Storage Hardware

IBM Builds on Hadoop with New Storage...

At the Supercomputing 2010 conference, IBM pulled back the curtain on a new storage architecture that, according to Big Blue, can double analytics processing...

Data Robotics Scores SMB Storage Deal with...

The key to success in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market is the channel and Data Robotics just landed one of the biggest...

EMC Snaps Up Isilon for $2.25 Billion

EMC continued its acquisition spree today by signing a definitive agreement to acquire scale-out NAS vendor Isilon Systems for more than $2 billion.Under terms...

Panasas Pushes Scale-Out Storage Performance Envelope

Scale-out storage specialist Panasas is pushing the performance envelope with a new addition to its parallel storage system family. The company today announced it...

Netgear Adds Replication, Cloud Options to New...

Netgear’s latest offering in the small and medium business (SMB) storage market is a series of ReadyNAS Pro desktop storage systems with support for...

Avere Systems Speeds Up Tiered NAS Appliances

Avere System’s FXT Series of data tiering appliances are getting an upgrade. The company’s soon-to-be released Avere OS 1.4 will include bi-modal CIFS ACL...

Storage I/O and the Laws of Physics

This is an update of one of my first articles for Enterprise Storage Forum from way back in 2002. The article was well received,...

Capacity-Optimized Nearline SAS Drives Challenge SATA

Data continues to be the lifeblood of many organizations. The unprecedented increasing demand to store that data is irrefutable. In a recent study, IDC...

New Working Group To Tackle PCIe-based SSD...

Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel and a laundry list of other IT vendors have formed the SSD Form Factor Working Group with the goal...

Oracle Exadata in the Real World

At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference last month in San Francisco, Larry Ellison announced the Exalogic “cloud-in-a-box” system aimed at the application market. Whether the...

Fixing SSD Performance Degradation, Part 1

It's a fairly well known fact that solid state disk (SSD) performance can suffer over time. This was quite common in early SSDs, but...

Connectivity is Key in Overland’s New SAN...

Overland Storage is prepping a new SAN array with a wide range of host connection options, including 1GbE or 10GbE iSCSI, 6Gbps SAS...

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