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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 ...
July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16
SolidFire CTO dishes on NetApp all-flash array strategy

NetApp vet and SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici says NetApp will apply lessons learned from its Spinnaker Networks 'fiasco' while integrating its new all-flash platform.
July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16
New high-density IBM DeepFlash 150 targets big data

New IBM flash storage product is a high-density JBOF system designed to work with Spectrum Scale software-defined storage to target big data.
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July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16
Commvault rallies ‘round the cloud

Commvault increased its year-over-year revenues for the third straight quarter, with a big assist from the cloud. Like all storage vendors, Commvault is looking for a way to work with public cloud ...
July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16
Broadcom samples HBAs that support FC-NVMe to OEMs

The pieces are starting to fall into place for even higher performing flash storage with lower latency through the use of Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel (FC). Broadcom (part ...
July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16
RDMA over Fabrics: a big step for SSD access

Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in ...
July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16
HubStor debuts cloud archive for Microsoft Azure file storage

HubStor creates a dedicated cloud archive tenant in Microsoft’s public cloud. HubStor Connector Service performs enterprise-grade analytics, data governance and indexed search.
July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16
Veeam Software still outpacing data protection market

Veeam Software continued impressive growth last quarter, increasing bookings revenue 38% over last year in a market that is barely growing one percent. Veeam Software remains a private company, but ...
July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16
Seagate brings back Barracuda with new 10TB hard disk drives

Seagate resurrected the BarraCuda brand name with its latest lineup of 10 TB hard disk drives. The high-capacity drives, unofficially called the Guardian series, include the BarraCuda computer hard ...
July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16
EMC shareholders OK Dell deal

In a near unanimous vote, EMC shareholders today voted to approve the storage giant’s $67 billion merger with Dell. The shareholder vote was considered one of two remaining obstacles to the deal, ...
July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16
New Brocade director supports Gen 6 Fibre Channel

Brocade ships new 32 Gbps Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors and extension blades targeting faster flash storage systems, and it adds new IO and VM Insight monitoring capabilities.
July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16
Cisco Metapod cloud integrates SwiftStack software

Cisco and OpenStack-based object storage vendor SwiftStack have teamed on a highly dense, turnkey object storage appliance. It marks Cisco’s first foray into object storage software and gives ...
July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16
Syncplicity adds Office 365 support, Egnyte launches data governance solution

Enterprise file sharing vendor Syncplicity recently announced its software is now integrated with Microsoft Office 365, while competitor Egnyte rolled out its Egnyte Protect governance solution. ...
July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16
Diablo Technologies scores another court win over Netlist

Diablo Technologies chalked up another legal victory over Netlist this week, although Netlist’s separate patent infringement lawsuit remains unresolved. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
IDrive Vault hurdles into data protection market

IDrive has opened its vault to offer a new hybrid backup appliance, touting the product as feature-rich but affordable data protection. The IDrive Vault, available now, provides 4 TB of local ...
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
StorageOS gives your Docker volume persistent container storage

Startup StorageOS launches software-defined storage for containers. Development teams choose a targeted Docker volume in a container and provision storage and data services.
July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16
Rubrik, Pure Storage converge for performance

Rubrik, a startup selling convergence for data management, is trying to piggy-back on the success of all-flash arrays through a partnership with Pure Storage. Rubrik’s early focus is on data ...
July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16
Backblaze B2 takes on Amazon, Google and Azure

Cloud provider Backblaze has gone GA with B2 Cloud Storage, a cloud service that is trying to compete with heavy hitters such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft Azure at a cheaper cost. The Backblaze ...
July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16
Nimble SAN treats health clinic's DR condition

Kansas health clinic installs Nimble SAN with Predictive Flash, Adaptive Flash arrays to boost performance of transactional databases, VMware storage and disaster recovery.
July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16
Komprise unveils data management platform

Komprise's data management platform appears as an NFS or SMB client. It crawls storage and points inactive file storage at object-based storage.
July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16
Storage purchase intentions rise with new techs in sight

Our annual storage purchasing survey finds that storage managers will have a bigger data storage budget to spend this year.
July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16
Golf association says it saves green with XtremIO flash array

Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) moves tier 1 applications to EMC XtremIO flash-only array as key part of three-phase IT transformation project.
July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16
EMC to Nexsan: We said 'Unity' first

In the latest shot fired in the David-and-Goliath dispute between Nexsan Technologies and EMC over the Unity trademark, EMC claimed it began using the Unity brand name in 2014. The first scheduled ...
June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16
Red Hat Storage VP sees different uses for Ceph, Gluster

Red Hat Storage showed off updates to its Ceph and Gluster software and laid out its strategy for working with containers at this week’s Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. We caught up with Ranga ...
June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16
Turnaround specialist Walsh takes over IBM storage

IBM is bringing in industry veteran Ed Walsh to try to light a fire under its struggling storage division. Walsh will take over as general manager of IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure ...
June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16
Webscale Networks airs out multi-cloud DR

Webscale Networks is well aware that its e-commerce customers can't tolerate much downtime. To that end, the website infrastructure provider recently expanded capabilities to build a multi-cloud ...
June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16
Veeam changes CEO; founder steps aside

Veeam Software, which went from a niche virtual machine backup software vendor to an industry leader in less than a decade, changed its top leadership team Tuesday. The changes come as Veeam ...
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Zerto disaster recovery products get boost with $20M investment

With a new round of $20 million in funding, business continuity/disaster recovery software vendor Zerto plans to double its engineering force by the end of the year to accelerate product releases. ...
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
EMC pitches isolated data recovery to thwart cyber attacks

Who’s protecting the data in your data protection storage? That’s a question EMC wants you to think about as the scope of security threat increase. EMC recommends – and has customers using – an ...
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Red Hat Ceph receives object and management enhancements

Red Hat showed off a major new Ceph storage release and a Gluster update more tightly integrated to work with application containers to launch its annual summit.
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Archive360 migrates archived email into Azure cloud

Archive2Azure lets organizations move email archives to Microsoft Azure cloud storage. The product ensures chain of custody and data fidelity in e-discovery.
June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16
Nasuni customers hit with cloud outage

Cloud provider Nasuni Corp. experienced two cloud disruptions recently that affected about 20 percent of its customers and about 10 percent of workloads, according to company spokesperson Fred ...
June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16
HPE, Western Digital launch VMware VSAN-based flash node

Western Digital is bringing out flash storage products based on SanDisk technology. It partnered with HPE and VMware on a VSAN-based node, adding Flash Virtualization System.
June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16
Datera CEO: SAN array can't scale for today's data center

Startup Datera enlists the former Pure vice president to spur the growth of its Amazon Elastic Block Storage-like system geared for use with OpenStack, containers and DevOps.
June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16
Dell extends Nutanix hyper-converged OEM deal

LAS VEGAS -- Dell answered one question about its post-EMC merger product lineup Wednesday at the Nutanix .NEXT conference. Alan Atkinson, Dell vice president of storage, appeared on stage ...
June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16
DDN enlarges capacity of ExaScaler Lustre file system array

Data Direct Networks' ExaScaler array embeds the Lustre file system software within its controller. The flagship ES14K array scales to petabytes of capacity in two racks.
June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16
Tegile, Pure take steps to make flash upgrades easier

Tegile Systems and Pure Storage are pushing more cost-effective flash upgrade programs that are customized for the IT utility model for all-flash arrays.
June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16
EMC, Veritas lead in worldwide PBBA revenues

Unlike overall disk storage, purpose-built backup appliances' total worldwide factory revenue increased in the first quarter of 2016, according to International data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide ...
June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16
CMA speeds Oracle clusters with EMC DSSD D5 all-flash system

CMA Consulting customers running thousands of queries a day on its Oracle RAC will now get a performance boost from EMC's recently added DSSD rack-scale flash system.
June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16
Reduxio CEO asserts all-flash will not rule primary storage

Hybrid storage startup's CEO says all-flash or 'all-anything' will not rule primary storage; he foresees a mix of technologies with different classes of service.
June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16
Storage Spaces Direct builds on Windows Storage Spaces

With the new Direct feature, Windows Storage Spaces can use local storage for failover clusters. It also supports JBOD storage.
June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16
Cavium pays $1 billion for QLogic, storage

After months of shopping itself, storage networking vendor QLogic has a buyer. Networking semiconductor vendor Wednesday said it will pay $1 billion for the FC and Ethernet adapter company in a ...
June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16
IDC: NetApp jumps to No. 2 in Q1 all-flash

EMC remained No. 1 and NetApp jumped to No. 2 in all-flash array (AFA) revenue for the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s new market share statistics. EMC had $245.6 million in revenue and ...
June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16
HDS storage 'freezing' really a focus on future

There has been some noise in the storage space lately, based on the English translation of a Japanese IT website that said Hitachi Data Systems was "freezing" investment in its high-end storage ...
June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16
Formation Data Systems can help recapture unused storage

Startup Formation Data releases new feature for FormationOne software-defined storage to enable users to recapture unused storage capacity in their VMware environments.
June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16
Iguaz.io promises AWS-like storage in the data center

Newcomer iguaz.io is the latest software startup that will try and deliver the Holy Grail of storage -- the ability to provision and manage on-premise capacity the same way as in Amazon Web ...
June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16
Data Dynamics StorageX adds data protection module

Data Dynamics has released the latest version of its StorageX platform with a data protection module and DR capabilities that bring the software beyond file management.
June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16
Servers and storage become inextricably linked

The rise of flash storage and convergence technologies makes it tougher to see storage and servers as separate entities in a software-defined world.
June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16
IDC: Q1 HPE storage sales soared, rivals tanked

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) bucked the trend of storage revenue declines in the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s quarter enterprise storage systems tracker. HPE was the only member of ...
June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16
Qumulo pockets $32.5M to fund data-aware storage

Qumulo, the scale-out data-aware NAS startup founded by Isilon veterans, today added $32.5 million in funding to expand its sales operation. Qumulo’s C funding round brings its total funding to ...
June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16
IBM Spectrum Storage platform adds analytics software

The new Spectrum Computing platform highlights IBM's strategy to bring together compute and storage management for file and object scale-out environments.
June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16
SolidFire Element X adds software-only pricing model

In its first product launch since becoming part of NetApp, SolidFire adds a new all-flash appliance, upgrades its Element OS and adds a software-only pricing model around Element X.
June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16
Kaminario storage hopes rest on beating legacy vendors

Kaminario was among the all-flash pioneers, and now it finds itself battling against storage giants who have pushed aggressively into selling arrays without hard disk drives.
May 31, 2016 31 May'16
Analyst: 3D NAND technology could stick around for 20 years

3D NAND flash will probably stick around for 20 years, despite continued higher cost-per-GB of NAND flash vs. hard disk drives, says semiconductor analyst Jim Handy.
May 27, 2016 27 May'16
Pure Storage's impressive sales growth diluted by losses

Pure Storage is finding that it’s expensive to grow sales in the all-flash storage market these days. While Pure increased revenue last quarter by 89% year-over-year, it was unable to reduce its ...
May 27, 2016 27 May'16
Data storage technology trends debated in inaugural Tweet Chat

Data storage industry professionals discussed the appeal of technologies such as all-flash arrays, hyper-convergence and cloud storage during the first SearchStorage Tweet Chat.
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
Symbolic IO's IRIS makes eyes at in-memory storage

Symbolic IO emerges from stealth, with a claim that its IRIS product can shrink memory-based storage, rehydrate it quickly in RAM and preserve it intact.
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud

With the worst part of its Clustered Data Ontap (CDOT) challenges behind it, NetApp is bringing out the next version of its Ontap storage operating system. Ontap 9 will focus on flash, coming as ...
May 25, 2016 25 May'16
Violin Memory's struggles continue

Violin Memory had little to show for its turnaround efforts last quarter. The all-flash vendor’s revenue declined and it continue to lose money, prompting the CEO to tell investors he feels their ...
May 25, 2016 25 May'16
Investment firm picks Infinidat storage to boost performance

Meitav Dash Investments experienced problematic latency with its applications using NetApp filers before turning to newcomer Infinidat's hyperscale hybrid storage.
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
Permabit looks to reduce Linux storage in hybrid clouds

Permabit optimizes backup and chases enterprises that are building Linux storage clouds with its latest Virtual Data Optimizer deduplication software release.
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
Datrium says new twist makes DVX run crazy fast

Datrium has added an “Insane Mode” feature that the startup claims can double host storage performance on the fly. Datrium took the Insane Mode tag from Tesla’s rapid acceleration technique for its ...
May 23, 2016 23 May'16
Violin plans to stay competitive in all-flash array market

CEO Kevin DeNuccio said sales of the Violin Memory FSP are on pace to generate 25%-35% year-on-year revenue growth in 2016. Violin is pinning its hopes on FSP after failing to find a buyer.
May 20, 2016 20 May'16
Brocade FC storage sales down, and will stay there for now

Brocade’s earnings for last quarter show a decline in storage sales consistent with what large array vendors have reported. The Fibre Channel switch vendor’s forecast for this quarter shows that ...
May 20, 2016 20 May'16
OpenIO joins object storage cloud scrum

European startup OpenIO looks to take on a slew of mature object storage vendors with its storage aimed at messaging, video and hyperscale data centers.
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
New Dell SC Series operating system adds dedupe, QoS

Dell launches an operating system update for its SC Series storage arrays, featuring dedupe, QoS, Live Migrate, VVOLs support and new management capabilities.
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
IBM claims breakthrough with TLC phase-change memory

IBM Research claims memory milestone with new three-bits-per-cell phase-change technology, seeks to collaborate with memory maker to bring TLC PCM to market for servers, storage.
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
New CEO talks Panzura cloud controller, Nirvanix downfall

Nirvanix founder and new Panzura CEO Harr says his company is in the sweet spot for expanding the use of cloud storage and seeks to double business over the next year.
May 17, 2016 17 May'16
DDN Flashscale all-flash storage array introduced for big data

DataDirect Networks leverages PCIe and NVMe in its Flashscale all-flash storage array. The system targets mixed workloads that need a balance of high performance and capacity.
May 16, 2016 16 May'16
EMC Unity dashboard demo reveals management features

Stefan Voss, a member of EMC's technical marketing team, offers a preview of the storage provisioning and data protection features available in the Unity dashboard.
May 13, 2016 13 May'16
Nexsan, EMC fight over 'Unity' name

The product name Unity is at the center of a trademark dispute in the data storage industry between Nexsan and EMC. Nexsan Technologies filed a complaint against EMC on May 6 in the U.S. District ...
May 13, 2016 13 May'16
Datto expands into file sync and share with a free, one-year service

Data Protection specialist Datto is giving away its new file sync and share service for a year. The Datto Drive service for SMBs is hosted on the vendor's 200 PB private cloud within nine worldwide ...
May 12, 2016 12 May'16
Iron Mountain Cloud Archive returns vendor to cloud storage

Iron Mountain was one of the first players in cloud storage, but exited the market early on. Now, it's back with a resurrected archive service based on EMC's ECS.
May 12, 2016 12 May'16
Quantum revenues sink, with upsurge predicted

Like many storage vendors, Quantum’s revenue took a dip last quarter and for the full year. The backup and scale-out storage specialist predicts it will rally beginning this quarter, however, due ...
May 10, 2016 10 May'16
PernixData RAM cache accelerates university's VDI expansion

PernixData FVP RAM caching supports Viterbi's VMware Horizon hosted on Dell EqualLogic hybrid arrays for CAD, computational dynamics, and modeling and simulation applications.
May 10, 2016 10 May'16
'Astonishing how open' EMC and Dell are about merger

Evaluator Group's Randy Kerns looks at how Dell and EMC said all the right things at the recent EMC World and notes a key factor working in the companies' favor.
May 06, 2016 06 May'16
Jeremy Burton talks EMC technology under Dell, flash trends

EMC president discusses potential opportunities for EMC products under Dell, open source efforts, the state of hybrid arrays and opportunities around object storage.
May 06, 2016 06 May'16
Experts offer closing perspectives on EMC World Las Vegas 2016

Change was in the air at EMC World 2016, as TechTarget's Dave Raffo, Wikibon's David Floyer and ESG's Scott Sinclair shared their final thoughts on the conference.
May 05, 2016 05 May'16
EMC Unity: Redesign or rehash?

EMC unveils three all-flash systems at EMC World 2016, including new midrange Unity platform that draws fire from smaller competitors.
May 05, 2016 05 May'16
Gridstore chairman takes CEO reins

Gridstore chairman Nairman Teymourian took over as CEO today, with plans to install a utility services model for delivering hyper-convergence. Teymourian has been Gridstore’s chairman since ...
May 05, 2016 05 May'16
EMC Unity, Dell-EMC merger top news for EMC World attendees

The most interesting news items for EMC World 2016 attendees were Michael Dell's update on the pending EMC acquisition and the new Unity mid-range array.
May 04, 2016 04 May'16
EMC goes Nitro with all-flash Isilon array

LAS VEGAS -- EMC dropped a surprise at EMC World today by previewing an all-flash version of its Isilon clustered NAS system. C.J. Desai, president of EMC's Emerging Technologies Division, said ...
May 04, 2016 04 May'16
EMC VxRack Neutrino Nodes launched for OpenStack cloud storage

EMC adds VCE VxRack System 1000 Neutrino Nodes for enterprises eyeing 'third platform' applications that run natively in the cloud.
May 04, 2016 04 May'16
EMC Virtustream announcement 'significant' says Forrester VP

Fresh off of the Dell merger, EMC World discussion this year includes cloud strategy and the introduction of Virtustream Storage Cloud. How will this affect EMC moving forward?
May 04, 2016 04 May'16
EMC Unity, Virtustream Storage Cloud turn heads at EMC World

EMC has made a number of product announcements at their 2016 conference. Randy Kerns discusses which products drew his attention, and how they might fare in the storage market.
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
Commvault Systems posts second straight quarter of revenue gains

Data protection vendor Commvault Systems generated $159.6 million in revenues in the fourth quarter, hitting the second consecutive quarter of sequential growth after three quarters of declining ...
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
Michael Dell: EMC will flourish as part of Dell Technologies

Outgoing CEO Joe Tucci says goodbye at EMC World 2016, and new boss Michael Dell says the company will be known as Dell Technologies once the $67 billion acquisition closes.
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
EMC Virtustream Storage Cloud, Native Hybrid Cloud announced

The Virtustream Storage Cloud brings EMC into the public cloud market, and its Native Hybrid Cloud enables private clouds for OpenStack, Photon and Hadoop.
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
EMC Unity all-flash midrange array highlights Day 1 EMC World news

We spotlight the opening day news at EMC World 2016, including a new Unity midrange array, the Virtustream Storage Cloud, copy data management and a ViPR Controller update.
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
EMC flash storage discussed by distinguished engineer Daniel Cobb

EMC VP/Distinguished Engineer Daniel Cobb discussed EMC's flash strategy and use of TLC 3D NAND now that the new Unity midrange system is being added to the portfolio.
May 02, 2016 02 May'16
Data storage media fighting capacity battle … for now

Though tomorrow's data storage media may store petabytes, today's data storage growth is staying ahead of capacity … for the moment.
May 02, 2016 02 May'16
OpenStack Mitaka brings new wave of storage features

OpenStack Swift, Cinder and Manila storage software get feature updates in latest Mitaka release, as open source project teams plot future capabilities.
May 02, 2016 02 May'16
EMC Unity all-flash midrange array opens EMC World 2016

Along with its Unity all-flash array and Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC announces copy data management, ViPR 3.0 and predictive analytics at EMC World.
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
Cinder still No. 1 OpenStack storage project, but Manila interest picks up

Cinder still has the highest adoption rate among OpenStack storage projects, but interest in the nascent Manila file-share service is picking up, according to a 2016 user survey released this month ...
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
EMC World 2016: One-stop shop for conference coverage

EMC's annual conference, EMC World, will provide lots of news about Dell's acquisition of the storage vendor, as well as product announcements. Check in for the latest information.
April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16
FalconStor's playing beat the clock with FreeStor

The bad news for FalconsStor is it lost $3.2 million last quarter. If there is good news, it’s that its new FreeStor software is picking up OEM and managed service provider (MSP) customers and ...
April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16
EMC World 2016: What will Dell-EMC look like post-merger?

Attendees can expect to hear a fair amount about a new all-flash array and the pending Dell merger at the 2016 EMC World conference in Las Vegas.
April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16
Scality's RING now pre-integrated with new Dell cloud storage system

Dell and Scality recently added a highly dense, purpose-built cloud storage system that is pre-intergrated with the RING object storage software to their reseller product lineup. The SD7000-S cloud ...

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