Sun Spruces Up Open Storage Line By Judy Mottl -
Published July 10, 2008
The vendor has added cheap bulk storage and a new hybrid storage server to its open storage product lineup. [more Hardware News]
Is Storage Recession-Proof? By Paul Shread -
Published May 23, 2008
For now, at least, the answer appears to be 'yes.' So which vendors are benefiting from the resilience in the storage sector — and who's getting left behind?
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HP Unveils 'Extreme' Storage By Paul Shread -
Published May 6, 2008
The new 9100 Extreme Data Storage System is HP's entry in the emerging market for Web 2.0 storage.
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HP Aims Low With New Midrange Array By Paul Shread -
Published February 27, 2008
HP has unveiled a new storage array that drops the entry fee to $15,000 for its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) midrange line.
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IBM Polishes Storage Tools, Big and Small By Judy Mottl -
Published February 13, 2008
Enhancements across a number of product lines target small businesses and enterprises, touching on everything from storage hardware and tape to 8-gig Fibre Channel.
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Hitachi Dedupes Virtual Tape By Paul Shread -
Published February 11, 2008
HDS and Diligent have partnered on a virtual tape library that can eliminate redundant data at a rate of 400 megabytes a second.
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Putting a Fresh Interface on Storage Standards By Judy Mottl -
Published January 31, 2008
The Storage Bridge Bay Working Group hopes to standardize storage interfaces with a new specification, a move that could give end users greater flexibility at lower cost. [more Hardware News]
EMC Weighed Down By VMware By Paul Shread -
Published January 29, 2008
The storage giant is weathering the economic downturn well, but its VMware virtualization unit slows from its blistering growth rate. [more Industry News]
Tapping PC Resources for Storage Needs By Judy Mottl -
Published January 15, 2008
RevStor has come up with the storage equivalent of a computing grid, tapping unused disk space in PCs to create a storage network.
[more Hardware News]
IBM Annexes XIV By Paul Shread -
Published January 2, 2008
IBM is acquiring the grid-based storage startup to target next-generation digital content. [more Hardware News]
IBM Overhauls Storage Lineup By Paul Shread -
Published October 23, 2007
Big Blue announced changes across its storage product line, touching on everything from high-end storage to SMBs, virtualization and VTLs. [more Hardware News]
Hitachi Reopens Benchmark Debate By Paul Shread -
Published October 1, 2007
HDS claims breakthrough performance for its USP V storage platform, reopening a long-simmering debate over the value of storage industry benchmarks.
[more Hardware News]
Sun Puts 'Thumper' To Work By Paul Shread -
Published August 8, 2007
Sun's first storage product based on the "Thumper" data server is a midrange virtual tape library.
[more Hardware News]
EMC Aims High with New Symmetrix By Clint Boulton -
Published July 16, 2007
The storage giant overhauls its core storage platforms, starting with the new high-end Symmetrix DMX-4.
[more Hardware News]
EMC Fights the Power By Clint Boulton -
Published July 16, 2007
EMC's Centera, Celerra and Clariion platforms get a new emphasis on energy efficiency.
[more Hardware News]
Quantum Aims to Protect More for Less By Lauren Simonds -
Published July 11, 2007
The GoVault is an all-in-one storage protection product for SMBs that uses data deduplication and is designed to reduce overall cost and simplify storage management. [more Hardware News]
Call/Recall Pushes Optical Limits By Paul Shread -
Published June 25, 2007
A private company with roots in Bell Labs hopes to put optical storage on the enterprise map with new technology that squeezes 1TB on a single disk and offers transfer rates that compete with hard disk drives. [more Hardware News]
HDS Aims High with New Array By Clint Boulton -
Published May 14, 2007
Hitachi's new high-end storage array raises the stakes in its battle with EMC and IBM by boosting performance and adding thin provisioning and virtualization features. [more Hardware News]
HP Aims Low for SMBs By Clint Boulton -
Published April 11, 2007
HP deepened its commitment to the small and mid-sized business (SMB) storage market this week with a new product and two new executives. [more Hardware News]
Sun Shelves Midrange Storage Array By Paul Shread -
Published March 1, 2007
Sun is phasing out its 6920 midrange virtualization array and shifting support to HDS, deepening the storage ties between the two companies. [more Hardware News]
Features
Apple Sours on Storage Hardware By Drew Robb -
Published June 5, 2008
As Apple exits the storage hardware business, it turns its attention to software and takes steps to provide for hardware users.
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Keeping Data Safe with Reldata By Lynn Haber -
Published June 2, 2008
E-discovery services provider eDirect Impact turned to Reldata for a storage solution that could reliably handle rapid data growth without costing a fortune. [more Hardware Features]
The Best-Kept Secret in Enterprise Storage By Jennifer Schiff -
Published April 25, 2008
Fujitsu's Eternus line provides mid-range and high-end customers the performance, reliability and scalability they crave — they just don't know it yet. [more Hardware Features]
Server Virtualization Keeps DAS Alive By Drew Robb -
Published June 28, 2007
Server virtualization is having some surprising effects on the storage market, including keeping the direct-attached storage market alive.
[more Hardware Features]
The Real Cost of Storage By Henry Newman -
Published April 25, 2007
When power, cooling, performance and reliability are considered, SATA may not have much of a cost advantage over Fibre Channel after all. [more Hardware Features]
Measuring Storage Performance By Drew Robb -
Published April 12, 2007
In the second part of a series on storage benchmarks, we examine the Storage Performance Council's recent efforts to expand its battery of tests to better evaluate vendor performance claims. [more Hardware Features]
Evaluating Storage Benchmarks By Drew Robb -
Published March 28, 2007
Storage benchmarks from the likes of the Storage Performance Council (SPC) can help users evaluate competing products, but you've got to be careful how you use them. [more Hardware Features]
Doing the Storage Limbo By Drew Robb -
Published January 12, 2007
There are a number of storage systems out there that just might be easy and cheap enough for the smallest of businesses. [more Hardware Features]
Brother, Can You Spare a Terabyte? By Jennifer Schiff -
Published September 28, 2006
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is making available more than 400 TB of disk space and even more archival tape space for academic and scientific data in search of a good home. [more Hardware Features]
Storage to Go By Lynn Haber -
Published September 8, 2006
Medical Informatics Engineering turned to Infortrend when it needed a reliable, low-cost storage subsystem for digital healthcare records. [more Hardware Features]
EMC Thinks Big By Clint Boulton -
Published June 9, 2006
In an exclusive interview, EMC chief Joe Tucci discusses the company's evolution, acquisitions and future plans. [more Hardware Features]
Pillar Carves Out a Niche By Clint Boulton -
Published April 20, 2006
Pillar Data Systems launched with big backing and even bigger ambitions. So how is the company faring? We sat down with CEO Mike Workman to find out. [more Hardware Features]
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Watch as HP simulates a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center at a high-tech ballistics center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes including data on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array, which failed over flawlessly to an HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array. You don't want to miss this.