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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.
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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
Dell XC Series underpins hospital's IT overhaul

CarePoint Health System installed Dell hyper-convergence and Nutanix software to boost its local SAN, and to cut cost by shifting electronic records to Dell's healthcare cloud.
February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16
Catalogic Software ECX copy management cozies up with IBM

Months after Catalogic made its ECX copy data management software compatible with IBM storage arrays, the vendors have jointly developed combinations of ECX with IBM products.
February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16
Panzura Global File System gets management upgrade

Panzura builds a new console that centralizes maintenance for its controllers and Global File System. The Google Maps-based monitoring and reporting tool manages cloud storage.
February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16
Cisco ships 32-gig 'beast,' MDS 9718 FC director

Cisco launches its largest FC director, the MDS 9718, which will be upgradeable to 32-gig FC when it is widely supported. Targets for this product include flash storage and DevOps.
February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16
Datrium DVX storage takes novel approach for VMware, flash

The Datrium DVX storage system for VMware virtual machines is generally available and drawing interest with its server-powered architecture, flash-boosted performance and low cost.
January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16
Asigra signs OEM deal with Oracle to sell ZFS appliances

Asigra is packaging its Cloud Backup software on the Oracle ZFS Appliance for cloud providers who would rather not purchase and maintain their own hardware. Toronto-based Asigra for decades have ...
January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16
Commvault takes a revenue leap forward

Is Commvault back on track? The backup vendor snapped a string of four quarters of year-over-year revenue declines when it reported of $155.7 million last quarter, up 2% from the previous year. ...
January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16
Plexistor SDM Community Edition to converge memory, storage

Plexistor claims its 'software-defined memory' platform lets in-memory databases and traditional enterprise workloads run without dedicated compute-storage clusters.
January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16
EMC aims for all-flash, all-the-time primary storage

While waiting to become part of Dell, EMC is planning a massive flash injection into its storage systems. David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure, teased new product launches to the ...
January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16
Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion

Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ...
January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16
Tucci on Dell-EMC acquisition: We know what we're doing

Although financial factors have deteriorated since Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC was announced, EMC's CEO said the megadeal is on track to close in 2016 as planned.
January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16
Pivot3 buys NexGen, combines hyper-converged with all-flash storage

Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 today acquired hybrid flash vendor NexGen Storage, combining small private companies that play in two hot technology areas. NexGen CEO and founder John Spiers said the ...
January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16
Seagate adds helium HDD to Enterprise Capacity line

Seagate is following in HGST's footsteps with the Enterprise Capacity 10 TB drive, which replaces air with helium to boost storage density of the traditional drive form factor.
January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16
Load DynamiX unveils new Virtual Series storage test tools

Newly updated Load DynamiX Virtual Series tools offer the same GUI, workflow, statistics and API as its physical storage performance validation appliance.
January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16
What the enterprise storage market looked like in 2000

SearchStorage began in-depth coverage of the enterprise storage market in 2000, when Compaq was a major player, IBM looked prescient and EMC had its first $2 billion quarter.
January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16
Netlist launches new DDR4 NVDIMM

Netlist unveiled its new DDR4-based non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM) yesterday at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)’s Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Summit in San Jose. ...
January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16
Qumulo Core NAS replaces EMC Isilon for Utah researchers

The University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute replaced EMC Isilon NAS with a cluster of Qumulo hybrid storage appliances and Qumulo Core scale-out software.
January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16
Caringo adds support for Microsoft Azure to its Swarm software

Caringo has expanded its Swarm object storage to Microsoft Azure. The company recently said its object storage software, which already has Amazon S3 support, now is available on the Azure cloud so ...
January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16
Hitachi storage unveils new A series all-flash array family

Hitachi Data Systems unveiled a new line of high-density, all-flash arrays featuring inline deduplication that are designed to close its solid-state portfolio gaps.
January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16
Actifio adds central copy data management interface

Nearly five years into sales of its copy data virtualization, Actifio is finding customers are looking for a simpler way to manage data across its appliances. Today the vendor launched Actifio ...
January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16
Veeam kicks off 2016 with V9 GA

Veeam Software has started off the year by making Veeam Availability Suite 9 generally available to customers. The software has more than 250 features, according to Veeam. While the data protection ...
January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16
Avere launches new FXT Edge filers

Avere Systems rolled out a new high-end and midrange FXT Edge physical appliances that offer more performance and storage compared to the previous systems that will be replaced. The new 1U ...
January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16
Diablo Technologies names new CEO, raises $19 million

Flash memory vendor Diablo Technologies named a new CEO and secured $19 million in Series C financing as the company tries to rebuild momentum for its memory technology business after fighting off ...
January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16
New CFO hopes to take Tegile public

Flash and hybrid storage array vendor Tegile Systems has hired a CFO with experience bringing companies public, and CEO Rohit Kshetrapal said he is aiming Tegile in that direction. “We don’t see an ...
January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16
DataGravity data-aware storage throws weight behind Hyper-V

DataGravity goes beyond VMware hypervisor support and now works with Microsoft Hyper-V and its data movement features. Security features were also added.
January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16
HDS CTO predicts HDD fade-out, discusses Hitachi storage strategy

Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida predicts flash storage drives will replace high-performance hard disk drives this year, as HDDs will ultimately fade out in five years.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
Enterprise storage system software: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

Four returning vendors with software-defined and hyper-convergence products highlight the finalists in the 2015 Product of the Year enterprise storage system software category.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
Data storage management tools: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

The finalists in the data storage management tools category for the 2015 Products of the Year competition included resource management, provisioning and data reduction tools.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

The 14 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2015 Products of the Year competition blend flash configurations with traditional spinning media.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
Maxta storage gets application-defined storage tuning

Maxta hyper-convergence customers can apply MxSP 'application-defined' templates, or customize their own policy settings for rebuild times, data recovery and reduction.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
All-flash storage systems: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

The all-flash storage system finalists include upgrades from large storage vendors and all-flash pioneers, as well as a few vendors who launched their first all-flash arrays.
January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16
Data storage systems: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

We received hundreds of entries for this year's Products of the Year competition, but the field has been whittled to these 70 finalists in six data storage systems categories.
January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16
CTO Yoshida: HDS storage needs to transform the business

Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida explains how HDS storage needs to transform the business to compete, as traditional roles in technology are changing.
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Companies use caution with cloud file sync and share

Though nearly half of companies are using cloud file sync-and-share services, those who aren't using it have taken a wait-and-see approach.
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Nimbus CEO: We're still alive

Nimbus Data has not “vanished,” as I wrote in a story about storage vendors facing challenges in 2016. The all-flash vendor has just been keeping “very quiet” for the past 18 months or so. Nimbus ...
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Twelve data storage company startups to watch in 2016

Caching, cloud backup, hyper-convergence and object storage spawned data storage company startups in 2015. Here are 12 in particular to watch.
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
What's the future of data storage in 2016?

Mike Matchett takes a closer look at the future of data storage technology in 2016 based on research from the Taneja Group.
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Peek into the future of data storage in 2016

As we enter into a new year, here's our look at the future of data storage with some serious (others, not so much) predictions.
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Twelve data storage industry startups to watch in 2016

One of the key characteristics of the data storage industry is how it refreshes itself every year as new storage startups emerge and roll out innovative products. The past year -- 2015 -- produced a bounty of exciting new products that are shaking ...
January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16
SimpliVity cozies up to Microsoft, Hyper-V

Hyper-converged pioneer SimpliVity has opened a research and development office in Seattle near to Microsoft, a sign that it is close to adding Hyper-V support. SimpliVity’s OmniCube appliances ...
December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15
Former NetApp CEO joins Cohesity board, discusses Dell-EMC

Dan Warmenhoven says Dell-EMC could lead Cisco to make a move, sees Amazon cutting into business from large storage vendors, and Cohesity challenging EMC's Data Domain.
December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15
Data storage vendors in the hot seat in 2016 outlook

EMC and Dell face the pressures of a $67 billion merger in 2016, but it will be a pivotal year for other storage vendors as well among declining sales and splits.
December 29, 2015 29 Dec'15
Data storage market 2015: Dell-EMC leads year of transformation

Dell's move to gobble up EMC for $67 billion was the largest disruption in a year full of changes and new technologies for the data storage industry in 2015.

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