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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.
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 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 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 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 ...
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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 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.
December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15
Backup appliance revenue up slightly

Worldwide factory revenues for backup appliances grew 2.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter this year, with revenue totaling $813.6 million, according to International Data Corp.'s ...
December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15
Tintri adds entry-level all-flash, teases analytics

Virtual machine-storage specialist Tintri rounded out its all-flash product line today with an entry level version priced at $125,000 for 5.34 TB of raw capacity. The VMstore T5040 is the third ...
December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15
Pure Storage reports revenue spike in 1st earnings report since IPO

Pure Storage’s first earnings call since its October IPO was a rosy one on the revenue side. The all-flash array vendor’s revenue hit $131.4 million in its fiscal 2016 third quarter – a 167% ...
December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15
Did Violin Memory just hang a ‘For Sale’ sign?

All-flash pioneer Violin Memory can’t sell enough all-flash arrays to make money. So its next move could be to sell itself in its entirety. After another disappointing quarter, Violin CEO Kevin ...
November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15
Brocade ties its hopes to storage capacity, not pricing

If the largest storage array vendors that sell Brocade’s SAN switching are getting hit with declining revenue every quarter, that’s bad news for Brocade, right? If you agree with that, then you’re ...
October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15
Formation Data CEO: Dell-EMC deal doesn't guarantee innovation

Dell’s pending $67 billion acquisition of EMC has sparked plenty of discussion about overlapping products. Yet despite the enormity of their potential merger, the newly fused Dell-EMC may not have ...
October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15
The ultimate guide to Dell's EMC acquisition

This guide to Dell's EMC acquisition covers all angles of the blockbuster deal -- from breaking news and expert feedback, to the long-term ramifications on the IT sector.
October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15
Datagres PerfAccel 3.0 caching software ready to launch

Datagres PerfAccel 3.0 resides on a host server to examine application I/O access patterns at the file-system level and boost the performance of underlying storage.
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
By the way, EMC's storage revenue shrunk last quarter

Almost lost in the noise around Dell’s estimated $67 billion acquisition of EMC this week was another down sales quarter for EMC storage. EMC reported preliminary revenue totals Monday on the call ...
October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15
Dell is EMC's latest potential dance partner

The EMC rumor machine is in full force again today. This time it’s Dell that is reportedly interested in buying all or some of EMC. Of course, if the sources for these rumors were 100% reliable, ...
October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15
Connected Data Transporter trumps public cloud for users

Customers Calvary Church and Look Photography needed a more cost-efficient file-sharing tool and found Connected Data Transporter did the trick.
September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15
Utility watchdog deploys all-flash SolidFire storage array

California Public Utilities Commission was stuck at about 80% server virtualization before adding all-flash SolidFire storage to remove latency problems.
September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15
Flash storage and cleaning house

A recent discussion with a client got me thinking about precipitating events that cause IT professionals to “put their house in order” regarding the information they store. In this case, there was ...
September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15
External storage sales down as market shifts to hyperscale and server-based storage

External storage sales are shrinking. The total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew to an $8.8 billion during the second quarter of 2015, according to IDC. However, sales are ...
September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15
Formation Data Systems tries out storage virtualization

Formation Data Systems CEO Mark Lewis offers a sneak peek of new data and storage virtualization software to move to the "cloud storage generation."
September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15
VMware EVO SDDC testers shoot for low storage cost

Reduced storage costs and better capacity scaling are key reasons EVO SDDC testers say they are interested in the hyper-converged private cloud stack.
September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15
Commodity hardware is a myth

Software-defined storage vendors preach the concept of commodity storage hardware, but beware: the hardware is just as important as the apps.
August 31, 2015 31 Aug'15
EMC Federation center stage as VMworld 2015 opens

With the future of EMC Federation in the air, the storage giant launches bundle for end user computing and updates its hybrid cloud package.
August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15
Toshiba unveils SAS, NVMe PCIe SSDs at Flash Memory Summit

Count Toshiba among the group of drive makers demonstrating new enterprise PCI Express (PCIe) and SAS SSDs at this week’s Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. Toshiba unveiled three ...
August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15
Pure takes first step to go public, files for IPO

Pure Storage today filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in hopes of becoming the second all-flash storage array vendor to go public following Violin Memory. In its filing with the U.S. ...
August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15
Box hires former EMC Syncplicity chief

Box today has hired the former CEO of EMC Syncplicity. Jeetu Patel, the former general manager of EMC Syncplicity enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS) business unit, has joined the ...
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
Performance counts when buying a solid-state storage device

More than half of our surveyed companies are using flash now, with plans to use it for more than just mission-critical apps.
July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15
Is Veeam’s gain causing Commvault’s pain?

Commvault’s revenue keeps sliding while data protection software rival Veeam makes steady gains. Coincidence, or is Veeam taking deals that Commvault used to win? Commvault's revenue of $139 ...
July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15
EMC tempers expectations, accelerates shift to emerging storage technologies

EMC executives reduced their 2015 revenue forecasts for the second time this year following a quarter of tepid growth. They also said the vendor will implement plans to cut costs by $850 million a ...
July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15
SIOS launches iQ, seeks more intelligent analytics

Data protection software vendor SIOS Technologies is branching out into IT analytics. The vendor this week launched SIOS iQ, an analytics platform developed for virtual machines and their ...
June 27, 2015 27 Jun'15
Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product

One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ...
June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15
PernixData plans platform proliferation

PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ...
June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
HDS fully digests Pentaho

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of Pentaho this week, which means Pentaho’s big data analytics technology will be showing up in HDS storage products soon. Pentaho software will be ...
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
Violin still searching for right notes

The red hot all-flash array remains ice cold for Violin Memory. Violin reported revenue of $12.1 million for last quarter. That was down 33.3 percent from last year and 41 percent from last ...
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Quantum expects to scale StorNext products, sales this year

Quantum’s forecast for the next year includes more StorNext and scale-out archiving products, sales and vertical markets. The sales bump has already started. Quantum last week reported its ...
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
New Dell storage array, software-defined options added

Dell Storage ships new entry-level SCv2000 arrays, ups performance and density in PS6610 and adds a new Microsoft-based software-defined storage option.
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Nexenta Systems CEO discusses upcoming product launches

Nexenta Systems CEO says NexentaEdge object storage demo will happen at upcoming OpenStack Summit, NexentaFusion management beta launch will follow
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
EMC World 2015: Expect backup, flash, future directions

EMC will roll out products in its Data Domain, XtremIO and ViPR platforms at EMC World 2015, but what about a CEO succession plan?
April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15
EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation

EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ...
April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15
SanDisk sees PCIe flash take a dive

SanDisk became the PCIe flash market leader with its 2014 acquisition of server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io. Less than a year later, there is a lot less to that market and that is having a ...
April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15
EMC: Information glut will change what storage looks like

There’s a lot of data out there, and there’s going to be even more in the future, and businesses need to figure out better ways to use and deliver it because the always-connected “information ...
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
IBM says it can put 220 terabytes in the palm of your hand

IBM is working on putting 220 terabytes of storage in a palm-sized tape cartridge. The company has developed breakthrough technology that shrinks the size of bits for magnetic tape and offers ...
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
IT managers: Concerns spurring hybrid cloud adoption

According to a recent study conducted by EMC, the top concerns of IT managers today could be contributing to an uptick in hybrid cloud deployments.
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
SanDisk InfiniFlash launches company's all-flash platform

SanDisk launched the InfiniFlash all-flash platform this week. The system is said to deliver flash storage for less than $2 per GB before data reduction.
February 28, 2015 28 Feb'15
Fibre Channel helps Nimble Storage grow revenue in Q4

Nimble Storage exceeded expectations with $68.3 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by a new wave of Fibre Channel-based arrays that factored into about 10% of the company’s ...
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Dell to ship 2nd wave of XC Series hyper-converged appliances

Dell plans to ship the second version of its XC Series of hyper-converged appliances next week, just four months after getting the first wave of products out the door in November. The XC Series ...
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
PernixData FVP adds RAM compression to server-side storage cache

PernixData FVP's latest version compresses data on RAM, and its server-side caching software pools flash and memory resources.
February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15
NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints

A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ...
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Atlantis USX 2.0

Atlantis Computing's USX 2.0 claims the silver medal in the storage system software category in Storage magazine's Products of the Year competition.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Nimble CS700

Nimble Storage adds a higher-capacity model to its iSCSI hybrid arrays, plus an all-flash shelf to bulk up performance.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Scality Inc. Ring 5.0

Scality's Ring 5.0 software-defined storage shares the bronze award in the Products of the Year storage system software category with VMware's VSAN.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
HP OneView for VMware vCenter 7.4.2

HP OneView for VMware vCenter management software provides a complete look into virtual environments, spanning both physical and virtual layers.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year

A panel of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors voted these 19 products the best of 2014.
February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15
Veritas Rising

Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original Veritas, which Symantec acquired in ...
January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15
CommVault now sees a point in smaller bundles

For years, CommVault boasted about how it sold one application that handled all data protection and management needs. That is changing, as its tries to perk up tepid financial growth in a more ...
January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15
EMC to lay off workers; Tucci to stay past February

EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci indicated Thursday that he will stay on after his contract expires next month. Others at EMC won’t be given that option, as the company also said it will cut jobs to ...
January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15
How stealthy money affects technology

By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ...
January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15
Box shares surged on the first day as a public company

Box Inc. had an excellent coming out party as a public company today. Box priced its initial shares at $14 Thursday. Those shares today opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange and rose to ...
January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15
EMC gives ViPR flash-related upgrade

EMC last week quietly upgraded its ViPR software-defined storage and ScaleIO hyper-convergence software, broadening support for platforms and emerging technologies. One of the selling points of ...
January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15
Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Vendors that describe their products as ‘software-defined storage’ dominated the 2014 Products of the Year storage system software category.
October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14
A look at access methods for open systems and mainframes

The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don't understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for ...
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
EMC's XtremIO 3.0 adds compression with disruptive upgrade for existing users

EMC Corp. made available the 3.0 release of its XtremIO all-flash array today with new inline compression capabilities and performance improvements – but existing customers who want the software ...
August 25, 2014 25 Aug'14
Infinio adds block storage support to RAM cache engine

The latest version of Infinio's RAM cache tool, Infinio Accelerator 2.0, borrows idle memory from servers to support large VDI deployments.
February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14
Something's wrong when storage vendors pitch speeds and feeds

I’m surprised to hear from IT people that storage vendors are still using “speeds and feeds” in their sales pitches. Salesmen for these companies talk about how fast and how big the storage systems ...
September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13
Data Dynamics resurrects StorageX for file migration

Data Dynamics buys intellectual property of Brocade's StorageX file virtualization software, develops its file migration and management capabilities.
September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13
Micron adds RPMC support to NOR flash devices for improved security

Micron announced its Replay-Protection Monotonic Counter (RPMC) feature is now available for its serial NOR flash memory devices.
June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13
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June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13
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August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11
Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic

Dell revamped its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN hardware today, adding new entry-level and midrange platforms with support for 2.5-inch SAS drives and multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for ...
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
EMC combines Clariion, Celerra into VNX unified storage

EMC VNX is the result of the long-awaited consolidation of its Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS platforms into a unified storage system that will sharpen the competition with NetApp.
December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10
Data storage trends 2011: Predictions of hot data storage technologies

Explore this expert FAQ as three analysts weight in and tell us what they think are the hottest data storage technologies and data storage trends for 2011.
July 19, 2010 19 Jul'10
Does Nimble dedupe?

Nimble Storage Thursday came out of stealth with a storage system that the startup’s executives said combines primary storage with deduplication for backup in the same device. It makes sense that ...
September 07, 2009 07 Sep'09
Fibre Channel switch options for SMBs

Recently, the Fibre Channel industry has become more attractive and affordable for SMBs. This article explores FC switch considerations and products for SMBs.
September 04, 2009 04 Sep'09
Top 10 technology IPOs of 2007

The market for tech IPOs heated up in 2007, and while EMC spinoff VMware attracted investors beyond anyone's expectations, other stocks tailed off late in the year.
October 31, 2007 31 Oct'07
Iron Mountain acquires Stratify for $158M

Iron Mountain will add legal processing to its e-discovery services through the purchase of its legal review partner.
January 18, 2007 18 Jan'07
Brocade migration tool does the trick for EMC user

The University of New Mexico Hospital first tried EMC's SANCopy to migrate data off of an old Xiotech array, but ended up having to use Brocade's Data Migration Manager instead.

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