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Cloud storage, big data and the software-defined trend played major roles at the event.

The company unveiled a host of new products--including many with animal names--at EMC World.

These vendors offer cloud gateway products that make managing data stored in the cloud more like managing data stored on a local NAS or SAN.

Before you rush into a cloud storage arrangement, be sure to ask these questions.

These appliances offer deduplication, backup, acceleration and other services for your storage systems.

A growing number of storage vendors are releasing virtual desktop infrastructure products.

Social data is different from other types of data, so it has unique storage management needs.

Doing your homework can help you avoid mistakes when it comes to selecting a cloud storage provider.

These storage management solutions complement Hadoop.

These young companies are offering products related big data, the cloud, virtualization and SSDs.

Analysts advise managers to think strategically and consider their security needs when it comes to big data storage.

See how five of the top public cloud storage services stack up.

These vendors can help you design your storage architecture for high availability.

Several vendors offer network storage solutions designed to handle Big Data.

These four products provide flexible, scalable software-defined storage.

Storage software and cloud offerings from Tarmin, Quantum, NovaStor, Caringo and Pivot3.

Deduplication and virtualization continue to be hot topics.

The performance benefits of flash storage combined with its falling prices means this option is getting ever more popular.

TeamQuest claims its solution helps monitor the performance and capacity of both SAN storage and related infrastructure.

A spotlight on IBM, HP and Overland tape archiving products.

Worthwhile cloud storage products from VMTurbo, dinCloud, Kinetic D, Tarmin, VeriStor, Asigra and Egnyte.

Spectra Logic, Tandberg Data and Oracle all have noteworthy new tape storage tools.

Enterprise archive storage options include the Dell DX Object Storage Platform, NetApp Snaplock and HP StoreAll X9730.

IT professionals talk about disaster recovery in response to the mega-storm. Plus: 10 lessons learned for the next natural disaster.

These seven new firms have attracted venture funding and look fairly promising.

The need for secure cloud storage drives the growth of disaster recovery (DR) assurance software.

One time naysayer Larry Ellison is now the Cloud’s greatest advocate, or so he claims.

IT workloads are increasingly virtualized, and VMware is working to grab a larger share of this growing pie.

The recent VMworld showcased some key flash-based storage solutions.

From automatic cloud provisioning to flash these four companies offer unique approaches to speeding up your  cloud storage.

At the heart of EMC's massive storage portfolio sits VMax, VPlex and VNX, similar sounding product families with very different offerings. We differentiate them to help you choose the right solution for your enterprise.

Desktop virtualization makes it easy for workers to access their files and applications any time, anywhere, through any intranet or Internet-connected device. This means there's no cutting corners when it comes to storage. The good news is that with these five products, you won't have to.

There is no shortage of options in the scale-out NAS marketplace. Therefore, when considering scale-out NAS, it is critical to define what you are looking for. Gridstore, Sanbolic and Nexenta are pushing the envelope on scale-out NAS to deliver unique solutions.

If you're seeking a file storage solution, one of F5's many product offerings may be just the answer you're after.

Is Sepaton's product line of disk-only offerings with their focus on data footprint reduction strong enough to bring an end to tape's hold?

LTO technology has been around for many years, and numerous vendors sell products built around it. With LTO-5 released this year and LTO-6 on the horizon, how does an enterprise chose from the myriad product choices?

IBM's venerable storage portfolio includes tape, disk, SAN and NAS. Even more important than the hardware, however, is the intelligence Big Blue offers to easily and efficiently manage  enterprises' ever increasing storage needs.

As part of Brocade's mission to offer the best and fastest storage networking environments, it now offers a wide range of 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products without overlooking Ethernet.

What Infortrend lacks in name recognition it makes up for in product selection. Its ESVA and EonStor product families aim to meet the SAN and NAS needs of the midrange and SMB markets.

Long known for its tape automation products, Quantum has added a large disk-based portfolio to satisfy enterprises' preferences.

From hybrid hard disk drives and HPC to tape and midrange neglect, storage analysts weigh in on what they love and hate in the industry today.

These days, Cisco is about more than just networking. Its Unified Fabric strategy makes it possible to mix and match  from the MDS and Nexus product families, harnessing the same command lines and GUI operations to perform SAN functions.

Data deduplication has hit the mainstream and nearly all of the major vendors have an offering along with numerous smaller players. Here are 13 dedupe offerings worth a look. At least one is likely to more than meet your needs.

Oracle continues leveraging the servers and ZFS software it picked up in its acquisition of Sun. The recently released Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are one example of this. Learn what the Sun ZFS Storage 7120, Sun ZFS Storage 7320 and Sun ZFS Storage 7420 have to offer.

Server virtualization is far more advanced than in storage virtualzation, which causes provisioning headaches for storage admins. Overland Storage believes its DynamicRAID technology will help bridge this gap.

Just when tape was (once again) left for dead, big data has arrived to save the day.

Looking for a SAS or SATA disk array? Nexsan's product line may lack the hype of the major players' but its high value proposition and low price point make it a worthy contender.

Last week, Spectra Logic held a press and analyst day in Boulder, Colo. These 10 highlights stood out among the news, technology trends and company's pure ambition.

DataDirect Networks  is positioning  its three product categories -- storage arrays, files systems and web object storage systems  for the cloud -- to deal directly with the convergence of storage and compute power resulting from organizations'  ever-growing volume of data.

Big data, business intelligence, cloud and big boxes were featured prominently at Oracle's big conference this year.

It wasn't long ago that data deduplication was niche player territory. Now, all of the major vendors have a stake. Here are 8 dedupe offerings that stand apart from the crowd.

HP is a leader in multiple technology avenues. Recently, its massive portfolio of products, built both organically and via acquisitions, has made HP a storage giant. See what it has to offer.

Considering a cloud deployment? Here are 10 examples to check out and possibly emulate.

If you have servers or storage devices, chances are you have at least a component or two from LSI Corp's arsenal of RAID and HBAs, controllers, SAS switches, PCIe-based solid state storage adapters and various software options, which are all sold through major server and storage OEMs as well as through the reseller channel.

Numerous backup options are on the market. Which one is the 'best' is a matter of opinion. Which one is best for your organization is a question only you can answer. Here's a short list to help get you started.

Panasas is no longer the lone wolf in advocating for scale-out storage. Now, it faces competition from both traditional storage OEMs and several startups. See how it stacks up.

Cloud computing dominated at EMC's annual trade show, but it wasn't the only message the storage vendor was trying to get out.

A rundown of the NAS pioneer's four primary product families: FAS Series, V-Series, E-Series and Flash Cache.

What does 'big data' really mean? Here are 6 implementations helping define it.