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The fundamentals of data storage are undergoing a significant evolution, and many – if not most – IT administrators won’t even have noticed yet.  Called zoned storage, it’s a shift away from host ...

It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the Storage Networking Industry Association ...

It used to be the Hadoop Summit, but the strategic focus at Hortonworks the enterprise-ready open source Apache Hadoop provider, has evolved. So, this year it was renamed DataWorks Summit. The ...

Go back 10 or 20 years and direct-attached disk was the norm. IE, just disk in a server. It all became a bit unfashionable as the virtualisation revolution hit datacentres. Having siloed disk in ...

Veritas and Red Hat have announced a collaboration aimed at supporting business critical enterprise applications on OpenStack. Essentially, the work here is focused on providing predictable quality ...

MariaDB ColumnStore is Open Source GPL2, a fork based on InfiniDB and open source community contributions.

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 ...

The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has reached version 3.0 this month.

The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has acquired WiredTiger for its database storage engine technology.

OpenStorage provider Nexenta Systems is aiming to use its forthcoming appearance at VMworld Europe later in October to showcase its so-called 'Hands on Lab' (HOL) demos