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I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...

The future of data storage will not be in the binary switching of electrical cells as in flash storage. It may also not be in magnetism-based potential successors to flash such as Racetrack Memory, ...

Written by SpectraLogic CEO Nathan Thompson with product specialist Bob Cone and software developer John Kranz, Society's Genome – Genetic diversity in digital preservation, makes a case for ...

What does the future hold for the new NetApp, now that it has acquired SolidFire? It will still face problems - will its CEO be able to deal with them?

Tips, opinion and advice on data storage strategy.

SanDisk has upgraded its InfiniFlash big data boxes with the addition of the IF150. The new box takes advantage of the SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) 3.0 protocol that was launched last summer and ...

Storage performance monitoring tool supplier Virtual Instruments and storage testing tool maker Load Dynamix had worked together on the same enterprise accounts - and in roughly similar but ...

Druva has added disaster recovery capability to its existing Phoenix product. But its what they don't plan to do with Phoenix that's perhaps more interesting. Phoenix allows globally deduplicated ...

It has been an interesting month in object storage, with developments that push the technology along but also provided an interesting footnote regarding file access that illustrate an interesting ...

In case you missed it, the big storage vendor news during the holiday was NetApp's acquisition of all-flash array maker SolidFire for $870 million. The move brings to a conclusion several years of ...

When Spectra Logic launched its DPE archive-class NAS in September it was a play at a space often targeted now by object storage products. So, I asked whether Spectra Logic had considered object ...

Last week HGST business development manager Manfred Berger told me that the company had not closed a sale on its Active Archive petabyte-scale cold storage arrays since launch in April, but had 160 ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made a bold play to convince EMC VMAX and Oracle users that they should migrate to HPE's 3PAR all-flash arrays. It should be called "Project Cuckoo" as it's a ...

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It's not too often you get to hear the exact progress of a new product in the market but this week at Cloud Expo Europe in Frankfurt, HGST senior business development manager for elastic storage ...

I spoke with French startup Rozo this week. It's USP is that it marries the scalability of scale-out NAS - ie virtual unlimited and with potentially billions of file names - with erasure coding and ...

VMware's vision of the near future of IT revolves heavily around the hybrid cloud in which customers run both on-premise and off-premises cloud. Listening to VMware execs at VMworld Europe this ...

On the eve of VMworld Europe it's like witnessing the IT/storage world's equivalent of the Big Splash. Yes, I'm talking about Dell's proposed $67 billion purchase of storage giant EMC. The ...

All-flash array maker SolidFire plans to apply the speed of flash to object storage. So said CEO Dave Wright this week. We were discussing the prospects for the all-flash datacentre, following ...

Software-defined storage products seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment. This week I spoke with another, the Bulgaria-based StorPool, which offers storage software that can be deployed on ...

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Enterprises need hyperscale or webscale storage. They look at the likes of Google and Facebook and need to do what they're doing; processing and storing huge amounts of data with transactions and ...

Does the world need another software-defined storage/storage virtualisation product? There are plenty to choose from already, such as DataCore, Nexenta, Open-E as well as software storage products ...

Veeam is a backup software company and pioneer of virtual machine backup. Way back when, while most backup software was firmly rooted in the old world of physical servers and an agent on every box, ...

This week I spoke to EMC marketing VP Josh Goldstein about XtremIO 4.0. EMC's flagship all-flash array has seen it move from third place in the all-flash stakes to first, with Gartner in 2013 ...

EMC's move to make its ViPR software-defined storage platform open source (as Project CoprHD) appears a bold one, but I can't help thinking it looks like the giant from Hopkinton, MA, has been been ...

Separating software from hardware is an emerging trend in data storage. So, it was interesting this week to come across one array maker - hybrid flash specialist Nimble Storage - which said it ...

In the real world we've seen centuries of wars, largely the result of old empires fading and new contenders arising. And the world of IT show similar parallels, albeit on much reduced timescales ...

It's rare that a storage-related technology arises without there being any acquisitions. Look at flash. The startups emerged and pushed the big six to either buy some of them or to develop flash ...

When reflecting on the rise of flash storage over the last couple of years it's easy to come to the conclusion that some storage vendors have been more active, more free-spending, more progressive ...