Storage vendors

Intel Optane SSD starts shipping to select customers

New Intel Optane SSDs based on long-awaited 3D XPoint technology ship to early customers, promising up to eight times the performance over NAND flash-based NVMe PCIe SSDs. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tegile Systems sees opportunities in NVMe, HPE-Nimble buy

The Tegile CEO talks about how the all-flash market is shaping up with the advent of NVM express, and how his company is battling against the major data storage vendors. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Bumpy ride predicted as HPE storage absorbs Nimble SANs

Merging the Nimble Storage product line with HPE gear and engineering teams creates overlap and competition for its R&D budget. Other storage startups see an opening. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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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• Garry Kranz

How easy is a Veritas Backup Exec 16 upgrade from another version?

With the right planning, transitioning to Backup Exec 16 from an earlier version can be smooth sailing, preserving data directories and retaining most settings. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Primary Data DataSphere update improves scalability

Primary Data updates its DataSphere metadata engine to boost scalability and performance, support more hardware options, and connect to multiple Amazon S3-based cloud buckets. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

HPE acquisition of Nimble gives it another SAN platform

Surprising HPE acquisition snares hybrid flash vendor Nimble Storage for proposed $1.2 billion. HPE picks up Nimble arrays and vaunts InfoSight storage analytics and monitoring. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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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• Dave Raffo

Overcome problems with public cloud storage providers

Security and compliance concerns are chief obstacles to public cloud storage adoption, as IT managers are hesitant to have their critical data reside outside the data center. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

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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• Dave Raffo

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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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Dave Raffo

IBM flash storage key to turnaround, says GM Walsh

Ed Walsh takes over as general manager of IBM storage to reignite sales. He says customers 'challenged by disruption' turn to flash storage to modernize IT. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

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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• Dave Raffo

NAND flash shortage has SSD supply, pricing impact

Flash shortage could slow price declines and constrain SSD supplies through the end of 2017 as manufacturers make difficult transition from 2D/Planar to 3D NAND technology. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage Spaces Direct a key option in Windows Server 2016 features

Windows Server 2016 includes new and updated capabilities with Storage Spaces, Storage Replica, Storage Quality of Service, data deduplication and Resilient File System. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?

Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?

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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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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

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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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

Best data storage products 2016: Products of the Year

Learn more about the best data storage products for 2016 in backup/DR software, backup hardware, storage and SAN management, server-based storage, and all-flash and disk/hybrid. Continue Reading

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

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

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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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• Garry Kranz

Future of the Ethernet drive may hinge on NVMe over Ethernet

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

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• Jim O'Reilly

Panzura controller, OS updates extend cloud options

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Enterprise flash storage to speed up in 2017

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

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• Carol Sliwa

Cloud storage for enterprise use should spike in 2017

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

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• Carol Sliwa

Enterprise storage market poised for more disruption in 2017

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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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• Carol Sliwa

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

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

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• Chris Evans

Top enterprise storage vendors to watch in 2017

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

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• Dave Raffo

A dozen data storage vendors to watch in 2017

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

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

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All-flash storage system 2016 Products of the Year finalists

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

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• Garry Kranz

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

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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

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

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• Dave Raffo

Data storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

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

Keep tabs on the following data storage startup vendors in 2017

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

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• Garry Kranz

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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• Dave Raffo

A look at the future of data storage careers

Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future. Continue Reading

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• Alan R. Earls

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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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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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• Dave Raffo

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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• Dave Raffo

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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• Dave Raffo

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

New Dell SC Series operating system adds dedupe, QoS

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

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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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

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• Carol Sliwa

FalconStor's playing beat the clock with FreeStor

The bad news for FalconsStor is it lost $3.2 million last quarter. If there is good news, it’s that its new FreeStor software is picking up OEM and managed service provider (MSP) customers and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4

Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp and Synology top NAS storage systems survey

A storage pioneer and relative newcomer land top honors in our 10^th Quality Awards NAS storage systems survey of midrange and enterprise users. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Michael Dell: 'Ignore click-baiting cratering media'

Michael Dell and other Dell executives have told employees the $67 billion acquisition of EMC will go through despite reports that his group is having trouble securing financing for the deal. Dell ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Vendors, analysts guess future of data storage in 2016

After Rich Castagna offered his look at the future of data storage in 2016, vendors and analysts shared their guesses on what will happen this year. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Zadara Storage Inc. VPSA OPaaS 15.07

Zadara Storage's Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) offers on-demand, enterprise-grade block and file storage, based on OpenStack technology. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.6

Judges found the 2015 upgrade to Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX file management software brought significant improvements including extended integration and added features. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is integrated with RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager and is designed to drastically reduce data-loss exposure. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Commvault takes a revenue leap forward

Is Commvault back on track? The backup vendor snapped a string of four quarters of year-over-year revenue declines when it reported of $155.7 million last quarter, up 2% from the previous year. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion

Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

The significance of parallel I/O in data storage

Parallel computing has been around since the 1970s, but the re-emergence of multiprocessor systems may give parallel I/O a big place in the current data storage landscape. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Caringo adds support for Microsoft Azure to its Swarm software

Caringo has expanded its Swarm object storage to Microsoft Azure. The company recently said its object storage software, which already has Amazon S3 support, now is available on the Azure cloud so ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Enterprise hard disk/hybrid storage systems: 2015 Products of the Year finalists

The 14 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2015 Products of the Year competition blend flash configurations with traditional spinning media. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance system overview

Oracle ZFS Storage uses mechanical and flash storage. The ZS3-2 and ZS4-4 models offer a variety of software for storage management, encryption and security. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

HPE StoreEasy 1000 Storage family product overview

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise StoreEasy 1000 Storage family -- formerly HP StoreEasy 1000 Storage -- has four mid-level NAS models, management tools and BitLocker Drive Encryption support. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

NetApp FAS2500 series: Technical overview

The NetApp FAS2500 series includes the FAS2554, FAS2552 and FAS2520. The NAS systems support hybrid flash setups for environments with mid-tier network storage needs. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

EMC Isilon X-Series NAS: Isilon x200, x210 and x410

The Isilon X-Series is a lineup of NAS systems that support hybrid flash setups. The products are designed for environments with mid-tier network storage needs. Continue Reading

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• Aditya Gune, Senior Products Editor

Purchasing an enterprise SAN: Top-tier products compared

Expert Jacob Gsoedl drills into eight top-tier enterprise SAN products and how each one performs in seven technical areas. Detailed charts make the information easy to digest. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Gsoedl

The ultimate guide to Dell's EMC acquisition

This guide to Dell's EMC acquisition covers all angles of the blockbuster deal -- from breaking news and expert feedback, to the long-term ramifications on the IT sector. Continue Reading

Top object storage vendor use cases for IT

Today's object storage vendors provide products that are often the best option for archiving, backup and data lake architectures. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Formation Data Systems tries out storage virtualization

Formation Data Systems CEO Mark Lewis offers a sneak peek of new data and storage virtualization software to move to the "cloud storage generation." Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Commodity hardware is a myth

Software-defined storage vendors preach the concept of commodity storage hardware, but beware: the hardware is just as important as the apps. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

EMC Federation center stage as VMworld 2015 opens

With the future of EMC Federation in the air, the storage giant launches bundle for end user computing and updates its hybrid cloud package. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

EMC tempers expectations, accelerates shift to emerging storage technologies

EMC executives reduced their 2015 revenue forecasts for the second time this year following a quarter of tepid growth. They also said the vendor will implement plans to cut costs by $850 million a ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

What's the difference between EMC VNX series and ViPR?

Brien Posey explains how two of EMC's virtual storage products work and for what use cases they work best. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product

One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

PernixData plans platform proliferation

PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

SAN basics: All the tools you need to purchase a storage-area network

Whether you're purchasing a SAN for the first time or looking to upgrade, this guide walks you through the buying process from start to finish. Continue Reading

EMC World 2015: Expect backup, flash, future directions

EMC will roll out products in its Data Domain, XtremIO and ViPR platforms at EMC World 2015, but what about a CEO succession plan? Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation

EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Vendors predict the future of data storage 2015

The future of data storage isn’t easy to predict. While some vendors see it clearly, others prove that, going into 2015, their crystal balls may be a little hazy. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints

A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Atlantis USX 2.0

Atlantis Computing's USX 2.0 claims the silver medal in the storage system software category in Storage magazine's Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Nimble CS700

Nimble Storage adds a higher-capacity model to its iSCSI hybrid arrays, plus an all-flash shelf to bulk up performance. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Scality Inc. Ring 5.0

Scality's Ring 5.0 software-defined storage shares the bronze award in the Products of the Year storage system software category with VMware's VSAN. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

HP OneView for VMware vCenter 7.4.2

HP OneView for VMware vCenter management software provides a complete look into virtual environments, spanning both physical and virtual layers. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year

A panel of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors voted these 19 products the best of 2014. Continue Reading

How stealthy money affects technology

By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ... Continue Reading

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• Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group

Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

Vendors that describe their products as ‘software-defined storage’ dominated the 2014 Products of the Year storage system software category. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

What is object storage technology (and why should you care)?

Object technology offers scalability, economical operation and better data management; but it's very different from file and block storage systems. Continue Reading

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• Phil Goodwin, IDC

Flash storage: Guide to all-flash storage arrays

TechTarget's all-flash storage array guide navigates the hotly contested market with a comparison chart and snapshot profiles of 15 products. Continue Reading

Violin 6000 arrays feature proprietary flash modules, memory fabric

Violin 6000 Series all-flash storage arrays use proprietary flash modules, memory fabric architecture and RAID to improve performance and latency. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tegile Zebi HA2800 Storage Array

The Tegile Zebi HA2800 multiprotocol array can be used as an all-flash system or in front of a pool of hard drives as a hybrid array. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NexGen Storage Inc. n5-150 Storage System

IT admins using the NexGen Storage n5-150 Storage System can guarantee performance to each app and isolate workloads from one another on the SAN. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

RHEV 3.1 storage: Functionality and considerations

Virtualization expert Sander van Vugt explains how RHEV storage works and discusses some of the new storage features in version 3.1. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

Data storage companies focus on flash M&A potential

Find out which data storage companies have made significant flash storage purchases and why. Continue Reading

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• Ellen O'Brien, Executive Editor