Author: Infostor Admin
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FileLocker Tackles Simple, Secure Cloud File Storage
El Segundo, Calif.-based InfraScale recently launched FileLocker, a cloud-based and privately deployable file storage, sharing and syncing platform. According to InfraScale CEO Ken Shaw, his company’s template for enterprise-grade cloud file storage was influenced by “what SharePoint was” before feature bloat set in. Describing early editions of Microsoft’s collaboration software as “a very pure document…
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Top Ten Storage Predictions For 2013
It’s time for the annual look into the crystal ball. InfoStor asked industry experts what they expected in 2013, and here’s what they said. 1. Big Data Becomes Bigger Data It goes without saying that unstructured data growth will continue unabated. Therefore, we will continue to see new products for integrating analytics and storage of…
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Disk Arrays: NetApp, HP Duke It Out For #3 Spot
In more good news for the rebounding storage industry, revenues from external disk systems grew 19% in Q3 2010 vs. Q3 2009, topping the $5 billion mark, according to a report from IDC. Revenues for the total (external and internal) disk systems market grew to almost $7 billion, representing an 18.5% year-over-year growth rate. Total…
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Data Loss And Downtime Costing Enterprises $1.7 Trillion a Year: Survey
Enterprises are losing their grip on cloud and mobile data, according to a new study published today by Vanson Bourne and EMC. The most staggering statistic to come from the survey of 3,300 IT professionals across 24 countries is the monetary amount attributed to failed or non-existent data protection schemes. The estimated annual cost to…
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58 Top Open Source Storage Projects
It’s no secret that digital storage needs are increasing rapidly. Experts at IDC predict that by 2020, there will be 40 zettabytes (ZB) of data in the digital universe, or 5,247 GB per person alive at that time. That’s the equivalent of 57 times the number of all the grains of sand on all the…
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Flash A Bright Spot In Declining Storage Market
In a repeat of the previous two quarters, vendors sold $8.8 billion worth of enterprise storage systems in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016, reveals IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker data. On a year-over-year basis, however, that figure represents a 3.2 percent decline. On the plus side, the all-flash storage array segment…
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Scale Computing Upgrades Scale-Out Architecture
Storage startup Scale Computing today unveiled version 2.0 of its Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) architecture with a new set of “StarterSAN” product configurations for building scale-out storage clusters. The ICS 2.0 architecture allows users to scale storage clusters to the multiple petabyte range on a single file system using commodity hardware. The system automatically stripes…
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Object Storage Is In Your Future
It turns out you may be using object-based storage without even knowing about it, similar to file or block-based, depending on your applications. Object and bulk as well as cloud storage can mean different things depending on the context of what it refers to. Using the term object can simply mean an item, entity, or…
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Diablo Takes DIMM View Of Server-Side Flash
To date, PCIe solid state drives (SSDs) have been the closest, most direct path that flash storage vendors use to quickly shuttle data to server processors. Today, Ottawa, Canada-based Diablo Technologies has paved its own shortcut to faster enterprise applications performance. Flash add-on cards deliver fast performance by leveraging the PCIe bus, circumventing a server’s…
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NetApp Links to Amazon’s Cloud With Private Storage For AWS
NetApp is banking on technology’s tendency to bust down barriers. The company’s goal is to bridge the divide between on-premise storage and the cloud for customers of its storage platforms. During this week’s AWS re: Invent conference, Amazon’s cloud-centric customer and partner conference, the data storage vendor announced NetApp Private Storage for AWS. The offering…
