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Linux File System Fsck Testing -- The Results Are In

Our Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Just how bad is the Linux file system scaling problem?
Tags : Linux, scalability, fsck, file system

IBM Storage Buying Guide

IBM's venerable storage portfolio includes tape, disk, SAN and NAS. Even more important than the hardware, however, is the intelligence Big Blue offers to easily and efficiently manage  enterprises' ever increasing storage needs.
Tags : NAS, SAN, IBM, Buying Guide, disk, tape

QNAP TS-879U-RP Turbo NAS Serves Up More Than Storage

The  QNAP TS-879U-RP Turbo NAS is offers more than just file storage. This small but mighty box is easy to install and configure, and has the potential to replace multiple servers.
Tags : NAS, QNAP, storage server

Brocade Storage Switches Buying Guide

As part of Brocade's mission to offer the best and fastest storage networking environments, it now offers a wide range of 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products without overlooking Ethernet.
Tags : storage switch, SAN Fabric, FCoE Storage, Buying Guide, fibre channel, FCoE, Brocade, EtherNet

Infortrend Storage Buying Guide

What Infortrend lacks in name recognition it makes up for in product selection. Its ESVA and EonStor product families aim to meet the SAN and NAS needs of the midrange and SMB markets.
Tags : NAS, Infortrend, SAN, Buying Guide

The Year in Storage: Looking Ahead, Looking Back

Henry Newman revisits his 2011 predictions for the storage industry and prognosticates about 2012 and beyond.
Tags : SSD, security, RAID, Storage, IOPS, cloud security

Quantum Storage Buying Guide

Long known for its tape automation products, Quantum has added a large disk-based portfolio to satisfy enterprises' preferences.
Tags : backup, Quantum, disk-based backup, disk, deduplication, tape

Panasas Promotes Parallel Scale-Out NAS for HPC

Tackling big data storage requirements, the company offers ActiveStor parallel NAS solution touting scalability, simplified management for HPC operations.
Tags : Panasas, big data, HPC, NAS, ActiveStor 11, Scale-out NAS

Analyst Love and Loathing in the Storage Industry

From hybrid hard disk drives and HPC to tape and midrange neglect, storage analysts weigh in on what they love and hate in the industry today.
Tags : tape, storage technologies, backup, dedupe, cloud computing, midrange, HDD, HPC

EMC Takes on Big Data with New Greenplum Platform

EMC's Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform brings together brings together Greenplum’s database with its Hadoop offering and a collaboration tool for data scientists to change the way organizations tackle Big Data analytics.
Tags : EMC, big data, Greenplum, analytics

Aptare Takes Aim at Unstructured Data with File Analytics

The enterprise storage resource management specialist says its StorageConsole File Analytics platform will help organizations better leverage unstructured data while reducing storage and compliance costs and minimizing corporate risk.
Tags : Storage, Aptare, Unstructured Data, big data

Cisco Storage Buying Guide

These days, Cisco is about more than just networking. Its Unified Fabric strategy makes it possible to mix and match  from the MDS and Nexus product families, harnessing the same command lines and GUI operations to perform SAN functions.
Tags : SAN, Nexus, Cisco, storage switch, unified fabric, Switches

Taneja Group Research: Deduplication and the Innovation Race -- It Isn't Over

Most enterprise have dedupe equipment, but not all backup data is  being deduplicated. HP's StoreOnce storage technology aims to change this.
Tags : HP, data deduplication, dedupe, Storage

Symform, QNAP Bring Together Cloud Storage and NAS

QNAP Systems has agreed to integrate its NAS offerings with Symform's Cloud Storage Network.
Tags : QNAP, Symform, NAS, Storage, cloud computing

More Deduplication Tools to Check Out

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 : NetApp, data deduplication, FalconStor, dedupe

Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Buyer's Guide

Oracle continues leveraging the servers and ZFS software it picked up in its acquisition of Sun. The recently released Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are one example of this. Learn what the Sun ZFS Storage 7120, Sun ZFS Storage 7320 and Sun ZFS Storage 7420 have to offer.
Tags : ZFS, Storage, Oracle, Buying Guide

Actifio Pitches New Efficiencies in Managing Production Data Copies

Firm bills its protection and availability storage platform as a path to cut costs and simplify storage amid a sea of copy data.
Tags : data storage, platform-as-a-service, PaaS, data storage management

Benchmarking: Time for Vendors to Get a Clue

The benchmark arms race must end. It's time to shift the focus from peak performance to what really matters--scalability.
Tags : Storage, scalability, benchmark

EMC Improves Atmos Cloud Metering, Adds GeoDrive Linux Support

The storage giant has beefed up its platform for helping service providers and enterprises build storage-as-a-service offerings and has added support for Linux to its Atmos GeoDrive software.
Tags : Atmos, Storage, EMC Atmos, EMC

Overland Storage Buying Guide

Server virtualization is far more advanced than in storage virtualzation, which causes provisioning headaches for storage admins. Overland Storage believes its DynamicRAID technology will help bridge this gap.
Tags : server virtualization, Overland Snap Server, Overland Storage, storage virtualization, SnapSAN

Symantec Reveals Plans for Microsoft Storage Management, High Availability

Symantec says Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows, expected in mid-December, will deliver 30x faster failover, disaster recovery and storage management.
Tags : failover, disaster recovery, Veritas, high availability, Symantec

File System Wrap Up: We Were Not Successful

The vendors would not deliver the promised hardware for  our real-world testing. We ponder why and issue a challenge.
Tags : file system, fsck, Linux, Storage, xfs, RAID

EMC Shows Off HPC Capabilities of Its Unified Storage Platform

EMC's VNX7500 attains record benchmark on the Lustre file system and unveils collaboration agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratories on high-performance computing initiatives.
Tags : Storage, HPC, Lustre, supercomputing, EMC

Data Watch Looks to Secure External Storage

Taiwan firm pairs portable hard-drive enclosures with RAID external storage systems to help secure the mobile workforce.
Tags : security, storage hardware, data storage, DAS, RAID

Big Data Drives Rebirth of Tape Market

Just when tape was (once again) left for dead, big data has arrived to save the day.
Tags : big data, tape, backup

Nexsan Storage Buying Guide

Looking for a SAS or SATA disk array? Nexsan's product line may lack the hype of the major players' but its high value proposition and low price point make it a worthy contender.
Tags : SAS, disk array, Nexsan, Buying Guide, SATA

Nimble Brings Out a New Hybrid Storage Appliance

The hybrid storage appliance maker expands its family -- adds a VMware plug-in.
Tags : SSD, Nimble Storage, appliances, Storage, array

Emulex Updates OneCommand Vision Package

The company claims that customers can save substantially just by implementing small improvements in monitoring and control of I/O infrastructure.
Tags : Emulex, Storage, infrastructure, data center

New Seagate Internal Drive Has 3 TB Capacity

Seagate launches a streamlined family of internal hard-disk drives that hold up to 3 TB and spin at 7200 rpm.
Tags : HP, Seagate, Microsoft, SQL Server, Storage, HDD

Spectra Logic's 10 Key Storage Shifts

Last week, Spectra Logic held a press and analyst day in Boulder, Colo. These 10 highlights stood out among the news, technology trends and company's pure ambition.
Tags : tape, archive, active archive, backup, disk, Oracle, big data

Infortrend Adds Deduplication to EonNAS

Unified storage products for SMBs add deduplication to the menu.
Tags : Storage, Infortrend, NAS, deduplication

Nasuni Adds Multi-site Access to its Data Continuity Service

Nasuni comes up with a way for multiple users to work on the same data file from different locations without worrying about data integrity problems.
Tags : Nasuni, Cloud Storage, data integrity, cloud computing

Paragon Software Targets OEMs, VARs With Niche Storage Tech

Paragon Software is taking a targeted approach to fill in the gaps left by device and equipment makers. The storage and backup firm is focused on migration and compatibility.
Tags : storage technologies, Paragon Software, backup

Who Will Lead Us Out of Storage Limbo?

Thanks to many years of government investment, most of the major storage developments have occurred in the United States. With few ground-breaking changes on the horizon, will the United States hold the lead or will another nation take the reins?
Tags : RAID, standards, Storage, file system, government, storage technologies

DataDirect Networks Storage Buying Guide

DataDirect Networks  is positioning  its three product categories -- storage arrays, files systems and web object storage systems  for the cloud -- to deal directly with the convergence of storage and compute power resulting from organizations'  ever-growing volume of data.
Tags : file systems, DataDirect, storage array

HP to Ship SQL Server-Based Consolidation Appliance

On Day 2 of the PASS Summit, Microsoft announced the November availability of the HP Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance optimized for SQL Server.
Tags : Micorosoft, Storage, SQL Server, HP

DataDirect Claims WOS 2.0 Handles Billions of Reads/Writes

DataDirect Networks rolled out a major update to what it says is the world's highest scalability storage appliance, which it claims is capable of storing and retrieving billion of objects per day.
Tags : Cloud Storage, Storage Appliances, Storage, DataDirect

Nirvanix Deal to Expand CloudSmart Storage

A new agreement with Nirvanix will enable IBM's cloud storage services to have access to massive amounts of data in the cloud.
Tags : Cloud Storage, SmartCloud, Storage, Nirvanix, IBM

SnapServer Claims New Storage Appliance Needs No Provisioning

Overland Storage  unveils SnapServer DX, a new unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that leverages RAID technology to eliminate the need to provision storage capacity.
Tags : NAS, RAID, SAN, iSCSI, Overland Storage, Unified Storage, Overland Snap Server

AutoVirt Automates Unstructured Data, Aims to Lower Storage Costs

Startup backs global namespace file virtualization solutions in a bid to help enterprises manage the sprawl of unstructured data without doubling down on pricey storage.
Tags : Storage, Unstructured Data, Namespaces, Sprawl, file virtualization

Imation Assembles a Storage 'Portfolio' for SMBs

The storage vendor bundles several existing and new products into a solution portfolio that aims to address the special needs of SMBs.
Tags : data archive, data protection, Imation, Storage

10 Takeaways From Oracle OpenWorld

Big data, business intelligence, cloud and big boxes were featured prominently at Oracle's big conference this year.
Tags : Storage, Pillar Data Systems, big data, Oracle, EMC, OpenWorld, NetApp, business intelligence

Need More Data Dedupe Capacity? Just Turn It On

New deduplication appliance lets you turn on more disk space when you need it.
Tags : data deduplication, deduplication, Quantum, Storage

Disk Arrays in Cloud Deployments Show Promise

Use of disk arrays as storage in 'external clouds' is on the upswing.
Tags : Storage, External Cloud, disk array

DataCore Extends SANsymphony-V to the Cloud

DataCore take SANsymphony-V to the cloud.
Tags : hypervisor, SANsymphony, DataCore, Storage

8 Deduplication Products You Must Check Out

It wasn't long ago that data deduplication was niche player territory. Now, all of the major vendors have a stake. Here are 8 dedupe offerings that stand apart from the crowd.
Tags : Quantum, Symantec, deduplication, EMC, Atempo, HP, data deduplication, dedupe

GridIron Emerges From Sealth, Announces TurboCharger SAN-Attached Appliance

TurboCharger leverages the speed of solid state for big data.

Storage Protocols Debated

The storage protocol debate dates back to the file vs. block argument.

Violin Announces 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays

Violin's flash-based vision produces an all-silicon primary storage system.

Pure Storage Looks to All-Flash Data Center

With an eye toward the post-disk era, this startup offers an enterprise-grade, all-flash storage solution.
Tags : Storage, Flash Array, Flash Storage, Flash

Tips For Using Encryption to Safeguard Data

Encryption a key technology for securing sensitive data.

Wave Systems Acquires Data Loss Protection Company

Safend Ltd., provides endpoint data loss protection solutions.

HP Storage Buyer's Guide

HP is a leader in multiple technology avenues. Recently, its massive portfolio of products, built both organically and via acquisitions, has made HP a storage giant. See what it has to offer.
Tags : Storage, Lefthand, Buying Guide, 3PAR, HP

IceWeb Wins Contract for ZFS Unified Data Storage System

BroadAspect uses an IceWEB unified data storage system to support cloud computing customers.

Isle of Man Government Deploys EMC Storage Solutions

The Isle of Man has deployed a combination of the EMC VPLEX virtual storage platform and EMC Unified Storage.

NovaStor Announces Channel Enterprise Cloud Backup Solutions

New program for resellers and system integrators looking to offer private cloud and enterprise backup solutions.

Addonics Announces Snap-In Disk Array Solution for Computing Systems

Removable drive systems for increasing hard drive storage.

Enterprise SSD Caching Eplained

Tiered storage systems is where SSD pays off for the enterprise customer.

Hitachi Ships Ultrastar Solid State Drives in HP 3PAR Storage Arrays

Ultrastar SSD combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance firmware and power loss management.

Virsto Storage Virtualization Announced

Can Virsto do for storage what VMware did for servers?

AMAX to Demonstrate Big Data Storage Solutions

The company will show advanced GPU technologies and scalable Big Data storage solutions at SEG 2011.

FalconStor Storage Server Achieves VMware Ready Status

FalconStor VMware ready certified for VMware vSphere 5 and VAAI.

10 Cloud Deployments Worth a Look

Considering a cloud deployment? Here are 10 examples to check out and possibly emulate.
Tags : EMC Atmos, cloud computing, Amazon EC2, Cloud Storage

Asigra Offers Data Disaster Recovery and Backup for Mobile Devices

Asigra Offers Data Disaster Recovery and Backup for Mobile Devices

Data Storage Industry Trends

The data storage industry is currently growing at a healthy rate.

Tips for Email Archiving Optimization

E-mail archiving as a data footprint reduction (DFR) technique.

VMware-Aware Storage

Is VMware the next big storage vendor?

IceWEB Announces SSDs in Unified Storage Systems

The SSD can be combined with any other drive types (SAS or SATA) within the Model 6000 array.

Micron Enhances Enterprise SSD Portfolio

The new RealSSD P400e SSD ships in capacities ranging from 50 to 400-GB.

Linux File System Fsck Testing -- The Results Are In

Our Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Just how bad is the Linux file system scaling problem?
Tags : Linux, scalability, fsck, file system

More Deduplication Tools to Check Out

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 : NetApp, data deduplication, FalconStor, dedupe

10 Takeaways From Oracle OpenWorld

Big data, business intelligence, cloud and big boxes were featured prominently at Oracle's big conference this year.
Tags : Storage, Pillar Data Systems, big data, Oracle, EMC, OpenWorld, NetApp, business intelligence

8 Deduplication Products You Must Check Out

It wasn't long ago that data deduplication was niche player territory. Now, all of the major vendors have a stake. Here are 8 dedupe offerings that stand apart from the crowd.
Tags : Quantum, Symantec, deduplication, EMC, Atempo, HP, data deduplication, dedupe

10 Cloud Deployments Worth a Look

Considering a cloud deployment? Here are 10 examples to check out and possibly emulate.
Tags : EMC Atmos, cloud computing, Amazon EC2, Cloud Storage


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