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EMC Takes On Oracle with Greenplum Appliance for Big Data'

The EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance is an integrated data warehouse system that, according to EMC, can analyze more data faster than Oracle’s Exadata machine.

Huawei Symantec Enters U.S. Storage Hardware Market

The three-year-old joint venture between Huawei and Symantec is bringing its products to North America with a line of storage and networking hardware products for SMBs.

IBM Storwize Launch Wows Some, Confuses Others

The confusion lies in the nomenclature as IBM has launched the Storwize V7000 storage array, but nixed the Storwize brand as it pertains to real-time data compression.

Vendors Refresh Midrange RAID Arrays

Data Robotics, Dot Hill and MicroNet Technology have each refreshed their mid-range RAID storage products for small and medium-size businesses (SMB).

MicroNet Launches Sub-$2K 10TB DAS System

The MicroNet RAIDBank5 offers 10TB of storage capacity with RAID 5, USB 3.0 and AES-256 encryption for less than $2,000.

Dell Debuts New PowerVault NAS for SMBs

Dell has added to its SMB storage line as users plan to refresh their IT infrastructures.

HDS Unveils High-End Virtual Storage Platform

The successor to the high-end USP system, Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) will also be sold by OEM partner HP.

STEC Beefs Up SSD Arsenal

STEC is now shipping new SSDs and now supports DRAM, SLC and MLC NAND Flash.

Top 10 Takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld

Storage, servers and software, oh my! Oracle pulled back the curtain on a myriad of products at OpenWorld this week as it is poised to give the rest of the IT industry a run for its hardware money.

Cirtas Launches Cloud Storage Controller

The new company’s Bluejet technology makes public cloud storage work like onsite storage arrays.

Violin Rolls Out MLC-Based Flash Memory Arrays

Violin’s addition of MLC-based devices to its line of SSDs is indicative of the general trend toward MLC NAND flash in enterprise disk arrays.

Oracle Unveils 'Cloud in a Box'

Larry the Hardware Guy? Oracle CEO Larry Ellison showed his hardware side at this week’s OpenWorld conference when he launched the Exalogic Elastic Cloud – an integrated "cloud in a box."

Price Still Outweighs Performance in SSD Equation

The performance benefits associated with solid state disks (SSDs) are clear, but price still remains a sticking point for some enterprise storage users.

HP Overhauls SMB Storage Portfolio

HP refreshed its mid-range storage arrays and introduced a number of storage products geared toward SMBs as part of its "Just Right IT" initiative.

Pliant Rolls Out Low-Cost MLC SSDs

Company expects MLC technology will cut the price of SSDs in half.

VMworld: Scale Computing Ships 'JBOD Killer' for SMBs

SMBs can build unified SAN/NAS storage clusters starting at 1.5TB for $7,500.

Coraid Doubles Density of Ethernet SANs

Company claims better performance than Fibre Channel at 20 percent the cost.

FalconStor Tackles I/O Bottlenecks for VDI

Virtual desktops get an I/O performance boost from the Network Storage Server (NSS) SAN Accelerator’s SSD technology.

EMC Ships Unified Management Software for Clariion, Celerra

Software release also includes Fast Cache tiering, native FCoE connectivity and VMware VAAI integration.

5 Options for Building Low-Cost NAS Servers

There are several open source technologies available for building low-cost – and in some cases no-cost – NAS servers.

Dell to Buy 3PAR for $1.15 Billion

Dell is about to shell out $1.15 billion for virtual storage array specialist 3PAR.

Micron Ships 6Gbps SATA SSDs; Seagate Partners with Samsung

Micron's 6Gbps SATA drives compete with SSD drives from Intel, Samsung and STEC. Meanwhile, Seagate is partnering with Samsung for enterprise-class SSD controllers.

Overland Beefs Up NAS, Tape Library Families

Overland Storage has announced a new SnapServer NAS system and a NEO tape library with LTO-5 tape support.

Fusion-io Creates Flash-Optimized OS Subsystem

Fusion-io has combined the capabilities of traditional I/O subsystems with the features of virtual memory to create a hybrid flash-optimized OS subsystem called the ioMemory VSL.

IBM expands ProtecTIER deduplication, upgrades SONAS platform

IBM has introduced ProtecTIER data deduplication appliances for SMBs and a series of enhancements for the massive SONAS platform.

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