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The Many Variations of RAID Storage
December 4, 2013 -- A look at current RAID data storage technology, examining issues like RAID groups and the rebuild conundrum.

Toshiba Debuts Read Optimized, 19nm Enterprise SSDs
December 3, 2013 -- The flash storage provider debuts new solid-state drives for IT systems that need to fetch data faster for efficient access to "read intensive" workloads.

Toshiba Eyes Bankrupt Flash Storage Provider OCZ
December 2, 2013 -- Electronics giant and flash chip manufacturer Toshiba offers to buy up the assets of SSD maker during bankruptcy proceedings.

SSD Business: It's Getting Crazy Out There
December 2, 2013 -- The news in the storage business, and in SSD in particular, has been remarkably volatile as of late.

Western Digital Dual Drive Combines SSD, HDD
November 26, 2013 -- The WD Black2 gives consumers and service providers storage options for their desktop PCs, notebooks and all-in-ones.

DataDirect Networks Unveils Big Data Storage Appliances
November 20, 2013 -- Company touts its new SFA12KX series systems as big on IOPS but small in data center real estate.

NetApp Intros EF550 All-Flash Storage Array
November 19, 2013 -- NetApp hopes to lure businesses with new hardware that boosts application performance while slashing storage's impact on the data center.

Violin Unifies Flash Array and PCIe Cache Management with Symphony 2.0
November 18, 2013 -- Company announces Symphony 2.0 with PCIe support along with the availability of its new 6224 array, which sports 19nm NAND flash chips.

EMC Finally Ships XtremIO All-Flash Arrays
November 14, 2013 -- Well over a year after EMC made waves with the XtremIO buy, the company makes its all-flash storage systems generally available.

Helium Drives: Big Questions
November 11, 2013 -- Data storage vendors are offering helium drives, yet this technology may not be right for your data center.

Sanbolic Releases Flash-Enabling Melio 5.5
November 5, 2013 -- Company eyes broader enterprise flash adoption with new SSD-aware features and automated tiering capabilities.

Fusion-io Targets Big Databases with ION Data Accelerator Updates
October 28, 2013 -- Enterprise flash storage provider targets bigger, enterprise-grade workloads with new high availability features.

RAID Remains Relevant, Really!
October 28, 2013 -- While some RAID systems may be outdated, RAID technology continues to be a key element in enterprise data storage.

HDDs Are Still Spinning (Rust Never Sleeps)
October 21, 2013 -- Contrary to some accounts, traditional spinning disks continue to play a major role in enterprise storage.

Emulex's Fifth-Generation FC Tech Selected for EMC VMAX
October 21, 2013 -- EMC's enterprise-grade VMAX arrays will benefit from end-to-end, Gen 5 Fibre Channel connectivity courtesy of Emulex's silicon.

Private Cloud Storage Startup Coho Data Makes Flashy Debut
October 16, 2013 -- Leveraging PCIe flash drives, software-defined networking and a novel new architecture, Coho Data aims to cloudify on-premise data center storage.

Facebook Delivers Flashcache 3.0
October 10, 2013 -- Improvements help the SSD caching software speed up the company's databases and attain new efficiencies.

Dell Challenges Disk with All-Flash Compellent Storage Hardware
October 8, 2013 -- Company claims an economic advantage over traditional 15K disk-based storage systems with all-flash Compellent hardware that tiers data between SLC and MLC SSDs.

Violin Memory IPO Didn't Go Well. No Surprise.
September 30, 2013 -- Despite the hype about SSD storage, the IPO of the solid state memory company was not positive.

NEC Offers Up Cooling Technology for Racks in Data Centers
September 4, 2013 -- The multistage phase-change cooling technology can reduce air conditioner use by as much as 50 percent, according to NEC officials.

Virtual Private Cloud Storage Startup Zadara Nabs $3M from Toshiba
July 31, 2013 -- The cloud storage startup will partner with SSD maker Toshiba for new "storage-as-a-service" offerings.

Diablo Takes DIMM View of Server-Side Flash
July 30, 2013 -- Forget PCIe SSDs. Diablo Technologies has found another way to cozy up to powerful server processors and deliver better application performance.

SolidFire Unveils the All-SSD SF9010 Storage System
July 25, 2013 -- Storage startup lays claim to the industry's largest and fastest all-SSD system as it attracts $31 million in new funding.

Fusion-io Courts the Open Source Crowd
July 24, 2013 -- As flash storage claws its way deeper into the data center, Fusion-io turns to open source developers to cook up the next generation of high performance applications.

EMC to Acquire Virtual SAN Software Startup ScaleIO
June 20, 2013 -- The data storage titan is reportedly spending up to $300 million for server-side storage software maker ScaleIO.