BridgeSTOR Announces Net Storage Appliance March 24, 2011
-- The appliance combines HP server hardware with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, and BridgeSTOR’s Virtual Storage technology.
DataCore Aims for Inexpensive Virtual Storage March 21, 2011
-- DataCore announces new storage virtualization configurations for its SANsymphony software at Microsoft's Management Summit.
OpenTech Adds Local Dataset Recovery March 18, 2011
-- The company adds new advanced dataset recovery features to its DASD Backup Supervisor product.
Server Virtualization Calls For New Storage Protocols March 16, 2011
-- Forrester reports that as infrastructure and operations executives adopt server virtualization for more than just testing, the market is changing.
Avere adds global namespace to NAS tiering March 14, 2011
-- Software runs on the company’s solid-state FXT appliances, which provide automated tiering and acceleration for heterogeneous NAS filers.
Partnership and funding announcements from: March 11, 2011
-- STEC and Hitachi Data Systems, LSI and Supermicro, Imation and Encryptx, Gluster and RightScale, Emulex and Juniper, Coraid and Arista Networks, Rorke Data and Avnet, and Scality.
SGI preps file-based active archive March 9, 2011
-- ArcFiniti scales to 1.4PB and provides a tiered storage architecture with automated, policy-based data movement between tiers.
Analysis: Western Digital + Hitachi GST March 8, 2011
-- Merger will signficantly impact the HDD industry, and will change the landscape for enterprise-class SSDs.
WD to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion March 7, 2011
-- Consolidation in the storage industry continued today with Western Digital’s announcement that it plans to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST).
HP Virtualized Storage Infrastructure March 7, 2011
-- The HP Virtualized Storage Infrastructure is a combination of complementary HP products that aims to bridge the gap between server and storage virtualization. It is storage component of HP's overarching converged infrastructure vision.
3PAR certified for HP cloud infrastructure March 2, 2011
-- HP also introduced an iSCSI SAN blade for the BladeSystem, and a data deduplication backup system based on HP's StoreOnce technology.
AutoVirt adds assessment to file migration March 2, 2011
-- Assessment enables administrators to get detailed information on their file-based storage environment before migrating data.