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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.
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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 ...
August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15
DataGravity data-aware storage keeps an eye on file security

Data-aware storage vendor DataGravity added security features to Discovery Series software to give admins more security over files on its arrays.
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
Airfare analysis takes flight with PCIe flash storage

Airline Tariff Publishing Co. is building in-memory storage for airfare analysis using Dell PowerEdge servers and Micron P420m PCIe flash drives.
August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15
University uses Tintri storage to tame 'bad-behaving' VMs

The University of California Irvine found Tintri VM-aware storage to improve performance and analytics for its virtualized workloads.
August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15
Cleversafe object storage, Nasuni support firm's private cloud

Hogarth Worldwide stores petabytes of data on a Cleversafe private storage cloud, and uses Nasuni filers to protect and archive content.
August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15
Dot Hill revenues, income climb

Add Dot Hill Systems to the list of smaller storage vendors who are growing revenue significantly while their large rivals stumble. Dot Hill is unlike the other vendors who are bucking the trend of ...
August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15
Diablo Technologies launches new DDR4 Memory1 module

Diablo Technologies introduces the all-flash Memory1 DDR4 module, and claims lower-cost, higher-capacity flash can replace expensive DRAM.
August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15
Tintri picks up $125 million, targets NetApp, IPO

Tintri, which sells storage built for virtual machines, today closed a $125 million funding round that it plans to use to step up its attack on NetApp’s installed base and take the startup public ...
August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15
Seagate and Micron launch SAS SSD with capacity, endurance choice

The Seagate-Micron alliance spawns enterprise 12 Gbps SAS SSD, with capacity options up to 4 TB and endurance choices for different application workloads.
August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15
IoFabric Vicinity brings QoS software to distributed storage

IoFabric Vicinity enables storage admins to apply separate storage service policies to applications individually or as a group.
August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15
On-prem cloud: Storage in a bottle

Storing important data in the cloud is a non-starter for many organizations. There are number of reasons for this, including legislation, risk and compliance. Oh, and of course, cost. For those organizations, an on-premises cloud could be a ...
July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15
Amazon adds new features to S3 and zero-downtime migration for Aurora

Amazon his week made enhancements and added features to its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and its Amazon Aurora relational database. The S3 has been upgraded with more event notifications ...
July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15
Startup Quobyte joins software-defined storage fray

The vendor joins the crowded software-defined storage market and touts a parallel file system, fault tolerance and the ability to run on commodity servers.
July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15
Quantum stumbles at closing time

Add Quantum to the list of storage vendors that struggled last quarter. Quantum Thursday reported revenue of revenue of $110.9 million, down around $17 million from last year and below its original ...
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 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
EMC comes off the bench(mark), publishes SPC numbers for VMAX, VNX

EMC, which has downplayed the significance of industry benchmarks, today published its first Storage Performance Council (SPC) block benchmarks for its unified storage systems. Results for the VMAX ...
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
FalconStor lands OEM deals with Kaminario, X-IO

FalconStor’s 2015 revenue has been paltry at the mid-way point of the year, but the vendor is crowing about new OEM deals for its FreeStor data services software. FalconStor said it signed three ...
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
Storage should take high priority

Few people argue that information is important. The value of information varies and changes over time but is the most critical resource for most organizations. Yet, we see storage products where ...
July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15
Intel, Micron Technology preview 3D XPoint memory storage

Micron Technology and Intel prepare 3D XPoint memory that approaches DRAM speed for a lower price and delivers persistent storage.
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 28, 2015 28 Jul'15
Savage IO promises blazing performance with software-agnostic system

Savage IO's SavageStor is a software-agnostic brick of storage, servers and controllers that leaves storage management and data protection to open software.
July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15
Datrium DVX server-side flash storage comes out of stealth

Datrium built its DVX software and NetShelf system for customers that want to use low-cost flash in servers to separately scale performance and capacity.
July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15
X-IO Technologies stacks ISE blocks into new Iglu SAN

X-IO Technologies adds a SAN controller to give its ISE storage blocks the management and data protection customers want in traditional arrays.
July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15
Google ramps up partnerships for its Storage Nearline service

Not only did Google offer new incentives with its Cloud Storage Nearline service to tempt customers to switch from Amazon and Microsoft Azure last week, the company also beefed up its ecosystem to ...
July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15
Google Cloud Storage Nearline now GA, with incentives

Google makes its Cloud Storage Nearline archiving service generally available, goes after Amazon and Microsoft with incentives to switch over to Google cloud.
July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15
Nasuni cloud NAS services replaces SAN at realty firm

Real estate firm Lewis Group of Companies has adopted Nasuni cloud NAS services to address remote office latency and disaster recovery for file data.
July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15
Valley Health System prescribes all-flash Violin storage

Valley Health System is shifting to an all-flash storage model to improve the performance of its medical records app and data center virtualization.
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 21, 2015 21 Jul'15
Dell first in line to add enterprise TLC drives to arrays

Dell said it will ship SC Series hybrid arrays with 3.8 TB SSDs designed with Samsung's 3D Vertical NAND flash technology.
July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15
DDN EXAScaler brings PB HPC storage to midrange

DDN EXAScaler 7000 midrange HPC storage scales to nearly 5 PB in 42U of rack space and includes an embedded Lustre file system
July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15
Parsec Labs launches HyperQ NAS performance router

Parsec Labs HyperQ storage router improves NAS performance through flash and moves data across on-premises and cloud tiers without changing namespace.
July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15
SimpliVity says sales still surging

SimpliVity claims its second quarter sales bookings increased 250 percent over last year, fueled by its Cisco partnership and an avalanche of interest in hyper-convergence. SimpliVity does not give ...
July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15
StorTrends SAN brings city's IT in-house

When this Ohio city needed a more comprehensive disaster recovery plan and to bring its outsourced IT projects in-house, StorTrends was the answer.
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 ...
July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15
Coho Data refreshes hybrid flash array, doubles capacity

The DataStream DS1008 array gets a capacity jolt, while a software upgrade adds flash optimization tools and subscription-based storage pricing.

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