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• 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 ...

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  SwiftStack Inc. releases upgrade, previews Swift File Access

  SwiftStack 4.0 features integrated load balancing and metadata search; upcoming features include native file access and object synchronization to S3-compatible clouds.

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Object-file system combo rapidly expands

  Object-based storage adoption took longer than expected, so object vendors have added file systems to their products to make them look more familiar to users.

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  IBM all-flash storage expands with enterprise, cloud arrays

  IBM adds a new all-flash array platform for enterprises and large-scale clouds, and ships DS8888 all-flash for mainframes and high-end enterprises.

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Nexsan storage software brings Unity to its hardware

  Unity software supports Nexsan with NST block devices, Assureon object storage and Transporter cloud sync functionality that it picked up from Connected Data.

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Panzura enables 'in-cloud NAS' for Microsoft Azure

  Panzura’s Global File System (GFS) is certified to run in Microsoft Azure, giving customers a second “in-cloud NAS” option with a major cloud provider. The GFS, running on Panzura’s Cloud ...

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Pure founder: FlashBlade has more potential than FlashArray

  Since introducing its FlashArray all-flash SAN array in 2012, Pure Storage has sold more than $600 million worth of a type of storage array that didn’t exist before Pure was born. The man who led ...

• 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.