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• 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.

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• 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.

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Early adopters see Red Hat Storage Server as SAN alternative

  Red Hat Storage Server's early adopters see promising results in small projects requiring ease of scalability, high availability and replication.

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

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• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

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• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Users consider combo of Red Hat OpenStack with Red Hat Storage

  Red Hat integrates its storage software with its Red Hat OpenStack open source cloud distribution and updates roadmap for year-old storage server.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  SDSC's OpenStack Swift object store mirrors major providers' systems

  SDSC uses an OpenStack Swift object store for private cloud service and takes the same storage approach as major providers.

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Hitachi Data Systems launches HCP Anywhere for online file sharing

  Hitachi Data Systems addresses online file sharing through HCP Anywhere as part of its Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) object cloud storage system.

• May 06, 2013 06 May'13

  EMC World 2013: EMC ViPR has vendor on software-defined storage route

  EMC ViPR, the vendor's software-defined storage technology, is designed to manage heterogeneous storage as one pool while adding cloud features.

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  Hitachi NAS Platform adds primary deduplication

  Hitachi Data Systems gives its HNAS product primary deduplication -- after years of tweaks to avoid performance impact.

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  EMC's RecoverPoint, SRDF shake hands

  EMC will make a bunch of product launches next week at its annual EMC World conference in Las Vegas. But there were upgrades the vendor couldn’t wait to announce, so it revealed a handful of data ...

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  NAND shortage could slow pace of flash price drops, squeeze SSD makers

  A shortage of NAND in the second half of 2013 could slow flash price drops and squeeze out some SSD vendors, but it won't affect SSD availability.

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Storage tiers: SAS interface, MLC flash rising

  SAS vs. SATA battle in enterprise data storage shows hard drives with SAS interface trending up; cheaper MLC SSDs outnumber SLC in enterprise.

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Tegile hybrid SAN SSD solves contractor's VDI performance issues

  Tegile Systems hybrid SAN's SSDs and data reduction technologies solved Egan Company's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) performance issues.

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Nexsan storage acquired by Imation for $120 million

  In the first storage acquisition of 2013, Imation takes a big step by acquiring Nexsan storage for $120 million.

• December 17, 2012 17 Dec'12

  Amazon, Google, Microsoft cut cloud storage prices again

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft keep cutting cloud storage prices to put data in the cloud to lure customers, but other associated costs remain the same.

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Nimble Storage hybrid array improves law firm's VDI performance

  Lindquist & Vennum claims its Nimble Storage CS240 hybrid storage array improved performance for its 350-seat virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI.

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  Direct marketing firm solves VDI storage woes with hybrid flash array

  Direct marketing firm EU Services received a performance boost from Nimble Storage hybrid flash to remove VDI storage bottlenecks.

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  University solves write IOPS VDI problem with Whiptail storage flash array

  The University of Portland turned to a Whiptail all-solid-state storage array to get sufficient write IOPS performance for its VDI project.

• June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12

  Dell storage products roadmap includes server flash, primary dedupe

  The Dell storage products roadmap outlined at Dell Storage Forum 2012 includes server-based flash, storage virtualization and primary data reduction.

• August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11

  Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic

  Dell revamped its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN hardware today, adding new entry-level and midrange platforms with support for 2.5-inch SAS drives and multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for ...

• January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11

  EMC combines Clariion, Celerra into VNX unified storage

  EMC VNX is the result of the long-awaited consolidation of its Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS platforms into a unified storage system that will sharpen the competition with NetApp.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Data storage trends 2011: Predictions of hot data storage technologies

  Explore this expert FAQ as three analysts weight in and tell us what they think are the hottest data storage technologies and data storage trends for 2011.

• July 19, 2010 19 Jul'10

  Does Nimble dedupe?

  Nimble Storage Thursday came out of stealth with a storage system that the startup’s executives said combines primary storage with deduplication for backup in the same device. It makes sense that ...

• September 07, 2009 07 Sep'09

  Fibre Channel switch options for SMBs

  Recently, the Fibre Channel industry has become more attractive and affordable for SMBs. This article explores FC switch considerations and products for SMBs.

• June 11, 2009 11 Jun'09

  New data archiving products focus on software-only delivery, cloud integration

  Emerging data archiving products focus on software-only delivery and grid architecture, latch onto cloud integration and look for alternatives to SQL databases for indexing.

• January 05, 2009 05 Jan'09

  EMC acquires open-source assets from SourceLabs

  EMC has confirmed it acquired assets, including people, from SourceLabs for its cloud computing group, but hasn't provided details about how the assets will be used.

• April 08, 2008 08 Apr'08

  EMC acquires Iomega, creates consumer storage division

  After chasing its consumer storage partner for two weeks, EMC finally acquired Iomega and its strong consumer channels for about $213 million.

• December 31, 2007 31 Dec'07

  Top 10 technology IPOs of 2007

  The market for tech IPOs heated up in 2007, and while EMC spinoff VMware attracted investors beyond anyone's expectations, other stocks tailed off late in the year.

• October 31, 2007 31 Oct'07

  Iron Mountain acquires Stratify for $158M

  Iron Mountain will add legal processing to its e-discovery services through the purchase of its legal review partner.

• October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07

  Clustered storage vendor Isilon hot-swaps CEOs

  Beset by disappointing sales since it went public last December, Isilon turns to founder Sujal Patel as its CEO.

• May 21, 2007 21 May'07

  IBM chief engineer talks green storage

  IBM engineer Clod Barrera discusses the growing energy crisis in storage, the need for better power efficiency metrics and the future for "green" products.

• January 18, 2007 18 Jan'07

  Brocade migration tool does the trick for EMC user

  The University of New Mexico Hospital first tried EMC's SANCopy to migrate data off of an old Xiotech array, but ended up having to use Brocade's Data Migration Manager instead.

• August 01, 2006 01 Aug'06

  Storage analysts: RAID 6 is bringing changes

  Larger disk drives and storage growth are magnifying concerns over dual-parity rebuild times. Fortunately, analysts say, help is on the way.

• March 31, 2006 31 Mar'06

  HP storage chief blasts EMC

  Bob Schultz, GM of HP's storage business, says EMC's partnership with Dell is uncertain at best, and the company's major acquisitions have not burned up the market.