Thor Olavsrud

We have entered the world of Big Data. Data sets are becoming so large, and growing so quickly, that they are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, let alone leverage. Enter EMC division Greenplum, which Tuesday announced the EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), specifically designed to facilitate the discovery and sharing of insights from Big […]

Unstructured data comprises a large and growing percentage of enterprise data, creating information management, policy enforcement and risk mitigation challenges. Enterprise storage resource management specialist Aptare Tuesday unveiled StorageConsole File Analytics, a product it said can bring that problem under control by changing the way unstructured data is discovered, captured, profiled and analyzed. “This product […]

On-premise storage and cloud storage came a little closer together Tuesday through a new partnership between network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP Systems and cloud storage provider Symform. Under the terms of the deal, all new QNAP units will come with up to 200 GB of free cloud backup from Symform, and existing customers will also […]

EMC Monday upgraded its Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform with enhanced cloud metering services and improved administrative reporting and controls. It also added Atmos GeoDrive support for Linux environments. “We’ve seen tremendous traction and interest from both service providers and enterprises looking to deploy public and private cloud storage offerings, and both have benefited greatly from […]

Symantec Monday unveiled its plans for new versions of its storage management and high availability offerings for Microsoft environments that it boasted will deliver 30x faster failover, disaster recovery and storage management. Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) announced that its new Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows—which will bring together Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 for Windows […]

Gearing up for the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle, EMC Thursday signaled its intention to expand its high-performance computing (HPC) presence with new storage technologies. EMC (NYSE:EMC) kicked things off by announcing that its VNX7500, powered by multi-core Intel Xeon processor 5600 chips, set a performance density record with the Lustre file system today, delivering […]