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Netgear Adds Replication, Cloud Options to New ReadyNAS Family

The new ReadyNAS Pro family for SMBs supports virtual machines, replication for disaster recovery and touts 100GB of free cloud storage.

Avere Systems Speeds Up Tiered NAS Appliances

Version 1.4 of the Avere OS supports up to 24 mass storage systems, bi-modal CIFS ACL and parallel file access.

Capacity-Optimized Nearline SAS Drives Challenge SATA

Already well established in high-performance drive markets, SAS is now penetrating secondary storage tiers with capacity-optimized drives and challenging SATA’s dominance in the data center.

Oracle Exadata in the Real World

The early results are in and Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine is getting a vote of confidence from end users.

Connectivity is Key in Overland's New SAN Array

The SnapSAN S1000 array supports multi-protocol connectivity and energy efficient drive technologies.

HDS Unveils "On-Ramp" to Cloud Storage Platform

The new Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) speaks CIFS and NFS, making it possible for more applications – and remote offices – to move data in and out of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

ExaGrid, Permabit Revamp Dedupe Architectures

Arkeia Software, ExaGrid Systems and Permabit have upgraded their respective dedupe architectures for improved application support, better performance and higher levels of scale.

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.

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