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• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Tintri OS storage upgrade focuses on cloud, containers for DevOps

  Tintri storage moves 'in lockstep' with VMware for cloud, container and DevOps support with a vRealize Orchestrator plug-in and vSphere Integrated Containers support.

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  NetApp Data Fabric stitches on SaaS to sync local, cloud storage

  NetApp Data Fabric SaaS enhancements include Cloud Sync Service, Cloud Control for Office 365 and new versions of AltaVault, SnapCenter and StorageGRID Webscale.

• October 31, 2016 31 Oct'16

  WD claims strong demand for HDDs, flash with cloud customers

  Western Digital reported revenue of $4.7 billion in the first full quarter after its SanDisk acquisition closed, claiming demand was strong for hard drives and flash-based products with cloud and ...

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  StorNext sales help Quantum scale revenue

  With its StorNext revenue rising while data protection sales remained flat, Quantum achieved its second straight growth period last quarter. The StorNext file system is at the heart of Quantum’s ...

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Cloudian raises $41 million in a Series D funding round

  Cloudian today closed a $41 million in a Series D funding round that it will use to help increase its sales footprint in Europe and Asia in the second half of 2017. New Cloudian investors in the ...

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  NetApp carries Toshiba's self-encrypting SSDs

  NetApp is the first storage vendor to sell Toshiba’s new highly secure solid-state drives (SSDs). NetApp hybrid FAS and E-Series arrays will include Toshiba PXO4S 12 Gb per second SAS SSDs, built ...

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  In-memory software startup Alluxio tosses hat in big data storage ring

  Open source Alluxio is an in-memory virtual distributed storage system that allows data to be shared across applications and storage systems at memory speed.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Cloud holds silver lining for Commvault

  Commvault’s push to store customer data in the cloud is paying off. CEO Bob Hammer said the amount of data stored in the cloud with Commvault software has more than doubled since the start of 2016. ...

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Igneous Systems delivers IaaS with hyperscale nano servers

  Igneous Systems offers IaaS that uses nano servers to store data on- premises and is managed by the vendor remotely on a cloud subscription basis.

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  HPE launches new XP7 based on Hitachi technology

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its high-end enterprise storage array upgade today at the same time as Hitachi Data Systems. The HPE XP7 and HDS Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) use the same ...

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  The new HDS VSP arrays enhance QoS and data reduction

  Hitachi added new VSP all-flash array and hybrid array models and updated the operating system with adaptive data reduction, enhanced quality of service and cloud tiering.

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Acronis Storage signals vendor's software-defined push

  Acronis, known for its backup and recovery offerings, has unveiled a software-defined storage product to the public for the first time, including blockchain integration.

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  FalconStor updates FreeStor, adopts new pricing model

  FalconStor Software took aim at hybrid cloud deployments with a new pricing model and product upgrade for its FreeStor storage virtualization and block-based data services. The Melville, NY-based ...

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Dell EMC's making XtremIO multi-protocol

  EMC’s XtremIO all-flash SAN is getting a file-system injection thanks to Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS). Dell EMC previewed the NAS capabilities for XtremIO at Dell EMC World, saying they would ...

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cisco storage networking products get FCIP, FCoE upgrades

  Cisco storage networking announced upgrades that include Ethernet boosts for FCIP and FCoE, but it's decided to hold off on shipping 32 GbE Fibre Channel.

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cleversafe-based IBM Cloud Object Storage service debuts

  IBM marked the one-year anniversary of its Cleversafe acquisition with the launch of a “pay-as-you-go” cloud object storage service enabling customers to use the same technology on site and off ...

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Dell EMC gives the green light for Isilon All-Flash arrays

  Dell EMC shows off Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS array at first Dell EMC World; also extends EMC management and data protection to Compellent arrays.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Caringo, Dell deliver an object storage server cluster for Swarm

  Caringo previously sold Swarm as software-only object storage, but now, Dell packages Swarm 9 as a hardware option that clusters 288 TB of usable storage.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Magnetic storage device maker Everspin spins its way to Nasdaq

  Magneto-resistive RAM chipmaker Everspin Technologies is trying to make sure its in-memory magnetic storage technology will spin into the future. The Chandler, Ariz.-based vendor this month raised ...

• October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16

  Hubstor gives Microsoft Azure encryption a two-pronged focus

  Cloud archiving startup HubStor is fortifying its data protection, adding two methods to apply Azure encryption of at-rest data in Microsoft public cloud storage. Customers of the Ottawa-based ...

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Microsoft Storage Spaces takes 'Direct' aim at storage clusters

  Windows Server 2016 release makes Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct available to data centers. Highlights include heightened data reduction, HCI, replication and tiering.

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Avere Systems rolls out its own core NAS filer for hybrid cloud

  Avere Systems recently announced its latest hardware, the Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) hybrid system that is integrated with object storage and can scale up to five petabytes. The system is comprised of ...

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Dell EMC adds VMAX 250F, support for 15 TB SSDs, compression

  Dell EMC's first major product launch since the merger focuses on flash with VMAX 250F, inline compression and nondisruptive flash upgrades for VMAX and Unity.

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  SNIA panel: Docker data center deployments inch to primary storage

  Enterprise storage containers aren’t about to supplant virtual machines, but the trend line for Docker data center adoption is going up.  Hurdles of persistent storage and enterprise data ...

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  Flash storage decreases build times for Wargaming DevOps engineers

  After builds began taking close to two hours to complete with disk storage, Wargaming installed a Kaminario all-flash array to keep DevOps engineers busy.

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Investors pony up $51M to lift Druva software’s cloud backup

  Druva has scored $51 million in new private financing to diversify its cloud backup platform and accelerate global marketing and sales. The vendor said part of the proceeds will be used to ...

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Infinidat InfiniBox given compression injection, native iSCSI

  Infinidat claims InfiniBox can scale to 5 PB effective capacity in a 42U array and has 'carrier-grade' iSCSI in its enterprise SAN array; it still revolves around spinning disk.

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Storage startup Hedvig CEO: Private, public clouds blurring

  Storage startup Hedvig's CEO envisions self-service, virtualized, distributed storage running on commodity hardware across customer-run data centers and public clouds.

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Dell EMC to 'stay the course' with flash storage portfolio

  Dell EMC plans to “stay the course” with its flash storage portfolio despite overlapping products at the midrange and low end, an executive at the newly combined company confirmed. Daniel Cobb, a ...

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Maxta makes MxSP HCI software version perpetually free

  Software-only hyper-converged startup Maxta today formally unveiled a free perpetual license option for its MxSP software, following a registration drive launched during VMworld 2016. MxSP is ...

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Startup Datera stretches Elastic Data Fabric with all-flash nodes

  Datera Elastic Data Fabric qualifies Dell PowerEdge servers, adds all-flash nodes, and increases scaling to 50 nodes and 5 PB raw capacity per cluster.

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Spectra BlackPearl line grows family, archive customer base

  Spectra Logic is extending its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway line upwards and downwards. The tape vendor has added an entry-level model and a much larger offering that more than triples the ...

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  Virtual Instruments teaches VirtualWisdom NAS expertise

  Virtual Instruments taps into expertise gained through the Load DynamiX merger to teach its VirtualWisdom analytics products to monitor NAS, along with Fibre Channel SAN arrays.

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  IDC: Total worldwide storage systems revenue remained flat in Q2

  Research firm IDC reports factory revenues for worldwide purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) experienced solid growth in the second quarter while enterprise storage systems revenue remained flat ...

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  New NetApp AFF, FAS arrays launch with ONTAP upgrade

  NetApp all-flash arrays and hybrid storage arrays get updates, along with the ONTAP operating system and added support for Microsoft Azure, to kick off its annual technical conference.

• September 23, 2016 23 Sep'16

  StorageCraft buys backup analytics from Gillware

  StorageCraft will use its new analytics technology to tell its customers to stop backing up certain data. That’s right, the data protection vendor wants its customers to back up less. And ...

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hedvig storage update offers multicloud capabilities

  Hedvig outlined its vision for a Universal Data Plane spanning public and private clouds, as it announced an updated version of its software-defined storage.

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Zetta cloud storage now offers recovery in less than five minutes

  Zetta unveiled the latest version of its disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) that promises data recovery in less than five minutes. The company initially launched its DRaaS back in May 2015 to ...

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  New SNIA Swordfish spec targets hyperscale, cloud environments

  The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) released Swordfish, a new specification that could ease the management of storage equipment and data services in converged, hyper-converged, ...

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Nutanix IPO looks like a go

  Nutanix took the last step before completing its initial public offering today when it set the target price range for its offering. Nutanix filed an S-1 registration form with the Securities and ...

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Veritas: Dell EMC’s no marriage made in heaven

  LAS VEGAS -- In the pre-Symantec days when Veritas was an independent storage software company, its executives frequently bashed their primary competitor EMC. That rhetoric cooled after Symantec ...

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Dell EMC injects PowerEdge into ScaleIO Nodes, DSSD

  Dell EMC uses Dell PowerEdge x86 servers for new ScaleIO Ready Nodes -- including an all-flash model -- and adds DSSD D5 flash array cards to PowerEdge rack servers.

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Violin flash upgrade: Is it a high note or swan song?

  Struggling Violin Memory launches two new Flash Storage Platform arrays with improved performance, lower latency and encryption in hopes of surviving in crowded all-flash market.

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  New DDN WOS object appliance targets performance, capacity

  DataDirect Networks is expanding its Web Object Scaler portfolio with a new 8460 object storage appliance that focuses on performance and capacity.

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  IDrive cloud introduces 'private' property

  Backup vendor IDrive has added the private cloud to its repertoire, allowing customers to keep backup data on premises as well as in the public cloud. The IDrive Private Cloud appliance features 6 ...

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  Nimble Storage pricing gets new on-demand, cloud-like option

  Nimble Storage launches new quality of service, multi-tenancy features and cloud-like pricing option to help IT organizations take app-centric approach to storage management.

• September 10, 2016 10 Sep'16

  Barracuda storage swims with hardware, software upgrades

  Customers of Barracuda Networks just received some welcome news. In tandem with an upcoming software release, the backup specialist gave a 25% capacity boost to one of its midrange disk-based ...

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell

  The NF-600 edge filer for solid-state drives highlights a refresh across Nasuni's cloud hardware gateways. NF appliances are now standardized on Dell PowerEdge servers.

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Violin Memory's latest quarter to forget

  With time and money running out, Violin Memory next week will take another shot at launching a successful all-flash array. It might be its last shot – Violin  doesn’t have enough money to last ...

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  NetApp E-Series 2800 storage tackles big data

  Customers can order E-Series 2800 arrays as hybrid storage or now as NetApp all-flash storage. SANtricity OS upgrade includes tool to define logical data lakes on NetApp arrays.

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Diablo flash DIMM partnership woos server makers

  Diablo Technologies and American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) partnered on memory channel flash storage servers for more than a year. The first fruits of the collaboration bloomed this week when AMI ...

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Dell EMC now 'open for business'

  Dell's $60 billion-plus acquisition creates a new storage behemoth, called Dell EMC, but it will take a while to address all lingering concerns about the new company.

• September 06, 2016 06 Sep'16

  Vendors target storage for containers with DevOps in mind

  Enterprises have new tools to manage storage for Docker containers in production. Legacy vendors and startups are adding techniques for data protection, mobility and persistent storage.

• September 06, 2016 06 Sep'16

  Storage operational analytics tools add value

  New features and functionality are constantly being added to storage systems. As operations have come to depend on functions such as remote replication and snapshots embedded in the storage ...

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Datrium storage update boosts server flash cache capacity

  Datrium this week released a software update that enables a doubling of the per-server capacity of the flash cache used with its DVX storage system for VMware virtual machines. Datrium’s ...

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Plexistor nonvolatile storage software gets wrapped in hardware

  Plexistor unveils Persistent Memory over Fabric hardware bundles. The startup's storage-defined memory platform presents DRAM and nonvolatile storage in a single namespace.

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  EMC expects to pass Nutanix as HCI leader by mid-2017

  “We consider Nutanix No. 1 today," EMC's Jeremy Burton said. "Our goal is to get to No. 1 by the end of the year. We think it’s doable, although it would be a stretch. If it’s not by the end of ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Catalogic copy data management tool gets Pure

  Copy data management specialist Catalogic Software has added two all-flash arrays to its roster of supported platforms. In separate moves, the Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based software maker rolled ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Dell-EMC deal closes Sept. 7

  LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Dell and EMC made it official today. Dell will close its $67 billion acquisition of the largest storage vendor Sept. 7, following the transaction’s official approval today by ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  NexentaStor, Primary Data, NooBaa roll out software-defined technology

  Nexenta brings out NexentaStor 5 and NexentaFusion 1, while Primary Data and NooBaa add software-defined virtualization and Maxta delivers free HCI software at VMworld 2016.

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Rackspace cloud gets acquired, set to go private

  An equity firm will acquire Rackspace so the cloud vendor can go private and transition away from competing with the likes of Amazon Web Services and partner with them instead. The $32 per share ...

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Hitachi UCP HC adds all-flash model, VSP beefs up VVOLs support

  The Hitachi UCP HC V240F is an all-flash version of a hybrid hyper-converged system launched in June; both versions start with three nodes and scale a node at a time.

• August 28, 2016 28 Aug'16

  Nutanix expands, pockets PernixData, Calm.io

  Nutanix, the hyper-converged vendor that may go public within weeks, is expanding its technology base through two software acquisitions. Nutanix Monday will officially disclose acquisitions of ...

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  CBM Archives puts crime data on Zadara on-premises storage

  CBM Archives ditched its traditional SAN and moved critical crime data into the Zadara on-premises cloud. The company experienced faster performance and reduced capital costs.

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Flash array vendors dangle customized warranties, controller upgrades

  Free flash controller upgrades with array warranty and maintenance agreements are common as field data shows flash is lasting longer than expected compared to the controllers.

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Pure Storage: We do flash better than those geezers

  When it comes to all-flash storage, Pure Storage claims experience is no match for youth. Pure, born in 2011 as a flash-only vendor, is far outgrowing the storage establishment, a collection of ...

• August 25, 2016 25 Aug'16

  EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, developer platform get updates

  EMC releases a new version of its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and discloses a September GA date for its Native Hybrid Cloud, which adds a new VCE VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure option.

• August 25, 2016 25 Aug'16

  Exablox OneBlox goes all-flash with object storage for virtual loads

  Exablox OneBlox delivers all-flash storage to boost performance in VMware and Hyper-V environments. The newest system helps the vendor expand its reach into primary storage.

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  Caringo Swarm gets new software-based NFS protocol converter

  Caringo released a new SwarmNFS protocol converter that directly integrates with its scale-out object storage and aims to eliminate the need for separate file gateway hardware.

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  Nimble says customers quick to embrace all-flash

  Nimble Storage, which was relatively late selling all-flash arrays, is trying to make up for lost time since launching its Predictive Flash platform in February. The vendor received a jolt from ...

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  IBM flash storage expands with midrange all-flash products

  IBM's all-flash portfolio grows, with a new midrange and entry-level option, and the vendor adds a migration program aimed at EMC-Dell customers.

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  EMC: Commercial drone storage market primed for takeoff

  Commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, is just starting to emerge. Drone storage, on the other hand, isn’t getting as much attention. EMC wants to gain a toehold in the ...

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  NetApp sells more flash, spends less

  NetApp made great progress last quarter with its sales of all-flash storage, Clustered Data OnTap (CDOT) and cost-cutting measures. NetApp Wednesday reported better revenue and income results than ...

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Quobyte updates "Google-like" storage software

  The “Google-like” software storage system that Berlin-based Quobyte introduced last year is getting an update. With its new Quobyte 1.3 release, the German startup added space-saving erasure coding ...

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Nutanix lines up partners to sell on Cisco UCS

  Nutanix, which has OEM deals with server vendors Dell and Lenovo, is now selling its software on Cisco UCS servers through channel partners. Nutanix today revealed it has independently validated ...

• August 17, 2016 17 Aug'16

  Coho Data QoS lets multi-tenant storage neighbors peacefully coexist

  Coho Data's new version of its DataStream multi-tenant storage nodes natively integrate Hadoop Distributed File System to existing block, container and file storage.

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  VCE Vblocks help healthcare provider fix data center footprint issues

  When Molina Healthcare installed all-flash converged infrastructure, it was able to reclaim precious floor space in the data center while satisfying its most sensitive apps.

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  Rubrik grabs $61 million, aims for cloud

  Converged data protection startup Rubrik turned to the cloud with a software release that allows customers to use Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as Rubrik's appliances to store data. Rubrik ...

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  HPE StoreVirtual entry-level arrays get makeover, price cut

  HPE StoreVirtual and MSA entry-level storage have new flash and hybrid models with lower prices as the vendor tries to expand its footprint outside of its enterprise 3PAR storage.

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Solid-state drives bulk up for capacity

  SANTA CLARA, California -- Solid-state drives have been much faster than hard disk drives from the start, and now they’re dwarfing HDDs in capacity too. At Flash Memory Summit this week, Seagate ...

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Cloudian and AWS team up for on-premise cloud storage

  Cloudian and Amazon Web Services are now offering a new service that allows customers to use Cloudian HyperStore Hybrid Storage offering that stores data locally but leverages the S3 object ...

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Hubstor Microsoft public cloud archive goes cool, deep

  Hubstor is fine-tuning the Microsoft Azure-based cloud archive platform it launched in July. The Ontario, Canada, startup introduced CoolSearch, which it bills as searchable Microsoft ...

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Panzura enables greater expansion of global file system controllers

  Panzura unveiled a new line of cloud storage controllers with global file system and high-performance data cache to help users collaborate across locations.

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  SCSI trade group claims new SAS has pluses over NVMe/PCIe

  NVMe and PCIe solid-state drives (SSDs) may be a hot topic at this week’s Flash Memory Summit, but the SCSI Trade Association is trying to remind everyone that new serial-attached SCSI (SAS) ...

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Facebook storage wish list calls for faster flash innovation

  Facebook's strategy for flash storage technology revolves around disaggregation, tiers and innovating in emerging tech, such as NVMe, QLC and 3D XPoint.

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Nimble SAN all-flash line gains building block, CS Series gets refresh

  Nimble Storage adds the AF1000 entry-level model to the Predictive Flash all-flash platform, coupled with a product refresh of its CS-Series Nimble SAN hybrid arrays.

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  Nimbus Data sticks its big nodes back into AFA market with ExaFlash

  Nimbus Data is ready to take on the all-flash big boys again with ExaFlash, a petabyte-scale architecture that breaks the $1 per gig barrier for raw SSD capacity.

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  HCI vendor Pivot3 reports more customers using more apps

  Pivot3 more than doubled its revenue in the first half of 2016 over 2015, which its CEO attributes to customers buying its hyper-converged appliances as a platform rather than for single ...

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  NVMe over Fabrics gathers steam for flash and post-flash devices

  Industry players are demonstrating the new NVM Express over Fabrics network interconnect technology, but it's hard to say when it will gain widespread adoption.

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array

  E8 Storage comes out of stealth promising to improve performance of direct-attached solid-state drives with new all-flash appliance.

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Caltech LIGO project uses Nexsan storage to prove Einstein right

  LIGO project observatories used Nexsan's high-density storage for up to 1.7 million files of raw data, collected from lasers that helped prove Einstein's theory of relativity.

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Pokémon Go's lessons for storage pros

  The Pokémon Go craze – mainly its augmented reality capability and server crashes – contains lessons for storage administrators. Pokémon Go demonstrates how next-generation applications can drive ...

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  EMC container plugin supports any block storage

  EMC has contributed an open source Apache Mesos container volume driver that supports any network-attached block storage system equipped with a Docker plugin, including storage of EMC competitors. ...

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Ctera builds new data migration, ILM and security capabilities into its platform

  Ctera Networks recently unveiled new enhancements to its Enterprise File Service Platform that include the ability to migrate data from an on-premise cloud to the public cloud without disrupting ...

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Diablo DMX software adds features to Memory1 memory channel storage

  Diablo Memory Expansion software adds predictive cache, prefetching and tiering to 128 GB Memory1 flash DIMMs. This gives 2 TB of persistent memory in a two-socket server.

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Portworx champions container management with Docker storage

  Portworx PX-Enterprise containers share elastic block storage with attached Docker instances. The converged storage fabric runs on each physical Linux host in a cluster.

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Seagate, WD see exabyte growth with high-capacity enterprise HDDs

  Unit shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) may be on the decline, but the exabytes that Seagate Technology and Western Digital are shipping with their high-capacity enterprise HDDs is spiking. ...

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  FalconStor's dating, seeking technology match

  There is a trend in storage for smaller vendors to band together to try and grow through mergers, for far different reasons than Dell and EMC are coming together. These mergers of small companies ...

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Quantum results indicate 'stable' backup market

  It’s no secret that storage sales have been hard to come by over the last year or two. Most of the large vendors experience product revenue decreases or small increases quarter after quarter. But ...

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Spectra Logic bolsters BlackPearl storage archive for Amazon cloud

  Backup tape specialist Spectra Logic has upgraded the operating software for its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway appliance, allowing petabyte-scale enterprises to build a storage archive using ...