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April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

Gridstore to CEO: Great job, now get lost

Gridstore apparently grew so fast under CEO George Symons that its board decided to change CEOs to keep up with the rapid growth. Gridstore founder and CTO Kelly Murphy has moved back into the CEO ...

April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

EMC sales decline, says Dell deal on track

EMC’s storage sales declined more than expected last quarter as the vendor waits to become part of Dell. EMC executives offered several reasons for the drop in sales, but not the most obvious one. ...

April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

Microsoft Azure adds Talon's CloudFAST to marketplace

Microsoft Azure is throwing its weight behind startup Talon Storage, offering Talon’s CloudFAST file sharing and acceleration software available from the Azure Marketplace. CloudFAST for Azure ...

April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

Everspin Technologies touts 256 Mb ST-MRAM storage

Memory channel storage vendor Everspin sells ST-MRAM devices with byte-addressable memory channel storage designed as a write cache with predictable latency.

April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

HGST Active Archive System available at lower capacity

HGST makes its object-storage archive system available with lower capacity points for organizations that don't need to start with multi-petabyte installations.

April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

SanDisk InfiniFlash gets speed bump

SanDisk's InfiniFlash System IF150 replaces the IF100 base hardware building block. The company also released its IF550 upgrade for OpenStack and Ceph storage.

April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

Zadara Storage ZIOS seeds its cloud storage with objects

Zadara Storage's Virtual Private Storage Arrays that run in the cloud now support object storage and large flash cache for performance with the launch of Intelligent Object Store.

April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

Newcomer Datera aims for the cloud with storage fabric

Datera's Elastic Data Fabric is designed for small cloud providers that want to compete with Amazon Web Services and enterprises looking to build private clouds.

April 13, 2016 13 Apr'16

FalconStor FreeStor gets juiced up with analytics

The FreeStor Analytics upgrade integrates code licensed from Cumulus Logic to aid in capacity planning, service-level management and storage health monitoring.

April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

Cohesity adds cloud to its converged data protection

Cohesity, which bills itself as convergence for secondary data, is adding public cloud support to its data protection platform. Cohesity’s converged data protection strategy combines data ...

April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

Micron unveils NVMe SSD, all-flash reference architectures

Micron Accelerated Solutions includes recommended all-flash hardware configurations for VMware VSAN and Ceph storage in its most recent server-side storage launch.

April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

Cloudian object storage software bumps up data durability

Cloudian adds stronger data durability and resiliency capabilities to its HyperStore object software. The management software now includes an object GPS.

April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

IBM Research builds 'cognitive' system to cut big data storage costs

IBM researchers are developing a cognitive storage system designed to automatically differentiate high- and low-value data and determine what information to keep, where to store it and how long to ...

April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

New York Life uses storage analytics for upgrades, product evals

New York Life Insurance finds Load DynamiX storage monitoring and analytics to be a big help for evaluating new technologies and upgrading current products.

April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

Drobo launches mobile file sharing for unstructured data

Drobo this week unveiled DroboAccess to enable mobile file sharing on its NAS boxes. DroboAccess lets customers access and share files stored on Drobo NAS from any device or location. The ...

April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

Veeam sets out to orchestrate DR

Veeam Software moved further beyond pure virtual machine backup this week by unveiling Veeam Availability Orchestrator, a multi-node hypervisor orchestration engine for disaster recovery. The Veeam ...

April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

Dell’Oro: FC back on top in networked storage ports in 2015

Fibre Channel (FC) took back the port count lead over Ethernet in external storage systems in 2015, after Ethernet had gone ahead in 2014, according to Dell'Oro Group's latest numbers. Chris DePuy, ...

April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

Good pay, bennies and perks boost data storage jobs

Salaries for data storage jobs remain high with new techs and new responsibilities in evolving data centers.

April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

Storage pros see high demand in 2016 salary survey

Storage magazine has tracked storage salaries for 13 years, polling readers to gather data about pay, benefits and other influences on job satisfaction. Our 2016 salary survey shows demand for storage savvy IT pros is still high as reflected ...

April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

Intel NVMe SSD launch targets growing cloud storage

Intel's PCIe-attached NVMe drive families include one for server-side enterprise apps and another to replace SATA SSDs in cloud environments.

April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

Dell keeps hyper-converged options open

Still months away from closing its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, Dell today said it would immediately start reselling several EMC federation converged products and updated others it already ...

April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

Propane provider gives SAN the gas with Violin flash array

Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management.

March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

Red Hat Ceph optimized for SanDisk InfiniFlash storage

Red Hat Ceph Storage software is now officially tested, optimized and certified to run on SanDisk’s InfiniFlash storage system thanks to a strategic partnership between the two vendors. The ...

March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

EMC adds weight to ScaleIO

Private and hybrid cloud storage is a big piece of EMC’s strategy, and this week the vendor upgraded one of the key building blocks for that strategy with the release of ScaleIO 2.0. ScaleIO is ...

March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

HPE launches NVDIMM, NVMe Persistent Memory products

Gen9 ProLiant storage servers are the focus of HPE's Persistent Memory product launch, including an 8 GB NVDIMM module and a family of PCIe NVMe flash drives.

March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

Rancher launches Docker management with storage services

Nearly 2,500 customers participated in Rancher Labs' beta for its container management software that is now generally available. The application includes storage services.

March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

NetApp prepares SANtricity for Splunk

NetApp today rolled out an upgraded version of its SANtricity software for its E and EF Series of high performance arrays, with the focus on making Splunk and other data analytics applications run ...

March 28, 2016 28 Mar'16

IDC: Backup appliance revenue grew for 2015

Factory revenue for backup appliances soared to $1.05 billion in the fourth quarter and $3.35 billion for 2015 – up 2.5% over 2014 – according to statistics released last week by International ...

March 25, 2016 25 Mar'16

Zadara Storage scalable cloud aids online learning provider

With a growing environment, learning management system host Moonami integrated Zadara VPSA for scalable cloud storage with Zadara Backup to Amazon Simple Storage Service.

March 25, 2016 25 Mar'16

Startup Reduxio helps research company reduce data

La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology gives startup Reduxio a shot at managing research data, with features in the array such as BackDating and NoDup.

March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

Commvault adds big data and cloud support to its data platform

Commvault Systems Inc. this month rolled out the latest version of its backup and data management portfolio to add support for Hadoop, Greenplum and IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS). It ...

March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

Nexsan storage at the center of Imation's strategy

Imation completed a major restructuring that focuses the company on the Nexsan storage portfolio in addition to sync-and-share technology acquired last year from Connected Data.

March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

Violin Memory fuses with Stream, creates FlashSync

Violin Memory is trying to push its all-flash arrays into the financial services market through a partnership with U.K. software vendor Stream Financial. The vendors have combined to launch what ...

March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

Flash-only arrays replacing hybrids for primary storage

With a bevy of all-flash arrays coming out in early 2016, flash is becoming the only game in town for primary storage. Hard disk drives are being relegated to cold storage.

March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

DDN GridScaler NAS system gets flash-based makeover

DataDirect Networks (DDN) designs a denser GridScaler GS14K scale-out NAS with PCIe Gen 3 internal networking, embedded processing and ample memory for all-flash configurations.

March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

Worldwide storage revenue down in Q4, barely up for 2015

Despite slipping in the fourth quarter, overall worldwide storage revenue increased 2.2% in 2015. External (networked) storage declined 2.3% for the year, according to International Data ...

March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

Samsung's 15 TB SSD sets new flash record

The Samsung 15.36 TB SSD packs 32 NAND flash packages in 2.5-inch form factor. The vendor claims enterprises can double the number of PM1633A drives in 2U data center rack.

March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

Pivot3 closes funding round to develop ‘new toys’

Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 closed a $55 million funding round this week to support expansion following a merger with flash array vendor NexGen Storage. Pivot3 CEO Ron Nash said the bulk of the ...

March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

SIOS iQ learns new VMware storage analysis tricks

SIOS upgraded its analytics software which now offers an enhanced capacity planning tool and root cause analysis capability that are viewed via a simple graphical interface.

March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

SanDisk storage VP: High-capacity flash drives down prices

As it finalizes a merger with Western Digital, SanDisk Corp. focuses on innovations for high-capacity flash storage in enterprises.

March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most

Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ...

March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

HPE turns 3PAR array from all-flash to hybrid

For years we’ve seen storage vendors take systems designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and add solid-state drives (SSDs) to them. Now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking hardware that ran all SSDs ...

March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

Pure FlashBlade tackles scale-out unstructured data

Pure Storage launches a blade-based, scale-out unstructured data all-flash system that handles NAS and object storage. The vendor also brings out an entry-level version of its SAN flash array.

March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

IBM ships new Storwize V5000, rolls out software package for Apache Spark

IBM recently rolled out a pair of new storage offerings: the “Gen 2” Storwize V5000 hybrid system, with upgraded Spectrum Virtualize software, and a “Platform Conductor” for Apache Spark data ...

March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4

Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ...

March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

Seagate demos fast, dense PCIe SSDs that support OCP specs, NVMe

Seagate is demonstrating a new PCI Express (PCIe) flash drive this week at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit that it claims meets OCP specifications and delivers throughput of 10 gigabytes per ...

March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

Riverbed adds AWS and Azure support to its SteelFusion

Riverbed Technology this week announced its hyper-converged SteelFusion solution now supports both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure so customers can leverage the cloud as a secondary storage ...

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

SSD reliability, performance aid flash storage adoption

Solid-state storage is most often viewed in terms of performance, but concerns about SSD reliability may be unwarranted.

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

Nimble’s all-flash investment causes pain before gain

Even as it waits for its new all-flash array (AFA) to hit the market, Nimble Storage did better than expected last quarter. However, its forecast for this quarter was below expectations, with the ...

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

Cloud appliances hold appeal, but don't ditch NAS yet

Cloud appliances have nudged their way into the marketplace, leading shops into discussions about the role of traditional NAS arrays.

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

Data storage vendors offer speed, skimp on reliability

Survey data tells us that data storage vendors promise capacity and performance in their storage systems, but reliability remains an issue.

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

The state of the software-defined storage market

The software-defined storage market is getting a lot of attention these days, piquing the interest of budget-challenged storage managers. But the lure of software running on the cheap may be misleading if you're not ready for some DIY or to ...

March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

HPE's Whitman grows hyper for hyper-converged

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is planning to go after Nutanix and other hyper-converged vendors with an appliance based on its ProLiant server line. HPE CEO Meg Whitman revealed the vendor’s ...

March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

Brocade VP: Flash spurs coordinated Gen 6 Fibre Channel launch

Brocade, QLogic and Broadcom coordinated this week’s shipments of the first switches and adapters to support Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. We caught up with Jack Rondoni, vice ...

March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

Pure Storage accelerates flash revenue

Pure Storage is looking at more competition and more opportunity than ever, and handling both well. The all-flash vendor bucked industry trends by growing revenue significantly last quarter despite ...

March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

IBM Spectrum Scale, Tegile IntelliFlash use SanDisk flash

IBM Spectrum Scale Solution and Tegile's IntelliFlash HD provide software-defined software to go with SanDisk InfiniFlash hardware.

March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

Gen 6 Brocade SAN switch, QLogic and Broadcom HBAs ship

A new G620 Brocade switch and 32 Gbps host bus adapters from QLogic and Broadcom Emulex signal general availability of Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking gear.

February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

EMC launches VMAX All Flash, DSSD D5 shared flash storage

As part of its all-flash primary storage strategy, EMC brings out an all-SSD version of its VMAX enterprise array and its first DSSD shared storage appliance.

February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

CTO: IBM flash storage, Spectrum Storage are key in 2016

IBM CTO Andy Walls says his company's strategy to compete in a disrupted storage world centers on Spectrum software-defined storage, flash and storage virtualization.

February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

IBM prepares Cleversafe object storage for cloud

IBM's Cleversafe object storage, OpenStack and Amazon S3 will make up three separate cloud services that will support cold storage and high-performance applications.

February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud

Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ...

February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

Red Hat Gluster Storage available on Google Compute Engine

Red Hat made available its Gluster Storage distributed file system for users of Google Compute Engine, an additional major cloud option, along with Amazon and Microsoft Azure.

February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

QLogic Ethernet adapters target 25/100 GbE, focus on flash

QLogic unveils the FastLinQ 45000 line of Ethernet controllers and adapters providing 25/100 GbE of bandwidth, which could help IT reach faster networking for storage -- especially flash.

February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

Nimble all-flash AF Series arrays hit the market

Nimble's all-flash AF Series arrays use Samsung 3D NAND SSDs, and can be combined with Nimble Adaptive Flash hybrid arrays in a Unified Flash Fabric.

February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

Michael Dell: 'Ignore click-baiting cratering media'

Michael Dell and other Dell executives have told employees the $67 billion acquisition of EMC will go through despite reports that his group is having trouble securing financing for the deal. Dell ...

February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

NetApp revenue slips keep showing

NetApp’s latest earnings report shows the vendor is still in a hole with a lot of digging to do before it returns to revenue growth. NetApp reported another quarter of declining revenue Wednesday ...

February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

FalconStor CEO: We’re normal again

With 2015 in the rear-view mirror, FalconStor CEO Gary Quinn says the storage software vendor has completed its transition phase and is ready to reverse its years-long streak of losing money. “We ...

February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

Caringo Swarm upgraded with search engine for data analysis

Caringo Swarm now has a built-in search engine for cloud object storage data analysis. Caringo also added file-level protocols and a new management portal to the software.

February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

Enterprise storage market poised for change in 2016

Experts forecast disruption in enterprise storage in 2016, including a further shakeout among vendors, slow decline of traditional arrays and fade-out of high-speed disks.

February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

Check out the best data storage products of 2015

The fourteenth edition of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage Product of the Year awards recognizes the innovation, performance and functionality of 18 the best data storage products. And, as we've often seen, these outstanding data storage ...

February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

Scale-out NAS design now rivals object storage

Jeff Kato takes a closer look at ideal scale-out NAS design principles and vendors that are emerging with modern scale-out NAS designs.

February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

Flash technologies remain hot in 2016, experts predict

Experts predict solid-state technology will remain hot in 2016, leading to the demise of high-speed hard disk drives, as all-flash arrays outsell disk-only systems.

February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

Veritas Enterprise Vault updated after Symantec sell off

Veritas Technologies updated Enterprise Vault and Data Insight with enhanced classification, review and workflow capabilities and beefed-up Box support.

February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

Vendors, analysts guess future of data storage in 2016

After Rich Castagna offered his look at the future of data storage in 2016, vendors and analysts shared their guesses on what will happen this year.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Hedvig Inc. Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform

Hedvig Inc. Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform runs on off-the-shelf x86 and ARM servers, and supports in-software provisioning of block, file and object storage.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

DataCore SANsymphony-V Adaptive Parallel I/O software

DataCore SANsymphony-V Adaptive Parallel I/O software can process storage requests faster and accelerate an application’s ability to read and write to storage.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Zadara Storage Inc. VPSA OPaaS 15.07

Zadara Storage's Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) offers on-demand, enterprise-grade block and file storage, based on OpenStack technology.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Dell Foglight for Storage Management 4.0

Dell Foglight for Storage Management 4.0 expanded its support and capacity planning capabilities for a more complete product that extends its reach in the market in 2015.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.6

Judges found the 2015 upgrade to Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX file management software brought significant improvements including extended integration and added features.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

ProphetStor Data Services, Inc. Federator SDS 3.0

ProphetStor Federator SDS 3.0 software abstracts storage capacity from heterogeneous hardware to provide data migration, automation and analytics features.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Reduxio Systems Reduxio HX550

Reduxio hybrid HX550 supports instant recovery to any point-in-time snapshots.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Qumulo Inc. Qumulo Core

The Qumulo Core Scalable File System uses a "flash-first" hybrid design to provide real-time data analytics.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. 3PAR StoreServ 8440 Storage

HPE StoreServ 8440 arrays scale to 3 PB of raw storage with a combination of solid-state drives and hard disk, with support for block and file protocols.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Tintri VMstore T5000

Like all of its VM-aware storage systems, Tintri’s first all-flash array -- the Tintri VMstore T5000 -- allows admins to bypass LUNs and NAS mount points when provisioning storage.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

SolidFire SF9605

The high-capacity SolidFire SF9605 uses SolidFire’s Element OS 8 (Oxygen) to deliver new enterprise features such as synchronous replication and snapshot automation.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20850

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20850 holds 1,024 solid-state drives (SSDs). Hewlett Packard Enterprise claims it can deliver more than three million IOPS with sub-millisecond latency.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Bringing focus to the software-defined storage market

Jon Toigo shares two reasons why you should not lose faith despite all the hype surrounding the software-defined storage market.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Entry-level HPE MSA storage array goes hybrid

HPE's new entry-level MSA 1040 supports flash and comes with read cache performance and tiering. HPE also launched a new StoreEasy NAS model.

February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

Best data storage products 2015: Products of the Year

A cross-section of users, industry experts, and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors picked these 18 products as the best of 2015.

February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

Tegile CEO talks IntelliFlash AFA, industry trends

Tegile CEO Rohit Kshetrapal discusses how all-flash arrays are changing the conversation with storage buyers, and how that will continue as new flash technologies emerge.

February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

Server-side caching gives flash Storage a boost

A lot of attention these days is paid to flash in enterprise storage arrays. Technologies such as NVM Express (NVMe) flash and caching software continues to drive speed advances. NVMe flash drives are an alternative to SATA-based solid-state drives ...

February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

SAN storage area network