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Solid State Drive Developers Try to Catch STEC
By Paul Shread - Published July 2, 2009
Plenty of companies are planning enterprise-class SSDs, but it could be a year or more before they catch up to the early market leader. [more Technology News]

What the Heck is Going On in the Data Storage Industry?
By Drew Robb - Published June 16, 2009
Mergers, hostile takeovers, turf battles, high-profile defections... We look at what's behind the turmoil in the IT industry — and what it means for the future of storage. [more Industry News]

Data Domain's Just Not That Into EMC
By Paul Shread - Published June 15, 2009
Data Domain once again says it favors NetApp over rival suitor EMC, but don't count out EMC just yet. [more Industry News]


EMC-NetApp Takeover Battle a Culture Clash?
By Paul Shread - Published June 10, 2009
On one level, the bidding war between EMC and NetApp for Data Domain appears to be a battle of East and West coast tech cultures. [more Industry News]

Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS
By Paul Shread - Published June 1, 2009
The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features. [more Technology News]

IBM Adds Solid State to High-End Storage
By Paul Shread - Published May 21, 2009
IBM is adding solid state drives and new management software to its DS8000 data storage arrays. [more Technology News]

NetApp to Acquire Data Domain
By Paul Shread - Published May 20, 2009
In a shocker for the data storage industry, NetApp will acquire data deduplication pioneer Data Domain. [more Technology News]

Could Solid State Spell the End for Hard Drives?
By Paul Rubens - Published May 14, 2009
Some analysts say the answer is yes — and perhaps sooner than you think. [more SANs/NAS News]

GE Brings Holographic Storage to Life
By Paul Shread - Published April 28, 2009
GE thinks it's the company to finally make holographic storage technology realize its promise. [more Technology News]

IBM Says Brocade Deal Not Aimed at Cisco
By Paul Shread - Published April 28, 2009
Big Blue will resell Brocade's Ethernet switches, but claims it's not retaliating against Cisco. [more Technology News]

Cisco Remakes Virtualization, Storage Landscape
By Herman Mehling - Published April 16, 2009
Cisco's new server has the potential to recast both the data storage and server virtualization markets. [more Management News]

Startup Claims Solid State Storage Breakthrough
By Paul Shread - Published April 13, 2009
SandForce claims it has overcome the performance and reliability limitations of MLC-based flash data storage. [more Technology News]

Brocade Sees 16-Gig in Fibre Channel's Future
By Paul Shread - Published April 7, 2009
Brocade unveils new FCoE switches and CNAs — and waxes about the future of Fibre Channel and its competition with Cisco. [more Technology News]

QLogic Sees FCoE Coming Soon
By Paul Shread - Published March 30, 2009
QLogic sees Fibre Channel over Ethernet arriving in servers and storage by the end of the year — thanks to its converged network adapter (CNA) technology. [more Technology News]

Compellent Adds ILM to Solid State Drives
By Paul Shread - Published March 24, 2009
The SAN vendor automatically migrates inactive data off pricey SSDs to less expensive disk. [more SANs/NAS News]

STEC Rockets on Strong Flash Storage Sales
By Paul Shread - Published March 13, 2009
Thanks to EMC and other top data storage vendors, STEC's solid state drive sales are 'through the roof.' [more SANs/NAS News]

Sun Proposes New Solid State Storage Spec
By Paul Shread - Published March 11, 2009
Sun Microsystems is proposing a new flash data storage form factor that could save users a ton of space in servers and storage arrays. [more Technology News]

Sun Turns Object Storage Over to OpenSolaris
By Paul Shread - Published February 27, 2009
Sun Microsystems is turning over object-based storage development for its SAM-QFS file system to the OpenSolaris community in a move away from a standard that advocates see as the future of data storage technology. [more SANs/NAS News]

Sun Says 'Me Too' on Encryption Keys
By Paul Shread - Published February 17, 2009
Just days after seven IT vendors proposed an encryption key management standard, Sun is open sourcing its own key management technology. [more SANs/NAS News]

Microsoft Sees Opportunity in Mobile Phone Data Storage
By Paul Shread - Published February 10, 2009
With users more and more reliant on smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices, protecting the information on them could become a growth market. [more Technology News]

Woz Joins Solid State Storage Startup
By Paul Shread - Published February 5, 2009
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is the latest IT legend to recognize the promise of solid state storage technology. [more Technology News]

Flash Storage Hits the Terabyte Range
By Andy Patrizio - Published January 13, 2009
SanDisk and Sony see multi-terabyte memory sticks on the horizon. [more Technology News]

Samsung Unveils 'Green' SSDs
By Judy Mottl - Published January 9, 2009
Samsung says its new solid state drives can save users a bundle. [more Technology News]

Mac Attack: Storage Vendors Take Aim at Apple
By Paul Shread - Published January 7, 2009
Apple's growing popularity among enterprise users is leading to a revolution in storage products aimed at everything from Macs to iPhones. [more Technology News]

Bringing Data Center Automation to the Masses
By Paul Rubens - Published December 16, 2008
A new service brings data center automation within reach of small businesses. [more Management News]

Hitachi to Use Intel Solid State Drives
By Paul Shread - Published December 15, 2008
Hitachi Data Systems will use solid state drives from a joint partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in its high-end storage arrays. [more Technology News]

EMC Seeks to Make Data More Valuable
By Judy Mottl - Published December 12, 2008
The storage giant doesn't want to become a business intelligence vendor, but it certainly plans to leverage the technology. [more Outsourcing News]

Intel, Hitachi Make a Splash in Solid State Storage
By Paul Shread - Published December 3, 2008
The enterprise-class SSD market has a new — and formidable — entrant, and there's one place the new drives are almost sure to wind up. [more Technology News]

Storage Startup Goes All Out With Solid State
By Judy Mottl - Published November 13, 2008
Flash-based storage is pricier — but that's not stopping Violin from serenading enterprises with its alternative to disk storage. [more Technology News]

A Better File System for Linux?
By Sean Michael Kerner - Published October 30, 2008
Oracle's Better File System for Linux (BTRFS) is gearing up, but what will it do and who will use it? [more Technology News]

Features
Virtualization and the Cloud Will Change Data Storage
By Marty Foltyn - Published June 19, 2009
Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments. [more Technology]

Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel
By Henry Newman - Published June 18, 2009
Recent steep drops in the price of 10Gb Ethernet NICs mean that Fibre Channel's decade-long dominance will soon be over. [more Technology]

Get Your Free Networked Storage
By Jennifer Schiff - Published June 12, 2009
With cross-platform compatibility, a plethora of features and a hard-to-beat price tag, Openfiler is giving enterprises an attractive alternative to proprietary network storage operating systems. [more Technology]

File System Benchmarks Need to be Reformed
By Henry Newman - Published June 5, 2009
File system benchmarks can be difficult to evaluate, creating tough choices for storage customers. We offer some tips on what to look for. [more Technology]

EMC Says Dedupe, Cloud and SSDs Will Dominate Storage
By Drew Robb - Published May 20, 2009
At EMC World, the data storage giant expanded its dedupe offerings, held a love fest with Cisco and VMware, and CEO Joe Tucci answered some tough questions. [more Technology]

The State of Open Source Storage
By Drew Robb - Published May 13, 2009
With commercial implementations and community projects on the rise, analysts nonetheless see barriers to widespread enterprise adoption of open source data storage technologies. [more Technology]

Brother, Can You Spare a Petabyte?
By Henry Newman - Published May 1, 2009
Even in tough times, there's more to data storage purchasing decisions than saving money. [more Technology]

What's Selling In the Data Storage Market?
By Drew Robb - Published April 27, 2009
Storage hardware sales may be suffering, but customers are still opening their wallets for some data storage technologies. [more Technology]

Rocks Don't Need to Be Backed Up
By Henry Newman - Published March 27, 2009
Commentary: What a 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk can teach us about data backup, archiving and preservation of our history — and why it's critical that we get started now. [more Technology]

What Woz Sees in Solid State Storage
By Drew Robb - Published March 26, 2009
Steve Wozniak's new gig at Fusion-io involves developing flash drives for everything from SANs to PC gaming. [more Technology]

File System Management Is Headed for Trouble
By Henry Newman - Published February 24, 2009
The POSIX file system interface isn't up to the task of managing today's data, resulting in costly fixes for users to solve problems like data integrity and regulatory compliance. It doesn't have to be that way. [more Technology]

How to Keep Enterprise Data Safe and Secure
By Jennifer Schiff - Published February 20, 2009
As storage vendors debate encryption key management, experts weigh in on steps you can take to protect your data now. [more Technology]

Storing Decades of Bureaucratic Data
By Jennifer Schiff - Published February 11, 2009
If you think you've got data storage headaches, wait till you see what the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration is facing. [more Technology]

Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage
By Drew Robb - Published February 5, 2009
One company turned to iSCSI, OpenSolaris and Linux, commodity hardware and even solid state drives to control data storage costs. [more Technology]

Big Blue Eyes Are Watching You
By Lynn Haber - Published January 29, 2009
To manage the data produced by one of the world's most ambitious video surveillance projects, the city of Chicago turned to IBM. [more Technology]

Economy Clouds Storage Market Outlook
By Drew Robb - Published January 22, 2009
Dedupe, iSCSI and cloud storage are likely to be big this year as cost-cutting measures, but the rise of solid state drives could buck the trend toward frugality. [more Technology]

Facebook Friends Storage Vendors
By Jennifer Schiff - Published January 21, 2009
The top social networking site works with a formidable list of data storage vendors — and is working on some home-grown solutions too. [more Technology]

Predicting the Future of Storage Technology
By Henry Newman - Published December 18, 2008
After batting .800 on this year's predictions, it's time once again for our intrepid enterprise storage columnist to peer into his crystal ball and see what's in store for the storage market for 2009 and beyond. [more Technology]

Data Center Automation: Coming Sooner Than You Think
By Paul Rubens - Published November 24, 2008
One analyst thinks data center automation will be here within five years, which means you better start planning for it now. [more Technology]

Storage Virtualization: Good News for Consultants
By Henry Newman - Published November 21, 2008
Storage virtualization has some limitations that could make it ill-suited for high-performance environments. [more Technology]

Intel Sees Gold in Solid State Storage
By Drew Robb - Published November 5, 2008
Solid state storage has become a big priority at Intel — enough to get Gordon Moore himself involved. [more Technology]

Storing the Universe One Particle at a Time
By Drew Robb - Published October 15, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider hopes to unravel the mysteries of subatomic particles and the origins of the universe — and it has a storage system to match. [more Technology]

Three Acronyms That Could Change the Storage World
By Henry Newman - Published September 12, 2008
The storage networking world could be profoundly changed by three emerging technologies. [more Technology]

Storage That Really Lasts
By Jennifer Schiff - Published September 11, 2008
If you want to preserve data for the really long term, as in thousands of years, Norsam Technologies' analog HD-Rosetta disk may be your best bet. [more Technology]

Solving the Storage Error Management Dilemma
By Henry Newman - Published August 18, 2008
Disk drives, tapes and storage networks can create inadvertent errors. What the storage industry needs is a comprehensive framework to discover them before they become a problem. [more Technology]

NFS Enters a Parallel Universe
By Drew Robb - Published August 7, 2008
The network file system protocol is getting its biggest overhaul in more than a decade, and the results could be profound for end users. [more Technology]

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 Technology]

Data Corruption: Dedupe's Achilles Heel
By Henry Newman - Published July 16, 2008
If you're thinking about purchasing a data de-duplication solution, you need to take a hard look at the issue of data corruption. [more Technology]

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 Technology]

Storage Without the Spin
By Jennifer Schiff - Published May 16, 2008
Pliant believes its new EFD solid state technology will change the way enterprises store data. [more Technology]