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Red Hat Taking Gluster from Open Core to Open Source
January 26, 2012 -- New efforts from Red Hat aim to encourage more community and contributions.

Cleversafe Unveils 10 Exabyte Storage System for Big Data
January 26, 2012 -- Building on its object-based dispersed storage technology, Cleversafe announces the availability of a 10 Exabyte storage system.

Amazon Bridges On-Premises Storage and Cloud With Storage Gateway
January 25, 2012 -- Amazon Web Services introduces a beta of a new service that uses an iSCSI interface to give on-premises storage appliances the ability to upload snapshots to the Amazon S3 cloud storage service.

EMC Boasts Record-Breaking Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2011
January 24, 2012 -- The company beat out analysts' estimates to achieve earnings per share of $0.49 for the fourth quarter and $1.51 for the full year.

Symantec Adds Transparent Predictive Coding to eDiscovery Platform
January 23, 2012 -- Symantec aims to reduce the time and cost of eDiscovery document review by the addition of Transparent Predictive Coding to its Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.

RainStor Debuts Native Hadoop Database for Big Data Analytics
January 19, 2012 -- With the ability to use both MapReduce and rapid-response SQL query, RainStor said its database will help customers get more out of their Hadoop environments while achieving better compression than even columnar databases.

Microsoft Brings Resilient File System to Windows 8 Server
January 18, 2012 -- The new ReFS file system, designed for resiliency and optimized for extreme scale, will be introduced as a storage system for Windows 8 Server, but will later be implemented as storage for clients and eventually as a boot volume.

InMage to Unify Backup, Disaster Recovery
January 17, 2012 -- Data protection firm touts a unified approach for a variety of enterprise platforms, server and storage configurations.

Symantec Integrates Archive and eDiscovery, Acquires LiveOffice
January 17, 2012 -- Symantec promises tighter integration between its Enterprise Vault archiving solution and its Clearwell eDiscovery Platform. It has also acquired archiving OEM partner LiveOffice for $115 million.

The Storage Impact of the 'Other' Data

As cold data grows, so too does storage.

ReFS: Too Little, Too Late, Too Few

ReFS may fall short, but its a vast improvement over NTFS. Despite its limitations, Microsoft should release it to everyone -- not just commercial customers.

Microsoft Might Get a Modern Stack

NTFS has a successor, but is ReFS strong enough to withstand the changes the next two decades will likely bring?

Will Storage Software Be the Key Differentiator?

Storage hardware increasingly commoditizes despite what the vendors claim. More and more, the innovation action is in the software.

Disk Drive Pricing Winners and Losers

As the disk drive shortage ripples through the market, which vendors stand to lose the most?

Disk Drive Prices Soar to New Heights

Last year's floods in Thailand are already having a strong impact, with disk drive shortages and steep price increases.