Storage Hardware

Clarifying Storage Cluster Confusion

What do storage solutions from 3PAR, BlueArc, EqualLogic, Exanet, Isilon, LeftHand, NetApp, ONStor, Panasas, Polyserve and SGI have in common? If your answer is...

IBM Writes Storage Prescription for Medical Center

With business growing by leaps and bounds, the $6 billion University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) needed to lower its IT costs while supporting...

Keeping Storage Cool

Data centers have traditionally been cooled by chilled air blown out of air conditioning units. More recently, though, with heat densities rising, vendors have...

Super Storage, Coming to a Data Center...

For those of us who have worked in the high-performance computing industry for some time, the annual Supercomputing conference is something of a reunion,...

Mellanox Marries InfiniBand, Ethernet

Top InfiniBand chipmaker Mellanox Technologies unveiled its fourth-generation adapter architecture at Supercomputing 2006 in Tampa, Fla., this week.Mellanox, which supplies silicon to Cisco and...

Symantec Looks Beyond Virtual Tape

Symantec on Tuesday announced plans to move disk-based backup away from legacy tape environments.A new application programming interface (API) called the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage...

Storage Built IBM Tough

Systems vendors such as IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems offer super sturdy versions of their servers to run in intemperate climates. But these servers need...

NetApp Steps Up the Midrange Battle

With its latest arrays for medium-sized businesses, Network Appliance is looking for some storage sizzle. The FAS3070 and V3070 machines are targeted to knock EMC's...

HP Sharpens Its Storage Approach

IBM may lead the market for blade servers by a long shot, but HP has beaten Big Blue to market with its first storage...

DAS: Alive and Well at an Enterprise...

Direct attached storage (DAS) was supposed to be on its last leg by now. After more than a decade of steady encroachment by storage...

EMC Overhauls Its Assets

EMC on Monday unveiled a number of changes to its core storage systems, including a new high-end Symmetrix system and refreshes for its midrange,...

Gear6 Speeds Up Storage

Gear6 hopes to boost NAS performance with a first-of-its-kind centralized storage caching solution.The startup says it is the first to deploy high-capacity, high-performance cache...

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