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Microsoft Office 365 backup included in Acronis Backup 12 update

Acronis has added cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft Office 365 in the latest version of Acronis Backup. Acronis Backup 12 protects Microsoft Office 365 and 15 other platforms, all under one ... Continue Reading

Kaminario K2 array boosts performance, capacity

New Kaminario all-flash array features higher performance and capacity, improves data reduction guarantee to 4:1 and offers faster storage networking options. Continue Reading

Nakivo Backup & Replication for Hyper-V gets ready for prime time

Nakivo Inc.'s latest backup and replication product offers support for VMware vSphere 6.5, Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, VMware vSphere 6.5 and Windows Server 2016 Backup along with a way to delete ... Continue Reading

Pivot3 vSTAC sales soaring, CEO says

Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 said it more than tripled its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 from the previous year, and grew total revenue 84% in 2016 from 2015. Pivot3's growth came in part ... Continue Reading

Stratoscale buys Tesora, adds AWS database services

Stratoscale acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora Inc. in a move aimed at strengthening its AWS database services. The hyper-converged software startup added Tesora's open platform for ... Continue Reading

Open source object storage startup OpenIO adds hardware

Up to 96 nano nodes fit in OpenIO's SLS-4U96 chassis. Each ARM CPU manages a single high-capacity disk and a small amount of flash storage for fast metadata access. Continue Reading

'Alexa, provision my Tintri storage'

Want to manage your Tintri storage the same way you turn on lights, set an alarm, or choose music with an Amazon Echo or Dot device? Tintri Inc. launched a proof of concept that lets customers ask ... Continue Reading

Minio object storage offers 'go big' container storage

Minio's object storage software is written in the robust Go programming language and supports Amazon S3 storage APIs for developers working in container environments. Continue Reading

Future of the Ethernet drive may hinge on NVMe over Ethernet

Despite their debut two years ago, drives that connect via Ethernet have been mostly a curiosity. The Ethernet flavor of NVMe over Fabrics may change that. Continue Reading

NetApp AFF A700s flash array slims down A700 footprint

NetApp launches small-footprint A700s version of its high-end All Flash FAS A700 with built-in SSDs, updates all-flash capacity guarantee for A-Series flash storage line. Continue Reading

Report: Better data theft protection needed for employee exits

The processes for keeping data safe when employees leave a company are fundamental data protection best practices: backup, archive and encryption. Yet barely half of the organizations that took ... Continue Reading

Panzura controller, OS updates extend cloud options

The new Panzura controller has a bigger cache and an improved operating system with enterprise features. Hybrid Cloud Controller model also offers new enterprise support options. Continue Reading

Quantum video storage customers range from police to pot growers

Quantum's scale-out storage business is growing like a weed, with the help of a large weed grower. While Quantum's DXi disk backup library increased the most of all its product lines last quarter, ... Continue Reading

Dense Pure Storage FlashBlade storage zeroes in on web-scale analytics

FlashBlade system-on-a-chip from Pure Storage converges compute, flash storage and software-defined networking. The arrays use custom flash modules instead of solid-state drives. Continue Reading

Commvault products rollout promised throughout 2017

Following a quarter of solid revenue growth to end 2016, Commvault Systems Inc. plans a string of product enhancements throughout 2017. The additions are designed to improve Commvault's performance ... Continue Reading

How to navigate the public cloud service provider selection process

Learn how to determine if your organization could benefit from public cloud storage and how to select the public cloud provider that will best meet your needs. Continue Reading

A look at the services the leading public cloud vendors provide

Examine the leading public cloud service providers and the features each offers, including backup and recovery, archival, hybrid cloud storage and cloud analytics. Continue Reading

Enterprise flash storage to speed up in 2017

CTOs at leading storage vendors predict speed and latency breakthroughs with new NVMe-based enterprise flash and upcoming memory technologies in 2017 and beyond. Continue Reading

Cloud storage for enterprise use should spike in 2017

Storage CTOs predict enterprise cloud adoption will increase in 2017, with a boost from new development and management technologies to assist with planning and deployment. Continue Reading

Veeam Software cracked $600 million revenue mark in 2016

While much of the storage market is stagnant or down, data protection vendor Veeam Software said it grew revenue 28% in 2016 by expanding its business into enterprises and the cloud. Veeam, a ... Continue Reading

Enterprise storage market poised for more disruption in 2017

CTOs share enterprise storage predictions for 2017. Cloud, server-based storage, HCI, and growing use of containers and analytics will spur further disruption. Continue Reading

Qumulo Core data-aware arrays help researchers manage sequencer data

Carnegie Institution for Science's embryology department manages research data with Qumulo Core data-aware NAS storage, taking advantage of advanced analytics. Continue Reading

Alluxio in-memory storage software gains EMC mindshare

In-memory storage startup Alluxio has struck a partnership with Dell EMC. The news marks Alluxio’s first formal alliance with a North American storage vendor. Alluxio in September integrated its ... Continue Reading

IBM DS8880 arrays adopt PCIe 3 in all-flash versions

The expansion of the IBM DS8880 hardware line introduces all-flash models designed around the vendor's High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2 to support PCIe 3.0, but not yet NVMe. Continue Reading

Panzura raises $32 million in funding

Cloud NAS vendor Panzura raised $32 million in Series E equity funding this week to expand its product and give organizations an alternative to what CEO Patrick Harr calls a "dying on-premises ... Continue Reading

Kaminario secures $75 million funding round

All-flash array pioneer Kaminario kicked off 2017 with a cash infusion of $75 million to accelerate global expansion and fuel product support for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) technologies. ... Continue Reading

Get the most value out of your SDS systems by making smart choices

There are many choices you face when looking to implement an SDS infrastructure. Making the right ones will help you get the most value from software-defined storage. Continue Reading

Showback the value of your data storage expertise

To demonstrate value, IT must provide an easy-to-understand cost model to its business leaders. This has fostered IT showback projects. Yet showback isn't easy to achieve. Continue Reading

All-flash array market advances outpace demand, create opportunities

Scott Sinclair says high-density, high-capacity all-flash storage arrays are a disruptive technology ahead of customer demand for now, but businesses will realize they need it. Continue Reading

How to build a private storage cloud

Building internal cloud storage must account for elasticity, choosing the right platform, allowing for workflow, and stack deployments and public cloud integration. Continue Reading

Top enterprise storage vendors to watch in 2017

Check out our comprehensive forecast of what challenges and opportunities the top enterprise storage vendors are expected to face in the coming year. Continue Reading

A dozen data storage vendors to watch in 2017

Hyper-convergence, solid-state, software-defined storage and the cloud have revolutionized the way we deploy, manage and secure storage. How the dozen leading data storage vendors presented here navigate the challenges and opportunities created by these changes will tell us a lot about the short- and long-term future of data center storage. Find out what to watch out for with each of these data storage vendors as the year unfolds.

On-demand object, block and file storage as a service from the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure is a standard part of today’s IT toolkit. Cloud storage isn’t the exclusive domain of the public cloud, however. You can gain the same convenience, flexibility and agility by building your own internal storage cloud. We present the resources enterprises can use to construct one of these, and how to integrate it with existing storage and computing resources as well as public cloud storage.

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Top enterprise storage vendors to watch in 2017

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Showback the value of your data storage expertise

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How to build a private storage cloud

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All-flash array market advances outpace demand, create opportunities

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All-flash storage system 2016 Products of the Year finalists

Our seven all-flash storage system 2016 finalists include products from flash-only vendors, as well as vendors that offer all-flash versions of existing hybrid arrays. Continue Reading

Storage and SAN management tools: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

The six finalists in the 2016 Products of the Year storage and SAN management tools category run the gamut from network probes to complete SAN control software. Continue Reading

Server-based storage: 2016 Products of the Year finalists emerge

2016 Products of the Year finalists revealed for category encompassing hyper-converged appliances and software-defined storage that runs on commodity server hardware. Continue Reading

Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

The 11 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2016 Products of the Year include cloud and arrays that don't demand all-flash drives. Continue Reading

Data storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

We've culled through the entries for this year's Products of the Year competition and narrowed the field to these 54 finalists in six data storage systems categories. Continue Reading

Start your hybrid cloud implementation off on the right foot

Hybrid cloud storage has garnered a lot of interest because it offers cost savings and scalability. But there are some key concerns to think about before you dive in. Continue Reading

SwiftStack object storage cures Oklahoma biomed's capacity, cost woes

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation phased out NAS and tape backups with SwiftStack object storage. Nine SwiftStack nodes replicate between data centers for disaster recovery. Continue Reading

Survey says: Business disaster recovery plans need work

While companies may be confident in their disaster recovery strategy, DR planning and testing still has a ways to go, according to results of a survey by data protection vendor Zetta. Among 403 IT ... Continue Reading

Using multiple BDR products doesn't always translate into faster data recovery

Companies spend a lot of money on disaster recovery solutions but that doesn’t translate into faster data recovery, according to a survey conducted by Quorum titled the “State of Disaster ... Continue Reading

Keep tabs on the following data storage startup vendors in 2017

Our list of the top data storage startups to watch offers products for containers, data analytics, in-memory databases, NVMe flash and object storage. Continue Reading

Four criteria for evaluating public cloud storage providers

Prior to selecting a public cloud service provider, it's essential that you understand what each vendor offers and how their services can best meet your organization's needs. Continue Reading

Focus attention on a cognitive data management system

Jon Toigo advises paying less attention to storage component stories and more to system-focused narratives such as a cognitive data management process. Continue Reading

Hyper-convergence meets private cloud platform requirements

Infrastructure choice and integration are fundamental to capitalizing on all that a private cloud environment has to offer your organization. Continue Reading

How eMMC 5.0 can improve your organization's small storage needs

The latest eMMC specification puts the tiny flash storage devices on a level playing field with many SSDs when it comes to speed -- but eMMC is still the smallest flash drive. Continue Reading

NetApp’s hyper-convergence answer? All-flash and CI arrays

NetApp’s hyper-convergence strategy is to address that market through FlexPod and SolidFire. FlexPod is the NetApp-Cisco converged infrastructure program, and SolidFire is the all-flash array ... Continue Reading

Differences between SSD caching and tiering technologies

Brien Posey looks at popular ways of using SSD as cache, including write-around, write-through and write-back, as well as how the technology compares with SSD tiering. Continue Reading

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

Take the sting out of switching cloud data storage providers

Switching your cloud storage provider is a complicated, sometimes painful, process, but here's what you need to know before making the decision to migrate your data. Continue Reading

HPE launches new XP7 based on Hitachi technology

Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its high-end enterprise storage array upgade today at the same time as Hitachi Data Systems. The HPE XP7 and HDS Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) use the same ... Continue Reading

Making a storage capacity plan that doesn't bust your budget

Storage capacity is growing at a rapid rate and by using the latest innovations in storage technologies it is possible to meet demands without growing your storage budget apace. Continue Reading

Smart storage systems smart for business

Mike Matchett explains how data-aware storage combined with application awareness is leading to a new wave of intelligent data storage. Continue Reading

Dell EMC to 'stay the course' with flash storage portfolio

Dell EMC plans to “stay the course” with its flash storage portfolio despite overlapping products at the midrange and low end, an executive at the newly combined company confirmed. Daniel Cobb, a ... Continue Reading

Maxta makes MxSP HCI software version perpetually free

Software-only hyper-converged startup Maxta today formally unveiled a free perpetual license option for its MxSP software, following a registration drive launched during VMworld 2016. MxSP is ... Continue Reading

Spectra BlackPearl line grows family, archive customer base

Spectra Logic is extending its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway line upwards and downwards. The tape vendor has added an entry-level model and a much larger offering that more than triples the ... Continue Reading

Hedvig storage update offers multicloud capabilities

Hedvig outlined its vision for a Universal Data Plane spanning public and private clouds, as it announced an updated version of its software-defined storage. Continue Reading

Veritas: Dell EMC’s no marriage made in heaven

LAS VEGAS -- In the pre-Symantec days when Veritas was an independent storage software company, its executives frequently bashed their primary competitor EMC. That rhetoric cooled after Symantec ... Continue Reading

With on-premises storage, storage administrators must adapt or perish

Storage admins show increased interest in and adoption of on-premises storage technologies such as software-defined storage and hybrid clouds. Continue Reading

Flash storage caching boosts application performance, requires balance

Chris Evans discusses the benefits to caching flash storage, the trade-offs involved and flash cache models, as well as a handy cheat sheet. Continue Reading

Atomic storage offers speed and capacity, lacks intelligence

Dutch scientists studying atomic data storage claim that 500 TB of data can be stored on one square inch, but data management remains elusive. Continue Reading

EMC expects to pass Nutanix as HCI leader by mid-2017

“We consider Nutanix No. 1 today," EMC's Jeremy Burton said. "Our goal is to get to No. 1 by the end of the year. We think it’s doable, although it would be a stretch. If it’s not by the end of ... Continue Reading

Catalogic copy data management tool gets Pure

Copy data management specialist Catalogic Software has added two all-flash arrays to its roster of supported platforms. In separate moves, the Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based software maker rolled ... Continue Reading

Nimble says customers quick to embrace all-flash

Nimble Storage, which was relatively late selling all-flash arrays, is trying to make up for lost time since launching its Predictive Flash platform in February. The vendor received a jolt from ... Continue Reading

IBM flash storage expands with midrange all-flash products

IBM's all-flash portfolio grows, with a new midrange and entry-level option, and the vendor adds a migration program aimed at EMC-Dell customers. Continue Reading

Rubrik grabs $61 million, aims for cloud

Converged data protection startup Rubrik turned to the cloud with a software release that allows customers to use Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as Rubrik's appliances to store data. Rubrik ... Continue Reading

HCI vendor Pivot3 reports more customers using more apps

Pivot3 more than doubled its revenue in the first half of 2016 over 2015, which its CEO attributes to customers buying its hyper-converged appliances as a platform rather than for single ... Continue Reading

Ctera builds new data migration, ILM and security capabilities into its platform

Ctera Networks recently unveiled new enhancements to its Enterprise File Service Platform that include the ability to migrate data from an on-premise cloud to the public cloud without disrupting ... Continue Reading

Seven tips to improve data storage efficiency

Storage networks, server-side flash, network cache, software-defined storage and all-flash or hybrid arrays help storage performance and efficiency. Continue Reading

Simplifying data storage technologies is hard

All-flash arrays and hyper-converged storage are two technologies that make it tough to simplify data storage technology. Continue Reading

Seagate, WD see exabyte growth with high-capacity enterprise HDDs

Unit shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) may be on the decline, but the exabytes that Seagate Technology and Western Digital are shipping with their high-capacity enterprise HDDs is spiking. ... Continue Reading

Quantum results indicate 'stable' backup market

It’s no secret that storage sales have been hard to come by over the last year or two. Most of the large vendors experience product revenue decreases or small increases quarter after quarter. But ... Continue Reading

Almost time for SSD flash storage to be used with object storage

As the price of flash SSD storage continues to fall, it becomes more attractive for object storage, which otherwise counts on big, slow and cheap HDDs. Continue Reading

RDMA over Fabrics: a big step for SSD access

Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in ... Continue Reading

Syncplicity adds Office 365 support, Egnyte launches data governance solution

Enterprise file sharing vendor Syncplicity  recently announced its software is now integrated with Microsoft Office 365, while competitor Egnyte rolled out its Egnyte Protect governance solution. ... Continue Reading

NAND flash technology is just the beginning

NAND flash adoption has been as fast as the speed it offers, but faster storage techs such as 3D XPoint and phase-change memory are on their way. Continue Reading

EMC pitches isolated data recovery to thwart cyber attacks

Who’s protecting the data in your data protection storage? That’s a question EMC wants you to think about as the scope of security threat increase. EMC recommends – and has customers using – an ... Continue Reading

How to measure flash storage's true value

Flash storage, or using the broader term, solid-state storage, suffers from an inadequate measure of value. Flash storage provides a step-function improvement in the ability to store and retrieve ... Continue Reading

EMC, Veritas lead in worldwide PBBA revenues

Unlike overall disk storage, purpose-built backup appliances' total worldwide factory revenue increased in the first quarter of 2016, according to International data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide ... Continue Reading

Storage Spaces Direct builds on Windows Storage Spaces

With the new Direct feature, Windows Storage Spaces can use local storage for failover clusters. It also supports JBOD storage. Continue Reading

Servers and storage become inextricably linked

The rise of flash storage and convergence technologies makes it tougher to see storage and servers as separate entities in a software-defined world. Continue Reading

Server-side flash technology lifts solid-state adoption

Server-side solid-state storage is more ubiquitous than ever due to growing capacities and rapidly dropping flash technology prices. There are a many ways to install flash technology in a server, though there are decisions to make before you buy. We examine flash technology form factors, interfaces, protocols and capacities, as well as use cases, advantages and limitations.

Disk-based backups revolutionized data protection. While far more expensive to deploy and maintain than tape, a growing list of vendors are consolidating backup with other secondary storage requirements into appliances that make disk-based backup more cost-effective.

Although tape may no longer be the storage medium of choice for backup and disaster recovery, it still has a solid place in enterprises as an archive tier and as a transportation and sharing format for certain industries. In this issue of Storage magazine, we explore the state of the art of tape and its potential use cases today.

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Why the standalone EFSS market isn't going away just yet

Enterprise file sync-and-share allows for simpler file access and sharing on the consumer and business level. Success stories like Box may indicate that EFSS is sticking around. Continue Reading

IT resilience vs. disaster recovery: What's better for your business?

DR may be dying. The term DR, that is, not the actual process of disaster recovery. There is a move in the industry to replace the phrase with "IT resilience." At last week's ZertoCON business ... Continue Reading

Servers and storage become inextricably linked

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Data storage technology trends debated in inaugural Tweet Chat

Data storage industry professionals discussed the appeal of technologies such as all-flash arrays, hyper-convergence and cloud storage during the first SearchStorage Tweet Chat. Continue Reading

New Dell SC Series operating system adds dedupe, QoS

Dell launches an operating system update for its SC Series storage arrays, featuring dedupe, QoS, Live Migrate, VVOLs support and new management capabilities. Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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