Storage architecture and strategy
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Tip
31 Oct 2025
How to choose between scale-up vs. scale-out storage
Scaling up and scaling out are both approaches to increase storage capacity. To decide which approach to take, consider short- and long-term requirements. Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Oct 2025
NetApp aims to transcend storage roots with vision to make data AI-ready
NetApp is redefining its role beyond storage with new AI-focused data infrastructure unveiled at its Insight conference. Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2017
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
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Opinion
07 Jun 2017
Three approaches to strategic data management: Good, better and best
It's time organizations take a more mature and sophisticated approach to data management techniques and make the most of the data they generate and consume. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Jun 2017
Questions to ask object storage vendors before evaluating products
Before investing in object storage architecture, it is vital to understand your options, including whether you should buy software, hardware or a combination of both. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jun 2017
Tintri IPO filing shows spikes in sales, heavy losses
When technology executives discuss initial public offerings these days, they usually say how the goal has shifted from rapid growth to fiscal responsibility. In other words, investors want to see a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2017
Nutanix revenue, relationships grow
Nutanix’s success selling hyper-converged software depends largely on how well it both competes with and partners with the large server vendors. Nutanix revenue beat expectations last quarter, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2017
Pure Storage flash lineup could be billion-dollar baby
Pure Storage executives claim the flash pioneer is on pace for $1 billion in revenue for 2017, plus its first profitable quarter by the end of the year. Neither goal is assured, but both seem ... Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2017
Veritas HyperScale storage software extends OpenStack
Veritas expands beyond data protection with HyperScale storage software to give OpenStack users added quality of service, data protection and management capabilities. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 May 2017
Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds CDP, cloud and physical support
NEW ORLEANS – Veeam Software opened its user conference with the launch of the latest version of its data protection software, moving deeper into cloud and physical device support. Veeam ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 May 2017
IBM to package Nutanix HCI software on Power Systems
Nutanix is making its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software available on another server platform, this time with the server vendor’s full cooperation. Nutanix and IBM today disclosed an OEM ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 May 2017
Snowden, Cinder demo give OpenStack Summit storage twist
BOSTON -- Storage is rarely a focal point at OpenStack Summit keynotes, so it was interesting this week to see a Cinder block storage demo -- even if it failed -- and Edward Snowden discussing data ... Continue Reading
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Feature
11 May 2017
Object storage systems ease data capacity and archival concerns
If your organization can identify with any of the object storage use cases noted here, it might be time to consider adding this technology to your storage portfolio. Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2017
NetApp StorageGrid enhanced for OpenStack deployments
NetApp's StorageGRID Webscale 10.4 object storage supports Docker containers and more simplified OpenStack deployments, and it gives admins more control of multi-tenancy in the cloud. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 May 2017
FalconStor FreeStor makes progress, but vendor sales still down
Beleaguered software vendor FalconStor Software reported a cash flow positive first quarter of 2017, although that highlight came more on the back of spending cuts than improved sales. FalconStor ... Continue Reading
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Feature
09 May 2017
Quantifying the benefits of investing in copy management technology
There are many benefits to implementing copy data storage, including cost reduction and increased operational efficiency while maintaining service-level objectives. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 May 2017
Hyper-converged backup in Commvault’s future
Commvault is getting into the hyper-converged backup game. Commvault CEO Bob Hammer outlined the vendor's product plans for the coming months Wednesday, May 3 during its quarterly earnings call. He ... Continue Reading
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Feature
04 May 2017
Use the cloud to enhance the functions of primary storage
Learn some of the best ways to leverage public cloud as a storage tier to complement primary storage and make data centers more efficient. Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 May 2017
Symbolic IO IRIS a breakthrough in server, storage architecture
Intensified RAM Intelligent Server from newcomer Symbolic IO questions fundamental and often unstated foundations of contemporary server and storage design. Continue Reading
- 04 May 2017
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Blog Post
01 May 2017
Rubrik, cloud data management company, raises $180 million in funding
Converged secondary storage startup Rubrik has raised $180 million in a Series D funding round, making it a total of $292 million in funding since 2015. Rubrik, which has 330 employees, last raised ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Apr 2017
Data protection report finds 'availability gap' hurting IT growth
Many organizations face the danger of falling through data protection gaps, according to a recent survey. Eighty-two percent of organizations agreed or strongly agreed that they have an ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Apr 2017
Layer 3 network integration from Datera uses nodes as endpoints
An updated version presents Datera Elastic Data Fabric storage nodes as a cluster of L3 network endpoints in anticipation of increased container adoption. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Apr 2017
Spanning Cloud Apps ‘finds a home’ outside Dell EMC
Dell EMC has sold off another asset after its mega-merger. Dell EMC last week spun out Spanning Cloud Apps to Insight Venture Partners, less than three years after EMC acquired Spanning for its ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Apr 2017
Court to Dell EMC: Nexsan Unity branding gets priority
Nexsan won a court victory over Dell EMC, right in the giant's back yard. A Massachusetts federal district court sided with Nexsan Inc. this week in its trademark dispute with Dell EMC over use of ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Apr 2017
Catalogic ECX supports more databases for DevOps
Catalogic adds support for SAP HANA and healthcare database programs to ECX. The company is focusing its ECX copy data management software for DevOps use cases. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Apr 2017
Copy management systems reduce data consumption and storage costs
Copy management systems offer a range of options for reducing excessive storage consumption and improving performance by eliminating the creation of redundant data copies. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Apr 2017
Tegile funding round gives it $33 million for NVMe push
Tegile Systems closed a $33 million funding round that the flash array vendor intends to use to invest heavily in NVMe, the next big thing in solid-state storage. Like other flash vendors, Tegile ... Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Apr 2017
How an object storage architecture can help reduce storage complexity
An object storage architecture tackles traditional storage limitations by offering a file structure that is ideal for storing and protecting large amounts of unstructured data. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Apr 2017
Scale-out software-defined storage market menaces traditional storage
Scale-out software-defined storage is on the rise to the detriment and decline of traditional storage products and arrays. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Apr 2017
Smarter storage starts with analytics
Storage smartens up to keep pace with data-intensive business applications embedding operational analytics capabilities. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Apr 2017
Essential elements of copy data management
The next chapter written in the book of computer science should be all about management of copy data, the core function of IT. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Apr 2017
Secondary data storage takes center stage
Once considered a necessary evil, secondary storage systems are now providing much more than just backup protection. Continue Reading
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News
30 Mar 2017
Scality object storage rings Cisco as hardware partner
Customers can get Scality software for object storage on Cisco Unified Computing System hardware. Raw capacity tops 3 PB per six-node chassis, with Cisco sales and support. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Mar 2017
Avere Cloud NAS receives Google funding injection
Google is throwing its investment weight behind the Avere Cloud NAS technology. Google joined Avere Systems' $14 million Series E funding round that closed today, highlighting the importance of ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2017
IBM Cloud Object Storage gains cold vault tier
IBM enhances its cloud object storage based on Cleversafe technology with flexible pricing and a long-term, three-tiered cold vault object store for inactive data. Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2017
Pure Storage flash array fuels Lifescript's DevOps strategy, CDM
Women's health website Lifescript 'transformed into a DevOps shop after implementing Pure Storage all-flash arrays from and Actifio copy data management.. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Mar 2017
Zerto software makes gains in busy disaster recovery market
The year 2016 was a wild and crazy one for business disasters. An increase in ransomware attacks and IT outages such as Delta's constantly made headlines. These high-profile issues drove the need ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Mar 2017
Pure Storage backup data replicates to Cohesity disk
All-flash vendor Pure Storage is teaming with converged data protection startup Cohesity to enable tiered storage of array-based snapshots. Customers can replicate primary storage snapshots between ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2017
SwiftStack object storage gets two-way Cloud Sync
SwiftStack 5 object storage software upgrade enables two-way data synchronization between on-site private cloud storage and public cloud storage from Google and Amazon. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2017
Nutanix revenue still growing for now
In its early days, Nutanix's biggest challenge was convincing people that hyper-converged appliances were a better fit for their organizations than traditional server/storage systems. Now that ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Mar 2017
A cure for secondary data storage services blues
Effective user-centric data storage management eases copy data management and object storage uptake while enabling secondary storage services to evolve. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Mar 2017
Storage plays catch-up with DevOps environment
To deliver an Agile or DevOps environment, the way in which resources, including storage, are consumed and deployed changes to a more cloud-focused approach. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2017
Cisco HyperFlex systems snap with Veeam
Virtual backup specialist Veeam Software is treating hyper-converged Cisco HyperFlex systems the same way it treats storage arrays when it comes to snapshots. Veeam's direct snapshots will work ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Mar 2017
Classification of data can solve your data storage problems
Having a data classification process in place can make your data smart enough to know what to do with itself, allowing you to attain the holy grail of enterprise data storage. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Mar 2017
Startup Hedvig secures $21.5 million funding round
Software-defined storage startup Hedvig Inc. secured another $21.5 million in funding to create new bundled hardware and software component options, expand into the Asia-Pacific region, and add ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Mar 2017
Pure Storage revenue results rosy, guidance thorny
Pure Storage revealed two surprises during its fourth quarter earnings call. One the plus side, the all-flash vendor exceeded its forecast and expectations for revenue during the quarter and all of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Mar 2017
IBM happy to stay out of hyper-converged infrastructure market
"You can be a purist and say what we do is converged, not hyper-converged, but it’s about the job you’re trying to do. The two worlds are blending together," Walsh said.. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Feb 2017
HPE storage sales slipped sharply in late 2016
Storage is among the casualties of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's struggles following the break-up of Hewlett-Packard. The vendor reported HPE storage revenue declined 12% year-over-year to $730 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Feb 2017
NetApp hyper-converged entry: Better late than early?
NetApp is entering the hyper-convergence arena with the latecomer's cry: We may be last into the market, but we'll be the best. Emboldened by the recent strong revenue growth of its late-to-market ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Feb 2017
Dell EMC VxRail hitches ride on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Dell EMC’s VxRail turned one today, and the vendor marked the anniversary by adding the hyper-converged platform to its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud package. Dell EMC claims over 1,000 customers for ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2017
Caringo FileFly cleans data off Windows Storage Servers
Caringo FileFly powers Secondary Storage Platform that works with Microsoft DFSR and ReFS to offload passive, unstructured data from a Windows storage server. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2017
The data storage capacity growth survival guide
You can keep your storage investments in place, allow for capacity increases, and solve performance and application problems, while gathering data to plan for new growth. Continue Reading
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Opinion
10 Feb 2017
'Holistic' data protection tools, a marketing meme on the rise
Though vendors are calling their data protection products 'holistic,' they should blend security and disaster recovery services to improve their functionality. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Feb 2017
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe
The VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe stops companies from needing to send captured packet data back to vendors and wait for the analysis to identify performance problems. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Feb 2017
Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.8
Data Dynamics upgrades StorageX with new data protection features and functions, and makes it so users can customize their own data mobility policies with a REST API and SDK. Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2017
Qumulo QC update adds flexible file quotas, PB array
Qumulo NAS upgrade allows data to move between quota domains without rewriting the file system. QC360 hardware is a petabyte-scale addition to its QC-Series hybrid disk lineup. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Feb 2017
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
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Blog Post
07 Feb 2017
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
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Blog Post
07 Feb 2017
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
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Blog Post
07 Feb 2017
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
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News
06 Feb 2017
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
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Blog Post
06 Feb 2017
'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
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News
02 Feb 2017
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
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Blog Post
26 Jan 2017
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
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Blog Post
20 Jan 2017
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
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Blog Post
16 Jan 2017
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
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2017
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
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2017
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
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News
06 Jan 2017
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
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News
29 Dec 2016
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
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Blog Post
28 Dec 2016
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
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Opinion
05 Dec 2016
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
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Blog Post
17 Nov 2016
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
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Tip
10 Oct 2016
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
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Feature
03 Oct 2016
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
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Blog Post
30 Sep 2016
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
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Blog Post
29 Sep 2016
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
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Blog Post
16 Sep 2016
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
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Blog Post
01 Sep 2016
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
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Blog Post
30 Aug 2016
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
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Blog Post
16 Aug 2016
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
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Blog Post
09 Aug 2016
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
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Blog Post
04 Aug 2016
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
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Blog Post
29 Jul 2016
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
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Blog Post
18 Jul 2016
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
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Blog Post
28 Jun 2016
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
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Blog Post
20 Jun 2016
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
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Blog Post
02 Jun 2016
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
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Blog Post
13 May 2016
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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Blog Post
03 May 2016
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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Blog Post
29 Apr 2016
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