Drew Robb

Marvin Gaye’s plaintive protest song, “What’s Going On?” could perhaps be made the theme song for the storage and cloud space of late. Mergers and acquisitions galore are being showered upon us. Here is a recent sampling: Avago acquired LSI, Seagate acquired Xyratex, Western Digital bought Vrident and Velobit, Cisco snapped up Whiptail, EMC scooped […]

Let’s begin with a cautionary tale about pricing: a friend hired a moving company as they quoted a very attractive price for a complex move. They lured her in with a low-ball price then added more and more “extras” to the point where their price ended up higher than many of the other bids she […]

Veteran storage managers who have been successfully protecting data for years, if not decades, sometimes get tripped up by the peculiarities of virtual environments. According to Kroll Ontrack, 40% of enterprises lose information every year from virtual environments, and about two thirds find that they are not able to recover all their virtual data in […]

Open source storage has been with us for some time now. While it hasn’t quite realized the dream of 15 years ago — supplying free or very cheap software for all and thereby unseating all the major proprietary software providers — it has at least carved out a nice niche in the market with a […]

Dell recently introduced a new line of storage gear, as covered in a recent InfoStor article. Here, we take a more in-depth look at this line of EqualLogic PS6210S all-flash arrays. In addition to hearing from Dell, Enterprise Storage Forum sought out the opinion of storage analysts concerning these products, which come heavily endowed with […]

There is no stopping the trend toward flash in data storage these days. It dominated our Top Ten Storage Trends of 2013, and the market is seeing a continuing wave of new products. “Hard disk drives have been a performance bottleneck for years, lagging far behind the speed of CPUs and RAM,” said Everett Dolgner, […]

As the the ongoing trend toward the software defined data center (SDDC) and the software-defined storage (SDS) gains momentum, the lines are clearly blurring between the traditional silos of networking, storage and servers. Given this new combining of traditionally separate sectors, this article – yes, on a site that covers data storage – will look […]

What are the biggest trends in storage that emerged in 2013? We asked a collection of storage professionals and here are their thoughts about the rapidly evolving storage market. Flash, Flash and More Flash Flash is one of those obvious trends in storage of late. But Gary Orenstein, Executive Vice President of Marketing at FusionIO, […]

HYCU spins out from Comtrade, continues to advance the HYCU purpose-built data protection for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Hyperconvergence is a term we are hearing more about these days in the IT sector, including in the data storage market. So what does it actually mean and how can the user differentiate the various products that claim to […]

The PR roar surrounding software defined storage (SDS) and the software defined data center (SDDC) has gotten louder of late. This month’s Storage Networking World show featured many presentations on these subjects. Yet many users are still struggling to come to terms with exactly what it is. Anil Vasudeva, an analyst with IMEX Research explained […]

Last week’s Storage Networking World (SNW) show took place in Long Beach, California. Here are some of the main takeaways. Cloud Nivana Immediately before and during the SNW show, there was plenty of talk about the collapse of cloud provider Nirvanix. Some users were worried about retrieving all their data before service is finally shut […]

Last week’s Storage Networking World (SNW) conference featured plenty of new products from storage vendors. Here are some of the highlights: Coho MicroArray Coho Data just released the Coho MicroArray, which combined Intel Xeon processors plus 10GbE NICs and PCIe flash as a way to get away from proprietary all-flash and hybrid flash-disk arrays by […]