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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 ...
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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.
September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15
SanDisk, Nexenta combine on InfiniFlash all-flash arrays

SanDisk's all-flash storage with InfiniFlash adds Nexenta System's NexentaStor storage software for data protection and reduction.
September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15
Azure cloud storage offers 64 TB on a single VM

Microsoft Azure cloud builds on G-series virtual machines with the launch of GS-series, which can scale up to 64 TB of storage on a single VM.
September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15
Fibre Channel storage alive and kicking

It's not the end of the world for Fibre Channel storage; market research from a variety of industry analysts indicates widespread use and a slow decline.
September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15
Fibre Channel technology is alive and kicking

Historically, Fibre Channel technology has been a top choice for enterprises in need of a high-speed interconnect for SANs. With the introduction of iSCSI storage, however, the landscape shifted. Ethernet networking gained acceptance for block ...
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 28, 2015 28 Aug'15
Drilling down into copy data management

Copy data management (CDM) is a relatively new term for many in Information Technology. At first literal consideration, its meaning seems self-evident. However, it is really a topical area that ...
August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15
EMC pronounces XtremIO its billion-dollar baby

EMC says its XtremIO all-flash array has cracked the $1 billion cumulative bookings mark in 588 days – or roughly six quarters – while remaining on track to do $1 billion of business in calendar ...
August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15
Primary Data primes the pump for data virtualization software

Startup Primary Data prepares GA launch of DataSphere data virtualization software, which is designed to make data available any time on any storage.
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
HP 3PAR StoreServ all-flash lineup dips below $20,000

HP 3PAR StoreServ midrange systems have been upgraded with a new low-price entry-level all-flash array. The new 8000 models will replace the HP StoreServ 7000 series.
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
IBM Spectrum receives cloud friendly features

IBM Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Accelerate software-defined storage are updated with new cloud storage features, such as enabling direct backup to SoftLayer cloud.
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
Velostrata Cloud Edge bucks hybrid cloud storage model

Velostrata Cloud Edge alters a traditional hybrid cloud storage model by sending only the virtual machine boot-up information into the cloud.
August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15
Scality raises another $45 million in Series D funding

Object storage vendor Scality has raised $45 million in investment that will be used to expand its North American sales force, continue international expansion and build out its reseller program. ...
August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15
Declining storage sales are the new normal

NetApp, Brocade and Hewlett-Packard last week all reported storage revenues that were better than expected, impressing Wall Street analysts and investors. Yet in each case their revenue declined ...
August 21, 2015 21 Aug'15
Seagate adds Dot Hill storage to its portfolio

Seagate's acquisition of Dot Hill storage is another step into storage systems, adding it to Xyratex in its portfolio of storage arrays for OEM partners.
August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15
Kaminario K2 array uses 3D TLC NAND flash

Kaminario unveils 5.5 version of its K2 all-flash array with 3D TLC NAND flash, claims of sub-$1 per GB pricing and support for asynchronous replication.
August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15
NEC enhances Hydrastor with universal dedupe transfer, OST Accelerator

NEC Corp. of America has enhanced its Hydrastor scale-out backup and archive storage platform with a Universal Dedupe Transfer and added an Open Storage Technology (OST) Accelerator for Veritas ...
August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15
Coho Data adds Docker containers at the storage layer

A Coho Data DataStream software upgrade lets Docker containers execute directly on DataStream storage arrays.
August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15
BiTMicro PCIe SSDs join all-flash array market

BiTMicro takes on the all-flash array market with its MAXio appliance family that uses 8.8 TB PCIe solid-state drives.
August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15
Sale (instead of spin) doesn't change Veritas strategy

The executives who have been working to turn Veritas Technologies into a standalone company say their plans have not changed with the $8 billion sale to The Carylye Group. Symantec disclosed last ...
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 ...
August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15
SanDisk boosts CloudSpeed Ultra SSDs for hyperscale

SanDisk upgrades CloudSpeed Ultra SATA SSD, the highest performing SSD of its CloudSpeed family of drives for enterprises and cloud use.
August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15
VirtualWisdom gets support for Hyper-V, vSphere

Virtual Instruments has moved beyond its storage focus, enhancing VirtualWisdom to support Microsoft Hyper-V servers and VMware workloads.
August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15
Seagate launches PCIe SSDs, flash accelerator card

Seagate extends its PCIe Nytro flash product line with a new flash accelerator card, and 2.5-inch and M.2 NVMe-compliant PCIe SSDs, which target enterprise workloads.
August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15
Symantec sells Veritas to Carlyle Group

Symantec’s spin-out of Veritas took a twist today when The Carlyle Group and other investors agreed to purchase Veritas for $8 billion. That’s $5.5 billion less than Symantec paid for Veritas in a ...

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