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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 31, 2014 31 Dec'14

Storage trends 2014: Hyper-converged, flash and cloud dominate news

Hyper-converged, all-flash and cloud storage formed a three-legged stool of dominant storage news in 2014; Symantec stunner added an element of surprise

December 30, 2014 30 Dec'14

GE pre-tests storage performance, cuts downtime with Load DynamiX

Load DynamiX appliances enable GE's IT team to pre-test application workloads and validate performance to ensure storage arrays perform as expected.

December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

Cisco VP: Most customers deploy 16 Gbps FC switches with new enterprise flash storage

Brocade executives have talked a lot about flash as a disruptive technology that’s driving 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) storage networking. As the year draws to a close, rival Cisco said most ...

December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

Symantec fuels double-digit backup appliance revenue growth

Backup appliance revenue increased for the second straight quarter, with Symantec making up more than one-third of the Backup appliance revenue increased for the second straight quarter, with ...

December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

10 data storage startups to watch in 2015

These storage startups tackle surging demand for cloud disaster recovery, cold storage, application acceleration and hybrid flash.

December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

Enterprise file sync and share expands in 2014

The crowded enterprise file sync-and-share market is poised for change, as functionality increasingly becomes a feature of larger products, analysts predict.

December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

All-flash arrays, NAND engineering among 2014 flash highlights

Startups and legacy vendors alike rolled out all-flash platforms to highlight 2014 in flash, underscoring solid-state's steadily increasing footprint in the enterprise.

December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

2014 cloud storage: Five stories that mattered

This year was a big one for cloud storage, with new product innovations and emerging trends. See what stories made the biggest impact on SearchCloudStorage.

December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

Enmotus FuzeDrive revives caching vs. tiering debate

Startup's FuzeDrive Server software device provides kernel-level tiering that promotes hot writes to flash and keeps it there until displaced by newer data.

December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

Google's public cloud storage advanced little in 2014

Google Cloud Storage rolled out its Cloud Storage Connector in 2014 but not much else. The connector and price cuts were the biggest announcements for the year.

December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

Western Digital expands flash portfolio with array startup Skyera

Western Digital's latest flash deal comes six weeks after Skyera beefed up the capacity to 136 TB of its single-controller 1U skyHawk all-flash array

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 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

Azure cloud storage 2014: New features offset by embarrassing outages

Microsoft Azure added redundancy features and a new StorSimple hybrid array in 2014 -- now if it could just avoid those outages.

December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

Top five VMware Virtual SAN takeaways of 2014

Now that VMware's VSAN has been generally available since March, we take a look back at analyst and customer feedback to see what we've learned about software-defined storage.

December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

With Amazon Zocalo and Glacier, AWS held off tough competition in 2014

AWS adds Amazon Zocalo, upgrades to Amazon Glacier and EBS in 2014 as it tries to defend its No. 1 position in cloud storage.

December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

Panzura fortifies global file locking, adds element locking

The enhancement enables users in multiple geographies to access different portions of a file simultaneously, without overwriting to shared cloud storage.

December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

Tintri embraces Hyper-V, prepares for the multi-hypervisor age

Tintri, which has earned a good reputation for providing storage for VMware virtual machines, this week made its Microsoft Hyper-V support generally available on its VMstore systems. That paves the ...

December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

VersaStack, FlashStack are more reasons why Cisco won't buy EMC

Keep Cisco off the list of possible EMC suitors -- Cisco is too promiscuous a storage player to tie itself exclusively to one partner.

December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

Pure Storage launches FlashStack converged offering

Pure Storage hooks up with Cisco, VMware and channel partners to enter the hot converged infrastructure space with new FlashStack CI offerings.

December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

Storiant adds NFS protocol support for NAS private cloud storage

Startup Storiant aims to serve the growing market for long-term cloud storage for unstructured data in regulated industries at a lower cost than public cloud storage.

December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

EMC Syncplicity takes a wider view of file sharing with Panorama

EMC Syncplicity adds Panorama for end users looking to manage online storage on mobile devices from multiple repositories.

December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

Data Dynamics StorageX automates Microsoft DFS namespace management

StorageX 7.5 includes Microsoft DFS automation tools and CIFS-based disaster recovery; vendor plans to target object storage and Hadoop in next release.

December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

VP dishes on EMC products and 'invigorating' competition

Chief of EMC's Core Technologies Division talks about changing storage buying patterns and how technologies like flash, cloud and hyper-convergence affect EMC.

December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

Kaminario CEO: We have customers with 100% flash data centers

Kaminario CEO Dani Golan says he hasn't competed against an all-hard disk drive array in more than a year and finds Pure Storage his top competitor.

December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

Storage pops the cloud bursting bubble

Cloud bursting is considered one the best use cases of hybrid cloud deployment, but the reality is, storage is not so easy to move in and out of the cloud.

December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

Engineering firm maps out storage strategy with Gridstore Inc.

To keep up with proliferation of 3-D drawing files, The RMH Group added 12 TB of grid storage from Gridstore for archiving to extend life of its aging SAN.

December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

Storage sales still sluggish

External storage revenue increased less than one percent year-over-year last quarter, with none of the major vendors growing more than 3.5 percent. That’s better than the two previous quarters of ...

December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

Six hot data storage trends for 2015

For 12 years, Storage magazine has presented its roster of new data storage trends that are ready to have an impact in data centers. We’ll tell you why VMware VVOLs, all-flash arrays, cloud disaster recovery, flash caching, server SANs and...

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 ...

December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

Seagate E-NAS drives bring 6 TB hard drives to SMBs

Seagate adds 6 TB E-NAS hard drives for SMBs and small enterprises that can scale to 96 TB in a 16-rack configuration.

December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

New Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance adds speed, encryption

Oracle's new high-end ZFS Storage Appliance features improved performance and power, 3 TB DRAM, pluggable data analytics and data-at-rest encryption.

December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

HP 3PAR StoreServ platform grows with new hybrid array

HP announced expansion of its 3PAR StoreServ platform with a hybrid flash array and multiprotocol storage at the HP Discover user event in Barcelona

November 30, 2014 30 Nov'14

Violin heads in positive financial direction, stems bleeding

The financial horizon looks brighter for Violin Memory than it did a year ago. The Santa Clara, California-based all-flash array (AFA) vendor reported last week that revenue grew for the second ...

November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

Samsung's Proximal deal follows SSD makers' acquisition trend

Samsung’s acquisition this month of Proximal Data marked the latest in a string of deals by solid-state drive (SSD) makers to beef up their product portfolios with server-based flash caching and ...

November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

SanDisk won't commit to Fusion-io's ioControl hybrid array

SanDisk has not disclosed its plans for ioControl, but concedes the hybrid SAN array 'falls outside' vision of accelerating storage with flash.

November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

Nimble: growth now, profits later

Nimble Storage continued its pattern of revenue growth that outpaces the industry by a wide margin while running up more losses last quarter. In its third quarter as a public company, Nimble ...

November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

HDS flash VP: 'It's not enough to be fast' with flash

Hitachi Data Systems VP asserts HDS flash space relevance, claiming 26.5 PB of flash shipped in the last quarter -- mostly in hybrid arrays.

November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

Panasas brings high-speed parallel replication to its scale-out storage

Since adding support for 6 TB Helium drives, hybrid NAS vendor Panasas has changed the way it protects and moves all of that extra data on its systems. The vendor came up with a new triple-parity ...

November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

LexisNexis moves to flash storage with Micron M500 SSDs

When LexisNexis noticed storage becoming a chokepoint, it replaced spinning disk in its high-performance computing cluster with more than 2,600 Micron M500 drives.

November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

Intel set to go big on 3D NAND

Intel claims it will leapfrog early 3D NAND leader Samsung with a 10 TB 3D NAND solid-state drive (SSD) for enterprises by late 2015. Intel laid out its 3D NAND flash plans Thursday during its ...

November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

Like politics, storage campaigns take negative turn

Now that we have just finished an election where special interest groups seeking to control government through their proxies spent billions of dollars marketing campaigns to make negative claims ...

November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

OCZ Storage Solutions rattles read-intensive Saber 1000 SSD Series

Toshiba's OCZ Storage Solutions subsidiary caps eventful year by adding read-intensive Saber 1000 SSDs aimed at hyper-scale environments.

November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

Seagate bolsters ClusterStor HPC storage systems for Hadoop, Lustre

Seagate beefs up ClusterStor storage systems acquired from Xyratex, with new Hadoop optimization tools, Lustre update and secure data appliances.

November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

Pure Storage expands maintenance coverage, hopes to keep customers forever

Pure Storage today expanded its Forever Flash maintenance and warranty programs, which the all-solid-state drive (SSD) array vendor hopes will translate into Forever Pure for its customers. There ...

November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

BMC automates storage asset management

BMC already could map servers and networks. Now the software vendor has discovered storage. BMC’s new Atrium Discovery for Storage automates the discovery and mapping of storage resources and their ...

November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

Fusion-io founders bring 'Woz' to Primary Data

Newcomer Primary Data appears to be a different kind of storage company than Fusion-io, but the management team looks a lot like the server-side flash pioneer that SanDisk bought out last June. ...

November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

Maxta Storage Platform gains validation from Cisco, HP

Cisco tests MaxDeploy reference architecture for Unified Computing System, while HP approves it for the ProLiant 2500 series.

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 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

Veeam CEO says the company is chasing a broader market

Veeam's core market is VMware administrators, but the company is looking to appeal to a broader audience – specifically storage admins. In an interview with TechTarget editors this week, Veeam CEO ...

November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

SolidFire Nitrogen release adds VLAN tagging, automated snapshots

Nitrogen release of SolidFire Element operating system adds virtual LAN tagging to support multi-tenant network security and native functionality for consistent group snapshots.

November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

HP MSA platform gets a jolt of flash tiering, caching

HP adds real-time tiering and flash caching to its Dot Hill-sourced MSA arrays for SMBs. The HP MSA arrays have been enhanced with wide-striping and redirect-on-write snapshots.

November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

NetApp expects new products to save the day

NetApp CEO Tom Georgens says the cure for stagnant revenue is an expanded product portfolio. NetApp’s earnings report Wednesday night showed almost no revenue growth over last year, and its ...

November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

Software-defined storage definition is still not concrete

Storage Decisions presenters cut through the 'marketecture' to say what software-defined storage is, and what it isn't.

November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

Sanbolic stays off hyper-converged bandwagon

Not all storage vendors see hyper-convergence as the cure for all storage ills. Sanbolic CEO Momchil Michailov considers hyper-convergence a cure for some ills, but says it falls short for many use ...

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.

November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

Dot Hill makes its hybrid storage management real-time

Dot Hill Systems Corp. this week upgraded the RealStor storage management software with enhanced caching, capacity pooling and real-time tiering across solid state drives (SSDs) and hard-disk ...

November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

Tintri VMstore gets more capacity, compression, encryption

Tintri launches denser VMstore arrays for virtual machine storage and upgrades its operating system to support compression on hard drives and encryption.

November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

Avere Systems adds virtual edge filer for cloud bursting, big data

Avere Virtual FXT Edge Filers install in the cloud, enabling customers to cloud burst by quickly spinning up a filer in Amazon EC2.

November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

EMC can make cloud-to-cloud backup an enterprise play

Cloud-to-cloud backup has been a niche market, but that may change with EMC’s recent acquisition of Spanning Cloud Apps. Spanning was among three small cloud start-ups EMC acquired Oct. 28, the day ...

November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

NetApp CEO makes 'big bet' on data management with Cloud Ontap

NetApp leader Tom Georgens sees data management growing in importance thanks to the emergence of cloud, flash-enabled data centers and software-defined storage.

November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

Dell adds entry-level SC4020 flash, hybrid EqualLogic arrays

Dell adds flash to low-end storage with all-flash SC4020 Fibre Channel and hybrid EqualLogic iSCSI arrays.

November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

HP 3PAR StoreServ gets flash-focused updates in dedupe and caching

HP extends inline dedupe to additional 3PAR StoreServ arrays and adds flash caching, express writes and an enhanced tool set to optimize SSD use.

November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

Tegile Systems launches new lower-capacity flash arrays

Tegile Systems' new lower-capacity all-flash arrays add encryption support, enhanced application profiles and a customer analytics portal.

November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

Seagate Kinetic hard disk drive object storage platform shoots for the clouds

Seagate says its Kinetic hard disk drive object storage platform eliminates file system and storage server tiers.

November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

The Storage magazine/SearchStorage 2014 Salary Survey

For 12 consecutive years we have surveyed Storage readers to get a picture of the kind of salaries and benefits data storage expertise commands, and our 2014 salary survey confirms what we’ve seen over the years: storage pros are well paid...

October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

Hitachi builds managed service around HDS UCP private cloud platform

Hitachi Data Systems turns its UCP integrated stack into a managed service private cloud. HDS now sets up and manages all the hardware and software.

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 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

Quantum expects video to fast-forward StorNext adoption

Quantum turned a small profit last quarter, and its CEO said he is confident the vendor has turned the corner thanks to its StorNext technology. Quantum’s $135.1 million revenue was at the high end ...

October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

SwiftStack CEO: We make it easy to consume OpenStack object storage

SwiftStack CEO Joe Arnold takes stock of the competitive landscape for his company’s OpenStack-based object storage software and future product direction.

October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

FalconStor prepares FreeStor for flash, clouds

After another quarter of declining revenue, FalconStor CEO Garry Quinn says the troubled company will focus on delivering storage software for flash array vendors and cloud service providers. ...

October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

NetApp opens spigot for Cloud Ontap software, some won't drink

NetApp Cloud Ontap makes it easier to get data to and from the cloud, but doesn't help companies that primarily use on-premises storage.

October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

Skyera launches 136 TB skyHawk, delays meatier skyEagle

Skyera launched a denser 136 TB single-controller skyHawk all-flash array but pushed its dual-controller skyEagle to next year.

October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

CommVault slump continues

CommVault CEO Bob Hammer insists his company isn’t broken, although he has a plethora of fixes lined up. The backup software vendor Tuesday reported rocky results for last quarter (it’s third ...

October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

DataDirect WOS 360 object storage gets support for Amazon S3

DataDirect Networks rolls out an Amazon S3 API and Gateway and integrates the S3 application layer with WOS 360 object storage.

October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

NetApp adds Cloud Ontap, buys Riverbed's cloud backup

NetApp's Cloud Ontap is a software-only version of its Data Ontap operating system that leverages the Amazon public cloud while allowing users to keep control of their data.

October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

SwiftStack CEO: Enterprises are using our open source storage

SwiftStack CEO Joe Arnold delves into new Series B funding, competition, customer trends and the firm's future direction.

October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

Maginatics, Spanning, Cloudscaling join EMC cloud lineup

EMC goes deep into hybrid cloud, picking up three startups and adding bundles aimed at bridging public and private clouds.

October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

EMC takes control of VCE, Tucci willing to delay retirement

EMC, under pressure to spin off assets or merge with another large company, today spun in one of its assets – its VCE joint venture with Cisco. EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci would not comment on ...

October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

Connected Data Transporter moves file sharing to private cloud

Connected Data's Transporter evolves from a SOHO device to an appliance that provides IT with a private cloud for file sync-and-share.

October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

Cleversafe grabs an HP reseller deal, too

Hewlett-Packard isn’t tied to one object storage product, not even its own. Days after revealing a reseller deal with Scality for its Ring software, HP and Cleversafe today said HP would also ...

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 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

OpenStack Juno release adds storage policies for Swift clusters

The most prominent storage feature made available yesterday with the 10th release of OpenStack cloud software -- known as Juno -- gives users the ability to control how and where they want to ...

October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

Symantec halts Backup Exec appliance, vultures circle

At least one Symantec backup product will no longer be in the lineup by time the vendor splits apart its security and backup businesses in a little more than a year from now. While many in the ...

October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

Healthcare cloud turns to NexentaStor for storage, HA

Cloud-hosting firm VM Racks picked NexentaStor software-defined storage because it could scale to hundreds of petabytes and provide high availability.

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