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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 ...
April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15
SIOS offers high availability in Azure with Microsoft's backing.

In a sign that more companies are moving important applications to the cloud, SIOS Technology Corp. achieved Microsoft Azure certification to provide customers with high-availability clusters in ...
April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15
Riverbed throws the remote office sync into SteelFusion

Riverbed upgrades its SteelFusion remote office consolidation appliance with larger models and data sync software.
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April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
Burton: EMC main storage investments focus on ViPR storage, software

EMC President Jeremy Burton discusses the vendor's product strategy, plans for software-defined storage, hyperscale storage and Pivotal software.
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
EMC's Burton calls DSSD flash an 'insane server-attached flash thing'

EMC President Jeremy Burton clarifies the role the DSSD flash appliance will play as storage for in-house memory databases and low-latency applications.
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
New DDN storage added to target media-intensive storage

DataDirect Networks cobbles a media-specific storage platform from existing arrays aimed at companies that create and distribute digital media.
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
IBM says it can put 220 terabytes in the palm of your hand

IBM is working on putting 220 terabytes of storage in a palm-sized tape cartridge. The company has developed breakthrough technology that shrinks the size of bits for magnetic tape and offers ...
April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15
Bioinformatics lab uses DDN GridScaler storage for Ebola research

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute said it chose the SFA10K platform because it embeds the GPFS file system and provides scalable storage.
April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15
Inovalon federates healthcare info into data lakes for analytics

Healthcare analytics firm Inovalon escapes a siloed approach by building hybrid cloud data lakes for petabytes of data with EMC Federation technology.
April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15
Tintri VMstore upgrades quality of service, snapshot management

Tintri VMstore's operating system upgrade improves the vendor's quality of service to enable better performance of mission-critical apps.
April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15
Nimble InfoSight goes deeper into monitoring with VM support

Nimble Storage enhances InfoSight's service and analytics portal, concentrating on virtual machine monitoring that could tie into its VVOLs support.
April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15
HGST rolls out PB-scale active archive with object storage, Helium drives

HGST joins the active archive market with systems that scale up to 4.7 petabytes of storage and have a one-watt per terabyte power consumption.
April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15
New Quantum NAS appliance archives unstructured data

Quantum adds archiving capabilities with the new Artico NAS appliance and enhancements to DXi backup and Lattus object storage systems.
April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15
VMware VVOLs redefine storage

VMware has been shaking up data storage for years, and its VVOLs technology just might revolutionize it. The newly introduced VMware VVOLs have vendors scrambling to support it or risk becoming irrelevant in the virtual machine storage market. VVOLs...
April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15
Kicking the tires on the IBM z13 mainframe

While the flashy new IBM z13 is impressive enough to bring mainframes back in vogue, the storage part of the story is yet to be told.
April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15
Could DNA storage be the future of data storage technology?

Storage is moving out of the realm of magnetics and solid-state electronics and into the world of biology, or DNA to be specific.
April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15
Talon Storage claws at sync-and-share market with MobileFAST update

Talon extends its RemoteFAST file-sharing software for branch offices to smartphones and tablets.
April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15
Hitachi tops enterprise storage array vendors list

In a very close contest, Hitachi lands in our winner's circle for enterprise storage array vendors for the fifth time.
April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15
StorReduce offers inline deduplication for cloud object stores

Startup StorReduce ventures into uncharted territory with an inline deduplication tool for reducing cloud object stores in Amazon S3.
April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15
Panzura cloud controller doubles flash capacity

Panzura doubles the amount of flash-based capacity in its new line of cloud controllers for data sharing and collaboration.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
SanDisk FlashSoft bundled with caching software, SSDs

SanDisk upgrades FlashSoft server-side caching software to work better with VMware, Windows and Linux, and packages it on its Fusion ioMemory PCIe card and Ascend solid-state drives.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
Huawei, DataCore: A new hyper-converged infrastructure?

Jon Toigo explores the renewed interest in software-defined and hyper-converged storage, and an important partnership between Huawei and DataCore Software.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
IBM storage strategy still fluid for hyper-convergence

Jamie Thomas explains IBM’s storage strategy for its newly branded Spectrum line, and whether a hyper-converged appliance is on the vendor’s roadmap.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
IBM Storage GM talks up Spectrum Storage, flash strategy

Storage GM Jamie Thomas says Spectrum offers flexibility to use commodity hardware, object interfaces and scale-out storage for SoftLayer clouds.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
Move away from the LUN for storage snapshots

Howard Marks discusses creating storage snapshots, the move to virtual workloads and the death of the LUN.
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
2015 Vault Linux Conference coverage

On March 11 and 12, Boston was home to Vault, the storage and file systems Linux conference. Use this guide to review some of the key takeaways.
March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15
Nexenta storage pushes university's VDI to the next level

Northern Arizona University found software-defined storage vendor Nexenta just in time to fix their lagging XenDesktop environment.
March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15
Diablo wins round against Netlist but legal fight isn’t over

Diablo Technologies claimed a “decisive victory” in the lawsuit brought by Netlist over technology used in Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage architecture. However, Netlist vowed to fight on with its ...
March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15
Hedvig software-defined storage aims to advance the market

Hedvig, whose founder created Cassandra and Amazon Dynamo, looks to disrupt storage with a distributed platform that virtualizes hyperscale storage.
March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15
IBM splits SoftLayer cloud storage into endurance, performance tiers

SoftLayer upgrades its IBM Cloud storage with services for granular performance management that calibrate IOPS to application needs.
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
Red Hat gives storage software products new names

Red Hat today rebranded its storage software platforms in hopes of clarifying their intended use cases. Inktank Ceph Enterprise becomes Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Storage Server becomes Red ...
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
Engineering services firm goes hybrid with NexGen arrays

An engineering services firm consolidates virtual desktops and primary block storage on NexGen arrays that incorporate PCIe flash and hard disk drives.
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
OCZ goes for flash density with OCZ Intrepid 3700 line

Recently launched OCZ Intrepid 3700 SSDs come with 7% flash overprovisioning, supporting usable storage up to 2 TB.
March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15
Healthcare service provider gets QoS with SolidFire storage

Healthcare service provider AHCS needed fast performance and zero downtime, so they chose an all-flash SolidFire storage array for guaranteed QoS.
March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15
Condusiv wants to defrag your SAN

Condusiv Technologies this week launched Diskeeper Server software to defrag disks connected to SANs. Wait, is fragmentation even a thing for SANs? You never hear SAN vendors or even customers talk ...
March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15
Alibaba details cold storage engine for Aliyun cloud

Alibaba Group infrastructure engineers previewed an open source-based cold storage engine that could be the underlying technology for Aliyun cloud service.
March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15
AMI introduces StorTrends 3600i line of all-flash arrays

The StorTrends 3600i iSCSI SAN arrays feature a split architecture that writes to enterprise MLC SSDs while maintaining a read tier of consumer-grade MLC drives.
March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15
Promise Technology VSky pushes into PB- scale object storage

Promise Technology's VSky object storage can handle petabytes of data and is aimed at rich media and video surveillance.
March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15
Drobo B1200i hybrid array redesigned for high-capacity HDDs

The Drobo B1200i rackmount hybrid array gets an update, expanding storage pools to 128 TB and adding thin provisioning for up to 255 volumes.
March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15
Open source technology paves the way for future storage

The Vault Linux storage conference in Boston concluded with a keynote that included speakers from Facebook, HGST, NetApp and Red Hat.
March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15
Qumulo emerges with data-aware scale-out NAS

Isilon founding engineers launch Qumulo Core, software designed to manage scale-out NAS with real-time analytics.
March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15
Amazon Glacier’s cold data storage lead challenged

Google Cloud Storage Nearline takes on Amazon Glacier cold data storage, promising restore times in seconds rather than the hours it takes for Glacier customers.
March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15
Cloud DR vendor Quorum picks new CEO

Quorum today hired John Newsom as CEO to help the disaster recover as a service (DRaaS) startup navigate a rapidly growing market with a crowded field of competitors. Newsom replaced Walter ...
March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15
Linux Vault 2015: Open source community urged to use flash

At this year’s Linux Vault storage conference, one speaker says the open source community needs to pay more attention to creating applications for flash storage.
March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15
X-IO Technologies goes all flash with ISE 800

X-IO Technologies brings out its first system designed to have all solid state drives, the ISE 800, while keeping their five-year maintenance guarantee.
March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15
EMC: DSSD box will melt your face

Amid all of the financial numbers and strategy talk at the EMC Strategic Forum Tuesday, the vendor gave a detailed description of the first product that will spring from its 2014 DSSD acquisition. ...
March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15
Bifurcating enterprise storage

The enterprise storage market is splitting into two areas that are still indistinct but will become a lot less so. It’s important to understand this evolution if you are to make sense of storage ...
March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15
Violin Memory still playing out of tune

Violin Memory initiated a turnaround plan under a new CEO a year ago and still has little to show for it. It’s been a busy year for Violin under CEO Kevin DeNuccio, with several new product ...
March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15
Storage revenue picked up in Q4, led by ODMs and smaller vendors

Storage revenue rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2014, no thanks to the large vendors. Total storage revenue grew 7.2 percent to nearly $10.6 billion and external (networked) storage increased ...
March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15
BitTorrent Sync launches commercial file sharing app

Consumer peer-to-peer software maker releases Sync 2.0 for secure file sharing between smartphones, desktops and NAS devices.
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
IT managers: Concerns spurring hybrid cloud adoption

According to a recent study conducted by EMC, the top concerns of IT managers today could be contributing to an uptick in hybrid cloud deployments.
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
HGST aims Amplidata object storage at OEMs, cloud providers

Western Digital's HGST division plans to pursue more OEM deals and launch turnkey object storage appliances with newly acquired Amplidata.
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
Flurry of new data storage technology can bring confusion

Confusion reigns in the storage world, as new data storage technology tries to find its place in the data center.
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
Solid-state storage technology isn't just about speed

Solid-state storage technology can enhance performance and reduce costs across the entire IT environment.
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
The evolution of flash-based storage arrays

Oracle and HP prove that it's just not a case of all-flash or hybrid when selecting a solid-state-enhanced array.
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
Still some pain when it comes to storage for virtual machines

We've come a long way, baby, but we still haven't worked out all the kinks in configuring and provisioning VM storage.
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
SanDisk InfiniFlash launches company's all-flash platform

SanDisk launched the InfiniFlash all-flash platform this week. The system is said to deliver flash storage for less than $2 per GB before data reduction.
March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15
Western Digital adds Amplidata object storage to HGST fold

Western Digital, which has been collecting flash-related startups over the past few years, today beefed up its archiving portfolio by acquiring object storage vendor Amplidata. Amplidata will ...
March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15
SUSE Enterprise Storage debuts for open source Ceph storage

SUSE sets its sights on open source storage, making SUSE Enterprise Storage with Ceph generally available, with an enhanced version to follow in the summer.
February 28, 2015 28 Feb'15
Fibre Channel helps Nimble Storage grow revenue in Q4

Nimble Storage exceeded expectations with $68.3 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by a new wave of Fibre Channel-based arrays that factored into about 10% of the company’s ...
February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15
IBM sheds light on work to boost flash endurance

IBM has finally hopped onto the bandwagon with solid-state array vendors that use multilevel cell (MLC) NAND technology and guarantee the read/write endurance of flash modules. Those changes came ...
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Dell to ship 2nd wave of XC Series hyper-converged appliances

Dell plans to ship the second version of its XC Series of hyper-converged appliances next week, just four months after getting the first wave of products out the door in November. The XC Series ...
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Avago buys Emulex for $606M to expand storage portfolio

Networking and wireless chip maker Avago Technologies is pushing deeper into enterprise storage with its planned acquisition of storage networking vendor Emulex. Avago said Wednesday evening that ...
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Connected Data adds appliances for secure file sharing

Connected Data has rolled out two new sync-and-share appliances for businesses that want on-premises secure file sharing.
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
PernixData FVP adds RAM compression to server-side storage cache

PernixData FVP's latest version compresses data on RAM, and its server-side caching software pools flash and memory resources.
February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15
Pivot3 pockets $45M to ride hyper-convergence wave

Pivot3, the hyper-convergence vendor that concentrates on the surveillance and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) markets, picked up $45 million in funding this week to expand sales and marketing ...
February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15
NetApp StorageGrid and SteelStore revamped for Amazon clouds

Upgraded appliances and a new release of Cloud OnTap target customers who want to run NetApp storage in Amazon public clouds.
February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15
IBM FlashSystem updated with MLC, built-in software

IBM readies first-quarter update of FlashSystem storage arrays with denser MLC-based flash and integrated compression, virtualization and management.
February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15
CPA firm boosts performance with 'reasonably priced' SSD SAN

The Thomas, Judy & Tucker CPA firm chose StorTrends' SSD array to solve nagging ERP performance issues tied to its backups and snapshot data protection.
February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15
Allegiance Health migrates to Atmos with Seven10 Storage

Allegiance Health is utilizing Seven10's Storfirst data migration software to transition from NetApp's StorageGrid to EMC Atmos scale-out cloud storage.
February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15
FalconStor Software launches FreeStor storage virtualization platform

FreeStor integrates FalconStor point products in a software-defined platform with pricing based on consumed storage.
February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15
Cloud provider Axcient raises another $25 million in funding

Cloud-based startup Axcient raised $25 million in a series E funding round this week, bringing the total amount it has raised to $113.5 million. The company plans to hire more engineers, build out ...
February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15
EMC Isilon dives deeper into analytics, Hadoop, data lakes

EMC added a NAS array that can scale to 50 PB and upgraded its operating system to support the latest version of HDFS, plus OpenStack Swift.
February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15
IBM rebrands storage as IBM Spectrum with an eye on hybrid cloud

IBM pledges $1 billion to build out its cloud storage services and software-defined storage portfolio while rebranding its storage software as Spectrum.
February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15
Violin Memory Concerto gets an all-flash update

Violin Memory unveils new all-flash storage arrays with block-level data reduction and protection services integrated in the operating system.
February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15
IBM's spectrum of new storage brands

IBM has rebranded storage products and introduced XIV as a software-only offering under a new overarching identity – IBM Spectrum. The decoder ring for these products is: This name change will take ...
February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15
Brocade, EMC deliver IP storage switch

Storage array vendor EMC and switching vendor Brocade push a new storage switch dedicated to IP traffic to ensure predictable performance.
February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15
NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints

A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ...
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450

HP's 3PAR StoreServ platform wasn't built for flash, but the vendor has tailored its thin technologies to develop an all-flash version of its 7450 array.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
PernixData FVP version 2.0

Version 2.0 of PernixData's FVP wins the 2014 Storage Products of the Year competition in the storage system software category.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Pure Storage Inc. FlashArray 450

Pure Storage launched the FlashArray 450 as the new flagship of its all-flash line and filled a feature gap by adding replication.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Samsung SSD 845DC PRO

Innovation is the key to Samsung's SSD 845DC PRO, which was the first 3-D NAND solid-state drive to hit the data center.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Atlantis USX 2.0

Atlantis Computing's USX 2.0 claims the silver medal in the storage system software category in Storage magazine's Products of the Year competition.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
VMTurbo Inc. Operations Manager 4.7

Judges were pleased with the extended support and granular management capabilities of VMTurbo's Operations Manager 4.7.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Nimble CS700

Nimble Storage adds a higher-capacity model to its iSCSI hybrid arrays, plus an all-flash shelf to bulk up performance.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Scality Inc. Ring 5.0

Scality's Ring 5.0 software-defined storage shares the bronze award in the Products of the Year storage system software category with VMware's VSAN.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
HP OneView for VMware vCenter 7.4.2

HP OneView for VMware vCenter management software provides a complete look into virtual environments, spanning both physical and virtual layers.
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
HDS acquires Pentaho, wants to store, analyze Internet of Things

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) acquired data analytics software vendor Pentaho this week, and it will share that technology across Hitachi as part of an initative that stretches beyond storage. Pentaho ...
February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15
Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year

A panel of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors voted these 19 products the best of 2014.
February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15
Veritas Rising

Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original Veritas, which Symantec acquired in ...
February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15
Veritas product revenue grows while Symantec shrinks

Symantec is on track to make Veritas an operational company by October, a few months ahead of the original plan to split by the December. Symantec CEO Michael Brown added details about the spinoff ...
February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15
Real estate firm eliminates file junkyard with Panzura file locking

Essex Property Trust decommissioned its NetApp array and moved its primary storage to Amazon cloud with Panzura Quicksilver appliances that lock files to reduce sprawl.
February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15
Veeam revenues still on a roll

Virtualization data protection specialist Veeam Software said its 2014 bookings revenue hit $389 million, up 40 percent over the previous year. Veaam’s growth far outpaces the rest of the data ...
February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15
Scale-out startup Qumulo gets $40M, prepares to launch

Qumulo, the file storage startup founded by engineers who designed Isilon's clustered NAS, closed a $40 million B funding round today and plans its initial product launch “really soon.” The ...
February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15
OpenStack Manila file-share service ready to leave the incubator

Momentum builds for OpenStack Manila file-share service for the cloud as work continues to move project from incubation to core status.
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
Quantum hopes StorNext gains can outscale tape woes

Quantum had a rough quarter revenue-wise to end 2014 because of poor tape sales, but its prospects are looking up in other areas. StorNext scale-out file system sales increased 77 percent ...
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
VMware's VSAN 6: All-flash option, more snaps, no data reduction

VMware says VSAN 6 hyper-converged software will be released as part of vSphere 6, support all-flash nodes for better performance and scale to 64 nodes in a cluster.
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
Re-evaluate network with move to enterprise flash storage

A move to enterprise flash storage is a good time to review the networking decisions made years ago with slower disk systems in mind.

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