Author: Infostor Admin
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The State Of The iSCSI Market
The IT world is driven by change in the various technologies that affect the overall environment: networking, servers, storage systems, operating systems and applications. These can be seen as accelerators, which in turn are moderated by the conservatism of the IT profession: “Don’t break something that’s working.” This in turn is propelled by IT organizations’…
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Gluster Upgrades Open-Source Clustered Storage
Storage startup Gluster has become the latest vendor to develop an open-source storage platform that scales to hundreds of petabytes in a single volume across commodity storage nodes. The companyr recently announced the general availability of its Gluster Storage Platform, which combines the open-source GlusterFS file system with an operating system layer and a management…
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HP Revamps Storage Line
HP has released some updates to its Converged Storage portfolio. This includes backup, dedupe, 3PAR arrays and storage services – all available in a single architecture. This is part of an overall convergence strategy that has been going on among the big storage vendors for a year or two – and HP is no exception.…
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Cutting The Costs Of Remote Disaster Recovery
Eight years ago, most IT organizations’ ideas of affordable remote disaster recovery (DR) would have consisted of tape backups stored off-site and the potential use of a third-party col- location facility in the event remote system recovery from tape was needed. While still one of the most affordable options today, this method for remote DR…
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Startup Gridstore Addresses ‘NAS Sprawl’
Tackling the problems associated with NAS silos, which lead to storage sprawl, startup Gridstore is prepping software and storage node building blocks that can pool NAS devices in a grid configuration. The NASg platform works with existing, standalone NAS devices and/or with storage nodes, or building blocks, that will be delivered by Gridstore’s channel partners…
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The Many Variations Of RAID Storage
In part one of this two part series, we revisited where RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) had its roots, as well as reviewing where it is today. In this article, we’ll look more at where RAID and its many variations are today, and forecast future directions. This includes traditional implementations and new enhanced extended…
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ScaleIO Raises $12M For Software Defined Storage
ScaleIO, a Palo Alto Calif-based storage software startup, emerged from stealth today to announce that it had secured $12 million in funding. The company plans to use the money to boost its sales operations in support of its ScaleIO ECS software. The funding round was backed by Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and private investors,…
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6 Storage Networking Trends To Watch In 2012
2011 seemed to be all about Big Data, cloud computing, solid state drives (SSDs), unified storage and integrated storage appliances. So what will 2012 bring? InfoStor talked to several veterans in the storage networking field about what they expect to see. 1. Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Unlike other data storage fads that come and go within…
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Choosing A SATA Drive: Three Key Factors
As an IT professional, I chose to provide an overview of Western Digital’s SATA drive lineup for several reasons. One is that WD is the current market leader in spinning hard drives, so this makes the categorization most useful to the greatest number of people. The “color coded” line is, based on anecdotal evidence, far…
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10 Tips For Better Public Cloud Storage Security
Cloud security has always been one of the big issues deterring companies from using public cloud vendors. Fears remain that the public cloud may compromise data security and open the doors to a breach. While those fears are not unfounded, the fact is that more than two-thirds of IT teams have deployed applications and storage…
