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Software-defined storage products: 2017 Products of the Year finalists

The 11 software-defined storage finalists in this year's competition highlight the most recent developments in flash, cloud and container technologies. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Backup hardware devices: 2017 Products of the Year finalists

Backup and disaster recovery hardware products that made the initial cut extend into the cloud and have more support for software-defined storage, data analytics and even tape. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Data management and storage 2017 Products of the Year finalists

We narrowed down the field to 47 finalists in five data storage categories as part of our much anticipated 16th annual Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading

Storage startup trends: Vendors to watch in 2018

Another year is behind us, and 2017 wasn't kind to enterprise-storage startups, as a bunch went belly up or sold off their assets. Not deterred by this recent history and startup trends, a new group of companies has emerged to try and make an impact in 2018. These include Aparavi, Attala Systems, Elastifile, Minio, Morro Data, Vexata, Wasabi Technologies and WekaIO. They have products focused on hot storage sectors, such as flash, hybrid cloud, scale-out file systems and object storage. Who's behind these startups? What do they offer that the market doesn't already provide? And, given recent startup trends, what are their chances for success? Find out with an early look at these upstarts.

A server still looks like a server, and network cables and racks haven't changed much over the last couple of decades, but storage has fundamentally transformed. Disk has lost its crown as the king of primary storage and is becoming relegated to the secondary -- and even cold -- storage world. More significantly, the data center is becoming more software-defined. That means storage functions that once demanded specialized hardware now reside in adaptable, pliable, reprogrammable and easily updateable software constructs. Explore the state of the software-defined storage market.

The advent of virtualization and its need to share all resources threatened the relevance of direct-attached storage (DAS) -- storage within the server. Only the emergence of flash storage, most specifically PCIe SSDs, staved off DAS' extinction, with the likes of Fusion-io demonstrating what you could do with high-speed flash integrated in the server. Today, storage is about to move even further into the server thanks to advancements in storage-class memory -- also known as persistent memory -- technologies. Here's how, why and what this development could mean to you.

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Eight data storage startup vendors to watch in 2018

Even as other storage startup companies fail, newcomers have appeared to take on established enterprise vendors. Can they ride the momentum for flash, hybrid cloud and SDS? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Eight data storage startup vendors to watch in 2018

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iXsystems: 'weird' but profitable NAS vendor

Here’s something you rarely hear from high tech companies today: “We’re a hardware company in our heart and soul.” That is how executive vice president Brett Davis introduced iXsystems during a ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Toshiba, HPE head 2017 storage acquisitions

Storage acquisitions in 2017 included Hewlett Packard Enterprise's buys of SimpliVity and Nimble Storage, and Toshiba's move to sell off its memory business. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage market trends of 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud gain steam

Disruption in the enterprise storage market appears unlikely to subside anytime soon. AI analytics, cloud, HCI, mergers and NVMe flash highlight key themes heading into 2018. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Western Digital-Toshiba flash clash ends

Western Digital and Toshiba settled their NAND dispute with an out-of-court settlement that allows Toshiba’s sale of its NAND chip business while WD keeps its stake in the companies’ joint venture. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hitz: NetApp market growth hinges on cloud, data management

Storage stalwart NetApp celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. NetApp founder Dave Hitz reflects on its evolution and the impact of Cloud OnTap, Data Fabric and SolidFire HCI. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Peering into the future of enterprise storage for 2018

Rich Castagna takes a crack at the annual rite of prognostication with a bold look -- unfettered by truth, reality and sanity -- at data storage trends in the coming year. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Nexenta raises $20 million, shoots for cloud

Bolstered by lead investor SoftBank Corp., Nexenta secured $20 million in financing this week to fund its new cloud portfolio. The Santa Clara, California-based storage software vendor next month ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Pure Storage revenue boost puts it on ‘march to profit’

Pure Storage hit a home run in its first quarter under CEO Charlie Giancarlo. Pure Storage revenue of $278 million last month exceeded the high point of its  guidance and increased 41% from last ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase

Meg Whitman says it’s time for “a new generation” to take over Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She was talking about the CEO change when she made that comment during the company’s earnings call last ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp revenue rides flash gravy train

NetApp is showing a legacy storage array vendor can still increase revenue impressively during these days of scant storage growth. NetApp Wednesday night reported its fourth straight quarter of ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Quantum CEO Gacek’s a goner after poor quarter

Quantum CEO Jon Gacek is out following poor sales results for the data protection and scale-out storage vendor last quarter. The Quantum board named director Adalio Sanchez as interim CEO. Chairman ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Demand for cold data storage heats up

The exponential rise in unstructured data is one of many reasons for the upsurge in demand for cost-effective cold storage products, services and media. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Arcserve acquisition plans heating up

Arcserve is on the hunt to buy more companies. The data protection and recovery company already has made two acquisitions since becoming independent from CA Technologies in 2014. It bought cloud ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Violin Systems CEO Abbasi says profits coming in 2018

All-flash pioneer Violin emerges from bankruptcy; 2018 plans call for profits, acquisition, NVMe deployments and software-defined scalability. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam revenue increases as enterprise deals grow

Highlighted by the largest customer deal in its history and a big bump in enterprise bookings, Veeam reported 34% year-over-year total bookings growth in the last quarter. There has been a push in ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Western Digital CEO vows to block Toshiba NAND sale

Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan said he remains confident his company will win its fight to prevent its NAND manufacturing joint venture partner Toshiba from selling its memory chip unit without ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Dell EMC acquisition: The deal of the century a year later

A year has passed since the Dell EMC acquisition, the biggest transaction in the history of IT. With the benefit of hindsight, we examine the positives, negatives and uncertainties of the deal. Did Dell buy the world's biggest storage vendor, or did EMC round out its infrastructure strategy? Was the timing of the Dell EMC acquisition good, and were the reasons behind it sound? Does it matter? What are the long-term prospects? How about the complications of integrating companies with different corporate cultures and overlapping product lines? What's the effect on the data storage market in general?

Public cloud use has increased at a remarkable rate. So much so, it's a matter of when, not if, public cloud adoption will match on-site infrastructure. Vendor lock-in is a top concern IT decision-makers and practitioners have with cloud services. An emerging set of multicloud primary storage products mitigate this problem by providing data services simultaneously across multiple public clouds. Explore the key drivers and benefits of these multicloud storage products and services. Find out what customers want from them. And learn about the vendors that meet these diverse customer requirements and how they deliver on the promise of multicloud storage.

The open source software movement has potential to change the face of storage. With the commoditization of servers and storage media, costs are low and reliability is high enough to use off-the-shelf components to build storage platforms with software-defined storage products, including open source. This trend is reducing or eliminating dependence on proprietary storage hardware and software. Find out which open source technologies support object-, file- and block-based storage individually or in combination.

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Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?

Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger

Our experts take measure of the Dell EMC acquisition, the storage and technology merger of the century, a little more than 12 months after the deal closed. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz
• Dave Raffo

NetApp customers, partners press on after Las Vegas shooting

About 4,000 NetApp customers and partners attended the vendor's Insight user conference expecting storage news. Instead, they had to absorb the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger

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Infinidat boxes up $95M funding haul

Infinidat picked up $95 million in funding today to help fuel an aggressive product expansion – including moves into secondary storage and a public cloud offering. Goldman Sachs Private Capital ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp Insight: Las Vegas should have time to grieve first

LAS VEGAS - This blog was supposed to tell our readers about the big developments surrounding Day 1 of the NetApp Insight user conference.  Sadly, today’s subject matter touches on more sobering ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Toshiba memory business sale faces bumpy road

Toshiba signs a $17.7 billion deal to sell its memory business to a Bain-led consortium that includes Dell and Seagate, but Western Digital's SanDisk wants to stop it. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC’s XC (Nutanix) HCI box protects MS Hyper-V VMs

Dell EMC today enhanced its Nutanix-powered XC hyper-converged platform by adding data protection features for Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. The news, made during Microsoft Ignite, shows Dell EMC is ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition

In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ... Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Dell EMC storage gets new boss

Of all the EMC executives who left the company since the Dell acquisition, the departure of David Goulden will have the greatest impact on the Dell EMC storage business. Dell dropped the news that ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge

Former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo takes over as CEO of Pure Storage from Scott Dietzen with the all-flash pioneer set to become a billion-dollar baby. Will profits follow? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding

Cloud-based file service provider Nasuni last week closed on $38 million in funding to boost its expansion plans in research and development and its channel and go-to-market efforts. The Goldman ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Everspin Technologies nvNITRO ST-MRAM SSDs ready to ship

Everspin's new ST-MRAM-based nvNITRO Storage Accelerator pledges 'DRAM-like' performance, but analysts say the high price could limit the SSD's use cases. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Toshiba memory business sale points to Bain-led consortium

The Toshiba memory business could be sold to a Bain Capital-led consortium that reportedly includes Apple, Dell Technologies and Seagate if the parties can strike a deal that passes legal muster ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC Isilon helps preserve tennis history

At the U.S. Open tennis tournament last week, Rafael Nadal solidified his Hall of Fame credentials and Sloane Stephens became a hall of fame candidate. And the International Tennis Hall of Fame ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Can I replace HDDs with SSDs to support in-memory storage?

Replacing all your HDDs with SSDs won't solve the storage issues associated with in-memory databases. Look to hyper-convergence and NVDIMMs instead. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Spectra Logic BlackPearl NAS disk appliance launches

Spectra Logic has added a midrange BlackPearl NAS disk appliance to augment its tape-based object storage. Spectra Logic launched the object-based BlackPearl line as a linear tape file system ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise

Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Dell EMC storage sags in the middle

What do you do when storage sales slow down? If you’re Dell EMC, you add velocity to the sales process. “Storage velocity” was a frequently used term during Dell’s earnings call this morning. On ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

HPE storage more Nimble after $1.2 billion buy

HPE storage sales received a boost last quarter from its $1.2 bilion Nimble Storage acquisition. HPE did not break out its total storage revenue by product, or even give a total amount except to ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

The copy data management market is starting to go mainstream

Products from copy data management vendors protect and manage production data to lower storage costs, speed data access and streamline self-service access to data copies. Continue Reading

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• Steve Ricketts, Taneja Group

Coho Data falls victim to 'cutthroat' data storage market

After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Nutanix revenue jumps as competition grows

Hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix grew revenue 72% in its first year as a public company. Nutanix revenue grew to $767 million during a span in which competition intensified. Dell EMC, Hewlett ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

VMworld 2017 Notes: Dell favors storage R&D over M&A

LAS VEGAS -- Before their merger, EMC and Dell were active buyers of storage companies. In the past year, neither has made an acquisition. That’s understandable, considering the price that Dell ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Tegile becomes the latest Western Digital acquisition

Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen resigned unexpectedly Thursday, as the all-flash pioneer named former Cisco executive Charlie Giancarlo its new leader. Dietzen will stay at Pure as chairman, ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Dave Raffo

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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

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• Dave Raffo

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Dave Raffo

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

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Sander van Vugt

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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• Jim O'Reilly

Hitachi Content Platform 8 focuses on cutting storage cost

Hitachi Data Systems updates its HCP object storage system with support for 10 TB helium HDDs, geographically distributed erasure coding, KVM hypervisors and new licensing options. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Dave Raffo

HPE storage looks to Nimble, SimpliVity for jolt

Recent Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) storage acquisitions will play a key role in “reengineering” the company, CEO Meg Whitman said. During HPE’s earnings call Wednesday night, Whitman called ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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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• Dave Raffo

NetApp pockets Plexistor, nonvolatile memory software

NetApp quietly slipped an acquisition of storage memory software startup Plexistor into an earnings call otherwise noteworthy for strong results last quarter and a disappointing forecast for this ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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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• Dave Raffo

OpenStack Ocata storage projects add enterprise features

The Cinder, Swift and Manila OpenStack storage projects focused on performance, stability, scalability and enterprise-level capabilities in the latest Ocata release cycle. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Western Digital ships enterprise SAS-based 3D NAND SSDs

Tired of waiting for NVMe? Western Digital's HGST Ultrastar-branded 12 Gbps SAS-based 3D NAND SSDs target high-performance virtual, database, analytics and cloud workloads. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

OpenStack release sees drop in storage vendor contributors

OpenStack's Cinder, Swift and Manila storage projects experience a decline in vendor contributors heading into the upcoming release of the latest iteration, Pike. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC World: Virtustream cloud launches for healthcare

New Dell EMC cloud storage has appeared on the horizon, providing a silver lining for IT-pressed healthcare shops. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, which launched this week at Dell EMC World 2017, is ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Dell EMC World 2017: HCI, startup investments, Nautilus

This year's Dell EMC World served as a coming-out party for Dell Technologies Capital, 'Project Nautilus' and IoT storage, and as a showcase for current products. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

New Dell EMC PowerEdge serves up storage expansion

New PowerEdge 14G servers from Dell EMC form the 'bedrock of the new data center,' Michael Dell says. Ready Nodes and software-defined block storage are among the new products. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Micron SolidScale NVMe-oF-based storage architecture emerges

Micron Technology launched its SolidScale storage architecture based on NVMe-oF technologies, with plans for branded appliances to start shipping later this year. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC World 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud take center stage

This year's Dell EMC World will feature plenty of product releases as the mega-vendor beefs up emerging technologies while continuing its pre-merger platforms. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Will the flash storage market see another big acquisition?

HPE's $1.2 billion deal for Nimble Storage has stirred speculation on potential future acquisitions in the all-flash array market, such as Kaminario and Pure Storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Flash storage market shifting, Kaminario CEO says

Dani Golan of Kaminario sees NVMe as the next big disruptor in the flash market; says Kaminario focuses on cloud and SaaS, while legacy vendors fight over shrinking IT budgets. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM flash storage helps snap 22-quarter downslide

IBM storage sales rose in the first quarter of 2017, for the first time in more than five years. IBM snapped a 22-quarter string of storage declines on the strength of flash hardware and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

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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• Garry Kranz

New Virtual Instruments software improves NAS, flash models

Version 5.3 of Virtual Instruments' Load DynamiX 5 software supports time-based NFSv3 workloads, eases preconditioning of flash arrays and improves the user interface. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

The status of NAND flash memory now and in the near future

Flash memory chips have driven a revolution in storage, and faced a recent shortage because of huge demand. That's easing, and advances in NAND technology show a great future. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

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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• Dave Raffo

Datrium DVX adds converged turnkey option

Datrium plans to release a major update adding key enterprise storage features such as snapshots and replication and a new 'open converged' Rackscale turnkey system option. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Qumulo funding set for sales/marketing expansion

Qumulo closed a $30 million funding round today, which the scale-out NAS startup will likely use to hire more former Isilon employees. Qumulo is striving to replace Isilon as the scale-out NAS ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 boosts performance, containers

Red Hat's latest Gluster storage update improves performance, deepens container support and introduces space-saving alternative to three-way replication to ensure data integrity. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Oracle cloud storage embraces ZFS Storage Appliance

New Oracle operating system update enables ZFS Storage Appliance to transfer file- and block-based data to Oracle Storage Cloud without an external cloud gateway. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Dave Raffo