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Overland Snaps Up Snap By Paul Shread -
Published June 30, 2008
The data protection vendor is acquiring the Snap NAS product line from Adaptec for a mere $3.6 million.
[more SANs/NAS 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?
[more Hardware News]
Brocade Unveils 8-Gig Switches, HBAs By Paul Shread -
Published May 13, 2008
Brocade is shipping new 8-gigabit per second Fibre Channel fabric switches and HBAs — but does the storage world really need another HBA vendor? [more SANs/NAS News]
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.
[more Hardware News]
Cleversafe Disperses Data By Sean Michael Kerner -
Published February 20, 2008
Cleversafe unveils appliances based on its open source distributed storage technology.
[more SANs/NAS News]
Cisco Makes Ethernet, Fibre Channel Play Nice By Sean Michael Kerner -
Published January 30, 2008
On the heels of Brocade's new data center switching platform, Cisco has unveiled its own effort to unite Ethernet and storage traffic.
[more SANs/NAS 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]
Brocade Shows Some Backbone By Paul Shread -
Published January 23, 2008
Brocade's new DCX Backbone aims to do just about everything a data center could ask for.
[more SANs/NAS News]
HP Ready to Rumble in NAS Battle By Judy Mottl -
Published January 18, 2008
HP says it is ready to take on NetApp in the high-end NAS market, thanks to the acquisition of PolyServe.
[more SANs/NAS News]
EMC Goes Solid State By Paul Shread -
Published January 14, 2008
The storage giant adds solid state drives and thin provisioning to its high-end Symmetrix arrays.
[more SANs/NAS 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]
Xiotech Nets a Bundle By Paul Shread -
Published November 28, 2007
Xiotech nabs more than $40 million in funding to bring storage technology acquired from Seagate to market.
[more Industry News]
NetApp Does the Storage Limbo By Paul Shread -
Published October 29, 2007
Network Appliance is taking the storage industry's pursuit of small and mid-sized businesses to new lows with a $3,000 storage appliance.
[more Hardware News]
Sun Strikes Back By David Needle -
Published October 26, 2007
Sun has struck back against Network Appliance in the legal battle over Sun's ZFS file system technology.
[more SANs/NAS News]
Brocade Unveils New Director and Vision By Paul Shread -
Published October 22, 2007
Brocade is unveiling a new SAN director at its annual user conference this week, along with a new strategy and architecture for data center networking.
[more SANs/NAS News]
Power Struggles Take Center Stage at SNW By Marty Foltyn -
Published October 18, 2007
Storage users described their struggles with power and cooling issues at this week's Storage Networking World, and industry officials launched an initiative to try to help them.
[more Management News]
Storage Vendors Gear Up for SNW By Paul Shread -
Published October 15, 2007
Some big names have some big news at this week's Storage Networking World conference on everything from SMB data protection to 8Gb Fibre Channel.
[more SANs/NAS 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 Takes a Shine to Lustre By Paul Shread -
Published September 12, 2007
Just a week after getting sued by NetApp over its ZFS file system, Sun acquires the high-end Lustre file system.
[more Industry News]
Xsigo, Onaro Offer New Ways to Virtualize By Dan Muse -
Published September 10, 2007
The virtualization wave continue with Xsigo Technologies' promise to lower costs through I/O virtualization and Onaro's automated storage provisioning offering. [more Management News]
Storage Vendors Move Down Market By Paul Shread -
Published September 10, 2007
As high-end storage sales slow, HDS and NetApp roll out products for the midrange. And VMware gets into the disaster recovery game.
[more SANs/NAS News]
NetApp Sues Sun By Paul Shread -
Published September 5, 2007
Network Appliance claims that Sun's ZFS file system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents.
[more SANs/NAS News]
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 Features]
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 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.
[more Hardware Features]
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 SANs/NAS Features]
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? By Henry Newman -
Published May 29, 2008
Despite the outcry from the open source faithful, Linux file systems will require some changes to handle the 100 TB environments that will become commonplace in the not too distant future.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
EMC Kicks NetApp's NAS By Drew Robb -
Published May 22, 2008
EMC can't keep its Celerra NS unified storage appliances on the shelves — and could be a big reason behind NetApp's slowing growth rate.
[more SANs/NAS 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]
No SAN Is An Island By Leslie Wood -
Published April 3, 2008
Storage vendors and professionals find their roles are changing as storage begins to converge with broader IT infrastructures.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
The Future of NFS Arrives By Henry Newman -
Published March 27, 2008
NFSv4.1 and Parallel NFS will finally bring the 24-year-old protocol into the high-speed networking age.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Storage Basics: Understanding Storage Routing By Charlie Schluting -
Published March 21, 2008
Routing for your storage network is a non-standardized thicket that's nothing like what you're used to on your IP networks, but it pays to understand how it works. [more SANs/NAS Features]
Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric By Dave Rowell -
Published March 19, 2008
The top switch vendors see data center fabrics converging — and they're developing platforms to be at the center of it all when it happens.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
RAID Turns Rad By Jennifer Schiff -
Published March 12, 2008
RAID pioneer Garth Gibson discusses Tiered Parity, the latest step in the storage technology's evolution.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Can Storage Benchmarks Be Trusted? By Henry Newman -
Published February 21, 2008
Hardware isn't the only benchmark category that could use an overhaul; file system benchmarks can be just as misleading.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
VMware's Storage Ambitions By Paul Rubens -
Published January 4, 2008
The server virtualization leader aims to manage everything in data centers — with help from storage vendors.
[more Management Features]
Replicating and Storing DNA By Jennifer Schiff -
Published December 27, 2007
Parascale's Virtual Storage Network allows the Stanford Genome Technology Center to store massive files on x86 servers.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Storage Horizon 2008: Looking Back, Looking Ahead By Henry Newman -
Published December 21, 2007
Our resident storage guru steps out onto a limb to see what's in store for the storage market in 2008, including some big news for SAS, IP storage and undetectable errors.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
8-Gig Fibre Channel Arrives ... Slowly By John P. Mello Jr. -
Published November 21, 2007
8 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel products are slowly arriving, but it will be some time before full storage systems based on the new technology arrive. And by then, Fibre Channel could face new competition.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
RAID-6 Is Here to Stay. Deal With It. By Henry Newman -
Published November 19, 2007
RAID-6 has grown in popularity as a way to get the most out of SATA drives. But if you're planning on using RAID-6, you need to make sure that your RAID controller is up to the task. [more SANs/NAS Features]
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