Flash array startup Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, has announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.
Facebook has started to roll out a new file-sharing capability -- and Dropbox shouldn't be the only worried party. The addition of a low-security file-sharing tool to the world's most popular social networking site could open a world of security pain on businesses and home users alike.
Virtualization continues to make huge inroads, thanks to the obvious flexibility and reliability benefits. And getting the most out of virtualization almost always requires some kind of shared storage. Otherwise, features such as live virtual machine migration and automated virtualization host failure recovery simply aren't available.
As IT contemplates the rapidly expanding universe of storage options, at least one detail has become clear: In the majority of infrastructures, most data just sits around, feeling lonely, while a small percentage is more or less constantly i
Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
Sometimes, for either performance or security reasons, customers don't want to use a public or a private cloud with virtualized infrastructure. Service providers are increasingly responding to this, and one analyst says there is increasing demand for bare-metal clouds.
Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12Gbps SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.
The new SSDs with the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface technology are meant to be used in enterprise server parks, and are equipped with a second interface port. With 12Gbps SAS on each of these ports, the drive can transmit and receive data at a rate of 12Gbps, resulting in a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB per second per drive, HGST said.
Disk storage is a lot like closet space -- you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data. The very name -- "big data" -- implies more data than a typical storage platform can handle. So where exactly does this leave the ever-vigilant CIO? With a multitude of decisions to make and very little information to go by.
EMC today announced it has qualified its Data Domain Boost software for use with Oracle Recovery Manager, allowing data deduplication to take place on Oracle backup servers prior to crossing a storage network.
The Data Domain Boost software also allows Oracle database administrators to have direct control of backups and disaster recovery operations.
Consudiv (formerly Diskeeper) today announced a new version of its Diskeeper disk defragmentation software for Windows systems and applications that includes a TRIM command and a new feature to speed up system boots.
Condusiv said it added the new TRIM function as part its HyperFast tool in deference to solid-state drives (SSDs), allowing the software to identify blocks of space marked for deletion so it can then free them up for use by an application.
Because virtualization offers so much cost savings and agility, many organizations are going the whole hog and virtualizing mission-critical systems they wouldn't have dreamed of virtualizing a little while ago. Who would have thought, for example, that we'd see enterprises deploy Oracle virtually rather than on physical hardware?
A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company.
The product -- which is based on RHEL 6 -- provides a host of new options for software-based management of scalable storage, according to Red Hat, as well as integration with many top enterprise storage technologies like virtualization and Hadoop.
Tape-storage administrators will be able to get performance information and immediate directions to prevent data loss in new management software, called StorageTek Tape Analytics, that Oracle introduced on Monday.
Due to the enormous cost of selecting and migrating to a completely new primary storage infrastructure, most organizations try to wring every last drop of functionality out of their storage resources. That's one reason why most storage deployments are viewed as five-year investments.
LSI today announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the servers.
LSI's new Nytro line encompasses three product lines aimed at high-end, mid-range and low-end applications.
No one likes to rip and replace. But sooner or later, you need to buy new stuff to upgrade or augment existing your storage infrastructure -- and each time you need to go to school on your options as if you'd never seen a SAN before. That's how fast the technology changes.
Employees have been bringing their own devices and technologies into the workplace in greater numbers over the past few years, for a simple reason with less than simple root causes: The technology they can bring in is superior to the technology IT provides.
Now, they are "bringing their own cloud" -- subscribing to cloud-based services on their own and using them on the job. BYOD, BYOT, BYOC? It's enough to drive even the strongest CIO to BYOB.
Every IT shop has its own way of doing things, but one thread ties them together: They all feel as though they have more work to do than can possibly be accomplished in the allotted time. Experts seem to think the economy is thawing out a bit, and some IT departments are starting to increase headcount, but in most cases staffing levels are just now starting to reach levels they should have hit years ago, falling short of current needs.
Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments.
The new cloud service is built on Quantum's vmPro virtual machine backup software and its new virtual deduplication appliance, the DXi V1000, which was also unveiled today.
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