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• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Smarter data storage tools needed for smarter storage

  Yesterday's data storage tools are ill-equipped to handle today's data storage needs, but a handful of vendors have new products that can help.

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Hot data storage market technology trends for 2016

  Check out our Hot Techs for 2016! For the past 13 years, we've honored the best and brightest technologies for the upcoming year. And as always, we are proud to present a batch of technologies we believe will make a big impact on data storage market...

• 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

  Predictive storage analytics added in Load DynamiX upgrade

  In hopes of appealing to more enterprises, Load DynamiX adds sensors and software features that capture I/O application workloads to analyze storage patterns.

• 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 ...

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin launches Flash Storage Platform for performance, price

  Violin Memory put out its fastest array to date, and an entry-level model that starts at $92,000, as it tries to balance its Flash Storage Platform for performance and storage management.

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  UNT travels to an EMC hybrid cloud architecture

  To put a shared IT services model in place, University of North Texas implemented EMC Federation cloud services that include VMware products. A public cloud is planned for 2016.

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  EMC and Dell users react to proposed merger at Dell World

  EMC and Dell storage customers shared their thoughts and concerns on Dell's proposed $67 billion deal to acquire EMC during a series of interviews at Dell World 2015.

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Flash storage performance changing the rules

  The ability to measure flash performance requires different metrics, along with a better understanding of applications, which can make it more complicated to purchase than HDDs.

• 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 ...

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Nimble's sales slow down, losses expand

  Nimble Storage’s drive for profitability took a major hit last quarter. Nimble, which was believed to be one of the smaller competitors eating away at large storage vendors’ sales, won’t hit ...

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Data Dynamics StorageX file migration app adds support

  Data Dynamics' file migration application got a refresh to support 64-bit architecture, as well as NetApp and EMC Isilon clustering for a faster data migration process.

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  NetApp still struggling with Clustered OnTap conversions

  NetApp’s latest earnings report told a familiar story. NetApp Wednesday night said its revenue last quarter – although higher than expected – continued to decline with the vendor’s most established ...

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Seagate storage adds Lustre, GPFS ClusterStor systems

  Seagate storage expanded its HPC reach with the introduction of a higher performing Lustre-based system, a new product supporting IBM's Spectrum Scale and an archive object store.

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Forrester VP's advice on EMC and Dell: Don't freak out

  Forrester VP Glenn O'Donnell sees no reason for IT users to worry about the potential merger of EMC and Dell, if Dell completes its $67 billion purchase of the storage giant.

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  DataDirect Networks' IME14K jumps into all-flash market

  The IME14K all-flash array from DataDirect Networks runs Infinite Memory Engine accelerator software to create a data-aware tier that writes to fast SSD cache and reorders I/O as it moves to storage.

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Pure goes TLC 3D NAND route

  Pure Storage became the latest flash vendor to support TLC 3D NAND  drives that lower the cost of solid-state storage. The vendor also expanded its Pure1 cloud-based management, adding predictive ...

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  EMC cloud storage options for VMAX, VNX, Data Domain expanded

  EMC cloud storage options for its block storage and data protection products are added through enhancements to FAST.X, Vplex, CloudBoost and broader public cloud support.

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  HPE gives 3PAR 3D NAND, Oracle acceleration, XIV migration

  HPE joined the 3D NAND bandwagon for 3PAR StoreServ flash arrays, added flash acceleration for Oracle databases with EMC VMAX and added a new StoreOnce lineup.

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Datto gets $75M to fund data protection services

  Datto, which sells backup and disaster recovery as a service, today closed a $75 million funding round although its founder and CEO says the vendor is already profitable. The B round brings the ...

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  SolidFire CEO Wright discusses all-flash storage market

  SolidFire CEO and founder Dave Wright talked about how his company will make its way competing against giants in the rapidly growing all-flash storage market.

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Open Storage Platform – Why Now?

  While it’s nothing new for information technologists to look at alternatives for their infrastructure, there seems to be more interest in that today than ever before. There is so much interest that ...

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Docker storage driver support added to Dell SC arrays

  Docker storage driver for Dell's SC Series arrays orchestrates the movement of containerized applications and persistent data, so customers can promote containers into production.

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Virtual machine management: VVOLs 'complete picture'

  Virtual Volumes architect talks about their benefits and limitations, how they will help admins with virtual machine management and why they aren't yet commonly implemented.

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  All-flash NexGen arrays bring QoS to the forefront

  The newly released NexGen arrays dynamically manage critical workloads with QoS policies. Spelling a move beyond hybrid storage, the all-flash arrays include SSDs, RAM and flash PCIe.

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  SIOS iQ software troubleshoots VMware shared storage

  SIOS iQ analytics software for VMware shared storage discovers interdependencies between applications, compute nodes, networking and storage.

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  New DDN storage hardware includes hyper-converged system

  HPC specialist unveils 14K hyper-converged DDN storage hardware line aimed at midrange enterprise, the first of three planned rollouts under codename 'Wolfcreek.'

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  EMC extends Isilon NAS software to edge, cloud

  EMC expanded its Isilon NAS portfolio with a scaled-down, software storage system for remote locations, a cloud migration application and high-availability upgrades for Isilon OneFS.

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Storage Decisions experts opine on data storage industry

  Storage Decisions 2015 panel discusses future of disk and tape, and offers hints for dealing with cloud storage, flash and impact of recent events in the data storage industry.

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  What tech could disrupt the dual inline memory module?

  The dual inline memory module marketplace may have to deal with emerging disruptive technologies from Diablo Technologies, Intel and Micron.

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  Multicore processors mark next era of storage

  Multicore processor technology represents not only next era in storage, but that everything old is new again.

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  Action! Storage for your video storage system

  Video and other multimedia production is no longer the exclusive domain of Hollywood studios and post-production services. Today, companies of all kinds have video and audio operations that rival that of professional media outfits. And those ...

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  BT adds Caringo Swarm object-based cloud storage to services

  Caringo Swarm object storage helps British Telecom Compute Services facilitate tiering from a customer data center to BT's data centers to public clouds.

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  ClearSky pockets $27M for managed cloud storage service

  ClearSky Data, which in August launched its managed service for primary storage, today closed a $27 million Series B funding round to expand sales and marketing teams. Polaris Partners led the ...

• 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 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  Data protection vendors (except for Veeam) struggled last quarter

  Not only the big storage array hardware vendors are seeing  revenues declines from last year. This week, backup vendors Commvault, Quantum and FalconStor said they lost money and had revenue ...

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  SwiftStack 3.0 object storage software gains feature parity

  The SwiftStack 3.0 upgrade adds an active secondary controller, as well as lets users mix and match erasure coding and RAID data protection schemes within a cluster.

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  PernixData CTO talks VMware Virtual Volumes management

  VMware Virtual Volumes are expected to simplify storage management and troubleshooting between servers and storage -- but they're still a work in progress.

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Main overlap in Dell's EMC acquisition is midrange storage

  Dell's blockbuster EMC acquisition would leave overlapping storage products -- especially in the midrange array space, with EMC's VNX and Dell's SC/PS Series.

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Storage industry waits for Dell acquisition ripple effect

  Now that Dell's acquisition of EMC and the Western Digital-SanDisk deal are confirmed, what will Cisco, HP, IBM and Oracle do to compete in the market?

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Quantum StorNext file system gateway collapses into Xcellis

  Quantum goes after video workloads with Xcellis, a converged system that combines Quantum StorNext, metadata, data management, NAS and cloud gateways into a single system.

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  GM Alan Atkinson talks Dell storage strategy, EMC

  Dell Storage GM Alan Atkinson sees flash and SDS as serious business disruptors, but still views traditional scale-up arrays as serving an important role in the Dell storage strategy.

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  NetApp hybrid cloud remains vendor's focus with new CEO

  NetApp didn't have much in new products at its annual Insight conference; the only rollout was Data Fabric for placing and managing data in a NetApp hybrid cloud.

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  High-capacity Drobo NAS marks return to vendor's roots

  New Drobo NAS device -- the B810n -- is unveiled, presenting a single 64 TB namespace that can be divided into multiple SMB shares with thin provisioning.

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  SanDisk acquisition makes Western Digital major flash player

  Western Digital is taking its biggest step yet into the flash market, with its $19 billion SanDisk acquisition. The deal is the second major storage merger this month.

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  VMAX, VNX the new minority among EMC storage products

  EMC provided more detail on its revenue and earnings last quarter, and the results could play into its product strategy leading into and following its acquisition by Dell. EMC Information ...

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  OCZ Storage Solutions previews Saber 1000 for SATA SSDs

  Hardware vendor OCZ Storage Solutions said Saber HMS APIs let a host server coordinate when CPU-intensive processes take place, with the aim of reducing resource contention.

• 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

  Imation buys Connected Data

  Did you hear about the storage acquisition this week? No, I don’t mean Dell-EMC. Everyone knows about that one. But you might have missed Imation’s acquisition of file sharing vendor Connected Data ...

• 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 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Family of IBM storage arrays gets new low-cost options

  IBM's DS8880 enterprise storage arrays are tightly integrated with the IBM z Systems and Power servers. The systems come with an open API for IBM Easy Tier software.

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  NetApp Insight attendees weigh impact of Dell-EMC deal

  News that Dell is prepared to spend $67 billion to acquire NetApp rival EMC dominated talk across the storage industry this week, including at the NetApp Insight conference.

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Dell-EMC merger leaves IT pros hopeful and concerned

  As IT pros try to wrap their arms around the $67 billion Dell-EMC merger, some say it could spur change in purchasing plans; others predict little impact.

• 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 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Dell-EMC acquisition leaves questions as Tucci steps away

  When the Dell-EMC deal is complete, EMC CEO Joe Tucci will step away after 15 years on the job -- leaving Michael Dell and others to carry on his legacy.

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  NetApp Data Fabric expands hybrid cloud strategy

  At NetApp’s Insight partner and user conference, the company discussed NetApp Data Fabric, focusing on the connection between its on-premises storage and the public cloud

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Microsoft Azure strengthens its backup and recovery services

  Microsoft Azure is strengthening its backup portfolio. The company now offers backups of Micosoft SQL Server, Hyper-V virtual machines, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and Windows clients in ...

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  OpenStack Manila project leader previews Liberty, Mitaka releases

  The OpenStack Manila file share service is growing up. During a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)-sponsored webcast this week, Ben Swartzlander, a NetApp architect who is the project ...

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  IBM's new Linear-Tape Open Ultrium 7 will hit the market later this month

  IBM still hasn't given up on tape. The company today announced its new 6TB IBM Linear Tape-Open Ultrium  7 (LTO-7) drive that performs at 300 MB per second and has double the capacity of the ...

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Flash storage rivals see Pure IPO as a positive

  Pure Storage's price dropped sharply in its first day as a public company, but other flash storage vendors see the Pure IPO as validation of their technology.

• 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 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Veritas moves further toward freedom, cloud backup

  Veritas completed operational separation from Symantec last Friday, and this week made a minor upgraded to its flagship NetBackup software with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp ...

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Avere CloudFusion virtual NAS debuts for AWS tiers

  Avere Systems introduced its first CloudFusion virtual NAS last year for the cloud. It now offers a scaled-down version for three tiers of the AWS public cloud.

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  IBM adds Cleversafe object storage to its portfolio

  IBM snapped up Cleversafe object storage in the second object acquisition of 2015, and plans to sell Cleversafe products with IBM SoftLayer and Spectrum Scale.

• 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.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  VMware vSphere 6 release good news for storage admins

  VMware's vSphere 6 release shows that the vendor is aiming for a completely software-defined data center with a fully virtualized infrastructure.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  NAND flash technology faces uncertain future

  Memory channel flash, 3D, NVMe and NVDIMM are among the recent developments in flash storage technology that may soon replace NAND flash.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Will today's storage tech be here tomorrow?

  It's hard to tell which storage techs will stand the test of time, but looking back at some of yesterday's storage technologies can help.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain

  Hardware vendors and software-defined storage vendors are joining forces seemingly every day, but who will dominate the SDS marketplace?

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Fujitsu Eternus CD10000 pushes Ceph storage

  New Ceph-based Fujitsu Eternus CD10000 adds options for optimized erasure code, density- and performance-focused nodes, backup in a box and discrete clusters for DR.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Flash forward: What's next for flash storage technology

  Emerging flash technologies target capacity, reliability and cost, while the line between storage and memory continues to blur. Over the past couple of years, we've seen four major developments in flash storage technology: 3D architectures, which ...

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Flash storage market remains a tsunami

  The flash storage market is poised for rapid growth into enterprise data centers as costs drop and solid-state drive density and capacity expands.

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Talon Storage adds CloudFast file sharing for Azure

  Talon Storage timed the CloudFast launch to coincide with Microsoft making its Azure File Service generally available for Windows shared file storage.

• 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 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  NexGen arrays save manufacturing firm from storage silos

  Philadelphia Mixing Solutions ditched four isolated SANs to deploy two hybrid NexGen arrays, with 32 TB of capacity apiece for primary storage and DR, avoiding storage silos.

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  FalconStor acquires cloud-based analytics for FreeStor

  FalconStor is preparing to add predictive analytics monitoring to its FreeStor storage virtualization software, which the vendor compares to Nimble Insight and Pure1 cloud-based analytics. ...

• 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 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  AWS introduces a new infrequently accessed S3 storage tier

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolled out a new type of storage for infrequently accessed data within the S3 tier that cost 1.25 cents per GBs to store but only 1 cent per GB to access. The cloud has ...

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  Condusiv V-locity erases school's Blackboard I/O issues

  Alvernia University sped its Blackboard application with a software fix via Condusiv V-locity rather than throwing money into flash hardware.

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  ClearSky Data CEO: Time for storage to catch up

  ClearSky Data software uses distributed caching to move block storage between local flash, its own data centers and public cloud for data protection.

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  HGST helium drives store black hole research data

  High-capacity HGST helium drives store data to help scientists determine if Einstein's theory of gravity holds true.

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IDC backs up on appliance revenue drop

  IDC Tuesday correccted the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market tracker numbers it issued last week, giving market leader EMC more than $55 million in additional revenue for the second ...

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Tegile expands all-flash portfolio through SanDisk partnership

  SanDisk is putting its investments in private storage companies to good use. Two of the companies it has invested in – Nexenta and Tegile Systems – have signed on as OEM partners for SanDisk’s ...

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Infinidat adds smaller SAN array, unified storage

  After starting with a system aimed at high-end enterprises, startup Infinidat adds a midrange InfiniBox F2000 SAN array, plus NAS support for unified storage.

• September 19, 2015 19 Sep'15

  New LTO-7 tape specification is now available for licensing

  Hard disk drives (HDDs) are up to 8 TB and 10 TB, and flash storage may be all the rage, but tape keeps rolling along. Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and Quantum – the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program ...

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  CacheBox rebrands, becomes VMware VAIO partner

  PrimaryIO, formerly known as CacheBox, is among four vendors using VMware's software development kit to build vSphere APIs for I/O Filters.

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  ScaleIO Node bundles software on EMC appliances

  ScaleIO Node models will bundle software-defined storage with EMC-branded commodity servers and Arista network switches.

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Dell'Oro: Hyperscale DAS use drives storage revenue growth

  Market research firm Dell’Oro Group’s mid-year snapshot showed that total storage systems revenue is on track to grow 1% in 2015, driven largely by sales to hyperscale service providers of ...

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  PernixData FVP server-side cache tool expanded

  PernixData FVP server-side cache supports VMware vSphere 6 and a call-home feature. Analytics and free software for RAM read caching were also added.

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Survey finds companies' disaster recovery testing is inadequate

  Despite all the talk about disaster recovery testing, most organizations still don’t do it enough. And recovery point objectives (RPOs) are still way too high to facilitate adequate DR, according ...

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Datagres PerfAccel takes on file analytics and caching

  Startup Datagres PerfAccel software handles file analytics and caching in an attempt to make file storage run better.

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  AgigA Tech samples DDR4 NVDIMM for persistent DRAM storage

  AgigA Tech demonstrates DDR4 NVDIMM for persistent memory channel storage, and plans to go to market with storage and server vendors.

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Zadara VPSA helps Gilt move storage into AWS

  According to Gilt's senior systems engineer, the online shopping site can provision storage faster and at a lower cost using Zadara VSPA in AWS.

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Caringo Swarm refines migration with FileFly software

  New FileFly software for Caringo Swarm lets Windows Storage Server and NetApp filers migrate data to Caringo object storage systems.

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Cloudian HyperStore debuts in new scale-out arrays

  SDS vendor Cloudian announced scale-out appliances for petabyte storage, along with Cloudian HyperStore software enhanced with self-service data protection.

• 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 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Tintri VMstore aims to scale to 1M VMs

  Tintri's roadmap for its VM-aware storage calls for greater scale, load balancing and analytics to support large private and hybrid clouds.

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  VMware adds Docker storage container support

  VMware adds Docker storage container support for ClusterHQ Flocker with a vSphere plug-in that lets customers use Virtual SAN as storage backend.

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Formation Data Systems CEO offers take on hot storage trends

  Formation Data Systems CEO Mark Lewis has strong opinions on the direction that storage needs to take. He sees the adoption of on-demand, "as-a-service" cloud models as the future, in contrast to ...

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Reduxio launches hybrid array with built-in protection

  Startup Reduxio Systems launches hybrid storage system with BackDating data recovery to any second in time, inline dedupe, and continuous block tiering.