Storage

Datto expands into file sync and share with a free, one-year service

Data Protection specialist Datto is giving away its new file sync and share service for a year. The Datto Drive service for SMBs is hosted on the vendor's 200 PB private cloud within nine worldwide ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Commvault Systems posts second straight quarter of revenue gains

Data protection vendor Commvault Systems generated $159.6 million in revenues in the fourth quarter, hitting the second consecutive quarter of sequential growth after three quarters of declining ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Get the most from cloud-based storage services

Enterprise data storage managers are in position to help their companies get more from cloud storage services. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Hadoop Distributed File System helps tackle big data

Hadoop Distributed File System storage systems are being enlisted to tackle big data thanks to vendors like EMC, Hitachi, IBM and NetApp, and Apache. Continue Reading

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• John Webster, Evaluator Group

Hadoop data analysis: Common concerns with the HDFS platform

Using HDFS technology as a data analysis platform may be insufficient for your storage needs. Explore the challenges storage administrators may encounter and find out how to address them. Continue Reading

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• John Webster, Evaluator Group

Cinder still No. 1 OpenStack storage project, but Manila interest picks up

Cinder still has the highest adoption rate among OpenStack storage projects, but interest in the nascent Manila file-share service is picking up, according to a 2016 user survey released this month ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

FalconStor's playing beat the clock with FreeStor

The bad news for FalconsStor is it lost $3.2 million last quarter. If there is good news, it’s that its new FreeStor software is picking up OEM and managed service provider (MSP) customers and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Nexsan storage software brings Unity to its hardware

Unity software supports Nexsan with NST block devices, Assureon object storage and Transporter cloud sync functionality that it picked up from Connected Data. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

How do RDMA storage systems improve latency reduction?

RDMA technology can help speed up I/O in storage environments by bypassing copy processes in the software stack when data is called up from a system's memory. Continue Reading

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• Dennis Martin, Demartek

How can you increase SSD lifespan and keep performance?

Solid-state drives offer high performance, but their cost remains prohibitive. Here are some ways to prolong your SSD lifecycle while maintaining performance. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Storage pros see high demand in 2016 salary survey

Storage magazine has tracked storage salaries for 13 years, polling readers to gather data about pay, benefits and other influences on job satisfaction. Our 2016 salary survey shows demand for storage savvy IT pros is still high as reflected by the overall average salary of nearly $98,000. We look at how geography, education, experience and other factors affect storage salaries in our 2016 salary survey.

When virtual servers first appeared in data centers, storage generally wasn't up to the task. Today, most vendors have tuned their wares to better support virtual environments. But you still might have to get under the hood to fix a bottleneck or two. We'll tell you what to look for and how to fix it.

Few companies are ready to give up their on-premises storage resources in favor of cloud storage. Hybrid setups that integrate on-premises with the cloud are the most desirable arrangements and vendors are beginning to sit up and take notice.

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Propane provider gives SAN the gas with Violin flash array

Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hybrid cloud benefits driving future of cloud storage

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SAN array buyers think capacity first

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Enterprise data management starts with clearing clutter

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Good pay, bennies and perks boost data storage jobs

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Complete guide to server-based storage in its modern forms

From hyper-convergence to the cloud, better understand direct-attached storage and its many forms with this essential guide. Continue Reading

Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most

Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

HPE turns 3PAR array from all-flash to hybrid

For years we’ve seen storage vendors take systems designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and add solid-state drives (SSDs) to them. Now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking hardware that ran all SSDs ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Pure FlashBlade tackles scale-out unstructured data

Pure Storage launches a blade-based, scale-out unstructured data all-flash system that handles NAS and object storage. The vendor also brings out an entry-level version of its SAN flash array. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4

Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp and Synology top NAS storage systems survey

A storage pioneer and relative newcomer land top honors in our 10^th Quality Awards NAS storage systems survey of midrange and enterprise users. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Brocade VP: Flash spurs coordinated Gen 6 Fibre Channel launch

Brocade, QLogic and Broadcom coordinated this week’s shipments of the first switches and adapters to support Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. We caught up with Jack Rondoni, vice ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Pure Storage accelerates flash revenue

Pure Storage is looking at more competition and more opportunity than ever, and handling both well. The all-flash vendor bucked industry trends by growing revenue significantly last quarter despite ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud

Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Michael Dell: 'Ignore click-baiting cratering media'

Michael Dell and other Dell executives have told employees the $67 billion acquisition of EMC will go through despite reports that his group is having trouble securing financing for the deal. Dell ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Vendors, analysts guess future of data storage in 2016

After Rich Castagna offered his look at the future of data storage in 2016, vendors and analysts shared their guesses on what will happen this year. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Zadara Storage Inc. VPSA OPaaS 15.07

Zadara Storage's Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) offers on-demand, enterprise-grade block and file storage, based on OpenStack technology. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.6

Judges found the 2015 upgrade to Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX file management software brought significant improvements including extended integration and added features. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is integrated with RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager and is designed to drastically reduce data-loss exposure. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Panzura Global File System gets management upgrade

Panzura builds a new console that centralizes maintenance for its controllers and Global File System. The Google Maps-based monitoring and reporting tool manages cloud storage. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Commvault takes a revenue leap forward

Is Commvault back on track? The backup vendor snapped a string of four quarters of year-over-year revenue declines when it reported of $155.7 million last quarter, up 2% from the previous year. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion

Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

The significance of parallel I/O in data storage

Parallel computing has been around since the 1970s, but the re-emergence of multiprocessor systems may give parallel I/O a big place in the current data storage landscape. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Caringo adds support for Microsoft Azure to its Swarm software

Caringo has expanded its Swarm object storage to Microsoft Azure. The company recently said its object storage software, which already has Amazon S3 support, now is available on the Azure cloud so ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Five types of storage virtualization: Pros and cons

Expert Brien Posey discusses five ways to virtualize storage in an organization. Review the pros and cons of each approach to find the best fit for your data center. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

The 14 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2015 Products of the Year competition blend flash configurations with traditional spinning media. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Base enterprise hybrid cloud evaluation on security, cost

Explosive data growth has organizations looking at hybrid cloud storage to meet their capacity needs. But cloud costs and security issues need to be addressed. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Companies use caution with cloud file sync and share

Though nearly half of companies are using cloud file sync-and-share services, those who aren't using it have taken a wait-and-see approach. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Backup appliance revenue up slightly

Worldwide factory revenues for backup appliances grew 2.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter this year, with revenue totaling $813.6 million, according to International Data Corp.'s ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance system overview

Oracle ZFS Storage uses mechanical and flash storage. The ZS3-2 and ZS4-4 models offer a variety of software for storage management, encryption and security. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

HPE StoreEasy 1000 Storage family product overview

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise StoreEasy 1000 Storage family -- formerly HP StoreEasy 1000 Storage -- has four mid-level NAS models, management tools and BitLocker Drive Encryption support. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Will most 3D NAND flash products continue to feature TLC?

Vendors are using TLC flash in their 3D NAND flash products, which allows for greater capacity at a lower cost, according to Brien Posey. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

NetApp FAS2500 series: Technical overview

The NetApp FAS2500 series includes the FAS2554, FAS2552 and FAS2520. The NAS systems support hybrid flash setups for environments with mid-tier network storage needs. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Enterprise file sharing, shadow IT require swift action

File sync-and-share has vexed enterprises, but it's time to fight back and get those files out of the clouds and off employees' personal devices. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Hitachi NAS platform 4000 overview

The Hitachi NAS platform 4000 series consists of four product models that use a discrete controller that can be attached to almost any Hitachi storage system. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

EMC VNXe3200 midrange NAS system technical overview

The VNXe3200 from EMC is a NAS system for environments that require midrange network storage solutions. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Server-side caching has new data center role

Some server-side caching products have evolved into complete software-defined storage platforms that can aggregate flash across multiple servers. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

EMC Isilon X-Series NAS: Isilon x200, x210 and x410

The Isilon X-Series is a lineup of NAS systems that support hybrid flash setups. The products are designed for environments with mid-tier network storage needs. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Purchasing an enterprise SAN: Top-tier products compared

Expert Jacob Gsoedl drills into eight top-tier enterprise SAN products and how each one performs in seven technical areas. Detailed charts make the information easy to digest. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Gsoedl

EMC Isilon S-Series NAS: Isilon S210 and Isilon S200

The Isilon S210 and S200 are part of the EMC Isilon S-Series line of NAS systems for data storage environments that require mid-level network storage offerings. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

EMC Isilon NL400 NAS platform

The EMC Isilon NL400 is a midrange NAS platform with a maximum raw capacity of 210 TB per node. The array is designed specifically for environments that require near-line storage. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

The ultimate guide to Dell's EMC acquisition

This guide to Dell's EMC acquisition covers all angles of the blockbuster deal -- from breaking news and expert feedback, to the long-term ramifications on the IT sector. Continue Reading

Datagres PerfAccel 3.0 caching software ready to launch

Datagres PerfAccel 3.0 resides on a host server to examine application I/O access patterns at the file-system level and boost the performance of underlying storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Connected Data Transporter trumps public cloud for users

Customers Calvary Church and Look Photography needed a more cost-efficient file-sharing tool and found Connected Data Transporter did the trick. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Utility watchdog deploys all-flash SolidFire storage array

California Public Utilities Commission was stuck at about 80% server virtualization before adding all-flash SolidFire storage to remove latency problems. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Top object storage vendor use cases for IT

Today's object storage vendors provide products that are often the best option for archiving, backup and data lake architectures. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

External storage sales down as market shifts to hyperscale and server-based storage

External storage sales are shrinking. The total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew to an $8.8 billion during the second quarter of 2015, according to IDC. However, sales are ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Big data analytics applications impact storage systems

Analytics applications for big data have placed extensive demands on storage systems, which Mike Matchett says often requires new or modified storage structures. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Cost savings for virtualizing servers not yet reality

Though you've heard for years that virtualizing servers will save money, Jon Toigo argues that the cost of virtualization hasn't lowered. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Formation Data Systems tries out storage virtualization

Formation Data Systems CEO Mark Lewis offers a sneak peek of new data and storage virtualization software to move to the "cloud storage generation." Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

VMware EVO SDDC testers shoot for low storage cost

Reduced storage costs and better capacity scaling are key reasons EVO SDDC testers say they are interested in the hyper-converged private cloud stack. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Commodity hardware is a myth

Software-defined storage vendors preach the concept of commodity storage hardware, but beware: the hardware is just as important as the apps. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

VMware prepares VSAN 6.1, promises dedupe next

VMware launches VSAN 6.1 and prepares beta for the next version of the hyper-converged software, which will finally deliver data deduplication. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

EMC Federation center stage as VMworld 2015 opens

With the future of EMC Federation in the air, the storage giant launches bundle for end user computing and updates its hybrid cloud package. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

EMC XtremIO storage array

The XtremIO storage array from EMC is an all-flash system that offers scalability and high performance. Continue Reading

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• Valerie Silverthorne

What is the best archival media type?

Many archival media types are available, including disk and cloud, but their level of reliability and storage density varies. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Why are object stores a good match for archival data storage?

Latency in object stores that stems from a large amount of metadata means the technology is better suited to non-transactional data. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

What is eventual consistency in object stores?

Eventual consistency in object stores can be an issue because object storage is spread over many nodes and up-to-date data may not always be available. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Toshiba unveils SAS, NVMe PCIe SSDs at Flash Memory Summit

Count Toshiba among the group of drive makers demonstrating new enterprise PCI Express (PCIe) and SAS SSDs at this week’s Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. Toshiba unveiled three ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

HUS VM SAN array platform

The Hitachi Unified Storage VM is a storage array designed for enterprise SAN environments requiring high storage capacities. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Taking stock of the cloud storage market

Rich Castagna takes a closer look at the impact of cloud storage, what's preventing more widespread adoption, and the potential of the technology. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Performance counts when buying a solid-state storage device

More than half of our surveyed companies are using flash now, with plans to use it for more than just mission-critical apps. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

What separates object storage systems from SDS?

Although software-defined storage and object storage can work in similar ways, there are significant differences between the two. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

EMC tempers expectations, accelerates shift to emerging storage technologies

EMC executives reduced their 2015 revenue forecasts for the second time this year following a quarter of tepid growth. They also said the vendor will implement plans to cut costs by $850 million a ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

What's the difference between EMC VNX series and ViPR?

Brien Posey explains how two of EMC's virtual storage products work and for what use cases they work best. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product

One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

PernixData plans platform proliferation

PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Examine your computing environment before you buy flash storage

The decision to buy flash storage can overcome many performance issues, but other areas of your computing environment could be contributing factors. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Will memristor technology replace NAND flash?

Brien Posey says that with HP working on a memristor-based computer it plans to launch by 2020, the technology could eventually succeed NAND flash. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

SAN basics: All the tools you need to purchase a storage-area network

Whether you're purchasing a SAN for the first time or looking to upgrade, this guide walks you through the buying process from start to finish. Continue Reading

New Dell storage array, software-defined options added

Dell Storage ships new entry-level SCv2000 arrays, ups performance and density in PS6610 and adds a new Microsoft-based software-defined storage option. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Nexenta Systems CEO discusses upcoming product launches

Nexenta Systems CEO says NexentaEdge object storage demo will happen at upcoming OpenStack Summit, NexentaFusion management beta launch will follow Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

EMC World 2015: Expect backup, flash, future directions

EMC will roll out products in its Data Domain, XtremIO and ViPR platforms at EMC World 2015, but what about a CEO succession plan? Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

HP MSA 2040 storage array

The HP MSA 2040 is a rack-mountable modular storage array for SAN environments that includes increased support for virtualization. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

EMC VMAX Series storage arrays

The EMC VMAX is a family of SAN arrays designed for enterprise environments requiring large amounts of storage. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

What are protocol endpoints in vSphere VVOLs and how do they work?

VMware's new VVOLs feature allows storage functionality to be distributed on a per-VM basis. Protocol endpoints are integral to proper allocation. Continue Reading

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• Tom Fenton, Taneja Group

EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation

EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

A closer look at cloud storage use cases, strategies

Find out how primary storage vendors are closely integrating with cloud storage providers in ways that enable new uses for cloud storage. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Five ways VDI technology is affected by storage

Managing storage for your VDI infrastructure has progressed, but there are still some snags. Here are five ways to avoid VDI environment issues. Continue Reading

Hewlett-Packard 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Series Storage Arrays

The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series is a line of storage arrays designed for enterprise SAN environments. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Four tips to maximize the lifespan of your flash memory storage

The lifespan of flash memory storage is not the hot-button issue it once was, but you should perform these tasks to prolong the life of your drives. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

orthogonal

Orthogonal concepts have their roots in advanced mathematics. They are also associated with software development, storage and networking. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

SanDisk InfiniFlash launches company's all-flash platform

SanDisk launched the InfiniFlash all-flash platform this week. The system is said to deliver flash storage for less than $2 per GB before data reduction. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tape vs. disk: Which offers the greatest energy efficiency?

Jon Toigo looks at the factors that determine whether disk or tape is more energy-efficient. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Three reasons why object storage is a good HDFS alternative

HDFS manages data across dispersed nodes, but an object storage system that leverages commodity storage can be a compelling alternative. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

PernixData FVP adds RAM compression to server-side storage cache

PernixData FVP's latest version compresses data on RAM, and its server-side caching software pools flash and memory resources. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Vendors predict the future of data storage 2015

The future of data storage isn’t easy to predict. While some vendors see it clearly, others prove that, going into 2015, their crystal balls may be a little hazy. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints

A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Atlantis USX 2.0

Atlantis Computing's USX 2.0 claims the silver medal in the storage system software category in Storage magazine's Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa