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The State Of The iSCSI Market
The IT world is driven by change in the various technologies that affect the overall environment: networking, servers, storage systems, operating systems and applications. These can be seen as accelerators,…
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…
HP Revamps Storage Line
HP has released some updates to its Converged Storage portfolio. This includes backup, dedupe, 3PAR arrays and storage services – all available in a single architecture. This is part of…
Cutting The Costs Of Remote Disaster Recovery
Eight years ago, most IT organizations’ ideas of affordable remote disaster recovery (DR) would have consisted of tape backups stored off-site and the potential use of a third-party col- location…
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…
The Many Variations Of RAID Storage
In part one of this two part series, we revisited where RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) had its roots, as well as reviewing where it is today. In this…
ScaleIO Raises $12M For Software Defined Storage
ScaleIO, a Palo Alto Calif-based storage software startup, emerged from stealth today to announce that it had secured $12 million in funding. The company plans to use the money to…
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…
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…