Industry News and Analysis

SanDisk Adds Multi-SSD Support in FlashSoft 3.2
June 18, 2013 -- Flash storage provider's software gets a big bump in caching capacity and enables server-side SSD tiering.

What's Going on with Red Hat Storage? [VIDEO]
June 14, 2013 -- General Manager of Red Hat's storage division details progress made in the last year as well as what lies ahead.

HP Revamps Converged Storage Roster
June 13, 2013 -- HP Storage embarks on a portfolio-wide roll-out. Highlights include a new high-performance, all-flash array and upgraded Virtual Storage Appliance software.

Amazon vs. Best Buy and the Storage Industry
June 12, 2013 -- Vendors are moving away from low-margin commodity hardware business.

IBM Sell Off
June 12, 2013 -- X86 servers have become a commodity product.

Clouds Down Again
June 12, 2013 -- The reliability of cloud services seems to be getting worse.

NetApp Takes Software-Defined Storage Plunge with Data ONTAP 8.2
June 11, 2013 -- Latest storage OS offering promotes application uptime with storage virtual machines.

Dell Compellent Previews Flash Optimized Storage Tiering
June 6, 2013 -- Company takes the wraps off new and updated offerings that promise to alleviate the storage tiering challenges faced by today's data centers.

SSD Reality
June 5, 2013 -- Vendors who sell SSDs still need to address testing and quality issues.

Helium and Disk Drives
June 5, 2013 -- Will the helium shortage affect vendors' plans to ship helium-filled disk drives?

sTec Debuts All-SSD Windows Storage Server 2012 Appliance
June 3, 2013 -- Enterprise flash storage firm sets out to give Microsoft shops an SSD-powered boost.

The LP Is 65 Years Old
May 30, 2013 -- The history of music recording technology has some similarities to the history of storage interfaces.

Pure Storage Launches All-Flash FA-400 Arrays
May 29, 2013 -- Offering twice the performance and capacity of past arrays, along with new storage management perks, the startup is out to woo both enterprise storage managers and intelligence agencies.

Parallel File System vs. REST/SOAP
May 23, 2013 -- Is it time to change the metadata atomicity requirements in the standards?

Big Data and HSM
May 22, 2013 -- Are hierarchical storage management and tape poised for a comeback?

HDS Tackles Mobility, Secure Cloud File Sharing with HCP Revamp
May 21, 2013 -- New Hitachi Content Platform features combines secure, enterprise-grade mobile file access with consumer-friendly features.

DNA and Storage
May 16, 2013 -- Is it time to start developing standards for storing data in DNA?

Is SATA Going the Way of the Dodo Bird?
May 15, 2013 -- SAS offers numerous benefits over SATA.

Software Defined Storage Startup PernixData Raises $20M
May 15, 2013 -- Server Server-side flash software specialist tackles virtualized application performance.

StorageQuest Launches All-Flash Archiving Appliance
May 9, 2013 -- Flash comes to the data archiving market in an unconventional way.

Stranger Than Fiction: Hitachi Discusses Holographic Storage
May 8, 2013 -- They plan to launch by 2015.

EMC ViPR Adds More Bite to Software-Defined Storage
May 6, 2013 -- The new controller helps data centers virtualize and manage a central pool of storage.

Extreme Enterprise Applications Drive Parallel File System Adoption
April 30, 2013 -- High-performance parallel file systems are becoming commercially available just in time to support today's "extreme applications."

NTP Tackles Secure BYOD File Sync
April 30, 2013 -- Firm's new Universal File Access leverages public cloud infrastructures without leaving behind copies of files for hackers to try to nab.

EMC Focuses on Data Protection for VMAX, VPLEX Refresh
April 30, 2013 -- EMC boosts the continuous data protection capabilities of VMAX and VPLEX system and brings RecoverPoint to midrange organizations.