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Compare XtremIO vs. Unity all-flash storage system for VDI

Dell EMC offers two all-flash storage options geared toward VDI shops. One suits companies with fewer than 500 persistent machines, and the other is for larger deployments. Continue Reading

MozyEnterprise backup tool finds a new key for security

Dell EMC's Mozy has unlocked a new encryption key security feature for its enterprise backup product. MozyEnterprise now provides support for the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), ... Continue Reading

What the leading copy data management vendors offer

Copy management systems from the leading vendors offer unique features that can help IT departments consolidate their secondary storage into a single product. Continue Reading

Four tips for building a Swift object store

OpenStack Swift doesn't have to be scary. You can use the command line, zones and access control lists to make object storage management a little easier. Continue Reading

Nimbus Data ExaDrive tunes into OEM channel

Nimbus Data claims ExaDrive can replace traditional disk in data centers. The 3.5-inch SSDs package flash and intelligent software, including data features in multiple ASICs. Continue Reading

Should I be concerned about SSD lifespan?

HDD and RAID vendors have stirred up FUD around the lifespan of SSD drive cells, but companies considering solid-state don't have to worry about arrays wearing out. Continue Reading

Flash Memory Summit 2017: Flash really on fire

Any claims that "flash is on fire" at Flash Memory Summit 2017 this week drew awkward glances, nervous laughs or groans. That's because one flash system literally caught fire, causing the ... Continue Reading

Primary Data DataSphere upgrade follows funding grab

Primary Data has beefed up storage analytics and cloud migration in its DataSphere virtualization platform. Now the startup is ready to dip into a fresh stash of cash totaling $40 million to ... Continue Reading

Writable shared flash volumes highlight E8 Storage upgrade

E8 adds parallel file-system support for IBM Spectrum Scale and Oracle RAC deployments. Applications read and write to a shared flash volume on E8-D24 and new E8 X-24 arrays. Continue Reading

How the leading all-flash array vendors meet storage demands

This in-depth overview of the features and capabilities of the leading AFA storage products can help you determine which configurations may best meet your needs. Continue Reading

New enterprise SSDs launch from Intel, Micron, Toshiba

SSD manufacturers showing off new 3D NAND products at this year's Flash Memory Summit include Intel, Micron and Toshiba; Intel adds new SSD form factor and Optane options. Continue Reading

Attala Systems shows off 'CPU-less' FPGA storage gear

Startup Attala Systems plans a joint demonstration with Intel at Flash Memory Summit next week. The FPGAs serve as NVMe storage targets and handle processing and network commands. Continue Reading

Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 pricing, performance

Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3. Continue Reading

Red Hat acquires Permabit for inline deduplication

Permabit's inline compression, data deduplication and thin provisioning software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help boost performance and lower costs. Continue Reading

Disaggregation enables on-demand resource pool management and creation

Disaggregation may not be a new concept, but it has become more important to IT in recent years. Here, it means breaking computers down to the core elements of compute, memory, I/O, storage, cache, network fabric and so on, to enable resource pool management and create more agile, cost-effective data centers. Done correctly, disaggregation lets you stand up and break down infrastructures almost instantly while better serving the needs of individual applications. Meanwhile, resource utilization soars, and resource pool management costs decline because of the automation that's enabled. Delve into the world of disaggregation and find out how vendors are applying the concept to their products.

Hybrid cloud storage can let you run, manage and move primary storage workloads between the cloud and on-premises data center. It can also improve IT agility and cut costs. Today, a number of products and services fulfill the promise of the hybrid cloud like never before, knocking down barriers that have inhibited wider adoption. Hybrid cloud products open new possibilities for deploying production applications, but you must choose wisely.

Pundits have predicted the demise of the hard disk for years. Not only is solid-state much faster than hard disks, the price differential between the two storage technologies is rapidly disappearing. Yet the HDD vs. SDD controversy continues with the death of the former still a long way off. The question shouldn't be when hard disks will disappear, but instead, how to best use flash technology within the memory-storage continuum that starts with tape and goes to L1 cache, the fastest and most expensive memory in a system.

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Forget all-flash arrays, aim for flash-optimized storage first

Look for simple, cost-effective products that are optimized for flash and meet your needs rather than focusing on the all-flash array storage that vendors are pushing. Continue Reading

HDD vs. SSD: Is there room for disk in a solid-state world?

Although SSD vs. HDD speed is vastly different, for the foreseeable future, hard disks will have a place in our increasingly solid-state and even DRAM-centered data centers. Continue Reading

Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

Learn what to look for in a hybrid cloud platform so you can take advantage of the scalability, agility and cost benefits it has to offer primary storage. Continue Reading

Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified

Explore the ways disaggregation concepts and principles are being applied to create and allocate pools of compute and storage resources to serve applications on demand. Continue Reading

Software-defined storage products don't negate hardware's importance

Software-defined storage, positioned as the cure-all for vendor lock-in, suggests that hardware may not be as important to IT infrastructure as it once was. Continue Reading

HDD vs. SSD: Is there room for disk in a solid-state world?

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Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

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Software-defined storage products don't negate hardware's importance

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Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified

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Forget all-flash arrays, aim for flash-optimized storage first

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Startup Morro Data launches CloudNAS services for SMBs

Startup Morro Data makes available hybrid cloud storage services for SMBs, blending an on-premises cache appliance for frequently accessed data and Amazon S3 or Backblaze. Continue Reading

Moonwalk software streams data to cloud archives

The free Starter Edition of Moonwalk's archiving software migrates up to 25 TB of data to repository or clouds as files or objects, as well as supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds. Continue Reading

NetApp cloud strategy includes SolidFire, SDS

Created in the 20th century to sell storage to engineers, NetApp has survived for 25 years to remain the largest standing data storage company not tied to a server vendor. Founder Dave Hitz credits ... Continue Reading

Commvault earnings: Sales gain ahead of product launches

Commvault Systems is inching back toward profitability after another strong quarter of growth as it continues to build out its business beyond its traditional data backup model. The company's ... Continue Reading

WD-Toshiba memory sale requires 2-week notice to WD

Toshiba and Western Digital's SanDisk subsidiary acted on a San Francisco judge's suggestion today and agreed that Toshiba would give SanDisk two weeks' notice before closing on a transfer or sale ... Continue Reading

Axcient and eFolder merger gathers clouds, enhances data protection

Though they existed in the same general market, Axcient and eFolder had different technologies, different platforms and different customer bases. They're all the same now. Axcient and eFolder said ... Continue Reading

Ctera Networks' enterprise file-sharing services gain intelligent cache

The latest version of Ctera's file-sharing software takes the sync out of sync-and-share with intelligent caching built into Enterprise File Services Platform 6. Continue Reading

Seagate revenue slides, CEO Luczo says ‘see ya later’

Seagate Technology changed its CEO, reported a revenue miss, and disclosed plans to cut 600 jobs -- all on the same day. The hard disk drive and systems vendor today said Dave Mosley, the company's ... Continue Reading

SoftNAS Cloud NAS software paces itself when moving petabytes

SoftNAS engineers encountered a problem early this year with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure clouds that caused a delay in the SoftNAS Cloud NAS 3.5 release. The engineers hit a snag while ... Continue Reading

Red Hat Ceph, Gluster roadmaps focus on HCI, containers

Red Hat's Ceph and Gluster storage roadmaps reflect increased focus on hyper-converged infrastructure, containers and big data, in addition to performance improvements. Continue Reading

Symbolic IO CEO Ignomirello arrested on assault charges

Symbolic IO, identified as one of SearchStorage’s storage startups to watch in 2017, now bears watching for different reasons than the other vendors on the list. Brian Ignomirello, 46, the Symbolic ... Continue Reading

IBM flash storage and cloud rare revenue bright spots

While IBM's revenue dropped for the 21st straight quarter, its storage business proved a bright spot. Following its own 22-quarter slump, IBM storage is now on a two-quarter winning streak. During ... Continue Reading

Everything you need to know about OpenStack modules

OpenStack continues to evolve in an effort to compete with AWS. The modules that are available now make OpenStack a viable enterprise option. Continue Reading

Broadcom-Brocade deal delayed, with ‘no assurances’

The $5.9 billion Broadcom-Brocade acquisition has been delayed 30 days, which may turn into a 75-day delay. That's if the deal happens at all. SAN switching vendor Brocade Tuesday evening said the ... Continue Reading

Veeam revenue benefits from more $1 million deals

Veeam Software today reported a a 27% year-over-year increase in revenue growth for total bookings and 53% year-over-year growth for deals that are more than $100,000 during the second quarter of ... Continue Reading

TrueNAS X10: iXsystems' open source storage contender

The TrueNAS X10 entry-level hybrid array from iXsystems provides a low-cost alternative to legacy arrays. The unified array scales to 360 TB in 6U for $55,000. Continue Reading

Making the case for an all-flash data center

Companies should ditch hard disk drives and outfit their data centers entirely with flash storage; vendors have solved old solid-state problems, such as wear time and cost. Continue Reading

OwnBackup funding drives further cloud protection

Cloud-to-cloud backup startup OwnBackup plans to significantly expand following a $7.5 million Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann said the company may ... Continue Reading

Scality launches Zenko for multi-cloud management

Scality's new open source initiative is a multi-cloud management vision to help customers match specific workloads to the best cloud service. Zenko is based on Scality S3 Server. Continue Reading

New WekaIO file system incorporates flash, object store

WekaIO launched its scale-out file system, which is optimized for server-based flash storage and designed to tier data to cheaper object storage on premises and in public clouds. Continue Reading

DataGravity's data-aware storage scooped up by HyTrust

As a standalone company, DataGravity is no more. But the startup’s data-aware storage technology will live inside of HyTrust's cloud security products. HyTrust, based in Mountain View, Calif., ... Continue Reading

Is enterprise object storage ready to lead?

As object storage benefits become more enticing to enterprises for internal storage uses and not just for cloud, vendors are overcoming its drawbacks. Continue Reading

Actifio copy data management sales help turn a profit

Actifio's copy data management platform finds favor with financial, government, healthcare and retail organizations. More than 2,200 customers use Virtual Data Pipeline. Continue Reading

Analyzing products from the leading object storage vendors

When evaluating the leading object-based storage systems, it is important to consider which product can best support your uses cases and unique site requirements. Continue Reading

Arcserve UDP gains cloud capabilities via Zetta acquisition

Arcserve today acquired cloud provider Zetta, adding a direct-to-cloud disaster recovery and backup capability to expand its reach for service providers. Arcserve, which spun out of CA Technologies ... Continue Reading

Should you use a private cloud chargeback model?

The idea of chargebacks is to help organizations use private cloud resources efficiently by making departments pay for what they use, but the practice can backfire. Continue Reading

CEO Harr predicts Panzura storage shift to software deployments

Panzura CEO Patrick Harr predicts more customers will shift from using the company's physical appliances to VM-based software deployments in the cloud by year's end. Continue Reading

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 highlights HCI vendor's partners, frenemies

While Google's new partnership with Nutanix received a lot of attention at Nutanix .NEXT 2017, other partners of the hyper-converged vendor also made news at the user conference. Google SVP of ... Continue Reading

Hyper-converged infrastructure vendors offer range of storage options

Hyper-converged infrastructure vendors have integrated software-defined storage, compute and networking into easy-to-use, turnkey appliances. But the transition from a traditional, three-tier architecture to a hyper-converged data center can take getting used to. That's why it's important to carefully assess hyper-converged infrastructure vendors and the HCI appliances they offer when making this change. We'll show you ways to simplify the process.

Today, we mostly store unstructured data on NFS-based NAS file servers. More efficient, flexible and practical object storage is a rising alternative, however, particularly in products that layer file-based interfaces on top of object-based storage for the best of both worlds.

Tiering and caching can make a huge difference in active data storage performance. These two processes work in different ways, however. Tiering is about more than distributing data into hot, warm and cold tiers, while caching increases the speed of reads and writes. Both tiering and caching require choices.

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Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you

Object storage, unlike traditional file and block storage, is well-suited to manage vast amounts of unstructured data. Continue Reading

IT infrastructure transformation: Backbone of the digital revolution

Maximizing the value of incoming and outgoing data as a core business strategy demands transforming your IT infrastructure into a more agile and flexible entity. Continue Reading

Caching vs. tiering: Comparing storage optimization techniques

There are many factors to consider when choosing between caching and tiering storage techniques to optimize storage. Knowing how and when to use either can make a big difference. Continue Reading

Object-level storage poised to replace NAS in the enterprise

Many vendors offer highly scalable object storage-based products with file interfaces, making the technology more accessible than ever as an alternative to NAS. Continue Reading

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

Enterprises look for the best deal from the vendor with the best reputation when turning to the cloud to tame growing data volumes for archiving, backup and more. Continue Reading

ECX 2.6 includes intelligent data management

Catalogic Software's approach to snapshot creation and management delivers pragmatic features to DevOps and more with the release of ECX 2.6. Continue Reading

Wanna laugh? Data protection techniques give ransomware the boot

Done right, data protection such as cloud-based disaster recovery is the best countermeasure organizations have against insidious ransomware attacks. Continue Reading

Caching vs. tiering: Comparing storage optimization techniques

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ECX 2.6 includes intelligent data management

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Object-level storage poised to replace NAS in the enterprise

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Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you

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IT infrastructure transformation: Backbone of the digital revolution

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Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

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Post-IPO, Tintri software plan comes into sharp focus

Tintri will scale back head-to-head matchups in all-flash array market; stand-alone software accounts for a growing portion of storage revenue, CTO and co-founder Kieran Harty says. Continue Reading

Toshiba says enterprise demand remains for 15,000 rpm HDD

Tape isn't dead, and neither are 15,000 rpm enterprise hard disk drives. Not yet, at least. Toshiba recently began shipping a new AL14SX Series of 15,000 rpm HDD products designed for ... Continue Reading

With trepidation, Tintri storage takes Nasdaq plunge

Tintri heads into the July 4 holiday wearing a new status symbol: publicly traded company. Still, it's initial public offering came a day late and $40 million short. Shares in Tintri storage ... Continue Reading

Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2 adds SQL support, management

With the latest sequel to its backup and replication software, Nakivo has added support for Microsoft SQL Server and more streamlined management, as it maintains a pace of releasing a product every ... Continue Reading

Tintri IPO aims at lower share price

The Tintri IPO remains a go for now, but the flash vendor now expects less of a financial windfall than originally anticipated.   The vendor's long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of stock ... Continue Reading

Ransomware protection helps mitigate data loss, but attacks are increasing

Ransomware attacks have grown to such a scale, companies are getting attacked more than once. Endpoint data protection vendor Druva recently surveyed 832 IT professionals worldwide during May and ... Continue Reading

Formation Data Systems exits crowded software-defined market

Formation Data's recent demise shows the challenges startups face in differentiating products in a crowded software-defined storage market, industry analysts say. Continue Reading

IBM DS8880 arrays lift mainframe archiving to the cloud

IBM Storage has closed the loop on its Transparent Cloud Tiering software by adding it to IBM DS8880 arrays for archival storage of mainframe data. The Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) microcode ... Continue Reading

Two Tegile storage tiers highlight IntelliFlash update

Tegile Systems updates IntelliFlash with two tiers of flash. The 6U Tegile configuration supports 72 SAS SSDs for capacity and NVMe flash drives for performance. Continue Reading

What private cloud implementation barriers should I plan for?

There are many factors to consider when building a private cloud, so planning is crucial. Policy changes and hardware choices are just some challenges that may arise. Continue Reading

Panzura cloud NAS gets performance jolt from NVMe

Panzura's enhancements to its cloud NAS include support for NVMe flash and increased capacity limit on VMware deployments. The cloud file system works with object storage. Continue Reading

Determine your requirements before buying a copy management system

Before evaluating copy data management systems, examine the pros and cons of the deployment models, as well as the most important features to look for in a product. Continue Reading

Japan-backed group is 'preferred bidder' for Toshiba memory business

Financially troubled Toshiba chose a Japan-backed consortium as the preferred bidder for its memory business, despite Western Digital's continuing claims that no sale can happen without its SanDisk ... Continue Reading

How is private cloud support divided between IT and providers?

When companies choose a private cloud storage provider, it's important that they understand what the internal IT department is responsible for, as opposed to what the provider will support. Continue Reading

Reduxio Systems adds CDM, DR upgrades to TimeOS

Reduxio rolls out its third version of TimeOS storage software, adding NoRestore copy data management and NoMigrate DR. The vendor claims to deliver zero downtime and data loss. Continue Reading

FlexPod SF converges NetApp SolidFire onto Cisco hardware

SUNNYVALE, California -- NetApp today launched its second SolidFire-based converged product this month, this time in partnership with Cisco. The FlexPod SF extends the FlexPod converged ... Continue Reading

FalconStor Software hires new CEO, Quinn to resign

Come July 1, FalconStor Software will have a new leader. And that leader will have fewer followers due to plans for a new round of staff reductions. Storage industry veteran Todd Oseth will replace ... Continue Reading

Virtual Instruments adds storage monitoring to 32 Gb FC

Virtual Instruments tools that help organizations monitor storage gain deeper integration in the new family of Load DynamiX 32 Gb FC and 40 GbE Workload Generation Appliances. Continue Reading

Stretch clustering fits Pure customers' wish lists

All-flash array vendor Pure Storage added multisite replication between FlashArray and FlashBlade systems with ActiveCluster stretch clustering, which is included in the Purity 5 OS. Continue Reading

Pure Accelerate 2017 closes San Francisco warehouse in style

At its Pure Accelerate 2017 conference this week, Pure Storage gave a new interpretation to the term data warehouse. A reported 3,000 analysts, customers and resellers gathered in a ... Continue Reading

Pure1 META analytics bolsters Pure Storage software

New predictive sizing tool complements other Pure Storage software rollouts from Accelerate. The artificial intelligence engine learns from all workloads running on Pure arrays. Continue Reading

What are the benefits of private cloud over popular alternatives?

Don't overlook the advantages of private cloud when choosing a cloud storage implementation. Security, cost and ease of transition make it a viable option. Continue Reading

Users get sneak peek at Pure, Cisco NVMe storage fabric

Pure Storage and Cisco Systems showcase NVM Express over Fabrics storage based on FlashArray//X all-flash and Cisco next-gen NVMe fabric protocol at Accelerate conference. Continue Reading

Rubrik Cloud Data Management supports Microsoft, Nutanix hypervisors

The Rubrik Cloud Data Management platform has been beefed up with upgrades that are in line with the data protection startup's mission to be a full-scale cloud data management platform. Rubrik's ... Continue Reading

DDN IME flash cache, SFA operating system get updates

DataDirect Networks focused on performance and resilience in updates to its Infinite Memory Engine flash cache and Storage Fusion Architecture operating system. Continue Reading

GlusterFS vs. Ceph: Weighing the open source combatants

When considering open source storage software, GlusterFS and Ceph share that designation and little else. Knowing how each option works can help in the selection process. Continue Reading

Pure Storage flash array lines bulk up software

Purity 5 software for Pure Storage FlashArray adds active-active multisite replication and portable snapshots. Pure FlashBlade clusters now scale to 75 blades and five chassis. Continue Reading

MapR Technologies launches enterprise file storage product

MapR expands beyond analytics into the enterprise storage market with an exabyte-scale data store designed to manage files and containers in data centers and across clouds. Continue Reading

Pure Storage CEO assesses NVMe, flash storage market

In the run-up to Pure Accelerate, CEO Scott Dietzen assesses the trajectory of the NVMe flash market, vendor consolidation and how customers are using Pure's FlashArray. Continue Reading

Dell EMC storage revenue drops – was the calendar to blame?

Dell EMC revenue from storage systems in the first quarter dropped 16% from 2016 according to IDC, a fall Dell EMC executives blame on a change in the vendor’s reporting calendar. Dell EMC uses the ... Continue Reading

What to expect in OpenStack releases Pike and Queens

OpenStack Pike, Queens and Rocky will include much-needed features and updates that will simplify user interfaces and improve the function of existing APIs. Continue Reading

Container ecosystem needs to expand its persistence of vision

Persistent storage for containers will become a necessity as the stateless computing method becomes less about just DevOps and more about end-user applications. Continue Reading

Scality storage update to RING 7 features object, file system interoperability

A Scality storage upgrade for RING adds versioning and replication capabilities for both object storage and file protocols, as well as greater interoperability between objects and files. Continue Reading