SNIA develops standards for cloud storage March 12, 2010 -- The Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard promise to lift the concerns and confusion around cloud storage.
3PAR adds sub-volume tiering, SSDs to arrays March 11, 2010 -- 3PAR has combined automated sub-volume data movement with SSDs to squeeze more performance out of its high-end InServ Storage Servers at a lower overall cost.
EMC beefs up e-mail compliance for SourceOne March 9, 2010 -- EMC has announced SourceOne Email Supervisor, a software tool for monitoring inbound and outbound communications for compliance purposes.
Oracle-Sun ends HDS partnership March 5, 2010 -- Oracle has reportedly decided to end the long-standing storage partnership between Sun Microsystems and Hitachi Data Systems.
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.
Sanbolic software targets Citrix environments March 4, 2010 -- Sanbolic, which introduced a version of its Melio 2010 Data Center suite with improvements for Citrix virtual server environments.
Nexenta debuts ZFS-based in-line deduplication March 3, 2010 -- With the latest release of its ZFS-based NexentaStor software, Nexenta Systems has combined in-line data deduplication for primary and virtualized storage with commodity hardware.
Symantec melds Data Insight with storage software March 2, 2010 -- Symantec today launched a new piece of software called Data Insight that will find its way into the company's storage management products in the coming months.
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.
FaclonStor, Violin accelerate SANs with flash appliance March 1, 2010 -- FalconStor Software has partnered with Violin Memory to develop a solid-state storage appliance that uses flash memory to accelerate I/O performance in SAN environments.
Analysts weigh in on HP-Cisco breakup February 26, 2010 -- The IT industry is a week removed from the not-so-sudden end to HP's strategic relationship with Cisco, and now consultants are weighing in with a look at how it could affect customers and the IT world.
Guidelines for implementing cloud storage February 26, 2010 -- Whether you're considering an internal or external cloud, beware of the potential pitfalls and plan accordingly.
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.
Cleversafe beefs up dsNet hardware for cloud deployments February 25, 2010 -- Cleversafe has refreshed its Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) hardware to include bigger disk drives, additional connectivity options and an integrated rack system.
Recent announcements from: Adaptec, Blade Network Technologies, FalconStor Software, IBM, Maxell, Promise Technology, QLogic, Quantum, Tech Data and Thales.
IBM brings data deduplication to mainframes February 24, 2010 -- IBM today continued to spread data deduplication across its product lines by bringing data deduplication to z/OS mainframe environments.
Dot Hill arrays support 8Gb FC, iSCSI, 6Gb SAS February 24, 2010 -- Dot Hill today introduced the 3000 Series of RAID arrays, which support 8Gbps Fibre Channel and 1Gbps iSCSI connections and, by mid-year, 10Gbps iSCSI connections and 6Gbps SAS drives.
Iron Mountain buys Mimosa for on-premise archiving February 23, 2010 -- Iron Mountain has acquired archiving software maker Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash to round out its archiving portfolio.
Tandberg launches deduplication software, NAS appliances February 23, 2010 -- Tandberg Data today launched AccuGuard, a new backup and recovery software suite with source-based data deduplication, as well as the DPS2000 series of NAS systems for SMBs.
Double-Take partners with Amazon on cloud DR February 22, 2010 -- Double-Take Software today announced a partnership with Amazon to deliver cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (DR) services.
Cloud Leverage offers cloud storage for a nickel per GB February 22, 2010 -- Cloud Leverage claims to offer "enterprise-grade" cloud storage at a cost of $.05 per gigabyte, per data center without data transfer or bandwidth charges.
HP to resell QLogic's enterprise FC switches February 19, 2010 -- HP and QLogic this week announced that HP will resell QLogic's enterprise-class, stackable, 8Gbps Fibre Channel SAN switches.
Toshiba rolls out 600GB, 6Gbps SAS drives February 18, 2010 -- Toshiba has completed its acquisition of Fujitsu's HDD unit and is rolling out a line of enterprise-class, small form factor 6Gbps SAS drives with self-encryption capabilities.
Recent announcements from: Brocade, GlassHouse Technologies, Intel, McAfee, Mellanox Technologies, ParaScale, Promark Technology, Scale Computing, Voxell dot Net and Xiotech.
HP refreshes entry-level, LeftHand SANs February 17, 2010 -- HP is slapping a new naming scheme on its entry-level MSA and midrange LeftHand SANs in conjunction with a round of hardware and software upgrades that improve performance, scalability and capacity utilization.
Overland debuts iSCSI array February 16, 2010 -- Overland Storage today announced the SnapServer SAN S2000, Overland's first pure iSCSI SAN array.
