Enterprise Storage

Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

Gluster's open source software creates massively scalable storage pools and also ushers in Red Hat's cooperation with OpenStack

Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015

Gartner report says most 'external' cloud services will continue to be used by small companies in foreseeable future

Oracle’s Exadata means changes for DBAs

IT shops that want to run Oracle's database machine need to rethink their skill sets

iCloud is a bigger deal than the new iPhone

Fusion-io doubles flash card’s speed, capacity; halves price

A single flash card has up to 2.4TB capacity

QLogic unveils upgrades to converged network products

Firm also rolls out a new switch and a router that can consolidate LAN traffic; most new offerings will ship next year

Goodbye, hello

Deni Connor leaving the Storage Alert Newsletter, moving on

Violin releases two new flash memory arrays

A rack of memory can generate up to 40GBps throughput

OCZ’s Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching

The Synapse comes in 64GB and 128GB sizes

Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives

Upgrades Toshiba Canvio Basics and Canvio 3.0 drive lines to add support for USB 3.0 standard