SAN Featured Articles

Cisco Unveils Next-Gen MDS SAN Director and Switch
April 24, 2013 -- The new, multiprotocol MDS 9710 makes room for enterprises that are mulling a switch to FCoE.

Accelerating the SAN, with the Server
September 12, 2012 -- Server-based storage accelerators will likely be more widely deployable than ever before, bringing the benefits of flash optimized I/O into the SAN.

Dot Hill Tackles Real-Time Tiering for Midrange SANs
August 22, 2012 -- The data movement specialist looks to shake up the midrange storage market with a hands-off approach to real-time storage tiering.

Fusion-io Debuts ION Software Defined Storage Acceleration
August 2, 2012 -- Fusion-io leaps from servers to SANs with flash friendly application acceleration software.

Overland Debuts SSD Friendly SnapSAN Arrays
July 11, 2012 -- New midrange and enterprise arrays target virtualized environments and private clouds with SSD support and automated management features.

SanDisk Buys Schooner in Enterprise Flash Storage Spree
June 27, 2012 -- SanDisk feeds its enterprise storage ambitions by snapping up the flash caching software specialist.

SanDisk Lightning Strikes Flash PCIe Server Card Market
June 5, 2012 -- SanDisk gives its enterprise storage strategy a nudge by launching new flash PCIe server cards.

HP Accelerates Storage Convergence
June 4, 2012 -- New performance and deduplication features comes to HP StoreOnce Backup portfolio

Netgear Piles on Features for ReadyDATA Unified Storage
May 30, 2012 -- With included replication, deduplication and thin provisioning, Netgear is taking a kitchen sink approach to the midrange unified NAS/SAN market.

EMC Books $5.1B in Revenues in Strong Q1
April 19, 2012 -- The storage giant hints at a flashier future as it pursues the cloud and Big Data markets.

Symantec Targets VMware SAN Management with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing
April 3, 2012 -- Still keeping those business-critical apps away from VMware? Symantec says it has the storage part figured out with its newest Veritas product.

LSI Gives Flash Storage App Acceleration Market a Nytro Boost
April 2, 2012 -- LSI's new product slate enlists WarpDrive and MegaRAID to get more businesses on board with flash-based application acceleration.

Texas Memory Systems Announces Densest RamSan Yet
February 28, 2012 -- Company enlists eMLC tech to pack 24 TB of flash in a 1U system.

SanDisk Enters Server Flash Caching Market with FlashSoft Buy
February 17, 2012 -- The flash memory maker acquires an SSD caching software company as the solid-state storage market heats up.

SnapServer Claims New Storage Appliance Needs No Provisioning
October 11, 2011 -- Overland Storage unveils SnapServer DX, a new unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that leverages RAID technology to eliminate the need to provision storage capacity.

DataCore Extends SANsymphony-V to the Cloud
October 4, 2011 -- DataCore Extends SANsymphony-V to the Cloud

Oracle Ships 'Columnar Compression' for its Storage Systems
September 30, 2011 -- Customers who want columnar compression of data, but don't want to use Exadata, the restraints are gone.

QLogic Expands 'Adaptive Convergence' with New Switch, Routers
September 29, 2011 -- Under its so-called Adaptive Convergence initiative, the company aims to make it simpler and less expensive for customers to migrate storage and networking in the data center.

D-Link Debuts 'Secondary Server' Arrays
September 20, 2011 -- D-Link introduces the DSN-4000 Series xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Arrays for secondary server applications such as disaster recovery, backup, surveillance, and archiving.

Kaminario Releases New 'Hybrid' SSD Appliances
September 14, 2011 -- SAN maker Kaminario comes out with new storage appliances that can use different types of solid-state drives.

Astute Networks Debuts Virtualization Appliance
August 15, 2011 -- New appliance plugs into virtualization environment to eliminate I/O bottlenecks.

Oracle Buys Pillar Data Systems
June 29, 2011 -- Oracle announces its intent to buy out SAN Block I/O vendor Pillar Data Systems.

5 Must-Have SAN Features
June 20, 2011 -- Your SAN's functionality can have a significant impact on your company's profit. Here are 5 must-have SAN features for your next purchase.

Taneja Group Lab Review: NetApp SAN Efficiency
May 13, 2011 -- NetApp’s claims to be the champion of storage efficiency, so Taneja Group took to the test lab with its hands-on testing "Technology Validation" service to see if NetApp does indeed see and deliver on a bigger picture vision of storage efficiency.

ESG Lab Review: ParAccel PADB and NetApp SAN Optimized Solution
May 11, 2011 -- This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the ParAccel PADB Blended Scan SAN integration option, in combination with NetApp Snapshot and FlexClone technology