'17

Minio object storage offers 'go big' container storage

Minio's object storage software is written in the robust Go programming language and supports Amazon S3 storage APIs for developers working in container environments.

February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

NetApp AFF A700s flash array slims down A700 footprint

NetApp launches small-footprint A700s version of its high-end All Flash FAS A700 with built-in SSDs, updates all-flash capacity guarantee for A-Series flash storage line.

January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17

Report: Better data theft protection needed for employee exits

The processes for keeping data safe when employees leave a company are fundamental data protection best practices: backup, archive and encryption. Yet barely half of the organizations that took ...

January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

Panzura controller, OS updates extend cloud options

The new Panzura controller has a bigger cache and an improved operating system with enterprise features. Hybrid Cloud Controller model also offers new enterprise support options.

January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17

Quantum video storage customers range from police to pot growers

Quantum's scale-out storage business is growing like a weed, with the help of a large weed grower. While Quantum's DXi disk backup library increased the most of all its product lines last quarter, ...

January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

Dense Pure Storage FlashBlade storage zeroes in on web-scale analytics

FlashBlade system-on-a-chip from Pure Storage converges compute, flash storage and software-defined networking. The arrays use custom flash modules instead of solid-state drives.

January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

Commvault products rollout promised throughout 2017

Following a quarter of solid revenue growth to end 2016, Commvault Systems Inc. plans a string of product enhancements throughout 2017. The additions are designed to improve Commvault's performance ...

January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

Enterprise flash storage to speed up in 2017

CTOs at leading storage vendors predict speed and latency breakthroughs with new NVMe-based enterprise flash and upcoming memory technologies in 2017 and beyond.

January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

Cloud storage for enterprise use should spike in 2017

Storage CTOs predict enterprise cloud adoption will increase in 2017, with a boost from new development and management technologies to assist with planning and deployment.

January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17

Veeam Software cracked $600 million revenue mark in 2016

While much of the storage market is stagnant or down, data protection vendor Veeam Software said it grew revenue 28% in 2016 by expanding its business into enterprises and the cloud. Veeam, a ...

January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17

Enterprise storage market poised for more disruption in 2017

CTOs share enterprise storage predictions for 2017. Cloud, server-based storage, HCI, and growing use of containers and analytics will spur further disruption.

January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

Qumulo Core data-aware arrays help researchers manage sequencer data

Carnegie Institution for Science's embryology department manages research data with Qumulo Core data-aware NAS storage, taking advantage of advanced analytics.

January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17

Alluxio in-memory storage software gains EMC mindshare

In-memory storage startup Alluxio has struck a partnership with Dell EMC. The news marks Alluxio’s first formal alliance with a North American storage vendor. Alluxio in September integrated its ...

January 13, 2017 13 Jan'17

IBM DS8880 arrays adopt PCIe 3 in all-flash versions

The expansion of the IBM DS8880 hardware line introduces all-flash models designed around the vendor's High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2 to support PCIe 3.0, but not yet NVMe.

January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

Panzura raises $32 million in funding

Cloud NAS vendor Panzura raised $32 million in Series E equity funding this week to expand its product and give organizations an alternative to what CEO Patrick Harr calls a "dying on-premises ...

January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

Kaminario secures $75 million funding round

All-flash array pioneer Kaminario kicked off 2017 with a cash infusion of $75 million to accelerate global expansion and fuel product support for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) technologies. ...

January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

Showback the value of your data storage expertise

To demonstrate value, IT must provide an easy-to-understand cost model to its business leaders. This has fostered IT showback projects. Yet showback isn't easy to achieve.

January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

All-flash array market advances outpace demand, create opportunities

Scott Sinclair says high-density, high-capacity all-flash storage arrays are a disruptive technology ahead of customer demand for now, but businesses will realize they need it.

January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

How to build a private storage cloud

Building internal cloud storage must account for elasticity, choosing the right platform, allowing for workflow, and stack deployments and public cloud integration.

January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

Top enterprise storage vendors to watch in 2017

Check out our comprehensive forecast of what challenges and opportunities the top enterprise storage vendors are expected to face in the coming year.

January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

Parallelism can improve workload performance in the storage multiverse

If a dimensionally compressed storage medium was a reality, all data could be stored forever. Until then, how parallelism can improve workload performance remains elusive.

January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

All-flash storage system 2016 Products of the Year finalists

Our seven all-flash storage system 2016 finalists include products from flash-only vendors, as well as vendors that offer all-flash versions of existing hybrid arrays.

January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

Storage and SAN management tools: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

The six finalists in the 2016 Products of the Year storage and SAN management tools category run the gamut from network probes to complete SAN control software.

January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

Server-based storage: 2016 Products of the Year finalists emerge

2016 Products of the Year finalists revealed for category encompassing hyper-converged appliances and software-defined storage that runs on commodity server hardware.

January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

The 11 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2016 Products of the Year include cloud and arrays that don't demand all-flash drives.

January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

Data storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

We've culled through the entries for this year's Products of the Year competition and narrowed the field to these 54 finalists in six data storage systems categories.

December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16

Startup Apeiron Data Systems preps for formal launch

Startup Apeiron plans a formal launch in early 2017 after securing more than $35 million in funding, following a quiet rollout of its NVMe-based flash storage array in the fall.

December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

Storage 2016 news includes Dell EMC, Nutanix IPO, Broadcom-Brocade

In 2016, EMC became part of Dell, Broadcom moved to take over Brocade, Nutanix went public, data protection expanded, and more data went on flash and cloud.

December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

SwiftStack object storage cures Oklahoma biomed's capacity, cost woes

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation phased out NAS and tape backups with SwiftStack object storage. Nine SwiftStack nodes replicate between data centers for disaster recovery.

December 28, 2016 28 Dec'16

NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics protocols merit consideration

NVMe protocols are growing in importance as enterprises switch to flash storage. Demartek founder Dennis Martin explains the technologies and why IT needs to keep an eye on them.

December 28, 2016 28 Dec'16

Survey says: Business disaster recovery plans need work

While companies may be confident in their disaster recovery strategy, DR planning and testing still has a ways to go, according to results of a survey by data protection vendor Zetta. Among 403 IT ...

December 27, 2016 27 Dec'16

Using multiple BDR products doesn't always translate into faster data recovery

Companies spend a lot of money on disaster recovery solutions but that doesn’t translate into faster data recovery, according to a survey conducted by Quorum titled the “State of Disaster ...

December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

Asigra's data recovery report details how little gets recovered

How much data do you actually recover? That's a question that Asigra users answered in a data recovery report. Featuring statistics gathered from nearly 1,100 organizations across eight sectors, ...

December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

Panzura wants to provide archiving freedom, for a price

Cloud NAS vendor Panzura is expanding into archiving. The vendor today made available Freedom Archive software that moves infrequently accessed data to public clouds or low-cost on-premises ...

December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

In storage, 2016 M&A centered on networking, hyper-convergence

Broadcom's $5.9 billion deal to buy Brocade and transactions involving hyper-converged vendors and cloud provider Rackspace highlight storage mergers and acquisitions in 2016.

December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16

Small change yields Quantum leap for StorNext scale-out file system

Quantum StorNext scale-out file system upgrade integrates support for public cloud and third-party object storage. StorNext manages data as a unified namespace.

December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

Violin Memory's sad song leads to bankruptcy

Cash-bleeding all-flash array vendor Violin Memory today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and will seek to sell off its assets at an auction next month. After years of financial problems, Violin ...

December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

Nasuni files away $25 million in funding

Cloud file storage vendor Nasuni picked up $25 million in funding today, bringing its total to $80.5 million. The vendor’s executives expect the latest funding to bring it to cash-flow positive ...

December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

NexentaEdge DevOps goes gratis for Docker persistent storage

NexentaEdge DevOps integrates Docker persistent storage from up to three Linux servers and 16 TB of raw storage with NexentaEdge data and storage services.

December 08, 2016 08 Dec'16

Primary Data contributes to NFS 4.2

Software-defined storage vendor Primary Data’s open standards parallel NFS contributions made it into the NFS 4.2 standard, which could help the startup make inroads with scale-out storage ...

December 08, 2016 08 Dec'16

Western Digital shows gains from acquisitions

Western Digital told financial analysts its business will be better than expected this quarter, and added solid-state drives (SSDs), hard-disk drives (HDDs) and an all-flash array platform to its ...

December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

SwiftStack public Cloud Sync starts with Amazon, Google

Object storage provider SwiftStack Inc. has added hybrid cloud synchronization to its OpenStack-based software controller. SwiftStack Cloud Sync allows data or subsets of data to exist ...

December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

New Qumulo CEO: 'Fast' scale-out file system beats big legacy vendors

Scale-out file-system specialist Qumulo hires ex-EMC Vice President Bill Richter to spearhead marketing and sales. It marks a reunion with Qumulo co-founders Peter Godman and Neal Fachan.

December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

Datrium snares $55 million, nearly year after DVX release

Datrium secured $55 million in Series C financing as it approaches the one-year anniversary of the general release of its flagship DVX storage system for VMware virtual machines. The new financing ...

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

Hot data storage technology trends for 2017

Learn what's hot and what's not-quite-so-hot on our list of data storage technology trends for the forthcoming year.

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

Focus attention on a cognitive data management system

Jon Toigo advises paying less attention to storage component stories and more to system-focused narratives such as a cognitive data management process.

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

Drowning in data storage capacity? Set it free!

We're all guilty of data hoarding, and managing it is costing companies billions of dollars. The answer? Do a better job of managing all that useless data.

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

Hot data storage market technologies for 2017

For 14 years, Storage magazine has presented our picks for the hottest storage technologies in the coming year. This year, our honorees are, as in the past, "newish" rather than cutting-edge or futuristic. All are proven in the data storage market ...

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

SAN storage area network