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• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Private clouds signal a change in what we call IT

  We have been working with IT clients who deploy private clouds as part of their operations. The reasons include implementing a change in the delivery of IT services, a new infrastructure for ...

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Violin storage adds WFA models, pay-as-you-grow option

  Violin Memory adds four models of its Windows Flash Array (WFA) and "pay-as-you-grow" pricing.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Nasuni Filer adds file-locking, entry-level model

  Nasuni Filer now supports file locking to maintain data integrity across sites, a necessary step to becoming an accepted cloud NAS system.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Gridstore Inc. Hyper-V storage goes bigger, deepens Windows support

  Gridstore beefs up capacity for its Hyper-V storage arrays and integrates management through Microsoft Windows Systems Center.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Box raises $150 million but can it overcome the Snowden effect?

  Online storage provider Box last week raised another $150 million from two investment firms, pushing the total amount of its funding to $564 million as it prepares to go public. While it can be ...

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• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  CA’s arcserve goes out for a spin

  When CA Technologies launched its arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) platform in May, it was considered a new direction for the backup and recovery platform. It turns out the direction it is ...

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Thecus unveils OS updates, Synology America standardizes warranties

  Thecus announces OS updates to its NAS lineup while Synology America launches a RackStation model and standardizes warranties on its XS+/XS models.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Lab adds DDN storage to keep up with supercomputer

  DDN's high-performance computing storage systems provide Department of Energy lab with 75 GBps read/write operations and eliminates bottlenecks.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Panzura says cloud gateway appliance has no value, so now it's free

  What's behind the decision of Panzura and Google to give away a cloud controller and 2 TB of cloud capacity?

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Avere grabs funding, points to the cloud and IPO

  Avere Systems today closed a $20 million series D funding round that founder and CEO Ron Bianchini said he expects will take the NAS acceleration vendor to break-even and an initial public offering ...

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Microsoft StorSimple tightens integration with Azure

  Microsoft StorSimple cloud-integrated disk arrays get bigger with new centralized management capabilities.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  EMC sees TwinStrata as a cloud tier for storage

  EMC acquired TwinStrata primarily for its ability to serve as a cloud tier for its VMAX enterprise arrays.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC upgrades Isilon NAS for file storage, Hadoop analytics

  EMC spins out two new Isilon NAS models, including one for Hadoop analytics, and adds flash read cache.

• 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.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC acquires TwinStrata, refreshes VMAX, Isilon arrays

  EMC World 2014 in May was light on product launches, as the vendor did not make any updates that were expected to its storage array platforms. Those launches came today when EMC refreshed three of ...

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Storage management requires continuous learning

  Despite obvious evolution of the storage industry, the problems in storing and managing information are the same ones that have been there since the days of Data Processing in the 1960s. The ...

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  A lesson in flash caching

  Solid-state storage is proliferating as a replacement for hard disk drives, where it offers a quick shift into the fast lane of storage processing. But flash can also be used with hard disks for a low-cost solution that delivers nearly equivalent ...

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Scality Ring object storage improves data protection, security

  Scality Ring upgrade includes OpenStack Swift and Cinder support, improved erasure coding for clusters and Kerberos authentication.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Crossbar's Resistive RAM claims milestone, but future ship date remains unclear

  Many enterprises are still getting a handle on the best ways to use NAND flash, but they can already scope out some of the potential successors to the solid-state storage technology. Crossbar Inc. ...

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Dell-Nutanix deal can be hyper-contagious

  Dell and Nutanix took a lot of people by surprise this week when they disclosed an OEM deal that will result in Dell selling Nutanix hyper-converged software on PowerEdge servers. If this plays out ...

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Oracle ZFS Storage appliances support OpenStack Cinder

  Oracle makes it easier for ZFS Storage Appliance customers to provision and orchestrate cloud storage with the addition of OpenStack Cinder drivers.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  CloudPhysics adds storage analytics to virtualization monitoring

  CloudPhysics' storage suite troubleshoots storage contention on VMware VMs, predicting when disks will fail and how much caching will help.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  HP brings Helion services to the cloud

  HP has renamed an extended version of its managed storage and backup services as Helion. Formerly called Storage Management Services and Backup Restore services, Helion now is positioned as a ...

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  RainStor tailors its compression for big data archiving on Hadoop

  RainStor 6 includes Archive Application for Hadoop intended to reduce footprint and speed performance of Hadoop clusters.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Hitachi Data Systems tiers up its cloud platform

  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has enhanced its cloud storage platform for people who want to use the public cloud as a tier. The vendor made changes to three cloud products – the Hitachi Content ...

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  SolidFire SSD array gets plug-in for VM-level QoS

  Software plug-in for SolidFire SSD array enables its all-flash systems to communicate with VMware's vSphere Storage I/O Control.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Permabit Technology launches HIOPS Compression for primary storage

  Permabit adds HIOPS Compression to its Albireo data deduplication software, which it says can help storage array vendors hold off innovative startups.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Violin Memory joins SSD vendors adding data management

  With the Violin Concerto All Flash Array and software suite, Violin Memory joins the list of solid-state storage vendors adding data management.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Dell strikes OEM deal with Nutanix to sell hyper-converged storage

  Dell's OEM deal with Nutanix will result in its selling hyper-converged software on PowerEdge servers. Dell also launched a low-end FC SAN.

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Cloud storage does not eliminate IT's responsibility for data

  I have been told by a storage administrator that if he moved data to the cloud he was no longer responsible for it.  He made the wash-my-hands of it sign during that conversation to illustrate it ...

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Marvell controller can push TLC flash closer to data center

  Marvell says its fifth version of its SATA SSD controller facilitates use of triple-level cell flash for cold storage.

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Zadara Storage helps property firm migrate 800 million images to AWS

  RealtyData dismantled its data center after moving its entire IT operation to the Amazon cloud -- but needed help from Zadara.

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  One-click cloud DR? Actifio says, 'copy that'

  More than three years after coming out with its copy data storage software, Actifio is expanding the use cases for its data protection technology. Actifio launched Actifio Sky platform in May as a ...

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Amplidata Himalaya to scale mountains of data

  Amplidata's newest object storage software is a redesigned version of the vendor's original AmpliStor, and is built to scale higher for Verizon's cloud.

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Cloud-to-cloud backup picks up steam with acquisition, new Salesforce.com features

  The cloud-to-cloud backup universe expanded over the past week when cloud file sync vendor eFolder acquired Cloudfinder and Spanning Cloud Apps added features for its Salesforce.com backup. eFoder ...

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Miami Marlins use Cleversafe dsNet to chase pennant

  The Miami Marlins deployed Cleversafe object storage and Panzura cloud controllers to store its video library.

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  SanDisk considers flash array after Fusion-io acquisition

  SanDisk will expand its enterprise flash presence after Fusion-io acquisition, but analysts wonder about the fate of ioControl hybrid array.

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  SwiftStack 2.0 adds file system gateway, Swift updates

  SwiftStack's newest version adds integration with LDAP and Active Directory for authenticated access, and other OpenStack Swift updates.

• 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 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  SanDisk gobbles up Fusion-io for PCIe flash; fate of arrays not clear

  SanDisk expanded its enterprise flash product line today by acquiring PCIe flash leader Fusion-io for $1.1 billion. However, SanDisk provided few specifics about its plans for its newly acquired ...

• June 13, 2014 13 Jun'14

  Coraid aims to be a cloud storage supplier

  Coraid Inc. recently introduced its EtherDrive EX unified storage system, a high density array for block and file storage, as the company continues to try and push into large-scale cloud ...

• June 13, 2014 13 Jun'14

  Gartner report places IBM, Pure Storage atop 2013 all-flash array market

  Fueled by triple-digit percentage growth in revenue, IBM and Pure Storage were the market leaders for solid-state arrays (SSA) in 2013, according to a report released this week by Gartner Inc. ...

• June 13, 2014 13 Jun'14

  Intronis ditches per-gigabyte cloud storage pricing, moves to flat rate

  Intronis, a cloud backup and recovery provider, has ended its per-gigabyte storage pricing model for its IT Channel partners who are starting to feel the brunt of the pricing war between ...

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Samsung releases TLC flash SSDs aimed at data centers

  Samsung says new triple-level cell (TLC) flash drives will reduce latency and provide steady state performance for read-intensive applications.

• 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.

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  HP adds dedupe, 1.92 TB SSDs to 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array

  HP says its 3PAR StoreServ 7450 flash array costs less than $2 per GB with new capacity drives and inline deduplication.

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  Fusion-io delivers 6.4 TB Atomic Series PCIe flash card

  New Fusion-io Atomic Series PCIe cards treat flash as memory, not faster disk.

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Storage sales dropped in Q1, especially on high end

  It comes as no surprise to anyone who followed vendors’ most recent earnings reports that storage systems revenues dropped significantly during the first quarter of 2014. Or that sales of high end ...

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  Infrascale closes $16.3M in funding, buys cloud backup appliance vendor Eversync

  Cloud backup vendor Infrascale today closed a $16.3 million Series B funding round and immediately made an investment by acquiring backup deduplication appliance vendor Eversync Solutions. ...

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  Call center hosting firm scales with Fusion-io ioControl

  Call center software hosting company Pipkins moved PCIe flash from its servers into ioControl SAN storage to bump up scale and performance.

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Tegile Systems adds all-flash to its hybrid array lineup

  Tegile Systems expands its flash array platform with a higher capacity hybrid and all-flash offering.

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Intel launches NVMe PCIe flash cards up to 2 TB

  Intel brings out its first PCIe flash cards based on the NVMe specification, with a range of capacity and performance options.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  EMC’s Tucci still flexible about retirement plans

  EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci this week left open the door to remaining as CEO past next February, and slammed it shut on the possibility of selling off VMware. Tucci spoke Thursday at Sanford C. ...

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Violin dumps PCIe products, as flash revenue falls

  Violin Memory sold off its fledgling PCIe flash business to SK hynix for $23 million this week as it tries to dig out of the financial hole it fell into late last year. The sale gives Violin ...

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Seagate acquires LSI Nytro, SandForce flash products

  Seagate will finally move into the enterprise flash business with its $540 million acquisition of LSI's SSD controller and PCIe card platforms.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Samsung unveils 2nd-generation 3-D NAND technology

  Samsung begins production of its second generation of 3-D NAND flash, called Vertical NAND, which improves write endurance, consumes less power.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Nimble CEO sees no need for all-flash array

  Surrounded by large and small storage competitors diving into the all-flash array market, Nimble Storage CEO Suresh Vasudevan said his company is at least three years away from taking such a step. ...

• 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 29, 2014 29 May'14

  Unitrends buys startup Yuruware for cloud backup

  Unitrends today added cloud backup technology to its data protection product line, which already includes physical backup (Unitrends integrated appliances), virtual backup (PHD Virtual) and ...

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  Skyera all-flash arrays draw attention on price, capacity, hardware

  Skyera's skyHawk and upcoming skyEagle all-flash arrays are drawing attention based on low price per gigabyte, high capacity and hardware innovation.

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  SolidFire flash arrays built for cloud providers

  SolidFire started out selling all-flash arrays to service providers but is adding features that will make the arrays more appealing for enterprises.

• May 27, 2014 27 May'14

  dinCloud offers no transfer fees with its new cloud service

  Cloud service provider dinCloud is taking on Amazon, hoping to lure customers away with its own dinStorage S3 full-service cloud storage that is based on the Amazon S3 open APIs and can be used for ...

• May 27, 2014 27 May'14

  X-IO ISE provides health insurance firm with affordable VDI care

  AvMed turns to X-IO ISE hybrid array to resuscitate sluggish virtual desktop infrastructure, which had been too much for its primary storage.

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  X-IO switches CEOs, focuses on virtualization

  Brian Owen today moved into a well-worn – and well-warmed – seat as CEO of X-IO Technologies. Owen becomes the vendor’s ninth CEO in less than 12 years. His job will be to help X-IO find a secure ...

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Oracle GreenBytes acquisition likely more about flash than VDI

  Analysts say Oracle acquired GreenBytes for its deduplication technology, which makes a good fit for a future all-flash array.

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  NetApp sales down; OEM sales way down

  NetApp is having the same problems as the other large storage vendors these days – more data going into the cloud, elongated sales cycles, declines in federal spending and new innovative vendors ...

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Veeam adds new suite, support for EMC's DD Boost

  When I spoke with Veeam Software CEO Ratmire Timashev a few weeks ago, he said the virtual machine data protection specialist is working on beefing up its data availability capabilities. Today, ...

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Kaminario adds dedupe, density to K2 flash array

  All-flash vendor Kaminario implements 'selectable' inline deduplication that can be turned on or off.

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Interest in block and object OpenStack storage picks up

  All signs point to increased momentum for OpenStack Swift and Cinder storage at the semiannual summit.

• 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 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Sphere 3D buys Overland Storage for $81 million

  Overland Storage is going away as an independent company. The storage vendor will become a wholly owned subsidiary after its merger with Sphere 3D is completed. Overland’s products will live on, ...

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Think of ViPR data services as plug-ins, analyst says

  Analyst Greg Schulz explains ViPR 2.0 in easy-to-understand terms, and without getting caught up in unclear definitions of software-defined storage.

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Pure Storage flash gets arrays bigger, smaller, cheaper

  Pure Storage expands its all-flash array platform with an entry-level model, enterprise system and replication software.

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Atlantis partners with VMware for VDI, VSAN

  VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) can be a disruptive force among the rapidly growing roster of software-defined storage startups. But rather than fight VMware, Atlantis Computing wants to play a ...

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Tintri VMstore appliance adds Hyper-V support

  After making its name as storage for VMware hypervisors, Tintri VMstore adds Microsoft Hyper-V support for multi-hypervisor customers.

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Caringo CAStor object storage turns into Swarm

  Caringo makes its object storage faster and more scalable, and gives it a new name to avoid its association with content-addressed storage.

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Storage lifespans: don't confuse technology with data

  Clarification is needed about what lifespan means regarding storage because confusion is created by the way product messaging refers to both in the same context. Lifespans of storage systems refer ...

• May 13, 2014 13 May'14

  Microsoft previews Azure Files, Azure Site Recovery at TechEd

  Microsoft previewed the Azure Files service and new Azure-based disaster recovery capabilities yesterday at TechEd North America in Houston, in line with its major conference theme of connecting ...

• 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.

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  Startup Maxta gets $25 million in funding, partners with Intel

  Maxta, a software-based hyper-convergence startup, last week picked up $25 million in series B funding and a significant strategic investor. Intel Capital participated in the round, which brings ...

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Users ponder public and private cloud storage, ViPR at EMC World 2014

  Customers at EMC World 2014 divulge strategies for using private and public storage clouds, and wonder if they need ViPR software-defined storage.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  EMC Data Protection execs disclose upcoming features, management UI

  EMC Data Protection and Availability Division executives dropped hints about upcoming snapshot and high availability features and showed off a proof of concept of a new management user interface ...

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  EMC Federation strives to be 'aligned but loosely coupled'

  EMC's four CEOs discuss how they work together and apart in a changing IT world.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  EMC adds security to Syncplicity file sharing

  Las Vegas — Like many online file sharing companies, EMC Syncplicity is trying to balance the user experience with security functions that IT departments demand. At EMC World this week, Syncplictiy ...

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  Keep EMC XtremIO performance comparison in perspective, analyst says

  Storage Switzerland's George Crump discusses a slide at EMC World 2014 that compared EMC XtremIO performance with that of an unnamed competitor.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  Matchett: EMC Hadoop Distributed File System offerings 'intriguing'

  Taneja Group senior analyst Mike Matchett discusses EMC's Hadoop Distributed File System offerings, including ViPR 2.0 and Elastic Cloud Storage.

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  EMC Hybrid Cloud architecture taps into federation

  EMC's hybrid cloud reference architecture blends technology from EMC, VMware and Pivotal -- but more pieces will be required.

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Red Hat acquisition of Inktank beefs up its storage play

  Red Hat's Inktank acquisition draws praise, but it's unclear when the open source software vendor will become a major player in enterprise storage.

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  EMC World 2014: DSSD aims to close PCI flash, DRAM latency gap

  George Crump discusses EMC's acquisition of DSSD at EMC World 2014, says it likely sits between PCI-attached flash and DRAM in terms of performance.

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  EMC cloud storage appliance designed to thwart Amazon, Google

  George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses EMC's new Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance in this video from EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas.

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  EMC World 2014: Day One news wrap

  Senior news director Dave Raffo wraps Day One of EMC World 2014, including the DSSD acquisition, ECS private cloud appliance release and ViPR upgrade.

• May 05, 2014 05 May'14

  EMC acquires DSSD for future server-side flash system

  EMC acquires startup DSSD for server-side flash technology that tackles in-memory databases and Hadoop analytics storage; product expected in 2015.

• May 05, 2014 05 May'14

  EMC expands ViPR support, uses it to power private cloud appliance

  A year after its initial announcement, EMC expands upon ViPR software-defined storage at EMC World 2014.

• May 05, 2014 05 May'14

  EMC World 2014 conference coverage

  Get the latest storage news, product announcements and video straight from the showroom floor of this year's EMC World conference.

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  When a technology goes from mainstream to niche

  There was an interesting comment made by a person in the audience where I was giving a talk.  It was about a major technology area that I had worked in early in my career and the comment was that ...

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  SageCloud rebrands as Storiant, launches product for cold data storage

  SageCloud changed its name to Storiant before the launch of its first product, object storage software for low-cost cold storage.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  SanDisk flashes first 4 TB SSD, promises 8 TB soon

  SanDisk delivers first 4 TB SSD, pledges 8 TB SSDs by end of 2014. But, is there a market for $8,000 SSDs?

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Storage budget plans still coping with capacity and performance

  Non-stop data growth and the need for speed are still the driving forces behind storage budget plans for 2014.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  HP wants to escort EMC World attendees to 3PAR

  Hewlett-Packard is gaining momentum and market share with its 3PAR StoreServ arrays, and HP will try to continue that momentum next week at EMC World in Las Vegas. HP reps will descend on EMC World ...