Category: Top News
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HDS Puts SSDs In Disk Arrays
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) this week became the latest vendor to add support for flash-based solid-state disk (SSD) drives to its enterprise and midrange storage arrays. The company announced plans to offer SSDs in 73GB and 146GB capacities for its Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) array and the midrange Universal Storage Platform VM (USP…
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EMC Unveils Cloud Storage Platform
The rumor mill has been working overtime since EMC’s Joe Tucci first uttered the word “Maui” last November, hinting at a new storage platform for managing distributed, unstructured data. Some of EMC’s competitors and the trade press went as far as to say the project was dead. Today, EMC silenced the naysayers with the launch…
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What Is Cloud-Based Storage?, Part 1
The combination of hosted computing and data storage in the Internet cloud has long been filled with compelling promises while bearing little fruit for IT practitioners. But after several years of stalled attempts, hosted computing and storage is finally hitting the market again in a big way. The past year has seen a constant stream…
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Lab Review: 8Gbps FC SAN Bolsters VOE
Most IT managers consider virtual operating environments (VOEs), such as the VMware ESX infrastructure, to be the magic bullet for lowering the cost of IT operations. To realize that opportunity, however, IT must be ready to handle scalability on two dimensions: virtual machines (VMs) must scale to support I/O- or compute-intensive applications, and VOE servers…
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Overland Launches Backup Appliances For Remote Sites
Overland Storage today added a new family of disk-based appliances to its product family in an effort to simplify moving data between disk and tape-based backup systems across the WAN. The company announced the REO Compass, a line of appliances that move backup data between remote sites while integrating with existing backup software, policies, virtual…
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Excess Capacity Abounds As Storage Budgets Tighten
In anticipation of belt tightening and possible budget cuts heading into 2009, IT buyers adjusted their spending and accelerated technology refresh projects in the second half of this year, resulting in excess storage and the lowest capacity utilization rates in five years, according to a survey of Fortune 1000 organizations that was conducted by TheInfoPro…
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SNW Product Highlights, Day 2
The second day of the Storage Networking World show saw a wide range of product announcements relating to WAN-optimized storage services and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). In addition, a pair of new start-ups officially entered the storage industry. First up, Cisco today announced application delivery network capabilities for disaster recovery, security, and regulatory compliance…
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Fujitsu Debuts Unified Storage For SMBs
Fujitsu Computer Systems this week became the latest storage vendor to offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a unified storage system that serves both block and file data with the debut of the UDS 1000 storage appliance. At its core, the UDS 1000 is a NAS appliance that scales in capacity to as much as…
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SNIA Launches SSD Initiative
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is stepping into the solid-state disk (SSD) fray by announcing the formation of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), with the goal of fostering technology standards and industry cooperation in the development and integration of SSD technology for enterprise storage systems. Vincent Franceschini, chair of the SNIA, says the…
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Dell Super-Sizes iSCSI Array For Virtual Servers
Dell today launched its latest salvo in the iSCSI storage market with the debut of the Dell EqualLogic PS5500E, a SAN array with triple the capacity of prior products and integrated data-protection tools for VMware virtual server environments. The PS5500E offers 24TB or 48TB of raw capacity in a 4U array, which is more than…
