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• 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 ...

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• 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 ...

• 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.

• 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 ...