Author: Infostor Admin
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Lustre 2.0 support limited to Oracle hardware customers
— Oracle is limiting paid support for the open source Lustre clustered file system to Oracle hardware. According to a report from sister site Enterprise Storage Forum, Sun Lustre Storage Systems built with Lustre 2.0 will include the core file system, along with other components which “may or may not be open source.” “Beginning with…
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Nimble Eyes Enterprise-Grade Storage On AWS And Azure Clouds
Nimble Storage is taking aim at cloud applications with a new storage service that enables customers to extend their current storage setups and run critical workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The offering, dubbed Nimble Cloud Volumes, is the first multi-cloud block storage service to provide data management and services capabilities that…
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Nexenta Previews NexentaStor 4.0 Updates
Nexenta’s storage software platform is gearing up for a major new release of the company’s software defined storage (SDS) platform, NexentaStor. During the second quarter of 2014, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech firm will launch the latest edition of its “commercial-grade SDS implementation,” NexentaStor 4.0. The company’s virtualization-friendly software operates on commodity hardware, enabling businesses…
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Data Archiving: Life Beyond Compliance
Welcome to the wide wide world of data archiving, life beyond compliance. With the wide wide world of archiving, life beyond compliance, the focus expands to general-purpose use across all applications – not just regulatory, healthcare or financial. For some, this may be a deja vu moment to the past when archiving was used as…
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Lenovo, IBM And The Impact On Data Storage
I’ve been thinking about what IBM’s sale of the x86 business means to storage. Here are what I think some of the possible outcomes will be. My first thought is that it’s clear in this decade that hardware is not driving software, but that software is driving hardware design. IBM is keeping its software, such…
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SAN Management For Virtual Servers
Managing a SAN, whether it’s Fibre Channel or iSCSI, in a physical server environment is tough enough, but managing SANs in virtual server environments is even tougher. And the challenge is compounded if it’s the server or applications administrators, rather than the storage administrators, that are tasked with making sure that the storage network and…
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The New Case For Open Source Data Protection
The cost advantages are clear, and most of the drawbacks to open source backup software have recently been eliminated. Open source tools, utilities, and products have been available for many years. While these alternatives tend to offer low acquisition costs, companies have been hesitant to adopt them for several reasons. These reasons include spotty technical…
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OwnCloud Raises $2.5M For Open Source File Syncing
Lexington, Mass.-based ownCloud announced today that it had closed on a second round of seed financing worth $2.5 million. ownCloud is a storage startup whose open source platform allows organizations to offer secure, Drobox-like file sharing and synchronization capabilities to their workforces via IT systems that they control and manage. According to the company, over…
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SSD Trends, Tips And Topics
Will 2017 be there year of solid state device (SSD) all-flash data centers? Yes, just like 2016, 2015 and 2014, as well as 2018, 2019 and so forth. Some might say that comment is rather snarky, while others see the humor and reality. SSDs of some type, shape and form are in your future, if…
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Multiplying Virtualization Value By The Full Power Of Enterprise Storage
This paper examines the ramifications of server virtualization for storage management, taking an in-depth look at how evolving server virtualization approaches either integrate with or attempt to encapsulate the enterprise storage infrastructure. Depending on the approach, server virtualization solutions can either limit access to or profitably leverage existing networked storage tools, expertise, and processes. The…
