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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.
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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 ...
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Sudden NetApp CEO change deemed necessary

Few industry analysts question the firing of the NetApp CEO, but some say the company should look outside the company for a replacement.”
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
Violin still searching for right notes

The red hot all-flash array remains ice cold for Violin Memory. Violin reported revenue of $12.1 million for last quarter. That was down 33.3 percent from last year and 41 percent from last ...
June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens: Head in the clouds, gone in a flash

Years of mistakes caught up to NetApp, costing CEO Tom Georgens his job; George Kurian takes over for the slumping storage vendor.
June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15
NetApp names new CEO

NetApp announced a changing of the guard at CEO and chairman of the board after the market close today, less than two weeks after another disappointing earnings report. CEO Tom Georgens departed ...
June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15
HP adds new high-end 3PAR flash models, software features

HP unveils new high-end 3PAR StoreServ 20000 family all-flash and hybrid flash arrays and software resiliency and storage federation capabilities
June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15
Pure Storage adds FlashArray//m series, Pure1 SaaS management

Pure Storage launches re-designed hardware platform, claims non-disruptive upgrades; cloud management program automatically monitors arrays.
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Microsoft Azure Blob wins over Amazon S3 in Nasuni benchmark testing

Performance tests on Amazon S3, Microsoft and Google rank Microsoft Azure Blob No. 1 in cloud storage.
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Toshiba joins list of Ethernet hard drive makers

Toshiba joins drive makers testing new devices that combine storage, compute resources and Ethernet ports to scale object stores, big data analytics.
May 28, 2015 28 May'15
Rubrik pulls in $41 million in funding for cloud backup

Rubrik has raised $41 million in Series B funding and also unveiled more details behind its integrated backup appliance that does hybrid cloud backup, deduplication, compression and data ...
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
All-flash could be on Nimble's roadmap

Now that Nimble Storage is growing revenue from its Fibre Channel support, it’s time for Nimble executives to think about what they will add next. An all-flash array would be one logical addition. ...
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
SteelStore becomes NetApp AltaVault

NetApp has rebranded the SteelStore cloud backup appliances it acquired from Riverbed last year, and will sell it on NetApp hardware. NetApp is selling AltaVault as a physical product on FAS ...
May 26, 2015 26 May'15
Commvault takes next step in file sync/share

Like many data protection vendors, Commvault added file sync and share capabilities within the last few years. Today, Commvault expanded its Edge file sync platform with Edge Drive, which lets ...
May 26, 2015 26 May'15
Avago PEX9700 PCI Express switch adds HA

Hyperscale systems and high-performance computing environments can gain performance boosts from Avago's PEX9700 PCI Express switch chips.
May 26, 2015 26 May'15
How vendor conferences help customers, analysts and press

I recently attended EMC World and the IBM Edge conferences in Las Vegas, and was struck by how these shows have changed the industry. Not too long ago, industry-wide shows such as Storage ...
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Brocade, HP see storage sales decline

Considering the poor numbers coming from storage array vendor’s recent earnings, it’s no surprise Brocade Thursday said its storage switch revenue declined from last year. EMC, NetApp, IBM and ...
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Load DynamiX adds workload models to storage performance tool

The Load DynamiX update adds built-in workload models to support OpenStack, Ceph, Amazon S3, NFSv 4.1 and steady-state VDI.
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
OCZ adds NVMe-based PCIe flash with Z-Drive 6000

PCZ said Z-Drive 6000 NVMe series eventually will replace its inaugural Z-Drive 4500 PCIe cards launched in 2014.
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Cisco expands FC, converged Ethernet storage switching

A new 96-port FC switch and greater 40 gigabit converged Ethernet support for Nexus switches expands Cisco's support for all storage protocols.
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
Clustered OnTap complexities clobber NetApp

NetApp’s earnings report today disappointed investors as the vendor missed its previous revenue forecast, and it issued lower than expected guidance for this quarter. NetApp today also revealed ...
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
Coho Data goes all-flash with new scale-out array

Coho Data, which sells scale-out NAS built on commodity hardware, adds the DS2000f that combines PCI Express flash and solid-state drives.
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
Barrall spins out Drobo, keeps Connected Data

Drobo is under new ownership again. Founder Geoff Barrall is spinning low-end NAS vendor Drobo out of Connected Data, marking the third major management shift in Drobo’s 10-year-history. A group ...
May 18, 2015 18 May'15
New scale-out NexentaEdge storage supports object, block

Nexenta's new scale-out object storage product supports object and block services and inline deduplication across a petabyte-scale cluster.
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
Axcient adds appliance-less recovery to its cloud services

Cloud Provider Axcient launched an appliance-less, direct-to-cloud recovery service aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses or remote office data protection. The company has been selling a ...
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Sphere 3D CEO: Virtualization containers will be 'face of our company'

The company formerly known as Overland Storage makes containers a linchpin of its virtualization strategy, claiming it can virtualize any application.
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
IBM Spectrum storage beefs up hybrid cloud

IBM plans to add a new cloud service for capacity planning and performance monitoring, next-gen XIV and multi-tier file and object storage service.
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Gridstore HyperConverged OS integrates Microsoft Azure cloud storage

Gridstore HyperConverged OS has been expanded for Windows shops and gives midsize enterprises a way to stand up a private cloud with Azure Pack.
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Ctera 5 adds new interface, broadens support for sync and share

The latest Ctera version has a redesigned user interface, more security, and support for the Ctera Cloud Gateway and virtual desktop infrastructure.
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Nutanix: Try our software for free

Perhaps looking to head off software-only hyper-convergence competitors down the road, Nutanix will make a free version of its software available beginning next month. Nutanix will launch a public ...
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Energy company targets electricity thieves with Isilon, Pivotal Hadoop

Power company BC Hydro runs 10 Isilon nodes and the full Pivotal Hadoop software stack to perform analytics to curtail unauthorized taps of its electricity.
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Quantum expects to scale StorNext products, sales this year

Quantum’s forecast for the next year includes more StorNext and scale-out archiving products, sales and vertical markets. The sales bump has already started. Quantum last week reported its ...
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
IT orgs see clouds from both sides, pick hybrid cloud infrastructure

IT executives from large organizations at EMC World say they want to provide the same services as public clouds, but for less money internally.
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
EMC World 2015 via the Twitterverse

EMC World 2015 earned kudos and some critics in the Twitterverse. Here’s a sampling of our favorites.
May 07, 2015 07 May'15
EMC unveils open source storage strategy with CoprHD, Caspian

EMC vows to make open source storage management software a 'big part of our future,' and to share code for other storage applications.
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
New Dell storage array, software-defined options added

Dell Storage ships new entry-level SCv2000 arrays, ups performance and density in PS6610 and adds a new Microsoft-based software-defined storage option.
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Nimble gets SAP certification, offers SmartStack for HANA

Most of the storage news this week is happening at EMC World in Las Vegas, but there’s also a bit of activity at the SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida. Nimble Storage announced that ...
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Nexenta Systems CEO discusses upcoming product launches

Nexenta Systems CEO says NexentaEdge object storage demo will happen at upcoming OpenStack Summit, NexentaFusion management beta launch will follow
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
EMC opens up ViPR, hope developers take to it

LAS VEGAS -- You don’t usually associate EMC with open or free, but at EMC World today the vendor said it is making ViPR an open-source project and is offering a free non-production version of its ...
May 04, 2015 04 May'15
Brocade IP storage switching adds Ethernet support

Brocade goes deeper into IP storage switching, adding Ethernet support to its FC extension switch and management to its VDX 6740.
May 04, 2015 04 May'15
EMC World 2015 begins with XtremIO, Data Domain, VCE rollouts

Day One of the EMC World conference included new product launches of all-flash arrays, data protection, hyper-convergence and enterprise storage arrays.
May 04, 2015 04 May'15
EMC World 2015 conference coverage

Storage Media Group editors are at EMC World 2015 to bring you the latest news and analysis from the annual conference.
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
It's time to shift from data-dumb to data-aware storage

With flash and virtualization technologies becoming readily available, the time has come for storage to evolve from data dumb to data aware.
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
In-house EFSS protects companies from data loss

With more employees conducting their work remotely, consumer file sync-and-share use could be exposing corporate data. In-house EFSS could help combat this.
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
EMC World 2015: Expect backup, flash, future directions

EMC will roll out products in its Data Domain, XtremIO and ViPR platforms at EMC World 2015, but what about a CEO succession plan?
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
Smarter storage from metadata, object stores

One of the distinguishing features of object storage systems is their ability to package more metadata with each object they store. That metadata could be used to restrict access, define a file's lifecycle and its ultimate disposition. Other storage...
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
Is VSAN 6 the next DVR, or the next Netflix?

VMware's VSAN 6 could alter the way storage is delivered and consumed, but whether it is the catalyst that accelerates SDS adoption is still unknown.
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
More companies turn to cloud storage service providers

Cloud storage is approaching critical mass with nearly half of companies sending data into the ether.
April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15
HDS storage takes a software-defined turn

Hitachi Data Systems storage strategy leans heavily to software development as it looks to adapt to changes in the market.
April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15
Infinidat comes out of stealth with PB-scale InfiniBox, funding grab

Moshe Yanai's newest venture launches its InfiniBox hyperscale storage array and says it already has close to 100 customers.
April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15
SanDisk upgrades PCIe flash storage with its own NAND

SanDisk switches from Micron NAND memory to its own in latest version of PCIe flash technology acquired from Fusion-io.
April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15
HDS extends VSP virtualized storage, moves into hyper-convergence

LAS VEGAS -- Hitachi Data Systems opened its HDS Connect conference today with smaller versions of its flagship Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage array and two hyper-converged systems. The ...
April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15
Storage VP: Red Hat Gluster, Ceph see faster start than Linux

Red Hat vows to improve file and database-as-a-service features for its open source storage software while also planning to tackle hyper-convergence.
April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15
EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation

EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ...
April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15
Storage was a star at NAB

Las Vegas – The storage presence at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show last week continued to grow due to the increasing demand to store files in the media and entertainment ...
April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15
NISC finds hybrid Nimble storage array good as all-flash

All-flash arrays don't always provide a great performance boost over hybrids, as Nimble Storage customer NISC found in head-to-head tests.
April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15
SanDisk sees PCIe flash take a dive

SanDisk became the PCIe flash market leader with its 2014 acquisition of server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io. Less than a year later, there is a lot less to that market and that is having a ...
April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15
SoftNAS adds gateway for hybrid cloud, NAS services for VSAN

SoftNAS expands its cloud storage with the Cloud File Gateway virtual appliance to move on-premises unstructured data into Amazon S3.
April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15
EMC: Information glut will change what storage looks like

There’s a lot of data out there, and there’s going to be even more in the future, and businesses need to figure out better ways to use and deliver it because the always-connected “information ...

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