Storage vendors
This topics page collects the latest information on storage vendors and product information, including buying guides. It covers top enterprise storage vendors, data storage vendors, and cloud storage and online storage providers, and tracks mergers and acquisitions, executive shuffles and funding information. The news section tracks leading storage vendors and startups.
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7 Hyper-Converged Secondary Storage Questions Answered
In this expert guide, receive answers to 7 fundamental questions, an analysis of Asigra, Cohesity, HPE and Rubrik hyper-converged secondary storage products, key benefits of converged secondary storage and cautions, and much more.
Storage vendors News
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February 15, 2019
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Feb'19
NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years
Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain.
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February 01, 2019
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IBM storage revenues skid to the finish line
IBM storage hit another blue period last quarter. After pulling out of a revenue slump to start 2018, IBM last week closed an uneven year with declining sales of storage hardware, mirroring flat ...
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January 31, 2019
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Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal
Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ...
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January 28, 2019
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Veeam, Rubrik funding show interest in data protection
New rounds of Rubrik, Veeam, Actifio and Cohesity funding have given these vendors resources to challenge established backup vendors such as Veritas and Dell EMC.
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Actifio
Actifio is a software vendor in Waltham, Mass., that specializes in copy data management (CDM). Continue Reading
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Storage conferences aren't what they used to be
If you're an IT pro looking for a good storage user conference these days, you'll probably have to go through one or more of your storage vendors to find one. Continue Reading
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LTO (Linear Tape-Open) tape
LTO (Linear Tape-Open) tape is an open-format tape storage technology created by Hewlett-Packard (HP), International Business Machines (IBM) and Seagate Technology. Continue Reading
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Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018
Dave Raffo won't pretend to know what 2019 will bring to the world of enterprise data storage, but he does know what he learned while following the data storage industry in 2018. Continue Reading
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The top enterprise data storage products of 2018
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The best enterprise storage products of 2018
Get to know the 15 top enterprise storage products selected from a field of more than 100 in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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Tips from our judges
This article offers 10 tips on how to submit a product for consideration in our Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Products of the Year judging criteria
This article discusses how products are judged for the Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Container backup follows data persistence to these ephemeral apps
The advent of data persistence in containers necessitates having data backup in containers. Here's how this is being done and which vendors are leading the way. Continue Reading
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We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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The best enterprise storage systems and services of 2017
For 16 years, Storage magazine and SearchStorage have recognized the best enterprise storage systems with our annual Products of the Year awards. For this year's competition, vendors submitted new and upgraded products from the past year ... Continue Reading
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The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?
Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017. Continue Reading
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A look at the future of data storage careers
Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future. Continue Reading