BridgeSTOR Announces Net Storage Appliance
The appliance combines HP server hardware with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, and BridgeSTOR’s Virtual Storage technology.
Avere adds global namespace to NAS tiering
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:
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
ArcFiniti scales to 1.4PB and provides a tiered storage architecture with automated, policy-based data movement between tiers.
WD to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion
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
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
HP also introduced an iSCSI SAN blade for the BladeSystem, and a data deduplication backup system based on HP's StoreOnce technology.