Unified Storage Strategies Help Keep Storage Costs Down May 17, 2012 -- Once the purview of only the largest of companies buying high-end products, unified storage is rapidly trickling down to customers looking at entry-level and midrange solutions. Learn the driving forces behind unified storage, its emerging capabilities and what those capabilities can do for your organization, and how it can keep your storage costs down.
Coraid Seeks to Update Cloud Storage With Ethernet SAN May 16, 2012 -- Cloud computing and big data applications are rendering traditional Fibre Channel storage architectures obsolete, according to the startup Coraid, which is touting the flexibility of its Ethernet SAN storage array.
SSD Consolidations Keep Trucking May 11, 2012 -- EMC's acquisition of XtremIO is indicative of the growing trend of SSD market consolidation, a trend that will only continue to accelerate.
What's Your Cloud-Based Data Protection Plan? May 7, 2012 -- Your input is needed! InfoStor is conducting a survey jointly with the Taneja Group to understand how storage managers are using the cloud to securely back up mission-critical data. Your responses can help shape the direction of the industry.
Storage Metrics and Measurements That Matter: Getting Started May 2, 2012 -- Vendors love benchmarks, but do they make a difference for the enterprises purchasing their products? Our newest feature, "Metrics and Measurements That Matter," will examine various benchmark, workload and other claims with a focus on those that involve storage and I/O.
HGST Intros 12Gbps SAS SSDs for Enterprise Storage Systems May 1, 2012 -- Now a Western Digital company, HGST aims to make its SSDs the storage foundation for tomorrow's responsive clouds and data centers that deliver blistering enterprise apps performance.
More on Information April 27, 2012 -- The IT industry needs people who understand both algorithms and data layout. Are schools teaching the current and next generation of students how to do this?
FalconStor Updates VTL for Blazing Backups April 26, 2012 -- The latest edition of the company's pay-as-you-grow virtual tape library platform brings improved deduplication performance, scalability and security.
Turning Data Into Information April 25, 2012 -- HPC apps are converging with cloud apps, and they're meeting up in data analytics.
Violin Memory Touts Flash for Primary Enterprise Storage April 25, 2012 -- This well-funded startup offers integrated memory array solutions as a replacement for disks, offering high reliability and performance while shrinking the data center footprint.
IEEE Mass Storage Conference Delivers Lots of Good Info April 23, 2012 -- Among the most informative presentations was one that discussed limits in areal density for various storage technologies as well as the challenges for manufacturing some of these technologies.