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- 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.
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- 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.
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Sponsored News
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Cybersecurity in the Cloud: Eliminating Confusion and Closing Gaps in Protection
Sponsored by HPE - Security continues to be a major source of concern as organizations move more workloads and applications into the cloud. According to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report, security is the top cloud challenge for decision-makers, cited by 83% of respondents. This situation has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and the expansion of remote work, as well as adoption of multicloud strategies by a large percentage of organizations. See More
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In Financial Services, IT Modernization Is Key to Digital Transformation Success
Sponsored by Dell Technologies VMware - Digital transformation is the key to survival, success and innovation in the financial sector. For companies in banking and other financial services, digital transformation can be a wide-ranging and potentially complex undertaking. See More
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Choosing the Right Cloud Storage Infrastructure for Improved Risk Management
Sponsored by NetApp - The growing ubiquity of cloud storage has been accelerated substantially by a variety of factors, not the least of which has been the COVID-19 pandemic that has spiked cloud usage to complement, and in some cases even replace, on-premises storage. But with that growth of cloud storage has come a commensurate increase in risk as more data is in transit. See More
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Optimizing Storage Architectures for Edge Computing: 5 Design Considerations
Sponsored by Western Digital - From the data center to the edge, 5G and high-speed flash storage are enabling emerging IoT use cases from autonomous vehicles to smart cities and the supply chains of the future. When designing storage to support IoT at the edge, you must consider how 5G and your storage choice will impact data center architectures. See More
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- 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 ...
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- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
- 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 04, 2013
04 Sep'13
Unified storage gets flashier with EMC VNX2
EMC ships the VNX2 with redesigned controllers and software to take better advantage of flash; EMC also adds block-level primary data dedupe.
- August 26, 2013
26 Aug'13
VMware Virtual SAN, Flash Read Cache, Virsto highlight storage plans
VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache and Virsto play big roles in VMware's software-defined storage strategy.