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Red Hat Brings Gluster to Amazon Cloud
February 8, 2012 -- Red Hat continues to push its new storage vision forward this week with the release of Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services.

IBM XIV Gets SSD Storage Boost, iPhone Monitoring App
February 8, 2012 -- IBM's XIV is joining the flash cache party with an SSD caching option for its XIV arrays.

Emulex Unveils 10GbE Cards for the Budget-Minded
February 7, 2012 -- Company unveils 10GBASE-T adapters that keep costs down while taking advantage of its OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Universal Converged Network Adapter product line, the OCe11102-NT network NIC and the OCe11102-IT iSCSI adapter.

EMC Eyes Servers with VFCache Add-on
February 6, 2012 -- Not content to let its storage arrays hog all the flashed-based caching glory, EMC officially announced the availability of its VFCache server add-on today.

Owncloud Gearing Up for Enterprise Release
February 6, 2012 -- Open Source cloud storage project debuts new release as the march towards a full enterprise release continues.

CommVault Tricks Out Simpana Backup, Archiving
February 1, 2012 -- The upgrades to Simpana bring together backup, archiving and reporting into a unified platform.

Nimbus Delivers Flash Storage for Mission-Critical Infrastructure
January 31, 2012 -- Nimbus Data Systems' E-Class Flash Memory System is a fully redundant multi-protocol solid-state storage system that packs 440 TB into a single rack and is intended for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure.

HP's Autonomy Debuts End-to-End eDiscovery Solution, Appliance
January 30, 2012 -- Autonomy, acquired by HP in October, brings together its Stratify, Introspect and Investigator & ECA products into a single eDiscovery solution that can be delivered via cloud, on-premise, hybrid and appliance installations.

Recommind Simplifies eDiscovery With End-to-End Management
January 27, 2012 -- Recommind, maker of the Axcelerate eDiscovery Suite, wants to simplify the complexity of the eDiscovery process with a fully integrated platform that manages it from end to end, whether on-premise, in the cloud or both.

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.

Still No Discussion of Parallel I/O

Today's apps require multiple nodes doing more than reading global files. Parallel file systems have attempted to adapt, but the rest of the industry isn't there yet.

Intel Buys QLogic Infiniband, What Now?

Intel's pending acquisition of QLogic's InfiniBand business could well be a game changer for the technology -- InfiniBand's days as a viable interconnect may be numbered.

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.