News, Analysis and Opinion for Storage - Page 17

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.

January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

CommVault now sees a point in smaller bundles

For years, CommVault boasted about how it sold one application that handled all data protection and management needs. That is changing, as its tries to perk up tepid financial growth in a more ...

January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

CloudBerry Box targets SMBs to sync and share mobile devices

Cloudberry Lab is one of the latest to jump into the crowded file sync-and-share market. The cloud backup provider recently announced its CloudBerry Box, a private and public cloud product that ...

January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

Telefonica installs Caringo Swarm object storage

Global telecom company Telefonica is hoping to expand its digital services, and installed Caringo Swarm object storage to get the job done.

January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

Fibre Channel is most popular networking choice with flash-based storage

Fibre Channel is the top storage networking technology choice for customers of all-flash arrays and hybrid systems, according to a survey of storage vendors.

January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

EMC to lay off workers; Tucci to stay past February

EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci indicated Thursday that he will stay on after his contract expires next month. Others at EMC won’t be given that option, as the company also said it will cut jobs to ...

January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

IT services firm sidesteps performance woes with Nimble Storage array

Landesk Software swapped out legacy EMC Fibre Channel storage for a Nimble Storage CS300 hybrid array to support 400 virtual machines.

January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

NetApp E Series 'performance' flash array platform gets an upgrade

The NetApp E Series now includes EF560 all-flash with 1.6 TB to speed database workloads, while the E5600 hybrid system scales to 2.3 PB of flash and hard-disk drive storage.

January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

Quantum StorNext adds Q-Cloud as AWS archiving tier

Built into its StorNext file system, Quantum's Q-Cloud Archive and Vault use Amazon Web Services for active archiving and cold-storage tiering.

January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

X-IO ISE hybrid arrays turn flashier

The third generation of X-IO ISE self-healing nodes include more flash, VMware integration and storage capabilities such as thin provisioning and quality of service.

January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

How stealthy money affects technology

By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ...

January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

Hightail turns to Cleversafe object storage for cloud-file sharing

Hightail’s cloud-sharing service generated a petabyte a month in storage capacity, so it turned to Cleversafe’s object storage technology to reduce costs.

January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

Box shares surged on the first day as a public company

Box Inc. had an excellent coming out party as a public company today. Box priced its initial shares at $14 Thursday. Those shares today opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange and rose to ...

January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

Kaminario snares another $15 million in funding

All-flash array startups remain a hot target for investors. Kaminario announced today an additional $15 million in funding, raising the company's overall total to $143 million since 2008. Newton, ...

January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

NetApp: No SSDs have worn out

The prospect of flash drives wearing out is a non-issue, according to NetApp. Mark Welke, NetApp’s senior director of product marketing, said the company has not had a single solid-state drive ...

January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

SanDisk says enterprise SSD prospects still strong

The fourth quarter of 2014 was tough for solid-state storage vendor SanDisk. Still, the vendor said its enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) sales increased and it remains on track for $1 billion in ...

January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

NexGen Storage re-launches new batch of hybrid arrays with PCIe flash

NexGen Storage jumps back into crowded hybrid-array market with beefed-up N5 platform, quality-of-service software for optimizing PCIe flash.

January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

Hitachi improves hybrid cloud, HCP Anywhere file sync platform

Hitachi Data Systems upgraded three key pieces of its hybrid cloud Hitachi Content Platform, including HCP Anywhere file sync and share.

January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

EMC gives ViPR flash-related upgrade

EMC last week quietly upgraded its ViPR software-defined storage and ScaleIO hyper-convergence software, broadening support for platforms and emerging technologies. One of the selling points of ...

January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

Cloudian adds Hadoop to HyperStore for big data analytics

Cloudian enhances its HyperStore software with Hadoop integration and geo-replication for hybrid cloud storage as it tries to move into enterprise accounts.

January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

Dell ships cheaper entry-level all-flash storage arrays

Dell ships two entry-level all-flash storage arrays with advertised street prices of $25,000 and $35,000 to address customer concerns about cost.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

OCZ, Lite-On show off new enterprise M.2 SSDs at CES

New enterprise M.2 SSDs from OCZ, Lite-On appeal to hyperscale companies and general enterprise IT for booting servers, caching and storing primary data.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

NexGen Storage to market ioControl array following SanDisk spinout

NexGen Storage said it's revamped the hybrid storage array and will release product details later this month after getting spun out from SanDisk.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

Enterprise all-flash storage systems: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Products eligible for this category include arrays built specifically for flash, legacy arrays re-architected for flash and solid-state drives.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Find out the six finalists we think offer the best storage systems of 2014, while still using ‘old-fashioned’ spinning disk.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Vendors that describe their products as ‘software-defined storage’ dominated the 2014 Products of the Year storage system software category.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

Data storage management tools: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

The finalists in the storage management tools category offer analytics, monitoring and automation for physical and virtual environments.

January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

Data storage systems: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Our Products of the Year competition has narrowed a field of hundreds to 55 finalists in six different storage systems categories.

January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

Law firm moves to DataGravity Discovery Series from Dell EqualLogic

The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein filled performance, data classification and data protection checkboxes with startup DataGravity's Discovery Series array.

January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

Cloud, flash led storage acquisition activity in 2014

Cloud storage acquisitions were common in 2014 with EMC, NetApp and Microsoft getting into the act, but flash brought in the big bucks.

January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

EMC, Dell and NetApp top NAS storage systems satisfaction survey

Our ninth annual survey collected user feedback regarding the service and reliability of NAS storage systems.

December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

Experts make enterprise flash technology predictions

Technologists and industry analysts predict enterprise-flash adoption will increase as new, cheaper and denser technologies emerge to help drive down costs

December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

How storage controllers differ

All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types ...

November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

Nimble Storage array adds FC support for enterprises

Nimble Storage announced this week that it has added Fibre Channel versions of all of its SAN arrays, which previously were iSCSI-only.

November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

Overland strengthens RAINcloud OS for SnapScale scale-out NAS

Highlights of Overland's RAINcloud 4.1 include rolling updates, high-performance snapshots, and support for SMB 2.0, NFS 4 and LDAP.

October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

Bare-metal cloud approach strips traditional overhead

Vendors are using bare-metal technology to bring single-tenant, customizable environments to the cloud, and enterprises are biting.

October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

Calculating capacity utilization can be challenging

The capacity utilization for storage is one area where storage vendors have made a lot of improvements. Advanced features such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, and storage virtualization have ...

October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

Brocade extends SAN switching platform for DR, density

Brocade adds Fibre Channel SAN extension switch and denser 16 Gbps card for its backbone director switch with an eye on moving data across distances.

October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

A look at access methods for open systems and mainframes

The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don't understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for ...

October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC

DataDirect Networks packages IBM General Parallel File System with its Storage Fusion Architecture for scale-out NAS storage.

September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

EMC's XtremIO 3.0 adds compression with disruptive upgrade for existing users

EMC Corp. made available the 3.0 release of its XtremIO all-flash array today with new inline compression capabilities and performance improvements – but existing customers who want the software ...

September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

NetApp brings out new version of StorageGrid object storage

NetApp expands its low-profile StorageGrid object storage with a Webscale version to go beyond its healthcare niche.

September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

Scality adds support for VM storage, VAAI and VASA on the roadmap

Scality's Ring software came into the market focused on object storage and added support for unified file storage last year. Now Scality has extended Ring's reach with VMware support. Philippe ...

August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

Boston Celtics' IT takes a shot at scale-out digital video storage

Boston Celtics VP and CTO Jay Wessland says the team is considering a shift from scale-up storage to address the explosion of digital video.

August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

Western Digital/HGST updates FlashMax PCIe SSDs, cache software

Western Digital/HGST unveils higher performing FlashMax III PCIe SSDs and new ServerCache software based on enterprise technologies acquired in 2013; and demonstrates phase change memory at Flash Memory Summit.

July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

HGST Ultrastar SAS SSDs incorporate Intel 20 nm NAND

HGST and Intel extend SAS partnership with 20 nm NAND Ultrastar SAS SSDs with storage capacity up to 1.6 TB.

July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

Red Hat's Inktank Ceph storage adds erasure coding, tiering

Red Hat's first Ceph upgrade since its Inktank acquisition adds erasure coding, cache tiering and management updates.

July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

EMC VMAX array embeds backup, cloud services

EMC VMAX launch includes three new models, multi-core architecture, embedded data protection and a public cloud tier.

July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

EMC adds XtremIO X-Brick for flash beginners

EMC XtremIo flash array platform gets a new Starter X-Brick with 5 TB of capacity, a six-node X-Brick cluster on the high end and inline compression.

June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

NetApp upgrades high, low and all-flash FAS array systems

Along with new 'extreme' high-end and entry-level FAS arrays, NetApp adds all-flash FAS array systems -- but still no FlashRay.

June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

Panasas adds 6 TB helium drives, advances RAID to scale-out NAS

Is it possible to use larger capacity hard drives, yet make them more reliable and decrease rebuild times? Panasas says it is.

May 29, 2014 29 May'14

IBM N Series dropped from NetApp OEM deal, E Series stays

IBM says it will stop selling NetApp FAS arrays as the IBM N Series to concentrate on its own branded systems; keeps OEM deal for NetApp E Series.

May 19, 2014 19 May'14

Is the term elastic storage a new category, or a stretch?

EMC and IBM recently launched storage products with the term “elastic” in their names. These announcements were significant for the companies and for the IT community in understanding a direction ...

May 15, 2014 15 May'14

Pure Storage flash gets arrays bigger, smaller, cheaper

Pure Storage expands its all-flash array platform with an entry-level model, enterprise system and replication software.

May 13, 2014 13 May'14

Microsoft previews Azure Files, Azure Site Recovery at TechEd

Microsoft previewed the Azure Files service and new Azure-based disaster recovery capabilities yesterday at TechEd North America in Houston, in line with its major conference theme of connecting ...

May 13, 2014 13 May'14

IBM stretches GPFS, Watson into Elastic Storage

IBM incorporates its General Parallel File System and Watson technology into Elastic Storage, a unified software-defined storage package.

April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

EMC rolls out VNXe3200 array, unveils 'Project Liberty'

EMC brings out the newest entry-level VNX unified storage array and reveals its next software-defined storage initiative, code-named 'Project Liberty'.

April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

New Hitachi VSP G1000 storage virtualization array goes active-active

Hitachi Data Systems rolls out new flagship enterprise storage array and virtualization software that allows active-active clusters across locations.

March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

HP upgrades MSA, other SMB storage products

Hewlett-Packard unveils entry-level MSA shared storage system; HP upgrades StoreEasy NAS quality of service and expands capacity for StoreOnce 4500.

March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

VMware Virtual SAN appeals to hyper-converged storage fans

VMware's vSAN beta appeals to customers who like having their storage, compute and hypervisor in one box, supported by one vendor.

March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

Defining storage virtualization

The term storage virtualization has been with us since 1999, and the concept continues with new product offerings that are variations of the original. The longevity of storage virtualization in a ...

February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

Object storage systems in demand for big data, archiving

Object storage system use cases are growing, and their unique metadata capabilities are a good match for big data environments.

February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

Fujitsu takes the Quality Award for enterprise storage arrays

In our ninth annual Quality Awards survey for enterprise arrays, Fujitsu didn't just make the cut; it took the cake by earning top honors.

February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

NetApp changes V-Series to FlexArray, launches new enterprise array

NetApp delivers FlexArray, its answer to EMC ViPR, along with a new FAS8000 enterprise array and high-availability upgrades to clustered Data Ontap.

February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

Something's wrong when storage vendors pitch speeds and feeds

I’m surprised to hear from IT people that storage vendors are still using “speeds and feeds” in their sales pitches. Salesmen for these companies talk about how fast and how big the storage systems ...

February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

Facebook storage: Reviews vary for Blu-ray cold storage, M.2 SSD plans

Facebook's plans to use Blu-ray discs for cold storage, 'netbook-class' M.2 SSD for booting Web servers draw mixed reviews from analysts, IT pros.

January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

With little growth in sight, EMC plans layoffs

EMC’s earnings report Wednesday served as another reminder that storage spending is not growing at anywhere near the rate that data is. With more data spread around on mobile devices and the cloud, ...

December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

Get ready for the 12 Gbps SAS drive

New 12 Gbps SAS technology will usher in SSDs, HDDs and HBAs according to the SCSI Trade Association president.

October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

EMC adds Isilon deduplication, targets enterprise storage

EMC's Isilon offers a primary deduplication option for its scale-out NAS as it chases enterprise customers.

October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

Microsoft's SMB 3.0 for virtualization

With SMB 3.0 included in Windows Server 2012, using Windows file sharing for virtual environments is much faster, safer and easier.

September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

Data Dynamics resurrects StorageX for file migration

Data Dynamics buys intellectual property of Brocade's StorageX file virtualization software, develops its file migration and management capabilities.

September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

Micron adds RPMC support to NOR flash devices for improved security

Micron announced its Replay-Protection Monotonic Counter (RPMC) feature is now available for its serial NOR flash memory devices.

September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

Amazon S3 API for cloud storage leads pack, for now

Vendors continue to add support for Amazon's S3 API, but will alternative APIs knock it down from its current status of the de facto standard?

September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

Nirvanix cloud customers face worst nightmares

As the Nirvanix cloud evaporates, customers ask: What do you do when your cloud provider goes out of business?

September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

HP schedules EVA's funeral

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has officially killed its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) SAN platform, telling customers it will stop selling the two remaining models next January. HP is steering customers ...

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