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• 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.

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble pins apps to flash, adds software-based encryption

  Continuing its wooing of enterprise customers, Nimble Storage adds software-based encryption and now lets users pin applications to flash to improve performance.

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Seagate Technology extends enterprise storage reach in backup, HPC

  Seagate Technology extends its enterprise storage reach with new and updated products in data protection portfolio, additional partnerships in HPC.

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  HP revamps MSA 1040, 2040 arrays with front-end SAS

  HP gives MSA Storage platform a makeover, adding a dedicated front-end SAS connector to MSA 1040 and enhanced flash capabilities to hybrid MSA 2040 SAN arrays.

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Micron M510DC release focuses on cloud, backup as a service

  The Micron M510DC family of SATA drives are aimed at service providers that use flash to handle workloads with heavy read volume, infrequent writes.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  New X-IO Technologies CEO eyes improved ISE stability, IPO

  New X-IO CEO Bill Miller talks about adding features to ISE storage, taking the company public and sticking around longer than his predecessors.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas ActiveStor gets denser with He8 Helium drives

  Panasas enhances its hybrid NAS system with He8 Helium-filled 8TB hard drives, more SSD capacity and cache. It also boasts 200 gigabit per second throughput.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Fujitsu Eternus DX arrays upgraded for performance, capacity

  Fujitsu phases out its DX8700 S2 model and replaces it with two Fujitsu Eternus DX S3 block storage devices that scale from 4.6 PB to 13.8 PB of raw capacity.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Skyview buys EMC Syncplicity file sharing unit

  EMC pulls out of the enterprise file sharing market with the sale of its Syncplicity business to Skyview three years after acquiring the startup.

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  ITA Group turns to Tegile storage to handle expansion

  ITA Group cites primary data reduction capabilities as a key factor in picking Tegile storage arrays after it outgrew its EMC VNX system.

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Managing storage for virtual servers

  It's easy to understand why server virtualization has become so popular among IT admins. Virtual servers are flexible, mobile and can be deployed or decommissioned rapidly. However, managing storage for virtual environments can be difficult. Many ...

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Red Hat Gluster, Ceph storage roadmaps laid out at Red Hat Summit

  Red Hat's roadmap for Ceph and Gluster products includes a unified management console, support for containers and protocol/interface expansion.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Condusiv adds analytical engine to software to mitigate I/O latency

  Condusiv adds an analytical engine to its V-locity software that boosts I/O performance in Microsoft environments.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  NexGen Storage supports VMware VVOLs with ioControl update

  NexGen Storage integrates vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) to help VMware customers prepare for VVOL adoption.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Hyper-converged DDN storage unveiled with upgrades to WOS 360

  DataDirect Networks announces plans for a hyper-converged system that can scale to petabytes, along with capacity improvements for its WOS platform.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Have flash storage prices reached parity with disk?

  Many vendors claim all-flash storage arrays have hit price parity with hard drive systems. George Crump explains what that means in this tip.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Storage islands leave data management plans adrift

  A major problem that IT professionals have dealt with over time is the creation of islands of storage. A common cause of islands is when organizations purchase and deploy new systems with their own ...

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Docker containers expected to emerge gradually in primary storage

  Storage admins may find the container concept familiar, even if the terminology seems new; in some ways it's similar to using VMs.

• 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 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Big Data Summit panelists: Petabyte data stores fuel data science

  Data scientists who study topics such as disease and climate change require robust storage systems to hold petabytes of crucial research.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Red Hat updates Ceph, Gluster storage, teases unified management

  Red Hat storage boosts performance and scalability with a new version of Ceph and adds erasure coding and automatic tiering with an update to Gluster.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Deluxe OnDemand uses Scality Ring to streamline its media workflow

  Deluxe OnDemand stores up to 2 PB on Scality Ring object storage to improve performance while saving millions in its video and audio workflow

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp’s Kurian ‘not constrained’ from making changes … or not making them

  New NetApp CEO George Kurian today said he has a free hand to make any changes he believes are necessary at the company while giving no indication that any sweeping changes are coming. Kurian, who ...

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Sphere 3D launches SnapCloud cloud NAS in Microsoft Azure

  Sphere 3D SnapCloud presents as a physically attached local NAS for read/write, backups and replication between hardware and cloud instances.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Backup appliance revenue grows, but leader EMC's shrinks

  EMC remains the leader in backup appliance sales but its grip on the market is loosening. While backup appliance revenue increased seven percent year-over-year in the first quarter of this year, ...

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  NetApp seeks performance bump for All Flash FAS arrays

  NetApp takes steps to fix All Flash FAS array performance and endurance, and is still working on FlashRay upgrades.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Zadara VPSA gives Docker a spin

  Zadara adds Docker containers and snapshot support inside Amazon Web Services for its VPSA storage as a service offering.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Breqwatr unveils hyper-converged OpenStack cloud appliance

  Toronto-based Breqwatr delivers a hyper-converged, all-flash OpenStack appliance for private cloud storage.

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  PernixData FVP software helps health firm improve performance

  An Alaska-based non-profit health firm solved latency issues on its EHR application with some help from PernixData FVP software and server-side flash.

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  EMC eyes containers with Docker storage drivers

  Docker containers store application's logic, but not data. EMC said its custom drivers preserve data persistence of containerized apps.

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Connected Data Transporter software add-on syncs NAS files

  Connected Data Transporter Connector software upgrade gives on-premises enterprise NAS devices the ability to sync files with Connected Data Transporter folders.

• June 12, 2015 12 Jun'15

  Cloud storage security concerns dominate at Cloud Expo

  Experts at the bi-annual event highlight concerns over cloud security even as cloud use cases grow in size.

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  New 96 TB Exablox OneBlox 4312 targets production storage

  Exablox uses global namespace and object-based file system to present itself as NAS share. The 4312 appliance doubles the capacity of the inaugural OneBlox 3308.

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  SolidFire storage ramps up enterprise data protection with Oxygen OS

  SolidFire Oxygen operating system adds synchronous replication, snapshot replication and scheduling, and security features to all-flash array platform.

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  HGST launches 10 TB HelioSeal HDD with shingle technology

  The latest HGST HelioSeal HDD uses shingle technology and reaches 10 TB; trades performance for capacity and is aimed at archival storage.

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  VMware gives EVO:RAIL hardware partners more options

  VMware is giving its hardware partners more options for building EVO:RAIL hyper-converged appliances. Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, and Supermicro are among the hardware vendors ...

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Disk storage increases over Q1 2014, but networked storage declines

  Disk storage revenue grew 6.8 percent during the first quarter of 2015, with server-based and hyperscale storage picking up the slack for SAN and NAS sales according to IDC's latest storage tracker ...

• 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 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Data storage resources management gets respect

  Storage resource management has been overlooked through the years, but today a handful of vendors are pushing storage management software development.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Infinio Accelerator helps manufacturer minimize VDI latency

  National Specialty Alloys implemented a two-node configuration of Infinio Accelerator virtual appliances to accelerate VMware virtual desktops.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Navigate data lakes to manage big data

  While the concept of data lakes appeals to business today, IT administrators must exercise caution prior to a full-scale implementation.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Infinite io storage controller accelerates NAS filers

  Startup infinite io launched a network-based storage controller that boosts performance on NAS filers and also moves inactive data to the cloud.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Storage purchase plans move to cloud with rising budgets

  Our annual Purchasing Intentions survey paints a rosier picture than last year for managers stretching their budgets to cover capacity storage purchase plans.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Smart storage key to moving beyond "third platform"

  The third platform of computing takes an external approach to data and applications, but data-aware technologies can add some insight to the storage process.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Integrating a cloud tier with on-premises storage

  The best approaches to using cloud storage create a seamless integration between on-premises and cloud storage. Integration of a cloud tier with on-premises storage can be accomplished in a number of ways. Some will prefer purpose-built software ...