Storage architecture and strategy

Navigating the all-flash array storage buying process

Companies of all sizes are turning to all-flash storage arrays to meet their storage capacity, performance, reliability and data protection requirements. Continue Reading

Dell EMC storage gets new boss

Of all the EMC executives who left the company since the Dell acquisition, the departure of David Goulden will have the greatest impact on the Dell EMC storage business. Dell dropped the news that ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

How do I enable file sharing on Ceph object storage?

The open source Ceph project prioritizes efficient data storage over easy access, so companies that want to set up file sharing on their object stores must do a little extra work. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge

Former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo takes over as CEO of Pure Storage from Scott Dietzen with the all-flash pioneer set to become a billion-dollar baby. Will profits follow? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Everspin Technologies nvNITRO ST-MRAM SSDs ready to ship

Everspin's new ST-MRAM-based nvNITRO Storage Accelerator pledges 'DRAM-like' performance, but analysts say the high price could limit the SSD's use cases. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC Isilon helps preserve tennis history

At the U.S. Open tennis tournament last week, Rafael Nadal solidified his Hall of Fame credentials and Sloane Stephens became a hall of fame candidate. And the International Tennis Hall of Fame ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Can I replace HDDs with SSDs to support in-memory storage?

Replacing all your HDDs with SSDs won't solve the storage issues associated with in-memory databases. Look to hyper-convergence and NVDIMMs instead. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Spectra Logic BlackPearl NAS disk appliance launches

Spectra Logic has added a midrange BlackPearl NAS disk appliance to augment its tape-based object storage. Spectra Logic launched the object-based BlackPearl line as a linear tape file system ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise

Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Dell EMC storage sags in the middle

What do you do when storage sales slow down? If you’re Dell EMC, you add velocity to the sales process. “Storage velocity” was a frequently used term during Dell’s earnings call this morning. On ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

BackupAssist CryptoSafeGuard aids ransomware backup strategy

Windows data protection specialist BackupAssist is the latest vendor to provide a capability that helps combat ransomware. The Australia-based company recently launched CryptoSafeGuard, part of its ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Cloudian CEO sees favorable trends in object storage market

Cloudian CEO Michael Tso notes favorable trends for object storage: Capacities are increasing to petabytes, and customers want to use different clouds for different workloads. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Your enterprise data management strategy needs a superhero

Data management products are the Superman, not the Batman, of storage. They have built-in superpowers that provide the innate power needed to manage data. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Persistent storage readied for containerized applications

Traditional application architectures are limited in their ability to scale and meet the demands of today's fast-growing data, cloud and IT environments. Containerization -- with its support for Agile design, development and deployment methodologies -- promises to overcome these challenges. Containers weren't originally designed to implement full-stack applications or any application that needs persistent storage. With containers gaining support from storage array makers, we're starting to see arrays allowing containerized applications to take advantage of primary storage. Find out how storage vendors are bringing persistent storage to the world of containerized applications.

Nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) replaces SCSI at both the device and network levels to deliver greater bandwidth and lower latency to internal storage devices. And with the development of NVMe over Fabrics, the NVMe command set can work across the network via external storage. Discover the benefits of NVMe over Fabrics, when to deploy the technology, how to implement it and which vendors are making it happen.

Copy data management (CDM) protects production data and improves the management of production data copies, with the aim of cutting storage costs, improving data visibility and compliance, and speeding up data access. Until last year, it was the province of point products. But the market is changing, and the technology has gone mainstream as the largest data protection and storage vendors have joined the CDM fray. Find out which CDM capabilities companies value most and what is being done to meet growing demand. What advantages can CDM bring to your IT data storage environment?

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The copy data management market is starting to go mainstream

Products from copy data management vendors protect and manage production data to lower storage costs, speed data access and streamline self-service access to data copies. Continue Reading

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• Steve Ricketts, Taneja Group

Coho Data falls victim to 'cutthroat' data storage market

After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Persistent data storage in containerized environments

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Your enterprise data management strategy needs a superhero

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The copy data management market is starting to go mainstream

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Nutanix revenue jumps as competition grows

Hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix grew revenue 72% in its first year as a public company. Nutanix revenue grew to $767 million during a span in which competition intensified. Dell EMC, Hewlett ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

VMworld 2017 Notes: Dell favors storage R&D over M&A

LAS VEGAS -- Before their merger, EMC and Dell were active buyers of storage companies. In the past year, neither has made an acquisition. That’s understandable, considering the price that Dell ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Selecting the best object-based storage platform for your needs

Object-based storage systems can provide the scalability needed to meet organizations' increasing unstructured data storage requirements. Learn how to pick the right platform. Continue Reading

The leading object storage vendors offer broad range of options

Explore how the leading object storage systems can be accessed, how they integrate with the cloud, what data security they provide and the various deployment options they offer. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Druva pulls in $80 million for data management software

Druva today said it has raised another $80 million in funding, bringing its total investments into the range of $200 million for the fast-growing data management software vendors. The Sunnyvale, ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

IoFabric extends Vicinity to multiple sites, clouds

IoFabric Vicinity combines quality of service, snapshots and replication in a software-defined storage application to manage storage across primary, backup and archive tiers. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cisco buys Springpath, brings HCI software in-house

Cisco re-confirmed its hyper-converged infrastructure strategy today by acquiring its HCI software partner Springpath for $320 million. The Cisco HyperFlex HCI appliance consists of Springpath ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Copy data management vendors expand breadth of offerings

This roundup of copy management systems from the leading vendors shows the distinct categories and implementation models this cost-saving technology can provide. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Unitrends backup appliance products get hyped for Nutanix

Unitrends backup appliance products will go where some vendors have gone before -- supporting the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor – while adding a cloud twist. The company's Recovery Series backup ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

MozyEnterprise backup tool finds a new key for security

Dell EMC's Mozy has unlocked a new encryption key security feature for its enterprise backup product. MozyEnterprise now provides support for the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

What the leading copy data management vendors offer

Copy management systems from the leading vendors offer unique features that can help IT departments consolidate their secondary storage into a single product. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Four tips for building a Swift object store

OpenStack Swift doesn't have to be scary. You can use the command line, zones and access control lists to make object storage management a little easier. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Red Hat acquires Permabit for inline deduplication

Permabit's inline compression, data deduplication and thin provisioning software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help boost performance and lower costs. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Software-defined storage products don't negate hardware's importance

Software-defined storage, positioned as the cure-all for vendor lock-in, suggests that hardware may not be as important to IT infrastructure as it once was. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Software-defined storage products don't negate hardware's importance

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Moonwalk software streams data to cloud archives

The free Starter Edition of Moonwalk's archiving software migrates up to 25 TB of data to repository or clouds as files or objects, as well as supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp cloud strategy includes SolidFire, SDS

Created in the 20th century to sell storage to engineers, NetApp has survived for 25 years to remain the largest standing data storage company not tied to a server vendor. Founder Dave Hitz credits ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Commvault earnings: Sales gain ahead of product launches

Commvault Systems is inching back toward profitability after another strong quarter of growth as it continues to build out its business beyond its traditional data backup model. The company's ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Axcient and eFolder merger gathers clouds, enhances data protection

Though they existed in the same general market, Axcient and eFolder had different technologies, different platforms and different customer bases. They're all the same now. Axcient and eFolder said ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Seagate revenue slides, CEO Luczo says ‘see ya later’

Seagate Technology changed its CEO, reported a revenue miss, and disclosed plans to cut 600 jobs -- all on the same day. The hard disk drive and systems vendor today said Dave Mosley, the company's ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Symbolic IO CEO Ignomirello arrested on assault charges

Symbolic IO, identified as one of SearchStorage’s storage startups to watch in 2017, now bears watching for different reasons than the other vendors on the list. Brian Ignomirello, 46, the Symbolic ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Broadcom-Brocade deal delayed, with ‘no assurances’

The $5.9 billion Broadcom-Brocade acquisition has been delayed 30 days, which may turn into a 75-day delay. That's if the deal happens at all. SAN switching vendor Brocade Tuesday evening said the ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam revenue benefits from more $1 million deals

Veeam Software today reported a a 27% year-over-year increase in revenue growth for total bookings and 53% year-over-year growth for deals that are more than $100,000 during the second quarter of ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

OwnBackup funding drives further cloud protection

Cloud-to-cloud backup startup OwnBackup plans to significantly expand following a $7.5 million Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann said the company may ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

DataGravity's data-aware storage scooped up by HyTrust

As a standalone company, DataGravity is no more. But the startup’s data-aware storage technology will live inside of HyTrust's cloud security products. HyTrust, based in Mountain View, Calif., ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Actifio copy data management sales help turn a profit

Actifio's copy data management platform finds favor with financial, government, healthcare and retail organizations. More than 2,200 customers use Virtual Data Pipeline. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Analyzing products from the leading object storage vendors

When evaluating the leading object-based storage systems, it is important to consider which product can best support your uses cases and unique site requirements. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Arcserve UDP gains cloud capabilities via Zetta acquisition

Arcserve today acquired cloud provider Zetta, adding a direct-to-cloud disaster recovery and backup capability to expand its reach for service providers. Arcserve, which spun out of CA Technologies ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 highlights HCI vendor's partners, frenemies

While Google's new partnership with Nutanix received a lot of attention at Nutanix .NEXT 2017, other partners of the hyper-converged vendor also made news at the user conference. Google SVP of ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you

Object storage, unlike traditional file and block storage, is well-suited to manage vast amounts of unstructured data. Continue Reading

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• Steve Ricketts, Taneja Group

Caching vs. tiering: Comparing storage optimization techniques

There are many factors to consider when choosing between caching and tiering storage techniques to optimize storage. Knowing how and when to use either can make a big difference. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

Object-level storage poised to replace NAS in the enterprise

Many vendors offer highly scalable object storage-based products with file interfaces, making the technology more accessible than ever as an alternative to NAS. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

ECX 2.6 includes intelligent data management

Catalogic Software's approach to snapshot creation and management delivers pragmatic features to DevOps and more with the release of ECX 2.6. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Wanna laugh? Data protection techniques give ransomware the boot

Done right, data protection such as cloud-based disaster recovery is the best countermeasure organizations have against insidious ransomware attacks. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Caching vs. tiering: Comparing storage optimization techniques

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ECX 2.6 includes intelligent data management

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Object-level storage poised to replace NAS in the enterprise

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Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you

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Toshiba says enterprise demand remains for 15,000 rpm HDD

Tape isn't dead, and neither are 15,000 rpm enterprise hard disk drives. Not yet, at least. Toshiba recently began shipping a new AL14SX Series of 15,000 rpm HDD products designed for ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2 adds SQL support, management

With the latest sequel to its backup and replication software, Nakivo has added support for Microsoft SQL Server and more streamlined management, as it maintains a pace of releasing a product every ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Ransomware protection helps mitigate data loss, but attacks are increasing

Ransomware attacks have grown to such a scale, companies are getting attacked more than once. Endpoint data protection vendor Druva recently surveyed 832 IT professionals worldwide during May and ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Determine your requirements before buying a copy management system

Before evaluating copy data management systems, examine the pros and cons of the deployment models, as well as the most important features to look for in a product. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Japan-backed group is 'preferred bidder' for Toshiba memory business

Financially troubled Toshiba chose a Japan-backed consortium as the preferred bidder for its memory business, despite Western Digital's continuing claims that no sale can happen without its SanDisk ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

FalconStor Software hires new CEO, Quinn to resign

Come July 1, FalconStor Software will have a new leader. And that leader will have fewer followers due to plans for a new round of staff reductions. Storage industry veteran Todd Oseth will replace ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Virtual Instruments adds storage monitoring to 32 Gb FC

Virtual Instruments tools that help organizations monitor storage gain deeper integration in the new family of Load DynamiX 32 Gb FC and 40 GbE Workload Generation Appliances. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Pure Accelerate 2017 closes San Francisco warehouse in style

At its Pure Accelerate 2017 conference this week, Pure Storage gave a new interpretation to the term data warehouse. A reported 3,000 analysts, customers and resellers gathered in a ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Rubrik Cloud Data Management supports Microsoft, Nutanix hypervisors

The Rubrik Cloud Data Management platform has been beefed up with upgrades that are in line with the data protection startup's mission to be a full-scale cloud data management platform. Rubrik's ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Scality storage update to RING 7 features object, file system interoperability

A Scality storage upgrade for RING adds versioning and replication capabilities for both object storage and file protocols, as well as greater interoperability between objects and files. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Three approaches to strategic data management: Good, better and best

It's time organizations take a more mature and sophisticated approach to data management techniques and make the most of the data they generate and consume. Continue Reading

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• Jason Buffington

Questions to ask object storage vendors before evaluating products

Before investing in object storage architecture, it is vital to understand your options, including whether you should buy software, hardware or a combination of both. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Three approaches to strategic data management: Good, better and best

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Tintri IPO filing shows spikes in sales, heavy losses

When technology executives discuss initial public offerings these days, they usually say how the goal has shifted from rapid growth to fiscal responsibility. In other words, investors want to see a ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Nutanix revenue, relationships grow

Nutanix’s success selling hyper-converged software depends largely on how well it both competes with and partners with the large server vendors. Nutanix revenue beat expectations last quarter, ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Pure Storage flash lineup could be billion-dollar baby

Pure Storage executives claim the flash pioneer is on pace for $1 billion in revenue for 2017, plus its first profitable quarter by the end of the year. Neither goal is assured, but both seem ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veritas HyperScale storage software extends OpenStack

Veritas expands beyond data protection with HyperScale storage software to give OpenStack users added quality of service, data protection and management capabilities. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds CDP, cloud and physical support

NEW ORLEANS – Veeam Software opened its user conference with the launch of the latest version of its data protection software, moving deeper into cloud and physical device support. Veeam ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Veeam CEO role has room for two as company seeks growth

NEW ORLEANS -- Veeam Software has changed CEOs for the second time in less than a year. On the eve of the VeeamON user conference this week, the data protection software vendor elevated two ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

IBM to package Nutanix HCI software on Power Systems

Nutanix is making its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software available on another server platform, this time with the server vendor’s full cooperation. Nutanix and IBM today disclosed an OEM ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Snowden, Cinder demo give OpenStack Summit storage twist

BOSTON -- Storage is rarely a focal point at OpenStack Summit keynotes, so it was interesting this week to see a Cinder block storage demo -- even if it failed -- and Edward Snowden discussing data ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Object storage systems ease data capacity and archival concerns

If your organization can identify with any of the object storage use cases noted here, it might be time to consider adding this technology to your storage portfolio. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

NetApp StorageGrid enhanced for OpenStack deployments

NetApp's StorageGRID Webscale 10.4 object storage supports Docker containers and more simplified OpenStack deployments, and it gives admins more control of multi-tenancy in the cloud. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

FalconStor FreeStor makes progress, but vendor sales still down

Beleaguered software vendor FalconStor Software reported a cash flow positive first quarter of 2017, although that highlight came more on the back of spending cuts than improved sales. FalconStor ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Quantifying the benefits of investing in copy management technology

There are many benefits to implementing copy data storage, including cost reduction and increased operational efficiency while maintaining service-level objectives. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Hyper-converged backup in Commvault’s future

Commvault is getting into the hyper-converged backup game. Commvault CEO Bob Hammer outlined the vendor's product plans for the coming months Wednesday, May 3 during its quarterly earnings call. He ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Use the cloud to enhance the functions of primary storage

Learn some of the best ways to leverage public cloud as a storage tier to complement primary storage and make data centers more efficient. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

Symbolic IO IRIS a breakthrough in server, storage architecture

Intensified RAM Intelligent Server from newcomer Symbolic IO questions fundamental and often unstated foundations of contemporary server and storage design. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Building an IT resiliency plan into an always-on world

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Rubrik, cloud data management company, raises $180 million in funding

Converged secondary storage startup Rubrik has raised $180 million in a Series D funding round, making it a total of $292 million in funding since 2015. Rubrik, which has 330 employees, last raised ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Data protection report finds 'availability gap' hurting IT growth

Many organizations face the danger of falling through data protection gaps, according to a recent survey. Eighty-two percent of organizations agreed or strongly agreed that they have an ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Layer 3 network integration from Datera uses nodes as endpoints

An updated version presents Datera Elastic Data Fabric storage nodes as a cluster of L3 network endpoints in anticipation of increased container adoption. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Spanning Cloud Apps ‘finds a home’ outside Dell EMC

Dell EMC has sold off another asset after its mega-merger. Dell EMC last week spun out Spanning Cloud Apps to Insight Venture Partners, less than three years after EMC acquired Spanning for its ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Veeam revenue gets jolt from cloud, enterprise sales

Veeam Software said it grew revenue bookings substantially last quarter on the strength of enterprises and cloud sales. Often, those two markets were related. Veeam revenue from bookings increased ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Court to Dell EMC: Nexsan Unity branding gets priority

Nexsan won a court victory over Dell EMC, right in the giant's back yard. A Massachusetts federal district court sided with Nexsan Inc. this week in its trademark dispute with Dell EMC over use of ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Catalogic ECX supports more databases for DevOps

Catalogic adds support for SAP HANA and healthcare database programs to ECX. The company is focusing its ECX copy data management software for DevOps use cases. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Copy management systems reduce data consumption and storage costs

Copy management systems offer a range of options for reducing excessive storage consumption and improving performance by eliminating the creation of redundant data copies. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Tegile funding round gives it $33 million for NVMe push

Tegile Systems closed a $33 million funding round that the flash array vendor intends to use to invest heavily in NVMe, the next big thing in solid-state storage. Like other flash vendors, Tegile ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

How an object storage architecture can help reduce storage complexity

An object storage architecture tackles traditional storage limitations by offering a file structure that is ideal for storing and protecting large amounts of unstructured data. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Toshiba ships capacity-optimized 8 TB HDD

Toshiba has started volume shipments of its MG Series 8 TB HDD -- the largest capacity-optimized, 3.5-inch enterprise HDD the company has ever produced. The 7,200 rpm, 6 Gbps SATA HDD improves ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Scale-out software-defined storage market menaces traditional storage

Scale-out software-defined storage is on the rise to the detriment and decline of traditional storage products and arrays. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Kato, Taneja Group

Smarter storage starts with analytics

Storage smartens up to keep pace with data-intensive business applications embedding operational analytics capabilities. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Essential elements of copy data management

The next chapter written in the book of computer science should be all about management of copy data, the core function of IT. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo