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Hitachi Boosts Its Midrange Data Storage Offerings
By Andy Patrizio - Published July 3, 2009
A big jump in performance and scalability could help boost sales of Hitachi's AMS 2000 product line. [more SANs/NAS News]

Data Storage Market Shows Signs of Thawing
By Paul Shread - Published June 30, 2009
Analysts see tentative signs that enterprise storage spending is beginning to pick up after a tough first half. [more Industry News]

EMC Extends Data Domain Bid as FTC Decision Looms
By Paul Shread - Published June 29, 2009
EMC gives Data Domain shareholders more time to decide, but the biggest news this week could come from the FTC. [more Industry News]


SGI Returns with New Data Storage Arrays
By Andy Patrizio - Published June 29, 2009
SGI's new high-density storage device can handle up to 60 drives, both platter and SSD-based, for 90TB of storage. [more SANs/NAS News]

Can Solid State Drive Maker STEC Be Stopped?
By Paul Shread - Published June 22, 2009
With no competition on the horizon, the SSD maker's dominance will likely continue into next year. [more Industry News]

Data Storage Sales Hit the Skids
By Paul Shread - Published June 9, 2009
Symantec, Dell and Hitachi were about the only bright spots for the data storage market in the first quarter. [more SANs/NAS News]

Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS
By Paul Shread - Published June 1, 2009
The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features. [more Hardware News]

Hitachi Data Says It Can Prevent Storage Downtime
By Paul Shread - Published May 27, 2009
HDS says it's developed data storage technology that promises 100 percent uptime, but only the largest storage customers will be able to afford it. [more SANs/NAS News]

Is HDS Set to Take On EMC?
By Paul Shread - Published May 22, 2009
Hitachi Data Systems has a 'big announcement' coming — and the high-end storage vendor is dropping a big hint about what the news might be. [more SANs/NAS News]

IBM Adds Solid State to High-End Storage
By Paul Shread - Published May 21, 2009
IBM is adding solid state drives and new management software to its DS8000 data storage arrays. [more Hardware News]

Could Solid State Spell the End for Hard Drives?
By Paul Rubens - Published May 14, 2009
Some analysts say the answer is yes — and perhaps sooner than you think. [more SANs/NAS News]

Sun's Data Storage 'Startup'
By Paul Shread - Published May 6, 2009
While just a tiny part of a $13 billion company, Sun's Open Storage program exemplifies everything the company had hoped to achieve in its turnaround efforts. [more SANs/NAS News]

Open Storage Shines as Sun Sets
By Paul Shread - Published April 29, 2009
Sun's Open Storage program was its strongest business in the March quarter — just in time for Oracle to figure out what to do with the program. [more Industry News]

EMC Sees a Bottom in IT Spending
By Paul Shread - Published April 23, 2009
After a tough first quarter, EMC CEO Joe Tucci waxes about the outlook for IT spending and sizes up the company's new competitive threat from the merger of Oracle and Sun. [more Industry News]

Oracle-Sun Merger Creates New Data Storage Player
By Paul Shread - Published April 20, 2009
Oracle's sudden move into the data storage business has industry analysts wondering — and storage vendors on edge. [more Industry News]

Sun Gives Open Storage a High-Performance Twist
By Paul Shread - Published April 15, 2009
Sun's latest Open Storage offering is aimed at 10GbE and InfiniBand HPC environments. [more SANs/NAS News]

EMC Ties Symmetrix to VMware
By Paul Shread - Published April 14, 2009
EMC's new high-end data storage array is built for a new era of virtualized data centers. Will Clariion users see the same architecture some day? [more Hardware News]

Is EMC Set to Unleash 'Tigon'?
By Paul Shread - Published April 9, 2009
An EMC announcement set for April 14 could be the company's new high-end data storage array. [more Hardware News]

Data Storage Sales Hit by Tough First Quarter
By Paul Shread - Published April 1, 2009
The first quarter appears to have been a tough one for data storage vendors, but some analysts see a bottom. [more Hardware News]

EMC Bails Out Quantum with $100 Million Loan
By Paul Shread - Published March 27, 2009
Why EMC loaned its data deduplication partner more than the stock market said it was worth. [more Industry News]

Compellent Adds ILM to Solid State Drives
By Paul Shread - Published March 24, 2009
The SAN vendor automatically migrates inactive data off pricey SSDs to less expensive disk. [more SANs/NAS News]

Sun Launches 'Open Cloud' as Merger Rumors Swirl
By Paul Shread - Published March 18, 2009
As Sun moves its Open Storage efforts to the cloud, some wonder if an IBM acquisition of Sun would spell the end of the company's open source storage program. [more Industry News]

STEC Rockets on Strong Flash Storage Sales
By Paul Shread - Published March 13, 2009
Thanks to EMC and other top data storage vendors, STEC's solid state drive sales are 'through the roof.' [more SANs/NAS News]

HP Adds Solid State Drives, Boosts Storage Virtualization
By Paul Shread - Published March 10, 2009
HP is tuning its data storage, virtualization and data protection product lines for virtual environments. [more Hardware News]

Sun Turns Object Storage Over to OpenSolaris
By Paul Shread - Published February 27, 2009
Sun Microsystems is turning over object-based storage development for its SAM-QFS file system to the OpenSolaris community in a move away from a standard that advocates see as the future of data storage technology. [more SANs/NAS News]

Iomega Combines Storage with VMware
By Judy Mottl - Published February 25, 2009
The EMC unit's new NAS devices provide easy and cheap data storage for small businesses looking to protect virtual environments, but they aren't a threat to NetApp — yet. [more Management News]

Sun Says 'Me Too' on Encryption Keys
By Paul Shread - Published February 17, 2009
Just days after seven IT vendors proposed an encryption key management standard, Sun is open sourcing its own key management technology. [more SANs/NAS News]

NetApp's Storage Sales Slammed By Slowdown
By Paul Shread - Published February 12, 2009
NetApp's slowing sales raise the question: How well are data storage vendors positioned for the worst economy in decades? [more Industry News]

Sun Rolls Out New SAN Arrays
By Paul Shread - Published February 4, 2009
Even as its open storage efforts catch on with users, Sun Microsystems isn't neglecting the Fibre Channel SAN market. [more Hardware News]

Sun Slows Losses Thanks to Strong Storage Sales
By Paul Shread - Published January 28, 2009
With its cash burn under control and open storage sales on the rise, Sun Microsystems just might stick around for a while. [more Industry News]

Features
Achieving Robust Clustered Storage with Linux and GFS
By Charlie Schluting - Published June 24, 2009
Clustered file systems can give your storage environment greater resilience. Using Linux GFS, we show you an example. [more SANs/NAS]

Get Your Free Networked Storage
By Jennifer Schiff - Published June 12, 2009
With cross-platform compatibility, a plethora of features and a hard-to-beat price tag, Openfiler is giving enterprises an attractive alternative to proprietary network storage operating systems. [more SANs/NAS]

File System Benchmarks Need to be Reformed
By Henry Newman - Published June 5, 2009
File system benchmarks can be difficult to evaluate, creating tough choices for storage customers. We offer some tips on what to look for. [more SANs/NAS]

EMC Says Dedupe, Cloud and SSDs Will Dominate Storage
By Drew Robb - Published May 20, 2009
At EMC World, the data storage giant expanded its dedupe offerings, held a love fest with Cisco and VMware, and CEO Joe Tucci answered some tough questions. [more SANs/NAS]

Ten Ways to Save on Data Storage Costs
By Drew Robb - Published May 8, 2009
There's no end to ideas for saving on data storage costs, but here's a few to get started. [more SANs/NAS]

What's Selling In the Data Storage Market?
By Drew Robb - Published April 27, 2009
Storage hardware sales may be suffering, but customers are still opening their wallets for some data storage technologies. [more SANs/NAS]

EMC Sets Its Sights on Automated Data Management
By Jennifer Schiff - Published April 3, 2009
EMC wants to be enterprises' one-stop shop for data management, but the company's vision doesn't end with storage. [more SANs/NAS]

What Woz Sees in Solid State Storage
By Drew Robb - Published March 26, 2009
Steve Wozniak's new gig at Fusion-io involves developing flash drives for everything from SANs to PC gaming. [more SANs/NAS]

The State of the Data Storage Job Market
By Drew Robb - Published March 16, 2009
Storage and IT professionals have a lot more to worry about than just the economy. Automation and the demand for broader IT experience are other issues threatening job security. [more SANs/NAS]

Despite Economy, Storage Bargains Hard to Find
By Drew Robb - Published March 12, 2009
Data storage pricing is so far holding up despite the tough economy, but deals are out there to be had, especially in services and other value-added elements. And hardball negotiating tactics appear to be on the rise. [more SANs/NAS]

Storage Admins Cope With Budget Cutbacks
By Drew Robb - Published February 26, 2009
With both budgets and staff getting cut, storage managers are finding they need to justify everything they spend while saving as much as they can on data storage costs. The results can be painful for vendors, too. [more SANs/NAS]

File System Management Is Headed for Trouble
By Henry Newman - Published February 24, 2009
The POSIX file system interface isn't up to the task of managing today's data, resulting in costly fixes for users to solve problems like data integrity and regulatory compliance. It doesn't have to be that way. [more SANs/NAS]

Economy Clouds Storage Market Outlook
By Drew Robb - Published January 22, 2009
Dedupe, iSCSI and cloud storage are likely to be big this year as cost-cutting measures, but the rise of solid state drives could buck the trend toward frugality. [more SANs/NAS]

Facebook Friends Storage Vendors
By Jennifer Schiff - Published January 21, 2009
The top social networking site works with a formidable list of data storage vendors — and is working on some home-grown solutions too. [more SANs/NAS]

Can Sun Rise on Open Source Storage?
By Drew Robb - Published January 14, 2009
Sun Microsystems sees storage — and open source-based storage in particular — playing a vital part in its turnaround. [more SANs/NAS]

pNFS and the Future of File Systems
By Drew Robb - Published December 24, 2008
Could parallel NFS spell the end of proprietary file systems? [more SANs/NAS]

Storage Vendors, Users Cope With Tough Economy
By Drew Robb - Published December 19, 2008
Storage remains a priority for end users, but in some cases budgets have been cut and vendors are more willing to deal. [more SANs/NAS]

Storage Virtualization: Good News for Consultants
By Henry Newman - Published November 21, 2008
Storage virtualization has some limitations that could make it ill-suited for high-performance environments. [more SANs/NAS]

Clustered Storage Without the Price Tag
By Jennifer Schiff - Published November 18, 2008
IBRIX's clustered storage software helps users save on both hardware and software costs. [more SANs/NAS]

Making Global Data Centers More Manageable
By Lynn Haber - Published November 7, 2008
One IT services company got a handle on its global data centers through server virtualization and a common storage infrastructure from Brocade, EMC and Emulex. [more SANs/NAS]

Helping Storage Keep Up With Server Virtualization
By Henry Newman - Published October 29, 2008
If you virtualize your server environment without taking storage into consideration, your performance will likely suffer. [more SANs/NAS]

Choosing the Right High-Performance File System
By Drew Robb - Published October 10, 2008
With several high-performance file systems to choose from, we outline some of the options out there and which applications they may be best suited for. [more SANs/NAS]

Saving the Planet, One Storage System at a Time
By Leslie Wood - Published August 21, 2008
Rising energy costs are giving rise to a new generation of eco-friendly storage products — and leading storage vendors to reevaluate their own internal practices. [more SANs/NAS]

Solving the Storage Error Management Dilemma
By Henry Newman - Published August 18, 2008
Disk drives, tapes and storage networks can create inadvertent errors. What the storage industry needs is a comprehensive framework to discover them before they become a problem. [more SANs/NAS]

Small Businesses Face Big Storage Demands
By Lynn Haber - Published August 15, 2008
Like many small businesses, Weiss Group LLC had all the storage issues of a large enterprise — with none of the budget. [more SANs/NAS]

Sorting Out Your Storage Options
By Jennifer Schiff - Published July 21, 2008
With all the storage technologies out there, how do you choose which one's right for you? [more SANs/NAS]

What Is Web 2.0 Storage?
By Dave Rowell - Published July 18, 2008
Everyone's talking about storage systems designed to meet the exploding data needs of Web 2.0 companies, but what will these systems look like, and what kind of data requires such a system? [more SANs/NAS]

DataDirect Helps Batman Take Wing
By Lynn Haber - Published July 1, 2008
Post-production company Pacific Title used DataDirect's storage platform to help make The Dark Night, coming to theaters later this month. [more SANs/NAS]

Storage Fit for a Superhero
By Judy Mottl - Published June 23, 2008
Visual effects firm Soho VFX turned to Blue Arc for help bringing the Incredible Hulk to life. [more SANs/NAS]

VMware Lays Virtual Storage Groundwork
By Drew Robb - Published June 27, 2008
Now that it is has conquered the server landscape, VMware is turning its eye to storage. [more SANs/NAS]