Netgear moves up-market with ReadyNAS systems March 4, 2010 -- Netgear is preparing to ship a pair of new ReadyNAS unified storage systems targeted at VMware virtual machine (VM) deployments.
Storwize upgrades compression appliances March 2, 2010 -- Storwize enhanced its appliances and software to boost compression ratios, provide compression for existing data, and enhance availability.
Evolving use cases for file-based storage February 25, 2010 -- NAS and file virtualization can play a critical role in VM environments, file services, data protection, archiving, and HPC.
IBM debuts SONAS scale-out NAS system February 11, 2010 -- IBM is making its bid for the scale-out NAS market with the debut of the Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) system, an appliance-based platform that combines IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS), Systems Software and NAS hardware to create a system that scales up to 14.4PB.
Avere adds SSDs to tiered NAS appliances January 26, 2010 -- Avere Systems this week added solid-state disk (SSD) drives to its "tiered NAS" appliances, which also have DRAM and NVRAM storage tiers.
Startup Gridstore addresses 'NAS sprawl' December 15, 2009 -- Tackling the problems associated with NAS silos, which lead to storage sprawl, startup Gridstore is prepping software and storage node building blocks that can pool NAS devices in a grid configuration.
Gluster upgrades open-source clustered storage December 11, 2009 -- Storage startup Gluster has become the latest vendor to develop an open-source storage platform that scales to hundreds of petabytes in a single volume across commodity storage nodes.
Scale Computing upgrades scale-out architecture December 1, 2009 -- Storage startup Scale Computing today unveiled version 2.0 of its Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) architecture with a new set of "StarterSAN" product configurations for building scale-out storage clusters.
It's not your father's NAS anymore November 20, 2009 -- Traditional NAS approaches often fall short in environments with rapid growth in file-based data.
Avere introduces "tiered NAS" October 5, 2009 -- Avere Systems introduced its FXT line of appliances, which are designed to accelerate the performance of existing NAS filers by introducing layers of "tiered NAS" consisting of DRAM, NVRAM, 15,000rpm SAS drives, sATA drives and, by the end of the year, solid-state disk (SSD) drives.
Dell debuts Windows-based NAS for SMBs September 9, 2009 -- Dell added a new system to its family of networked storage systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) today with the debut of the PowerVault NX300, a Windows-based NAS appliance with data deduplication support and a capacity of up to 4TB.
Hitachi ships midrange NAS platform September 8, 2009 -- Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today announced the general availability of two new Hitachi Network Attached Storage (NAS) Platform systems - the Hitachi NAS 3080 and 3090 - as the company sets its sights squarely on the midrange NAS market.
HP to acquire Ibrix for scale-out NAS July 17, 2009 -- Hewlett-Packard today announced it has inked a deal to buy scale-out NAS vendor Ibrix for an undisclosed sum as the company moves to strengthen its file serving software for scale-out, cloud, and HPC environments.
BlueArc to enter midrange NAS market July 6, 2009 -- BlueArc this week will announce its first foray into the midrange NAS market with the launch of two systems that pack a performance punch and run the same software as the company's high-end Titan arrays.
Netgear to ship 24TB NAS system for SMBs June 22, 2009 -- Netgear's bid to become a big storage player in the SMB market picked up steam today with the launch of the ReadyNAS 3200. It's the company's highest-capacity NAS/unified storage system to date with a maximum capacity of 24TB for about $10,000.
Isilon adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS June 10, 2009 -- Enterprises are moving toward scale-out NAS systems to combat file-based data growth and, in an effort to keep pace with their needs, Isilon Systems is shipping new data protection software and a storage node built to increase backup performance.
HP consolidates SMB platforms, adds VM bundles May 28, 2009 -- Hewlett-Packard has revamped its entry-level storage line by consolidating the HP All-in-One and ProLiant Storage Server products onto a single, unified storage platform. The company also announced additions to its Modular Smart Array lineup and a new virtualization bundle based on LeftHand Networks' Virtual SAN Appliance technology.
Netgear adds to ReadyNAS line for SMBs May 13, 2009 -- Netgear continued to move upstream in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market today with the addition of a rack-mount unified network storage appliance.
ONStor ships open-source unified storage for SMBs April 23, 2009 -- ONStor is breaking its own product mold by basing a new "unified storage" system for small and medium-sized businesses on open-source software and the Zettabyte File System (ZFS). The company this week announced an addition to its Pantera line of integrated storage systems, the Pantera LS 2100.
Panasas pumps up 'parallel storage' systems April 23, 2009 -- Aiming to go beyond, and deeper into, its technical/scientific and high performance computing (HPC) roots, Panasas has announced three new members in its ActiveStor lineup of NAS platforms -- the Series 7, 8 and 9 -- as well as data management features such as automatic storage tiering, asynchronous replication, and automated data migration.
