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by Dave Simpson
Editor-in-Chief

Startup’s SSDs top 1,000,000 IOPS

March 17, 2010 – According to independent test results, Pliant Technology’s Lightning Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), which are based on solid-state disk (SSD) technology, topped one million IOPS in a configuration with 16 drives.Many storage vendors have...

And the top 5 storage software vendors are . . .

March 12, 2010 – In yet another sign that a rebound is underway in the storage market (albeit a painfully slow one), the storage software market posted a slight increase in revenues in the fourth quarter of last year compared to Q4 2008 -- $3.094 billion...

Who are the top 5 array vendors?

March 11, 2010 – Market researcher IDC recently released its Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report, which provides revenue statistics for the external and internal disk array markets, as well as vendors’ market shares.Although it’s no...

by Kevin Komiega
Senior Editor

NAS grows as external controller-based disk market slides

March 11, 2010 -- Unstructured data is becoming the reigning storage hog in the data center as the network-attached storage (NAS) market continues to grow, while the market for block-access, controller-based disk arrays continues to decline, according to...

SGI snaps up Copan's assets for $2 million

February 26, 2010 -- In a deal that flew under the radar, SGI announced this week that it has purchased what is left of defunct virtual tape library (VTL) vendor Copan Systems for a price of about $2 million – that's right – $2 million.SGI gobbled up...

Cisco-HP partnership implodes

February 19, 2010 -- Months of rumored bad blood between Cisco and HP has finally boiled over as InfoStor has learned that Cisco Systems will not renew its System Integrator contract with HP.Citing "changes in the IT landscape and the evolving role of the...

by Frank Berry
CEO and Sr. Analyst, IT Brand Pulse
InfoStor Guest Blogger

1M IOPS: Meaningless or Not

The first system administrator to ever upgrade a server undoubtedly experienced a mismatch in performance between the installed server and the new component. Since then, millions of data center managers have experienced first-hand the performance...

Emulex: Running the Table at HP?

On February 26, Emulex announced that its OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapters are available from HP. This is significant for three reasons. First, it’s a massive opportunity given that HP is the largest OEM consumer of host adapters in the...

Broadcom Enters Converged Network Adapter War

At their analyst day event on December 15, 2009, Broadcom officially entered the converged network adapter (CNA) war. At the event and in an independent lab test, the company demonstrated a 10 gigabit Ethernet adapter simultaneously running TCP/IP, iSCSI...

Jeff Boles<br />Sr. Analyst, Taneja Group<br />InfoStor Guest Blogger<br />

by Jeff Boles
Sr. Analyst, Taneja Group
InfoStor Guest Blogger

Storage for 2010 - Integration Innovation

Hello InfoStor Readers,This marks my first post here at InfoStor, which I've gladly taken on in discussion with Dave Simpson, InfoStor's Editor in Chief. As "the" storage industry print publication, I am looking forward to supporting InfoStor with...