Category: NAS
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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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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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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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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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Big Data Storage Startup Qumulo Raises $24M
Qumulo, a Seattle-based enterprise data storage startup, today announced that it had raised $24 million in Series A funding. Highland Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners participated in the round. The company, founded in March by ex-Isilon executives, will use the funds to flesh out its engineering and leadership teams in Seattle and…
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Violin’s Cache Appliances Accelerate NFS NAS
The seeds of Violin Memory’s acquisition of Gear6 earlier this year came to fruition today with Violin’s introduction of its vCACHE appliance, which combines the company’s flash- and DRAM-based memory arrays with Gear6’s NFS caching software. vCACHE is positioned to a degree against NetApp’s Flash Cache modules, but vCACHE appliances can be used with any…
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NetApp Overhauls Product Line, From Arrays To OS
Billing it as “the biggest launch in the company’s history,” NetApp today introduced new products ranging from high-end disk arrays to management software. The company’s mantra seemed to be “shared IT infrastructure.” “IT organizations don’t want more silos; they want a shared IT infrastructure with unification of storage,” says Patrick Rogers, NetApp’s vice president of…
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LenovoEMC Continues Iomega’s SMB Storage Legacy
During CES, EMC and Lenovo finally unveiled the name of their joint venture, LenovoEMC. The news also marks the end of one of the most enduring brands in the SOHO and small and midsized business (SMB) storage markets. “Iomega is Now LenovoEMC,” announced the firm on the Iomega website. The new company will make its…
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NAS Data Storage Buying Guide
Organizations have historically preferred Network Attached Storage (NAS) where data manageability was a higher priority than raw performance. Data manageability was particularly important for those with large files or large numbers of files. In recent years, the reach of NAS storage architectures has expanded because of a variety of technologies such as flash. With flash,…
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HDS And Network Appliance Team For NAS
Within the next two months, Hitachi Data Systems is expected to ship a network-attached storage (NAS) gateway supplied by Network Appliance as the result of an OEM agreement announced in December. HDS’s previous forays into NAS have been unsuccessful; however, analysts are betting that the Network Appliance collaboration will gain rapid traction in the enterprise…
