RAID can't keep up with ever-increasing drive size, but solutions like Dynamic Disk Pools offer a potential solution.
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Data deduplication has hit the mainstream and nearly all of the major vendors have an offering along with numerous smaller players. Here are 13 dedupe offerings worth a look. At least one is likely to more than meet your needs.
Tags : FalconStor, NetApp, dedupe, data deduplication
Big data, business intelligence, cloud and big boxes were featured prominently at Oracle's big conference this year.
Tags : Oracle, big data, Pillar Data Systems, business intelligence, OpenWorld, NetApp, EMC, Storage
A rundown of the NAS pioneer's four primary product families: FAS Series, V-Series, E-Series and Flash Cache.
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Dubbed the “biggest launch in company history,” NetApp has rearmed with new technologies to take on EMC and HP.
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Experienced and educated data center designers, managers and facilities personnel have jobs waiting for them. Here are 10 options for beefing up your data center education.
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NetApp and Oracle have halted their legal battle over the open source storage technology found in the ZFS file system.
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Company claims better performance than Fibre Channel at 20 percent the cost.
Tags : AoE, NetApp, SAN, Coraid, ATA-over-Ethernet
NetApp's integration with Microsoft lets service providers offer enterprise-class data protection to SMB customers.
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The collaboration provides NetApp customers with identity management and authentication software for NetApp unified storage systems.
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Storage startup Coraid may face legal action from NetApp if the company does not cease plans to sell the Coraid EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliance based on the open-source Zettabyte File System (ZFS).
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A partnership with InterVision has enabled the company to offer users of NetApp and NearPoint solutions for archiving.
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The NetApp and Microsoft partnership lets IT use standard Microsoft management tools to monitor and manage NetApp storage arrays.
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Primary says its primary data reduction technology bests NetApp in performance and capacity.
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In a single quarter, NetApp leapt past Dell and HP and nearly caught IBM, according to IDC, while EMC remains all alone at the top.
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NetApp has announced StorageGRID for managing petabyte-scale repositories.
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The company is betting on customers wanting to deploy virtual storage.
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Iomega's new unified storage array stops short of challenging NetApp, but next week's EMC World may have more to say about that.
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Data storage vendors are hiring, and NetApp is leading the way.
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IDC lays out the winners and loser in the storage software market.
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The company plans to host or sponsor several storage networking industry events in May.
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Finally, some good news from IDC that the dip in storage hardware sales is turning around
Tags : NetApp, HP, storage networking, IBM, EMC
The race to capitalize on high-growth, scale-out data markets has led NetApp, HP and EMC to spearhead acquisitions.
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By acquiring the object-based storage software maker, NetApp adds another piece to its growing unified storage portfolio.
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As NetApp approaches its eight-year anniversary of the first unified storage system it is celebrating another milestone.
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The quest for reliable storage networking in the cloud.
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NetApp will use Emulex Universal Converged Network Adapters for its FCoE storage networking solutions.
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QLogic and EMC partner on Fibre Channel switches as Emulex notches an FCoE win with NetApp.
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Data storage vendors continue to tailor their offerings for the cloud.
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The company that went from zero to $1 billion in six years plans to hire.
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Total revenue came in at just over $1 billion for the quarter, showing just how strong the the company's data storage
product line is.
Tags : VMware, virtualization, data storage, NetApp
Big Blue is the latest data storage vendor to offer extreme scale-out network attached storage.
Tags : network attached storage, NAS, IBM, NetApp, clustered file systems
Six months after losing a bidding war for Data Domain to EMC, NetApp backs away from the market for VTL deduplication.
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Virtualization and virtual desktops will lead to a resurgence in enterprise storage spending this year, according to analysts.
Tags : data storage, EMC, storage networking, NetApp, Compellent
Could 3Par be acquired by NetApp or HP? Some analysts have their doubts.
Tags : mergers and acquisitions, Dell, 3PAR, HP, NetApp
Storage stocks head in opposite directions following comments from an influential Goldman Sachs analyst.
Tags : analyst research, EMC, market share, data storage, NetApp
A three-year deal extends the vendors' commitment to
deeper integration, joint sales and marketing endeavors on cloud-based
storage and virtualization apps.
Tags : data storage, Microsoft, NetApp, virtualization
NAS and iSCSI lead the way as the storage market posts sequential growth in the third quarter for the first time this year.
Tags : NetApp, storage networking, EMC, data storage, market share
Wall Street analysts had good things to say about NetApp and Brocade this week — and they also had some interesting things to say about merger prospects for both companies.
Tags : Brocade, EMC, Dell, mergers and acquisitions, NetApp
After NetApp raised its financial outlook last week, it's hard to find an analyst who isn't optimistic heading into EMC's quarterly earnings report.
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The Cleveland Indians hit a home run with a new NetApp and CommVault storage system.
Tags : CommVault, Overland Storage, NetApp, data storage, backup
Signs that Brocade and NetApp could be acquired could mean more upheaval for the data storage industry.
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It's possible to get started on Fibre Channel over Ethernet now, but most experts advise to move cautiously.
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NetApp and NEC were just two of the storage vendors trotting out new product offerings this week.
Tags : Avere Systems, NetApp, Dot Hill, NAS/SAN, NEC
Hitachi and BlueArc team up on a new NAS offering, but EMC and NetApp don't have to worry just yet.
Tags : NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, EMC, BlueArc
After three straight quarterly declines, IDC is seeing some hope for data storage sales.
Tags : data storage, EMC, market share, IBM, NetApp
Just a month after losing Data Domain to EMC, NetApp names a new CEO — but says it doesn't need to make any acquisitions.
Tags : Data Domain, NetApp, deduplication, EMC
NetApp's sales are so far faring better than the rest of the data storage industry. And the latest in the Cisco-Brocade battle.
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EMC says it plans to keep selling Quantum's dedupe solutions, but Quantum isn't taking any chances.
Tags : deduplication, Dell, EMC, Quantum, NetApp
The acquisition of the file serving specialist means that HP won't be making a play for NetApp anytime soon, according to analysts.
Tags : HP, mergers and acquisitions, file systems, NetApp, Ibrix
EMC's long experience in acquisitions helped it win the hand of Data Domain — and it will help the data storage giant with what comes next.
Tags : mergers and acquisitions, deduplication, Data Domain, EMC, NetApp
The Data Domain deal may be done, but the process of sorting out the winners and losers is just getting started.
Tags : Data Domain, deduplication, EMC, Quantum, NetApp
EMC has prevailed in the bidding war for data deduplication pioneer Data Domain. So what's next for Quantum and NetApp?
Tags : mergers and acquisitions, deduplication, NetApp, EMC, Data Domain
EMC's latest offer for Data Domain puts rival NetApp in a tough spot. Updated: NetApp weighs next steps.
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Opponents of the proposed merger between Data Domain and NetApp will get their day in court.
Tags : NetApp, deduplication, Data Domain, mergers and acquisitions, EMC
BlueArc and Panasas are also among the storage vendors working to solve the problem of I/O constraints caused by server virtualization.
Tags : data storage, IBM, I/O, NetApp, virtualization
Analysts see tentative signs that enterprise storage spending is beginning to pick up after a tough first half.
Tags : Brocade, NetApp, EMC, data storage, IT spending
EMC gives Data Domain shareholders more time to decide, but the biggest news this week could come from the FTC.
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