Storage architecture and strategy
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Feature
25 Apr 2024
How to manage storage resiliency
Resilient storage has never been more important to an organization than it is now. Ensure storage systems can respond to issues with a strong game plan. Continue Reading
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News
18 Apr 2024
Cyber-resilient storage a final defense against ransomware
Features to enhance storage cyber resiliency should be table stakes for buyers, experts say. But enhancements are needed to stave off ransomware attacks. Continue Reading
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News
10 Sep 2019
Spectra Logic launches stand-alone storage management software
StorCycle is Spectra Logic's first software product not tied to any of the company's hardware. It provides HTML links to simplify accessing archived data. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Sep 2019
How blockchain sharding solves the blockchain scalability issue
Sharding is the answer to the scalability problem inherent in blockchain technology. Find out the advantages of sharding and the four problems associated with it. Continue Reading
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News
28 Aug 2019
New Datrium DRaaS on AWS targets VMware customers
Datrium's new disaster recovery service will give VMware users the option to recover their applications and data on demand, in VMware Cloud on AWS, when a system outage hits. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Aug 2019
Quantum data storage corrects earnings faults, waits for SEC
Quantum Corp. reached a milestone this week on its quest to regain its listing on New York Stock Exchange. The file and tape storage vendor restated several years of improperly reported earnings, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Aug 2019
Veeam backup software preps for NAS, more ransomware protection
Following a quarter with 26% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue, Veeam is charging forward with major product enhancements expected by the end of 2019. Updates to Veeam backup ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Aug 2019
NetApp storage adjusts to slowing global demand
Are storage vendors starting to feel the pinch of macroeconomic pressures? If the most recent NetApp storage sales are a barometer, the answer seems to be a worrisome "yes." In advance of its full ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2019
Amazon buys NVMe startup E8 Storage to boost public cloud
The E8 Storage portfolio includes D-24 appliances that pack 24 NVMe SSDs in 2U, plus software-defined storage software for reference hardware with major server vendors. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jul 2019
Western Digital’s ActiveScale adds new DR, workflow options
Western Digital's object storage product update boosts capacity and throughput, supports asynchronous object distribution for multisite DR and offers 14 TB HDDs. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jul 2019
Commvault earnings disappoint; can SaaS save its butt?
Commvault is 0-for-2 so far under new CEO Sanjay Mirchandani. The data protection vendor reported earnings this week, falling below expectations for the second quarter since Mirchandani replaced ... Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jul 2019
Get to know data storage containers and their terminology
Looking into containerization? You're going to need these key terms to better understand the technology, how it works and which vendors are offering it. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jul 2019
Blockchain terminology: 7 key blockchain storage terms
Storage built around blockchain can be confusing, but understanding basic blockchain storage terminology can help clarify what the technology is and how it works. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2019
Quest QoreStor adds cloud tier, fast tier and a UI makeover
QoreStor's latest update adds many new features, including the unique ability to dedicate a high-speed disk area that can be deduplicated without sacrificing recovery speed. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Jul 2019
Getting started with containerized storage
Containerization simplifies storage operations, saving time and money. Getting started is easy, too, once you know what to look for. Continue Reading
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News
10 Jul 2019
DataCore adds new HCI, analytics, subscription price options
DataCore adds an HCI appliance based on Dell hardware, a cloud-based predictive analytics engine for proactive maintenance and new pricing options for its software-defined storage. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jul 2019
Scality Ring upgrade targets hybrid cloud data management
Scality Ring8 file and object storage adds Zenko cloud data orchestration -- called Extended Data Management (XDM) -- but for now that feature is a separate software installation. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2019
Cloudian teams with Seagate, VMware on new storage options
Cloudian's latest partnerships will give customers options to use the object storage in new high-density Seagate appliances and VMware-based cloud environments. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2019
3PAR customers face adjustment with new HPE Primera array
Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage customers say they like many of the Primera storage array's new capabilities, but will miss some 3PAR features that are going away. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jun 2019
New Cloud Daddy CEO aims to 'tell the world' about AWS protection
The new CEO of AWS data protection provider Cloud Daddy is looking to tell his company's story and drastically increase its customer count. "We've got to get people to know about Cloud Daddy," said ... Continue Reading
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Tip
20 Jun 2019
How to manage storage for Kubernetes challenges
The Kubernetes container orchestration platform has undergone changes to resolve storage challenges, including adding plugins for persistent data. However, some issues remain. Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2019
AI-infused HPE Primera storage array debuts, HPE 3PAR still in the mix
While HPE Primera, which includes HPE InfoSight AI and machine learning tech, will be available to order in August, the company says 3PAR will continue to be enhanced and updated. Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2019
Kaminario expands its storage-as-a-service offerings
To expand its capabilities as a storage-as-a-service platform, Kaminario has added metered usage payments, disaster recovery and the ability to use services on the public cloud. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Jun 2019
Where serverless storage fits in the serverless computing world
Storage for serverless functions must be external to the compute environment. Learn about the types of storage that work best for serverless computing. Continue Reading
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Guide
04 Jun 2019
Effective data management to combat the coming data apocalypse
Data management and storage are evolving to deal with the coming datasphere explosion. Learn what's happening with unstructured, IoT and cloud data, as well as storage tiering. Continue Reading
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News
31 May 2019
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 targets ease of use, hybrid cloud
SUSE will ship its Ceph-based Enterprise Storage update next month, with management, data protection and cloud integration improvements. Its product roadmap includes containerized Ceph and HCI. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 May 2019
OwnBackup funding will drive further SaaS data protection
As the software-as-a-service market expands, SaaS backup provider OwnBackup secured its largest funding round today and will use the money to expand its Salesforce data protection. The OwnBackup ... Continue Reading
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News
29 May 2019
Red Hat storage GM explains strategy change, customer impact
A Red Hat GM discusses the impact of a shift in storage focus from stand-alone products to OpenShift containers, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence. He says value lies more with innovation than commoditization. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 May 2019
Why storage tiering is necessary now more than ever
Tiered storage is making a comeback by incorporating AI machine learning to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits of new SSD and storage class memory technologies. Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2019
Portworx focuses on protecting container apps
The Portworx PX-Enterprise 2.2 storage software update adds single-command backup of container-based data and Kubernetes resources to S3-based object storage. Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2019
Red Hat storage shifts focus to OpenShift, hybrid cloud, HCI
Red Hat changes focus from selling stand-alone Ceph and Gluster products to promoting storage technologies designed for OpenShift, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence deployments. Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2019
IBM-Red Hat deal raises no storage red flags yet
Storage practitioners say they expect Red Hat's 'new overlords' at IBM to tread lightly on Red Hat storage, despite potential product overlaps after the $34 billion deal closes. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
10 May 2019
Managing NetApp CIFS shares with PowerShell
NetApp provides a feature-rich PowerShell module to manage CIFS shares. Find out how it works, as well as how to set up a new share and establish permissions. Continue Reading
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News
09 May 2019
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to move from Gluster to Ceph
Red Hat's plans to change the core technology in its OpenShift Container Storage from Gluster to Ceph with an upcoming major product release leaves customers with lots of questions. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 May 2019
DDN storage acquisitions continue with Nexenta pickup
DataDirect Networks keeps expanding by acquisition. The high-performance computing storage specialist this week made its third acquisition in the past year, picking up software-defined storage ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Apr 2019
Carbonite integrating Mozy backup, ending free edition support
Carbonite will end support for the free edition of Mozy's consumer product on Monday. The cloud data protection heavyweight would like to convert remaining Mozy customers onto its own ... Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Apr 2019
What you need to know about blockchain storage
Using blockchain for data storage is growing in popularity. Here, we answer five frequently asked questions about this emerging technology to help you get started. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Apr 2019
2 storage tiering strategies for modern media
Storage tiering makes a comeback as businesses aim to get the most out of their storage systems. Discover the rules for optimizing both intrasystem and intersystem tiering. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Apr 2019
Carbonite and Webroot close deal, focus on ransomware
After closing its largest acquisition, Carbonite said it will emphasize, at least initially, a "do-no-harm" method in the integration efforts. In a deal that closed March 26, the backup and ... Continue Reading
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Conference Coverage
04 Apr 2019
Dell Technologies World 2019 news and analysis
Dell Tech World 2019 promises plenty of news, from hyper-convergence to the ever-present cloud. Vendor news, such as product consolidation and overlap, will also be discussed. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2019
Komprise launches NAS migration tool, user-driven archiving
Komprise says customers wanted NAS migration as a separate tool, so it now makes it available even if you don't buy its full Intelligent Data Management platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Mar 2019
5 Ceph storage questions answered and explained
What do you need to know about Ceph open source storage to decide if it's right for your organization? See how it compares to object storage alternatives, and optimize its use. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Mar 2019
What's new in Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
Microsoft has increased the capacity, resiliency and other advantages of the software-defined storage that comes with Windows Server 2019. Find out about all the benefits. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Mar 2019
7 storage questions ahead of Dell Technologies World
We'd like to know where Dell EMC stands on midrange storage, NVMe over fabrics, data protection, hyper-convergence, cloud and containers, among other things. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2019
At Dell Technologies World, Dell will put its stamp on EMC
Dell EMC storage has taken on more of a 'Dell' feel over the past year, thanks in part to reliance on PowerEdge Servers and spinning out Pivotal Software into a public company. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Mar 2019
Data migration checklist: 6 steps to ease migration stress
Following a detailed data migration strategy with extensive upfront planning can simplify complicated and labor-intensive SAN data migration projects. Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2019
Ctera Networks and HPE combine for hyper-converged gateway
Ctera and HPE partner on new Edge X Series cloud gateway appliance that integrates Ctera's global file system and HPE's SimpliVity hyper-converged software. Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2019
SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture
SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage. Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2019
Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files
An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer. Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2019
Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs
As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Mar 2019
With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing
Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2019
Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search
Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Mar 2019
New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'
Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2019
Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers
Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Mar 2019
How blockchain storage could benefit the enterprise
Whether your organization is a potential buyer or seller of blockchain data storage, the technology could change how you look at storage. Discover where blockchain is headed. Continue Reading
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News
04 Mar 2019
Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation
Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4. Continue Reading
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Definition
04 Mar 2019
data deduplication
Data deduplication is a process that eliminates redundant copies of data and reduces storage overhead. Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2019
Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage
German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Feb 2019
Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019
Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2019
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. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Feb 2019
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
- 11 Feb 2019
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Cloudian HyperStore 7
New multi-cloud capabilities vault object storage specialist Cloudian to first place with its HyperStore product. Judges were particularly impressed with its functionality. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Portworx PX-Enterprise
PX-Enterprise, which helps users deploy persistent storage with containerized applications, stood out among other competitors for its innovation and value. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Quobyte Data Center File System 2.0
Startup Quobyte's 'up-and-comer' distributed parallel file system caught judges' attention as being easier to deploy, operate and manage in high-performance environments. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Feb 2019
Data storage startups to watch in 2019
Failure is a more likely outcome than success for a storage startup. Still, intrepid newcomers offer innovative technologies in cloud, backup, convergence and flash. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jan 2019
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 ... Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2019
2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics
Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jan 2019
Advantages of object storage and how it differs from alternatives
File and block storage might provide better performance, but granular metadata and near-infinite scalability make object storage equally beneficial. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2019
DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins
New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jan 2019
Storage Migration Service eases Windows Server transfers
See how SMS eases the process of migrating Windows servers, simplifying the administrator's job and minimizing the disruptions to users and applications. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jan 2019
Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment
One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jan 2019
Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs
Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2019
Cloud and software-defined storage products: 2018 POY finalists
Multi-cloud data management and container support are themes among the 2018 software-defined and cloud storage finalists of TechTarget's Storage Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2019
Storage systems and management tools: 2018 POY finalists
Storage management tools candidates for the 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition skew heavily toward simpler interfaces and greater access to real-time data. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Jan 2019
6 steps to how blockchain storage works
See how blockchain technology has the potential to provide a secure and reliable enterprise data storage environment with our step-by-step guide to blockchain data storage. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jan 2019
2018 M&A in storage centered on flash, cloud and backup
No billion-dollar blockbusters in 2018 storage M&A activity as vendors stayed away from big deals and concentrated on filling gaps in their flash, cloud and backup portfolios. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Dec 2018
Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance
Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2018
Virtual Instruments WorkloadWisdom adds NVMe-oF support
Virtual Instruments product update adds support for NVMe over Fibre Channel workload modeling and improves testing capabilities in large-scale environments. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Dec 2018
Minio prepares new object storage dish for 2019
The CEO of object storage startup Minio wants to change the way people talk about his company in 2019, beginning with the way they say its name. Most people pronounce it “MIN-EO” but CEO and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Dec 2018
HYCU goes deeper into Nutanix protection
HYCU, which sells data protection specifically designed for Nutanix hyper-converged systems, today enhanced features for backing up the platform it has hitched its wagon to. Comtrade Software ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Dec 2018
Legacy storage vendors gain in cloud era, IDC says
External storage systems are all-but-obsolete in the software-defined era. At least that’s the fable shared repeatedly across the industry. But cloud and enterprise customers are collaborating to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Dec 2018
Veeam updates Availability Suite 9.5, N2WS platform
Veeam updates to its flagship product and AWS data protection include the ability to migrate old data to cheaper cloud or object storage. Update 4 of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is scheduled to be ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Dec 2018
Portworx update targets hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
PX-Enterprise 2.0 moves beyond storage for stateful container-based applications to provide data migration and management across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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News
03 Dec 2018
Komprise data management helps Boone County archive to Azure
Komprise's data management software helps Indiana's Boone County government archive unstructured data in Azure cloud storage and reduce on-site storage. Continue Reading
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News
29 Nov 2018
Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy
Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Nov 2018
Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud
Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Nov 2018
Quobyte wins Points for Kubernetes storage
Points International's storage revamp for Kubernetes includes Dell EMC servers running solid-state drives and a distributed file system from startup Quobyte. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Nov 2018
Kaseya backup integrations a 'Done Deal'
The Kaseya backup line is growing, following the company's acquisitions of two data protection vendors. Now Kaseya is adding a program that guarantees customers to managed service providers. In ... Continue Reading
- 05 Nov 2018
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Opinion
05 Nov 2018
Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future
Automating data management will play an important role in helping us cope with the coming zettabyte apocalypse, a time when the amount of data generated will overwhelm storage resources. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2018
Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive
A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Oct 2018
Commvault staggers under weight of 'massive changes'
While going through a transition period, data protection vendor Commvault’s sales are still taking a hit. Commvault’s revenue for last quarter of $169.1 million fell $10 million below Wall Street ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Oct 2018
Veeam CEO shakeup: Co-founder in, McKay out
Veeam Software has reshuffled its executive team, promoting co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO, while Peter McKay is no longer with the data protection company after 2 ½ years as an executive, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2018
Security patch issued for Arcserve Unified Data Protection
Arcserve Unified Data Protection customers are being told to patch the backup platform after a security provider found issues that could leave data unprotected. The four vulnerabilities in Arcserve ... Continue Reading
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Tip
25 Oct 2018
How blockchain data storage may revolutionize the enterprise
Blockchain for data storage promises to bring added trust, reliability and security to storage, but is it ready to become a mainstream technology? Experts offer their views. Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2018
Hammerspace targets data silos with new software service
Silicon Valley startup debuts software service that harnesses data virtualization technology from Primary Data and adds hybrid cloud data management and metadata as a service. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Oct 2018
Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support
Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2018
Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support
Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2018
City buses use Cloudian storage for video data
Cloudian object storage hops a ride on Montebello Bus Lines, helping the California city improve its storage system for surveillance camera footage that had proved challenging. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Oct 2018
StorOne storage is set to disrupt the software-defined market
StorOne's TRU Storage technology raises the bar for software-defined storage by gathering together universal pools of storage across disparate hardware that any workload can use. Continue Reading
- 03 Oct 2018