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• 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.

• 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.