News, Analysis and Opinion for Storage - Page 25

October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

Enterprise-class phase-change memory on the way, but roadblocks remain

Phase-change memory (PCM) is an emerging class of NVRAM with promising characteristics. Enterprise-class chips are expected within the next few years.

October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

HP no longer plays duet with Violin

While preparing to go public, solid-state array vendor Violin Memory’s relationship with Hewlett-Packard (HP) is cooling. Violin was the subject of two Bloomberg stories last week. Last Wednesday, ...

October 19, 2012 19 Oct'12

SNW notebook: Fujitsu, Avere strike up a match

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – News and notes from this week’s Fall Storage Networking World (SNW): Avere and Fujitsu America have forged a “meet in the channel” partnership matching Avere’s NAS ...

October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

Microsoft cloud storage plans expand with StorSimple pickup

Microsoft's cloud storage strategy is examined in the wake of its commitment to acquire StorSimple.

October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

When organizational issues inhibit IT progress

Information technology (IT) must continue to adapt and change as new demands arise and new technology is introduced. The new demands include more capacity for storing information as well as changes ...

October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

SSD users debate hybrid versus all-flash arrays at SNW

A panel of storage administrators at SNW discuss why they chose either hybrid or all-flash arrays to speed application performance.

October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

Overland offers scale-up, scale-out architecture with SnapScale NAS

Overland Storage combines its MaxiScale and Snap technologies into its first scale-up and scale-out architecture, the SnapScale X2.

October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

New Windows Server 2012 storage features reviewed by experts

Windows Server 2012 has new features for storage pros, including Storage Spaces. In this article, storage industry experts weigh in on the release.

October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

Microsoft strengthens cloud play with StorSimple acquisition

Microsoft Corp. today announced it is acquiring StorSimple, a cloud integrated storage (CIS) provider that uses its appliances to consolidate primary storage, archiving, backup and disaster ...

October 15, 2012 15 Oct'12

Amplidata adds denser, faster object storage nodes

Fresh off of a CEO change and funding round, object storage vendor Amplidata today added a larger capacity storage node and an operating system upgrade that supports 16 TB object sizes. The ...

October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

Synology America and Paragon Software announce new SMB products

Among new SMB products, Synology announces DiskStation DS2413+ and Paragon drops a new version of its Drive Copy Professional backup software.

October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

Astute takes early lead in VDI benchmark scores

Astute Networks this month became the second vendor to publish VDI-IOmark benchmarking numbers, and the vendor promptly proclaimed itself the lowest-cost-per-virtual-desktop-storage option in the ...

October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

VFoglight Storage 2.0 marries server and storage monitoring

Dell's newly acquired vFoglight Storage 2.0 software brings storage monitoring and server performance management into one application.

October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

NetApp, Cisco steer reference architectures into ‘express’ lane

NetApp and Cisco are expanding their FlexPod reference architecture concept to SMBs with the introduction of ExpressPod. The best way to think of ExpressPod is as FlexPod’s little brother. FlexPod, ...

October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

Pivot3 expands vStac VDI appliance for storage

Pivot3 releases second version of its vStac VDI appliance, using VMware's View Storage Accelerator for read caching to lower flash requirement.

October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

Egnyte Inc. chases cloud file sharing into the enterprise

Egnyte Inc. aims its EgnytePlus cloud file sharing at enterprises seeking a hybrid approach to placing files on-premises and online.

October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

HDS revamps Unified Compute Platform integrated infrastructure

Hitachi Data Systems brings out new UCP integrated infrastructure, with turnkey bundle and reference architectures.

October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

HP debuts news Ibrix scale-out NAS system

Hewlett-Packard Co. recently announced a new enterprise scale-out network attached storage (NAS) system – the HP Ibrix X9730 – that scales to 1.68 PB of capacity in a single system and 16 PB in a ...

October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

Estimating required storage capacity proves tricky

Buying storage is an ongoing process that may be periodic in some environments and seemingly continuous in others. There are several primary reasons given for storage purchases: New application ...

October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

Dell FS8600 adds unified storage for Compellent SAN

Dell FS8600 adds Fluid File System (FluidFS) device that turns the Compellent SAN into unified storage, and prepares to add primary deduplication.

October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

IBM delivers new enterprise array powered by Power7

IBM today upgraded its flagship storage system, the DS8870 high-end enterprise array. The big additions are the use of 16-core Power7 controllers and support for 1 TB of usable system cache, which ...

October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

Sanbolic Melio gains support for PCI Express flash, solid-state drives

With the new Latency Targeted Allocator module, Sanbolic Melio extends its storage management to server-side PCI Express flash and solid-state drives.

October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

VDI storage, virtual server storage key Storage Decisions themes

Experts offer keys to managing storage for virtualization, both on the desktop and server side.

October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

Cloud file-sharing options popping up on both sides of the firewall

File sharing is becoming an option inside the firewall with cloud storage vendors, and with dedicated online-synching services outside the firewall.

October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

NetApp OEM deal helps GridIron widen SAN accelerator platform

Startup GridIron seals OEM deal with NetApp to combine new SAN accelerator device with NetApp disk storage in hybrid flash array.

September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

Hybrid and all-SSD arrays can save money, when used in the right spots

Colby-Sawyer College and Aerospace Optics found ways to save money for high-performance apps with hybrid and all-SSD arrays.

September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

AC&NC unveils new JetStor RAID arrays; Infortrend offers new NAS

AC&NC announced new JetStor arrays, and Infortrend showed off new EonNAS 1000 models this month, as both companies offer new products for SMBs.

September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

Don’t let your data center turn into a storage museum

Did you ever have a visitor to your data center say, “I didn’t know any of these systems were still around?” The implication here is that your data center is one step away from being a museum. ...

September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

Amazon Glacier will impact cloud archiving

While the penny-a-gig Amazon Glacier service will make an impact on cloud archiving, it may not dominate the market.

September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

With HUS VM, Hitachi takes its unified storage to the enterprise

Hitachi Data Systems rolls out Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), taking its multiprotocol storage array to the enterprise.

September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

SimpliVity receives $25M to push its converged OmniCube

SimpliVity closed a $25 million funding round today, giving the startup ammunition to market its OmniCube converged storage stack due to ship later this year. SimpliVity came out of stealth in ...

September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

Lab speeds up test app with Kaminario K2 all-flash array

TestAmerica consolidated its IT environment with a Kaminario K2 solid-state flash array that handles the increased IOPS at its corporate data center.

September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

Flash startup Virident pockets $26M and storage-savvy CEO

PCIe flash card startup Virident Systems closed a $26 million funding round this week, and hired a CEO that signals the vendor is entering a new phase. Former BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson is ...

September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

Dell says having one IT vendor simplifies storage

Despite recent market trends to the contrary, Dell storage executives maintain customers want to buy storage and servers from the same vendor. To make this case, they point to a recent survey ...

September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

VeloBit tries to entice customers with trial HyperCache software, SSD

With competition from storage and flash device vendors, VeloBit offers a trial version of its HyperCache SSD caching software and a loaner Micron SSD.

September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

New Panasas ActiveStor HPC storage system mixes SSDs with SATA drives

Panasas adds SSDs for metadata and small files to its ActiveStor 14 HPC storage system, and relies on hard drives for big data applications.

September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

Evaluating storage performance requires credible information

Almost every conversation about storage includes performance. That’s because storage system performance is important for the responsiveness of applications. Most vendors go to great efforts to ...

September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

EMC still leads the pack in storage

EMC continues to be the top dog in the storage market. The vendor was the only major storage company to experience year-over-year market share growth for the second quarter of 2012, according to ...

September 06, 2012 06 Sep'12

QLogic prepares server-side flash cache adapter cards

QLogic's Mt. Rainier HBA technology will combine shared storage management with server-side flash caching through solid state drives and PCIe cards.

August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

More storage notes from VMworld

While the VMworld conference might have been a little light on major storage product news, the sheer number of storage vendors showing off their wares meant there were still plenty of interesting ...

August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

Those annoying backups could be a big data resource

A lot of storage managers wish backup would go away -- or at least become a much less visible process that's built into apps or storage systems, does its thing automatically, and requires little or ...

August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

VMworld 2012 storage notes

New VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger found himself attending at least one VMworld event that he would have needed a disguise to get into a year ago. Gelsinger was a special guest at a NetApp party for ...

August 30, 2012 30 Aug'12

Solid state requires storage re-design

IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems is the latest salvo in the battle of heavyweights as companies position themselves to offer primary storage based on solid-state technology. It’s important ...

August 27, 2012 27 Aug'12

Maginatics enters cloud file sharing market

Maginatics claims its MagFS cloud file sharing service has the scale and security to stand out to enterprises in a crowded market.

August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

Coraid Inc. launches EtherCloud for EtherDrive SAN

Coraid EtherCloud software runs on the company's EtherDrive SAN platform to help quickly provision storage services for private clouds.

August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

VMworld spawns storage announcements

There has been a noticeable increase in the number of storage product launches in the past few weeks and that will continue during VMworld 2012, which begins Sunday in San Francisco. VMworld has ...

August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

Flash Memory Summit shows SSD decisions require research

Storage pros are used to having to stick their heads under the hood to figure out the intricacies of storage techs, but they may not be so comfortable having to delve even deeper into the inner ...

August 23, 2012 23 Aug'12

NexGen Storage offers performance guarantee for hybrid storage array

NexGen Storage will offer performance guarantees to new n5-150 series hybrid storage array.

August 23, 2012 23 Aug'12

Pure Storage makes all-flash storage iSCSI snappier

All-flash storage startup Pure Storage adds iSCSI support, space-efficient snapshots and VMware integration to its FlashArrays.

August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

Dell adds hybrid solid-state EqualLogic arrays for VDI storage

Dell expands its EqualLogic hybrid solid-state array lineup with new PS6500 Series systems that use flash to accelerate IOPS for VDI storage.

August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

Virsto Software digs deeper into VM storage management

Virsto for vSphere 1.5 VM storage management application includes greater integration with VMware View and vSphere and better storage migration.

August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

NetApp embraces server flash cache, reseller deal with Fusion-io

NetApp moves into server flash cache with Flash Accel software to compete with EMC's VFCache, and strikes up a reseller deal with Fusion-io.

August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

Compuverde pitches object storage at cloud, big data

Newcomer Compuverde aims its object storage software and gateway at service providers and enterprises with big data needs.

August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

Upcoming Nimbus all-flash storage array to offer 10-year warranty

Nimbus Data Systems announces all-flash storage array with an internally designed processor, 48 TB total capacity and 10-year eMLC warranty.

August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

Astute Networks improves ViSX G4 VM storage box with speed, dedupe

Astute Networks upgrades ViSX platform for VM storage; G4 model adds inline data deduplication and is faster with more capacity than G3 line.

August 17, 2012 17 Aug'12

Brocade CEO says he'll leave on a happy note

Brocade CEO Mike Klayko is stepping down after more than seven years in the position, saying the switch maker’s rosy financial position makes this a good time for a transition at the top. Klayko ...

August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

IBM selects 'mature' flash option, buys Texas Memory Systems

IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems (TMS) today means there is one less independent flash array vendor out there and one more established storage vendor with a concrete solid-state storage ...

August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12

SanDisk releases FlashSoft flash caching software for vSphere

SanDisk Corp. released its FlashSoft flash caching software for VMware vSphere that accelerates application performance.

August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

Cleversafe Inc. enhances plans for big data storage, 10 exabyte cloud

Cleversafe’s big data storage plans continue with a new object storage system it says can be used for an exabyte-scale cloud.

August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

Skyera releases all-flash array for $3 per gigabyte

Skyera Inc. launched its Skyhawk series of consumer-grade MLC all-flash solid-state storage systems today for less than $3 per gigabyte.

August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

Tegile adds all-flash array to multiprotocol storage lineup

Tegile Systems adds all-flash array and a third hybrid SSD-hard drive system to its multiprotocol storage family.

August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

HP VSA rebranded, expanded

HP renames its virtual storage appliance StoreVirtual VSA, expands its server support, pumps up capacity and adds snapshot capability.

August 13, 2012 13 Aug'12

Violin turns to Symantec for solid-state software stack

Flash arrays already have spinning disk drives beat for performance, but they will require data management software for flash to become the medium of choice for enterprise storage. With that in ...

August 13, 2012 13 Aug'12

Symantec tackles Hadoop storage, 'big data' analytics

Symantec Corp. seeks to make Apache Hadoop more enterprise friendly by adding a software layer between its Veritas Cluster File System and HDFS.

August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

Nirvanix and Luminex join to move mainframe data to the cloud

Cloud provider Nirvanix and Luminex Software are partnering to get mainframe administrators to join the cloud bandwagon. The two companies are offering a cloud-based Virtual Tape Library ...

August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

Are storage vendors overcharging for SSDs?

The CEO of solid state drive (SSD) manufacturer STEC said storage vendors are charging customers too much for SSDs. STEC CEO Manouch Moshayedi said during the vendor’s earnings call Tuesday that ...

August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

Nimble builds hybrid solid-state storage to scale

Nimble adds performance arrays and expansion shelves for its hybrid solid-state SANs, enabling independent scaling of capacity, cache and compute.

August 07, 2012 07 Aug'12

Quantum makes DXi8500 dedupe device denser, more secure

Quantum is upgrading its DXi8500 enterprise data deduplication disk target appliance to support more capacity and end-to-end encryption. The capacity boost comes from larger drives and the security ...

August 07, 2012 07 Aug'12

Virident FlashMax II MLC PCIe flash card hits 2.2 TB

Virident Systems releases 2.2 TB FlashMax II PCIe solid-state card with up to 2.2 TB capacity; the Virident FlashMax set to compete with Fusion-io.

August 03, 2012 03 Aug'12

Stocking the arsenal for storage battles

Major storage vendors constantly acquire technology through acquisitions and partnerships, and these deals often show a lot about where the industry’s technology is headed. They also show that ...

August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

Fusion-io looks to steal EMC's Thunder with ION

Fusion-io this week revealed plans to launch ION Data Accelerator software later this year, giving the vendor the ability to turn a server with a Fusion-io ioMemory flash card into a shared storage ...

July 31, 2012 31 Jul'12

HP delivers all-flash 3PAR storage array

Rather than build an all-flash array from the ground up or buy a startup that already has done that, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is offering its existing storage arrays with all solid-state drives (SSDs) ...

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 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

Oracle buys Xsigo for cloud, SDN

Software-defined networking (SDN), the hottest emerging networking technology, is also spilling into storage. That spillover accelerated today when Oracle acquired startup Xsigo, which allows ...

July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

Storage branding: What's in a name?

As with practically any industry, product names are crucial when selling storage. Storage products sit in the heart of data centers and protect business information. lAn individual storage system ...

July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

Veeam adds Exchange tool to free backup app

Veeam Software this week continued its “freemium” strategy of offering free features from its virtual machine backup software in hopes of gaining publicity and new users. The newest freebie is ...

July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12

Tintri closes $25M funding round, eyes Hyper-V market

Tintri, which sells appliances designed specifically for virtual machine storage, grabbed $25 million in funding today. CEO Kieran Harty said the money will be used mostly for expanding sales and ...

July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12

EMC sees weaker IT spending

EMC executives said they expect IT spending to be lower than they originally forecast for this year, while claiming their sales will be impacted less than competitors. Speaking on EMC’s quarterly ...

July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

Proximal Data launches solid-state caching software for VMs

Proximal Data enters crowded solid-state caching software market with AutoCache, which installs on a VMware hypervisor.

July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

SSD storage offers more for less when it comes to energy

SSD storage can help keep energy costs of data centers in check as they handle ever-growing amounts of data.

July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

Avere rolls out remote NAS filer, pulls in another $20 million in funding

NAS acceleration vendor Avere Systems this week introduced a smaller version of its FXT NAS Edge filer -- the FXT 3100 -- that optimizes mission-critical applications from remote and branch ...

July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

NexGen turns its PCIe-based flash storage into a series

Eight months after coming out of stealth with a storage system using solid-state PCIe cards and using its own type of quality of service, NexGen Storage is expanding its portfolio. That’s no ...

July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

What does VMware CEO shuffle mean for EMC's succession plans?

News that Pat Gelsinger will move into the VMware CEO job and his predecessor Paul Maritz will join EMC as chief strategist has EMC-watchers wondering what the changes will mean to the storage ...

July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

Coraid launches ZFS NAS, again

Two years after scrapping plans for a ZFS NAS appliance because of legal reasons, Coraid licenses ZFS from Oracle for its ZX3000 server.

July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12

Storage Radio: What's new in EMC NetWorker 8

On our latest Storage Radio podcast, join SearchStorage.com’s Ellen O’Brien and Dave Raffo as they delve into our top news of the week.

July 11, 2012 11 Jul'12

Overland Storage aims SnapSAN at high end

Overland Storage adds solid-state drive (SSD) option to its SnapSAN platform, as well as thin provisioning and automated tiering and caching.

July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

Nasuni adds block capabilities to cloud storage appliance

Nasuni turns cloud storage appliance into a unified controller, adding iSCSI to go with its NFS and CIFS capabilities.

July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

Cleversafe to combine cloud storage software, Hadoop

Cleversafe plans deep integration with Hadoop that will let users run Hadoop on the same system with Cleversafe's object-based cloud storage software.

July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

General Parallel File System, DataDirect storage powers NCSA’s iForge

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and DataDirect Networks disk arrays power NCSA’s iForge HPC service for private sector industry partners.

July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

Why Katie left Tom, and who gets the data?

Like many people in the high tech world, I don’t usually pay attention to the latest entertainment gossip. But while watching the news recently at a hotel, I found myself barraged with information ...

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.

July 05, 2012 05 Jul'12

Pros and cons of buying a one-vendor storage solution

When buying storage, IT teams often wonder if it is worthwhile to buy a complete package of storage system, management software, data protection and other elements from a single vendor. Buying ...

July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

CommVault exec says Dell-Quest 'no big deal'

Dave West said his phone has been ringing constantly since Monday morning when Dell revealed it reached a deal to acquire Quest Software. West is CommVault’s SVP of marketing and business ...

July 02, 2012 02 Jul'12

Founder Hitz talks NetApp strategy for clustering, convergence

NetApp founder and EVP Dave Hitz discusses the NetApp strategy toward hot technologies and the vendor’s plan for battling market leader EMC.

June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12

Storage Radio: FalconStor settles for $5.8M in bribery scandal

Storage Radio covers this week’s top storage news: FalconStor settles JP Morgan bribery case with $5.8 million, Dell talks Fluid Cache and SSD strategies, and more.

June 28, 2012 28 Jun'12

FalconStor buys $5.8M of 'relief" with bribery charge settlement

FalconStor will pay $5.8 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it bribed JP Morgan Chase to buy its software, and CEO Jim McNiel said the vendor can now focus completely on ...

June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

HDS growing VSP and NAS array sales, cautious on flash

Like other pure-play storage vendors, Hitachi Data Systems is growing revenue at double-digit rates despite the slow economy. But HDS is bucking industry trends with its growth. HDS grew disk ...

June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

Roadmap for Dell Fluid File System, data reduction revealed

Dell’s data reduction roadmap includes integrating Ocarina technology with its Fluid File System, and building dedupe into storage arrays and servers.

June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

Dell SSD strategy includes plans for flash in storage and servers

Dell’s Carter George outlines the Dell SSD strategy including its plans for Fluid Cache technology in servers, arrays and appliances.

June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

Storage licensing issues add up to confusion, frustration

One of the most frequent questions that I get is how the licensing for a particular storage feature or software application is handled. The variations from different vendors have left IT ...

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