Xiotech unveils Hybrid ISE (HDD + SSD) January 31, 2011
-- Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) blades combine hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state disk (SSD) drives.
Recent business and personnel news from: January 25, 2011
-- QLogic and HP, Emulex and HP, the VCE Coalition (Cisco, EMC, VMware) and Acadia, Cirtas Systems, FalconStor Software, and Sonian.
NEC doubles deduplication performance January 25, 2011
-- The company claims performance of 2.7TB per hour per node, or up to 148.5TB per hour in a high-end grid configuration,
Tandberg ships RDX removable disk library January 25, 2011
-- The RDX QuikStation library has eight RDX docks for a total capacity of up to 8TB using 1TB RDX drives.
openBench Lab Review: CloudShare January 25, 2011
-- Jumpstart staging and collaborative testing of business workflows via cloud-based VMs
Sepaton boosts disk-based backup speed January 24, 2011
-- Sepaton released the 64-bit 6.0 version of its software and two new members in its S2100-ES2 series of disk-based backup systems with global data deduplication.
EMC announces 41 new products January 19, 2011
-- Headliner is VNX unified storage line, which unites Clariion and Celerra
Partnership and personnel news from: January 18, 2011
-- The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and CompTIA, Bocada and Promark Technology, Coraid and Virteva, and Nirvanix
Open source alternatives for storage applications January 18, 2011
-- Open source software is available for a variety of storage applications, including backup, NAS, compression, data destruction and other applications.
Symantec debuts dedupe, scale-out NAS appliances January 17, 2011
-- Symantec pushes further into the hardware space with the introduction of two appliances: the NetBackup 5200 deduplication appliance and the FileStore N8300 scale-out NAS appliance.
Whamcloud readies new Lustre distribution January 16, 2011
-- The community distribution of Lustre will be built using the upcoming Lustre 2.1 release, and is expected this summer.
ESG Lab Review: Hitachi AMS 2000 January 13, 2011
-- Enterprise Strategy Group tests Hitachi's AMS 2000 in an Exchange environment.
NetApp to acquire Akorri Networks January 12, 2011
-- NetApp plans to roll Akorri's BalancePoint software into the NetApp OnCommand management suite.
3X upgrades cloud storage appliances January 11, 2011
-- New features include bare metal recovery, granular Exchange recovery, and support for virtual environments.
SSD update: Toshiba, OCZ January 6, 2011
-- Competition in the enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drive market is heating up with new players and products.
ESG Lab Review: Hitachi NAS Platform January 4, 2011
-- Enterprise Strategy Group tests the Hitachi NAS platform, powereed by BlueArc, in a VMware environment.