Category: Storage Management
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Hedvig Emerges From Stealth To Debut Distributed Storage Platform
Hedvig, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based storage software startup, shed its stealthy trappings today to debut the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform and announce that it had raised a total of $12.5 million in seed financing and a Series A funding round. Backers included True Ventures, Atlantic Bridge and Redpoint Ventures. Hedvig is led by CEO and…
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GreenBytes Launches Entry-Level Dedupe Appliance
GreenBytes has added a new entry-level SAN and NAS appliance to its GB-X Series of storage arrays with inline data deduplication and a sub-$10,000 price tag. The GreenBytes GB-1000 multi-protocol storage appliance offers a range of features, including simultaneous support for SAN and NAS connectivity, snapshots, remote replication, thin provisioning, and a management suite for…
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EMC Sales Rise 3% In Q2 During Downturn In Traditional Storage
Data storage giant EMC today announced the company had generated $6.1 billion in revenue during its second quarter, a 3 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was $845 million or 43 cents per share, beating Wall Street analyst estimates of 41 cents. Describing his company’s second-quarter results as “mixed,” Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC, noted that…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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…
