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October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Oracle FS1 flash system challenges SANs for DB storage

Oracle FS1 Series Flash Storage System could threaten major SAN vendors and solid-state startups that target Oracle DB, application environments.
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
Druva moves from endpoint to server backup

Druva is taking its enterprise endpoint backup software and moving it into backup for small businesses and remote and branch office backup. The company this week launched Druva Phoenix, a ...
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 09, 2014 09 Oct'14
EMC claims products work better together despite a call for breakup

EMC has issued two responses to the letter that investor Elliott Management made public Wednesday calling for the vendor to spin off VMware and/or explore a merger with other large companies. EMC ...
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October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
SolidFire touts density, scale of smaller SSD array

All-flash vendor SolidFire releases new arrays that scale to 100 nodes and petabytes of storage, claims less than $3 per usable GB price.
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
PernixData broadens I/O caching software support

PernixData caches data across pools of flash, RAM, or a combination of the two.
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
IBM brings Elastic Storage to Power8, z servers

IBM bundles Elastic Storage -- based on GPFS and Watson -- on its Power8 server and supports System z mainframes.
October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14
Red Hat faces long-term decisions on Gluster, Ceph in storage portfolio

While launching the latest version of Red Hat Storage Server yesterday, the vendor provided little insight into the long-term positioning of its storage software portfolio and the chances that ...
October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14
EMC links arms with CloudLink for DRaas

EMC is aiming its new RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines at cloud DR, in partnership with cloud security vendor CloudLink Technologies. RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is a hypervisor-based ...
October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14
Nimble, Actifio show their Oracle chops

Oracle wasn’t the only vendor to toot its own storage horn at Oracle OpenWorld this week. A couple of smaller vendors played up their budding relationship with the database giant to show how they ...
October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14
Samsung pushes out second-gen 3-D V-NAND NVMe PCIe card

Samsung takes aim at high-end data center storage with new SM1715 3-D V-NAND drive designed for greater density, speed and endurance.
October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14
Red Hat Storage Server 3 update brings capacity, analytics features

Red Hat's new Storage Server 3 software update adds support for snapshots and hot-button capabilities such as petabyte-scale capacity, SSDs and Hadoop.
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 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
All those video cameras can be a boon for storage companies

Whenever Big Brother is watching, there is a storage vendor eager to store whatever Big Brother is seeing. And today, Big Brother is watching more places than ever before. The video surveillance ...
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
VDI, SQL Server draw Boston Scientific to EMC XtremIO

Boston Scientific adopted EMC XtremIO all-flash arrays for VDI then SQL Server databases; chief architect hopes to expand to general-purpose storage.
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Oracle launches all-flash SAN, backup box for databases

Larry Ellison took aim at EMC when he introduced a flash storage array and disk backup product at his Sunday keynote at Oracle Open World. Never mind that the world is filled with flash SANs and ...
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Bank analytics firm deposits storage on X-IO ISE arrays

The need for reliable throughput prompted Argus to integrate 81 ISE HDD arrays to support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and a SQL Server database with 2 PB of storage.
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Nasuni tests storage volume with more than 1 billion files

Generating a billion files to prove a point is no trivial task. Nasuni Corp. claimed to have spent 15 months creating and testing a single storage volume within its service with more than a billion ...
September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14
A&P installs IBM FlashSystem to replace aging disk arrays

IBM FlashSystem all-flash arrays help supermarket chain with primary storage while boosting performance and reducing data center footprint.
September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14
All-flash pioneers holding up well despite increased competition

It’s been awhile since startups had the all-flash array market to themselves. All the major storage vendors now have one or more all-flash platforms. Still, the flash array pioneers still have the ...
September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14
BitTorrent boosts Sync's security for sharing NAS files

SMB NAS vendors are integrating BitTorrent Sync as an optional add-on for authenticating file sharing between devices.
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Overland increases revs, losses while waiting for Sphere 3D

Overland Storage had significant revenue increases while continuing to lose money last quarter as it absorbed Tandberg Data while waiting to be absorbed by Sphere 3D. Overland Tuesday reported its ...
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 22, 2014 22 Sep'14
EMC merger intriguing but unlikely

There has been a lot of speculation about who will succeed Joe Tucci if the EMC CEO really retires next February as planned. The leading candidates were thought to be from inside the EMC federation ...
September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14
Firm shifts to Tegile Systems hybrid array for VM storage

Boot storms and doubling storage capacity prompted broadcast services firm Grass Valley to pull the plug on NetApp FlexPod and opt for a Tegile HA2300 hybrid array.
September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14
Backup appliance sales take turn for the better

The backup appliance market rebounded last quarter following a year-over-year decline in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC’s quarterly tracker numbers. The backup appliance market hit ...
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Blue Waters' storage needs run deep

You think you have high storage capacity needs? Well, this week the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) added 20 PB – that’s right, petabytes – of tape capacity for online data ...
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Best storage products of 2014—enter your new or enhanced products

Now in its twelfth year, the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition is open for entries. If you're a vendor, a PR firm representing a vendor or just a very satisfied ...
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Cloudian adds appliances, flash to run HyperStore cloud software

Hybrid cloud vendor Cloudian bucks the software-defined storage trend, adding appliances to run its HyperStore object software.
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
A3Cube adds software to boost I/O, scale big data storage

A3Cube Fortissimo Foundation software works with its Ronniee NICs to scale storage resources and boost the performance of I/O-intensive applications.
September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14
Axcient buys DirectRestore for granular recovery in the cloud

Cloud provider Axcient has acquired DirectRestore to bolster application recovery capabilities in its disaster-recovery-as-a-service platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed but Axcient ...
September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14
NetApp makes single-node FlashRay systems available

NetApp says select customers can buy its FlashRay all-flash array, which includes inline dedupe and compression but is still a one-node configuration.
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
USF Health does the math, picks Pure Storage FlashArray for VDI

The health systems network headed off its virtual desktop infrastructure performance issues by implementing a Pure Storage all-flash array early on.
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
Permabit points SANblox dedupe appliance at legacy storage arrays

Permabit puts data reduction on its add-on appliance, but which vendors will sign on to sell it?
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
Panzura CEO discusses fading cloud storage gateway market

CEO Randy Chou discusses why he thinks the cloud gateway market will be absorbed by cloud providers or legacy storage vendors, and why EMC isn't a competitor.
September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14
Drive vendors Seagate, HGST in launch mode

The industry’s two hard drive vendors had a busy week with product rollouts and future-gazing. Western Digital’s HGST division launched a flurry of products Tuesday, including 8 TB and 10 TB helium ...
September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14
HGST expands helium drives, adds NVMe flash

HGST embraces NVMe spec for flash while boosting capacity of its helium-filled hard drives in rollout of HDD and solid-state storage products.
September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14
SanDisk, Dell team up to deliver DAS cache on PowerEdge

Dell's newest PowerEdge servers are going to use the SanDisk DAS Cache software to automate high-performance data on SSDs. The next-generation R730, R73oXD, R630, T630 and R920 uses direct-attached ...
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 ...
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
Traditional storage vendors feel the heat from newcomers

Revenues for external disk storage among all vendors fell 1.4% from last year during the second quarter, according International Data Corp.’s worldwide disk systems tracker. It marked the fourth ...
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
All-flash storage will dominate, eventually

It seems clear that all solid-state technology will become common in primary storage systems soon. In our IT client engagements, we see many companies including the transition to all solid state in ...
September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14
Hospital prescribes hybrid flash array to speed storage performance

Wheeling Hospital improves storage management and data protection with switch to Dell Compellent hybrid flash array, which will replicate to an all-hard drive version off-site.
September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14
Emulex OpenWorks connects with Egenera PAN Manager

Emulex OpenWorks Connector's RESTful API enables Egenera's PAN Manager to take advantage of Emulex's provisioning and management.
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
The state of flash storage technology

In a relatively short time, solid-state storage has made an indelible mark on storage systems and data center environments. Today, few arrays ship without at least some solid-state installed on them, and all-flash arrays are gaining attention and...
September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14
DataGravity's smart storage arrays add meaning to bits and bytes

At a time when most of the activity in the storage market seems to be focused on taking away as much intelligence as possible from physical storage devices, there's one vendor bucking that trend. ...
August 31, 2014 31 Aug'14
Nimble claims record revenue, 663 new customers in fiscal Q2

Nimble Storage Inc. hit record numbers with $53.8 million in revenue and 663 new customers during its fiscal second quarter and closed 444 deals in excess of $100,000 for the 12-month period ending ...
August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14
PernixData wants to cache your mission critical apps

Caching software startup PernixData’s recent funding round was heavy in cash and even heavier in cachet. The $35 million funding round was far from the richest of the year – Nutanix last week ...
August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14
Early users found VSAN hardware difficult, management easy

VSAN management wasn't an issue for early adopters of the hyper-converged storage, but getting it to work with re-purposed hardware was a challenge.
August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14
Overland Storage unveils NAS server, enterprise-class storage software

Overland Storage releases GuardianOS 7.6 software in desktop form factor NAS platform via its SnapServer XSD 40 NAS server.
August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14
Nutanix raises $140 million, claims $2 billion valuation

Nutanix Inc. bolstered its status as one of the hottest converged infrastructure companies with today’s announcement of a $140 million funding round – its largest to date – and a valuation claim of ...
August 25, 2014 25 Aug'14
Infinio adds block storage support to RAM cache engine

The latest version of Infinio's RAM cache tool, Infinio Accelerator 2.0, borrows idle memory from servers to support large VDI deployments.
August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14
HP takes StoreVirtual to the cloud

Hewlett-Packard, struggling to find a successful storage platform outside of its 3PAR arrays, is making its StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) more cloud-friendly. HP today said it will ...
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
Nutanix will support Amazon cloud from hyper-converged infrastructure

Nutanix previews Cloud Connect that allows customers to use AWS as a native backup target, moving backup and archives off its hyper-converged clusters.
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
Nexenta eyes object, VSAN, orchestration

ZFS storage veteran Nexenta is moving into the crowded object storage market. Nexenta this week revealed plans for NexentaEdge as part of its strategy to expand beyond its NexentaStor software that ...
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
Solid state requires different storage performance metrics

The use of solid state technology in the form of NAND flash for storage systems changes the way we need to evaluate storage. While it brings power, space, and reliability advantages, the main ...
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Violin Concerto 2200 supports inline deduplication, compression

Violin Memory adds support for inline deduplication and compression with launch of Concerto 2200 appliance for NFS environments targeting virtual desktop infrastructure and virtual servers.
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
DataGravity makes debut with data-aware Discovery arrays

The vendor comes out of stealth with Discovery hybrid storage arrays that offer real-time data governance and data protection capabilities.
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 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Tintri VMstore adds Red Hat support, Hyper-V still on deck

With hypervisors other than VMware gaining popularity, Tintri delivers on its promise for wider support with OS 3.0.
August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Data explosion poses storage challenges to universities

Incoming Michigan State CIO discusses the data storage challenges universities have to deal with and how to address them with cloud storage.
August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Pivot3 secures $12 million in funding for hyper-converged expansion

Hyper-converged infrastructure vendor Pivot3 secured another $12 million in funding this week, bringing its total funding to about $100 million in 10 years. Pivot3, based in Austin, Texas, has been ...
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
NetApp expects FlashRay in September

Despite a drop in revenue from last year, NetApp executives painted a rosy picture of their outlook during their earnings call Wednesday evening. They expressed optimism over the pending FlashRay ...
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Mangstor unveils MX6000 flash device with MRAM for persistent storage

Mangstor MX6000 will integrate Spin Torque MRAM (ST-RAM) on PCIe cards to enable in-storage processing instead of DRAM for persistent memory storage.
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Nasuni secures another $10 million, working toward an IPO

Cloud storage controller vendor Nasuni pulled in $10 million in new financing in an extension of its Series C round this week, bringing its total amount of investment raised to $53 million since ...
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
Chinese vendor Memblaze enters U.S. market with NVMe flash

Chinese storage vendor Memblaze flashes NVMe storage line at U.S. enterprises; adopts NVMe spec to take on Fusion-io, Intel.
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
Nimble adds two hybrid flash arrays

Nimble Storage today completed a product refresh it began in June with its CS700 high-end system. Today it added CS500 and CS300 arrays, which like the CS700 use new versions of Intel processors to ...
August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14
Axcient new virtual appliance faster, Hyper-V support on the horizon

Axcient introduced the second generation of its back up and disaster recovery virtual appliance that now is available in smaller storage capacities with reduced backup times. The new appliance ...
August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14
Quantum queues up cloud file sharing technology from Symform

Quantum added cloud services and file sync and share technology through its acquisition of Symform last week. The interesting part will be to see how it implements these technologies with its ...
August 10, 2014 10 Aug'14
NVDIMM makers try to find their niche in flash ecosystem

NVDIMM technology, one of the latest players searching for a position in a flash field that's growing more crowded, shares enough traits with DRAM memory, DIMM-based flash storage and other solid ...
August 10, 2014 10 Aug'14
Survey says budgets dipping but interest in flash storage rising

IT budgets are declining on average, and while planned storage spending is dipping, too, it accounts for 13.5% of the overall IT budget. That figure, based on survey data collected by 451 ...
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Newcomer CacheBox nudges flash acceleration closer to apps

Newcomer Cache Advance balances static and dynamic caching to target indexes and tables, apply block-level intelligence for flash storage.
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Diablo picks up Supermicro OEM deal for DIMM flash

Diablo's Carbon2 upgrade of its DIMM flash board includes API set for mirroring DRAM as persistent flash storage; Supermicro signs on as OEM partner.
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Enterprise storage architecture must re-invent with flash, cloud

IBM Fellow, CTO and strategist Andrew Walls says the company must continuously 're-invent the SAN' with the influx of flash, cloud and software-defined 'elastic' storage.
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
PanTerra Networks merges online file sharing, unified communications

By merging its SmartBox cloud file sharing with Unified Cloud Communications, PanTerra extends its sync-and-share services to tablets and smartphones.
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
Zadara Storage adds on-premises version of VPSA cloud storage

Zadara Storage's on-premises as a service option gives customers on-premises storage that 'feels like cloud' but is managed by the vendor.
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
Appliances carry Symantec backup revenue

Symantec’s transformation towards an integrated backup appliance model accelerated last quarter, as revenue of its NetBackup appliances increased 35 percent over last year. Symantec’s backup ...
August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14
Cisco VP: We're still into FC storage (but FCoE is doing fine)

Cisco VP dishes on the data center switching vendor's plans for 32 Gbps FC, how Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a success and why it doesn't call 16-gig FC "Gen 5."
August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14
Who needs Dell? Nutanix tripled revenue last quarter

Nutanix hasn’t been sitting idle waiting for its Dell OEM deal to kick in. The hyper-converged system vendor today said it exceeded $50 million in revenue for the quarter that finished at the end ...
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.
August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14
IBM FlashSystem V840 storage array gets an update

The IBM FlashSystem V840 all-flash array is beefed up with performance and scalability improvements, not to mention refreshed software – and all just four months after the storage system launched.
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
IBM storage Fellow discusses flash strategy

IBM Fellow Andrew Walls thinks most if not all active data will eventually reside on flash storage, and when Walls speaks, IBM Storage listens. Walls is responsible for setting the strategy for the ...
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
Categorizing solid state storage systems

There are many types of implementations of solid state or flash storage systems. At Evaluator Group, we regularly field questions and work on projects regarding solid state storage with our IT ...
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
Cloud storage gateways blending into major storage systems

Cloud storage gateways appear likely to fade away as a discrete product category, but industry analysts predict the functionality will be integrated into major vendors' storage systems.
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
Cisco SAN line expands with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel switching platform

Cisco says it remains committed to Fibre Channel with its new 16 Gbps FC MDS 9706 Director and MDS 9148S department switch, plus Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) line card.
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Object storage systems go beyond the cloud

Advances to object technology and accelerating growth of unstructured data make object storage valuable for on-premises data, despite their start as a cloud play.
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 29, 2014 29 Jul'14
Flash storage arrays gain features, boost capacity

New all-flash storage array models from IBM, Violin Memory and Kaminario follow trend of boosting data reduction and management features, adding higher capacity options.
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Quantum looks towards StorNext for a pick-me-up

With both disk and tape backup target markets stagnating, Quantum is counting on its StorNext platform for growth. Quantum’s “scale-out storage” – StorNext file system and Lattus object storage ...
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Solid-state drive warranty could have usage limits

A BriForum session on getting the most out of your solid-state drives for a virtual desktop infrastructure raises interesting points about what to look for in an SSD warranty.
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
TwinStrata CloudArray helps consolidate primary, backup storage

Although EMC looks to TwinStrata technology to turn the cloud into a storage tier from inside a SAN, one customer proves CloudArray has value without a separate SAN for primary, backup and disaster recovery storage.
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
EMC's Tucci will meet with investors but resists break-up

EMC CEO Joe Tucci today said he plans to meet with the investor group reportedly calling for the storage conglomerate to break itself up, although he maintained that his company benefits from its ...
July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14
Online marketer Pentius revs up IOPS with PernixData FVP

Online marketer Pentius turned to server flash cache to accelerate performance for OLTP, with an assist from PernixData FVP clustering software.
July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14
IBM Elastic Storage on Cloud targets hybrid, public cloud

IBM expands its SoftLayer services with Elastic Storage on Cloud, using GPFS and Watson technology.
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
Microsoft sees InMage Scout as a fit for Azure, appliance

Microsoft plans to use InMage Scout software as a piece of its cloud disaster recovery offering and to run on a data protection appliance.
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
NetApp, EMC link private storage to Microsoft Azure public cloud

NetApp and EMC join the lineup of storage vendors gearing up to support Microsoft Azure by linking private storage to the public cloud.
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 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
BitTorrent works with NAS vendors to boost file sharing

BitTorrent said NAS fits with its peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, lines up native Sync support with NAS vendors Seagate, Overland and NetGear.
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
OCZ beefs up SQL Accelerator drives, adds remote flash cache

Key to OCZ's new SQL Accelerator is Direct Pass Caching software that abstracts data at the block level.

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