March 16, 2009 8:20 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk drives,
iSCSI SAN,
solid state drives,
Strategic storage vendorsDell is about to add solid state drive (SSD) support to its EqualLogic iSCSI SANs in a new PS6000 model. As first reported on ChannelWeb last Friday, the PS6000 will also have four Ethernet ports, one more than EqualLogic PS5000 arrays have....
March 13, 2009 5:04 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
While most storage vendors have tempered expectations for early 2009, STEC is predicting a healthy expansion of its solid state drive (SSD) business for enterprise storage arrays.
STEC Thursday predicted its ZeusIOPS product for enterprise storage will command more revenue for the...
March 13, 2009 4:35 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
You know the drill--some stories you may have missed this week:
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March 11, 2009 8:01 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage virtualization,
Strategic storage vendorsSanrad, maker of the iSCSI storage virtualization gateway V-Switch and virtual server HA storage subsystem V-Stor, is adding a new quality of service feature to both its products.
Sanrad VP of product management Allon Cohen, "Storage-intensive I/O can be a barrier to virtualization of some...
March 11, 2009 6:36 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk drives,
solid state drives,
Strategic storage vendors
Eric Wolford with his lobster...
March 10, 2009 6:17 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage and server virtualizationA recent report by Andrew Reichman at Forrester Research showed that among 124 surveyed IT decision-makers, incumbent vendors and Fibre Channel still dominate the in-use storage systems supporting VMware deployments. But, according to Reichman and another analyst specializing in VMware, the Burton...
March 9, 2009 7:10 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
According to a notice posted on Facebook's official blog, a group of disk drives (a RAID group?) on what sounds like a clustered storage systems failed en masse over the weekend, causing 10 to 15% of user-uploaded photos to...
March 6, 2009 6:22 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Here are some stories you may have missed this week:
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(0:25) Storage budgets shrink as capacity grows
March 6, 2009 3:44 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
IDC’s storage tracker numbers released today shows an 0.5% year-over-year decline in worldwide external storage sales in the fourth quarter of 2008.
This was the first time external disk sales declined in more than five years, yet it's hardly a surprise. Everybody knows spending...
