Vangie Beal

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Storage Software QView, the storage software market experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth during the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11). EMC (NYSE: EMC), Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) were the top ranking storage software suppliers with 24.5%, 15.8% and 14.1% market shares respectively. […]

California-based provider of data backup appliances and services, SmartPick Backup, has announced a new series of virtual SmartFiler data backup appliances that run on VMware Player and can also be used with VMware Workstation and ESX/ESXi. SmartFilers are available in various sizes ranging from 10GB to 500GB and maybe downloaded from the company website. The […]

No matter how or where you store your data, solving file fragmentation is vital for peak storage system performance and reliability. The fact that modern data centers go well beyond the single direct-attached drive(s), and employ advanced storage infrastructures that add additional layers of abstraction, does not eliminate the need to solve fragmentation, according to […]

Open source storage solution provider, Gluster, has announced the beta release of GlusterFS 3.3. Gluster’s software-only storage technology is available on-premise for virtual machines, and in public and private cloud environments. This latest version of Gluster’s innovative file system provides a system for data storage that enables users to access the same data as an […]

Data management service provider, Backupify has announced the Summer 2011 Edition of its Google Apps backup service. This new edition features Backupify’s CloudSight search service — a new feature that makes it easy for IT administrators to locate items anywhere in the archive in addition to new Dashboard and Notifications panels to simplify domain-wide administration. […]