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June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

Flash storage arrays take center stage at Storage Decisions

Storage Decisions conference attendees received the lowdown on flash storage arrays, along with advice not to ignore other storage tiers.

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 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

Intel S3500 Series SSDs intended for cloud computing

The Intel S3500 Series lineup of solid-state drives is intended to move data centers to an all-SSD model.

June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

Imation upgrades Nexsan Assureon object-based storage archive

Imation makes first product upgrade since acquiring Nexsan, delivering Assureon 7 for object-based storage archiving.

June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

Following Dell acquisitions, users find platform integration enticing

Customers want to see the storage products Dell has gained through acquisitions better integrated with common management.

June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

NetApp scales up Clustered Ontap

NetApp unleashed Clustered Data Ontap 8.2 today, using the launch to again make its case as the king software-defined storage. Since EMC revealed its ViPR software-defined storage technology plan ...

June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

HP brings out 3PAR all-flash array

The HP 3PAR StorServ 7450 all-flash array scales to 96 TB of solid-state drives (SSDs), with tweaks to its read-and-write and cache offload functions.

June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

VMTurbo takes its talents to the storage level

VMTurbo expands its Operations Manager software for virtual infrastructure into the storage level -- providing your storage is NetApp filers.

June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

Idealstor, Western Digital and QNAP roll out new SMB products

Vendors Idealstor, Western Digital and QNAP have announced new products for the small and medium-sized business market.

June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

Battle for control of sTec heats up

Solid-state storage vendor sTec’s management team is in a fight to maintain control of the company ahead of next month’s board of directors election. The vendor and unhappy investment firm Balch ...

June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

Are cloud storage sales to blame for storage slowdown?

Many people say cloud storage companies such as Amazon are eating away at storage sales and revenues. But others say the numbers don't add up.

June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

Dell Enterprise Forum: Convergence, flash cache still on roadmap

Dell storage news focused on Compellent at its enterprise forum, but execs promise EqualLogic upgrades and integration between platforms.

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.

June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

Dell adds Compellent all-flash array, primary dedupe

Dell launches all-flash Compellent array and long-awaited primary data deduplication at its enterprise user conference.

June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

Beware software-defined lock-in

“Avoid vendor lock-in” has been a mantra for a long time by other vendors and marketing promotions. Vendor lock-in is equated to a lack of choices or an impediment to making a change in the future. ...

June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

STec launches flash array for Windows Storage Server 2012

Solid-state-drive vendor sTec enters the flash array market with a Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 box for high-performance workloads.

May 31, 2013 31 May'13

Amerijet makes performance fly with Compellent Data Progression tiers

Automated tiering is key for solid-state storage, but Amerijet cites performance improvement using Compellent Data Progression software without flash.

May 30, 2013 30 May'13

Microsoft StorSimple customers weigh cloud storage expansion

Two StorSimple customers expect to increase their output on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of StorSimple.

May 29, 2013 29 May'13

Pure Storage upgrades FlashArray as competition increases

Pure Storage's third-generation all-flash storage array doubles the performance and capacity of the previous model and includes cloud-sourced support.

May 24, 2013 24 May'13

Scale-out NAS becoming an enterprise fixture

Enterprise systems with scale-out capability have been making an impact in IT environments and are almost always a consideration in every evaluation of client storage strategies. Although there are ...

May 23, 2013 23 May'13

NetApp CEO: We invented software-defined storage

Software-defined storage is gaining a lot of attention these days, especially after EMC revealed plans for ViPR at EMC World earlier this month. Now EMC rival NetApp is taking credit for being a ...

May 22, 2013 22 May'13

Permabit Technology extends primary data deduplication software

Permabit tries to make its primary deduplication software more palatable to OEMs by adding compression and replication plug-ins.

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 21, 2013 21 May'13

Western Digital Corp., Synology announce new SMB products, services

Western Digital Corp., Precision IT, Synology and Google announce products aimed at the small- and medium-sized business market.

May 20, 2013 20 May'13

Law firm uses NexGen hybrid array to keep cases moving

Ohio law firm uses a NexGen solid-state, HDD hybrid storage array to provide the IOPS needed to keep its litigation and e-discovery practices moving.

May 17, 2013 17 May'13

Brocade still bullish on Fibre Channel, despite sales plunge

Brocade executives said they expect the Fibre Channel (FC) SAN slump to be temporary and predict a rebound in the second half of the year. As Brocade announced earlier this month, its FC SAN ...

May 16, 2013 16 May'13

STec CEO: Flash enables storage transformation

STec CEO Mark Moshayedi discusses why he thinks flash will prompt enterprises to move from refrigerator-box SANs to custom-built solid-state systems.

May 14, 2013 14 May'13

Startup CloudFounders builds open storage for VMs

CloudFounders promises an open storage version of software-defined storage that supports OpenStack, Amazon S3 and VMware.

May 13, 2013 13 May'13

New Cleversafe CEO aims at holes in storage status quo

Object storage startup Cleversafe switched CEOs today. Founder Chris Gladwin gives up the CEO post and becomes vice chairman while continuing to set Cleversafe’s technical vision. John Morris moves ...

May 10, 2013 10 May'13

EMC World wrap-up: Isilon, VNX, Syncplicity future directions

LAS VEGAS – EMC World was short on product upgrades this year with the exception of the new ViPR platform, but the vendor did enhance a few products while previewing features expected soon in ...

May 09, 2013 09 May'13

Fusion-io's new CEO addresses 'misconceptions'

One day after a surprising CEO shakeup, the new boss of PCIe flash leader Fusion-io denied the change came because of a failure of the outgoing chief, problems at the company or because it is ...

May 09, 2013 09 May'13

Keeping all data is a dangerous policy

There is a prevalent problem in Information Technology today – too much data. Most of the data is in the form of files and called unstructured data. Unstructured data continues to increase at rates ...

May 09, 2013 09 May'13

Synchronous mirroring with DataCore boosts telecom's DR strategy

Great Plains Communications discovered DataCore SANsymphony-V storage and received the synch mirroring needed to beef up its DR strategy.

May 08, 2013 08 May'13

EMC World 2013: Google storage coming to your data center

EMC says its ViPR software-defined storage platform is the first step to creating Google storage in your data center.

May 08, 2013 08 May'13

EMC rivals' venomous reactions to ViPR

LAS VEGAS -- Hitachi Data Systems and NetApp wasted little time sending reviews of EMC’s new ViPR software. Both sent e-mails panning EMC’s attempt at software-defined storage. You obviously ...

May 07, 2013 07 May'13

EMC aims to define software-defined storage with ViPR

EMC World 2013 features just one major product announcement as EMC pushes its software-defined storage message around ViPR.

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

Dell Foglight management tools upgraded, rebranded

Dell rebrands and upgrades its Foglight data center management tools, which include VMware View support and virtual-to-physical landscape.

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 ...

May 02, 2013 02 May'13

Brocade says its FC SAN sales disappointed last quarter

Maybe Brocade has been a little over-optimistic about Fibre Channel SANs. After Brocade executives gushed bout how lucrative the FC market remains on the switch maker’s last earnings call, the ...

May 01, 2013 01 May'13

Denver Broncos score with NetApp filers for primary storage

By purchasing two FAS2240s from NetApp, the Denver Broncos' small IT staff was able to improve manageability, performance and scalability.

May 01, 2013 01 May'13

NTP Software taps into cloud for secure file management

NTP Software branches into secure file management, but says its Universal File Access technology isn't a sync-and-share service.

April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

Archiving explained

The term archiving can be used in different contexts. Its use across vertical markets and in practice leads to confusion and communication problems. Working on strategy projects with IT clients has ...

April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

Fusion-io buys NexGen Storage, adds hybrid arrays

Fusion-io acquires NexGen Storage, talks up its performance QoS as a key piece of its software-defined storage strategy.

April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

Exablox unveils OneBlox object-based NAS

Startup Exablox claims its object storage OneBlox can simplify scale-out NAS for small companies with a ring architecture, built-in dedupe and CDP.

April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

Cisco FC director and switch moves to 16 Gbps, new chassis

Cisco rolls out its next generation Fibre Channel director and switch, with new chassis and 16 Gbps connectivity; yes, it also supports FCoE.

April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

HP StoreVirtual expands into FC, new storage blades

HP StoreVirtual gets new Fibre Channel support, a storage blade companion and a software-defined storage designation.

April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

Astute makes flash appliance less expensive with MLC, adds replication

Astute Networks says giving its ViSX flash appliance MLC drives lowers the price to $5 per gigabyte, and to even less if you buy its deduplication.

April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

Dell DX Object Storage Platform dumped in favor of software-only model

Dell no longer selling its DX Object Storage Platform as integrated bundle; will make Caringo CAStor object software available as download.

April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

Nimble Storage adds reference architecture, new level of analytics

Startup Nimble Storage is taking a page out of NetApp’s playbook with its private cloud reference architecture put together with Cicso and Microsoft. And it is going beyond other storage vendors’ ...

April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

Kaminario K2 flash array replaces PCIe with SAS SSDs

Kaminario launches its newest all-flash K2 storage array with 2.5-inch SAS SSDs -- instead of PCIe cards --and a modular 1U design.

April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

Storage playing key role in entertainment industry

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference has become a big focus for storage vendors. The growth in media content and the increased resolution of recordings make for a fast growing ...

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.

April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

Storage virtualization vendors look beyond VMware support

Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining market share, but support for Hyper-V and other non-VMware hypervisors is slow for VM storage software vendors.

April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

Big Blue's billion-dollar bet on SSD includes all-flash storage array

IBM rolls out FlashSystem all-flash arrays -- rebranded Texas Memory Systems products IBM acquired in 2012 -- as part of an aggressive flash push.

April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

Don’t forget management when developing object storage systems

The massive amount of unstructured data being created has vendors pushing to deliver object storage systems. There are many object systems available now from new and established vendors, and others ...

April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

HGST pumps out 12 Gbps SAS SSDs

HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, claims that its new Ultrastar SSDs for high-performance applications are the first 12 Gbps SAS SSDs.

April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

Virident CEO: PCIe flash needs to be in shared storage

Virident CEO Mike Gustafson discusses the future of PCIe flash, software's role in advancing the technology and how his startup can catch Fusion-io.

April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

Tintri adds asynchronous replication for virtual machines

Asynchronous replication of virtual machines is the highlight of VM-aware storage array startup Tintri's second-generation operating system.

April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

Avere adds hybrid storage NAS accelerator

Avere Systems pushes out FXT 3800 hybrid storage NAS accelerators with DRAM, NVRAM, SSDs and hard drives to speed random I/O performance.

April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

Scality Ring Digital Media Storage app targets object storage

The Scality Ring Digital Media Storage app adds support for content delivery networks and media asset management on top of an object storage base.

April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

Virtual server value still outweighs virtual storage

Storage admins and vendors say they want virtual storage to act more like virtual machines, but is that possible?

March 31, 2013 31 Mar'13

Silver Peak launches more VRX WAN optimization software

Silver Peak Systems Inc. is building out its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) that allows storage administrators to bypass network administrators when they need to improve application ...

March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

NetApp, Equinix offer private storage for public cloud

NetApp Private Storage for AWS connects NetApp private storage systems hosted in Equinix data centers to Amazon public clouds.

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.

March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

Nimbus adds management, analytics for Gemini all-flash array

Nimbus Data upgrades HALO storage operating system for Gemini all-flash array, adding system analytics, open API and a mobile management application.

March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

Measuring storage value vs. storage cost

A recent conversation I had about the cost of storage made me think that talking about the cost of storage is the wrong way to approach it. The discussion should be about the value that storage ...

March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

Brocade upgrades FC SAN software, switch; looks to 32-gig FC

Brocade is still a fan of FC SAN technology. Today it launched new management software and a 16-gig, 96-port switch, and pledged to support 32-gig.

March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

Pure Storage hears footsteps, offers money-back guarantee

With large established vendors planning to launch all-flash storage arrays, startup Pure Storage is offering a money-back guarantee to customers who want to try their systems now. Pure calls the ...

March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

QLogic Mt. Rainier FabricCache pools PCIe flash cache across servers

The first product based on QLogic Mt. Rainier technology, the FabricCache QLE10000 HBA, shares cache from clustered server-side PCIe card flash cards.

March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

Role of PCIe cards in enterprise data storage is up for debate

The role of PCIe cards in enterprise data storage is debated as major storage vendors such as EMC map out a strategy to take on Fusion-io.

March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

Fusion-io grabs more flash software, with other acquisitions to follow

Fusion-io CEO David Flynn said Linux and open source have emerged as the keys to software development for flash, and that is why his company this week acquired U.K.-based ID7. ID7 developed the ...

March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

Sanbolic gives Melio clustered file system a distributed architecture

Switching to a distributed architecture lets Sanbolic Melio 5 provide high availability for storage on commodity hardware with flash and hard drives.

March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

Starboard Storage puts itself up for sale, throws sales overboard

Starboard Storage is looking for a buyer or strategic partner to license its hybrid unified storage systems, 13 months after the re-launch of the startup previously known as Reldata. Starboard has ...

March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

Enterprises still waiting for SSD prices to drop

Market research shows flash isn't denting hard drive sales yet, which is attributed mainly to still-high solid-state drive prices.

March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

Automated tiering helps digital forensics firm get the most out of SAN

Digital forensics firm D4 extends its storage capability and saves on expensive disks with Dell Compellent's Data Progression automated tiering.

March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

EMC sees software-defined storage as storage virtualization done right

EMC execs call storage virtualization the missing link to the software-defined data center, and plan to change that with software-defined storage.

March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

Hospital deploys Pure Storage all-flash storage for EHR, VDI

Riverview Hospital installed a Pure Storage FlashArray to lower latencies and improve performance for its most important EHR and VDI environments.

March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

Cloud gateways morph into cloud controllers market

After the addition of encryption, clones and deduplication capabilities, cloud storage controllers are the new cloud gateways.

March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

InfraScale tries to lure companies away from Dropbox with 1 year of free service

InfraScale, Inc. is gunning for Dropbox. The newcomer is offering organizations a year’s worth of free online file sharing service for IT administrators who are willing to drop their Dropbox ...

March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

SwiftStack enters software-defined storage race

SwiftStack, which claims to be building software-defined object storage, today said it has raised $7.6 million in seed and series A funding. CEO and founder Joe Arnold said the San Francisco-based ...

March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

Egnyte brings file collaboration to public clouds

The EgnytePlus enterprise file collaboration platform now works with data stored on Amazon S3, Google, Microsoft and NetApp StorageGRID clouds.

March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

Solid state storage: consider the long term

The interest in deploying solid state storage is still building, but there are already a handful of ways to introduce solid state technology into existing IT infrastructures: • As a PCIe solid ...

March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

Micron brings out 2.5-inch SAS SSD, anticipates decline of SATA SSD

Micron launched the 6 Gbps, 2.5-inch P140m SAS SSD this week, and expects SAS to overtake SATA as the most popular SSD interface by 2016.

March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

Fusion-io (Brand F) ready to rumble with EMC

Whenever EMC rolls out PCIe flash products, it paints a bull’s eye on Fusion-io. Just as they did last year when they brought out VFCache, EMC spokesmen compared benchmarks against Fusion-io today ...

March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

EMC pushes out XtremIO flash array, more PCIe flash

EMC makes its XtremIO all-flash array available on a limited basis, also adds eMLC PCIe server-side flash cards and rebrands VFCache.

March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

Silver Peak, Coraid aim for the cloud

There are no shortages of companies trying to get a piece of the cloud. Coraid Inc. announced it has contributed drivers for ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) and its Coraid EtherCloud to OpenStack block ...

March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

Violin Memory moves into server-side flash with low-cost PCIe cards

Startup Violin Memory expands from all-flash storage arrays into PCIe flash for servers; turns to investor Toshiba to supply its NAND.

March 01, 2013 01 Mar'13

Atlantis Computing handles virtual desktops' persistent data in RAM

Atlantis Computing's ILIO Persistent VDI extends VDI optimization to virtual desktops with persistent data.

February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

Archiving and big data analytics: where to put all the data

There are many opinions regarding how to handle information storage for big data analytics. By big data analytics, I’m referring to information associated with a data analytics operation that does ...

February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

Nexenta raises $24 million, plans to become a public company

Nexenta Systems, which sells storage systems based on ZFS technology, revamped its leadership team and pulled in $24 million in funding today with an eye on going public. Mark Lockareff takes over ...

February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

DataDirect Networks tackles Hadoop storage with SFA appliance

DataDirect Networks launches the hScaler, an appliance designed to speed deployment and increase efficiency of Hadoop storage-based big data systems.

February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

NVMe and SCSI Express emerge, defining specs for PCIe-connected SSDs

NVMe and SCSI Express are emerging, defining specs for SAS- and SATA-compatible PCIe SSDs. We spoke with Mike James of SanDisk to learn more.

February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

EMC adds VMAX Cloud Edition for private clouds, providers

EMC relaunches VMAX Service Provider as VMAX Cloud Edition, broadens target to include companies that want to build private storage clouds.

February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

GreenBytes launches virtual appliance to reduce storage for VDI

GreenBytes adds a virtual appliance based on its IO Offload Engine product that reduces storage for VDI and transmits images faster.

February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

Skyera flying high with $51M in funding, backed by Dell Ventures

Sykera, preparing to make its SkyHawk cheap all-flash storage arrays generally available in a few months, has $51.6 million in funding to market that platform and fuel development on its next ...

February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

HDS' Yoshida on virtual data storage: Appliances don't go far enough

Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida discusses virtual data storage challenges and the effects of server virtualization on enterprise storage.

February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

Virident pumps up caching, sharing software for PCIe flash cards

Virident's FlashMAX Connect PCIe flash storage software suite enables synchronous mirroring, flash resource sharing and back-end caching.

February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

Barracuda partners with Drobo to enter online file sharing market

Barracuda Networks has jumped into the crowded online file sharing pond, and today enlisted Drobo as a partner to help get started. Barracuda’s Copy cloud file sharing service launched as a private ...

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