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Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework
The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to...
Amazon releases staggering storage figures
Just how big is Amazon Web Service's (S3) Simple Storage Service? Well, it holds 905 billion objects, and it's growing by a billion per day, the...
Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud
Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same...
4 ways to beat data bloat
It is estimated that unstructured data -- everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media -- accounts for at least 90% of an...
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and...
TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds
Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds, the company said on Tuesday.
7 hot storage startups to watch
From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.
Red Hat cracks cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into...
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into...
Getting the most out of flash storage
Over the past few years mainstream enterprises have been turning to NAND flash storage to boost speed and decrease latency, but some vendors still...
Recoup with data dedupe
Backing up servers and workstations to tape can be a cumbersome process, and restoring data from tape even more so. While backing up to disk-based...
How we tested data deduplication
A Windows 2008R2 server was attached to a Compellent Storage Center S30 SAN with two volumes, both created from snapshots of a production server...
OCZ releases next-gen PCIe SSD with 2.8GB/sec performance
OCZ today announced the availability of its highest performing PCI-e flash card to date, the Z-Series R4, which has up to 2.8GB/sec throughput.
Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software
Symantec today unveiled the latest version of its email archiving software, which can now automatically classify email and assign it to the...
IBM speeds storage retrieval with flash drives
With an eye toward helping tomorrow's data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in 10...
VMware, EMC release new virtual storage, smaller VMAX array
In conjunction with VMware's release of its vSphere 5 cloud OS, EMC has released virtual storage appliance software and a new, lower-end version of...
Silver Peak releases software-only WAN optimization
Silver Peak Systems released a software-only edition of its WAN optimization product that will allow users and vendors to deploy it on a variety of...
PMC-Sierra releases 6Gbit/sec SATA/SAS RAID controllers
PMC-Sierra today released two new entry-level RAID controllers for SATA and SAS hardware that sport 6Gbit/sec throughput.
LiveDrive, online storage excellence
Gibbs is very impressed with LiveDrive, a cloud storage service that is excellent value
Sanbolic introduces dynamic data migration software
Sanbolic today unveiled an updated version of its data sharing and file management software that now includes dynamic data migration.
Recoup with data dedupe
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