May 27, 2010 1:05 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
clustered NAS,
storage vendorsYesterday I met with execs from a company called Gluster, which is developing an open-source, software-only, scale out NAS system for unstructured data. As we discussed their market, products and competitors, we got into the nitty gritty of their technical differentiation as well – pasted...
May 26, 2010 2:24 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage arrays,
storage vendors,
tiered storageHitachi Data Systems’ latest earnings results show a modest year-over-year increase as the recession fades. They also show an interesting shift in HDS sales towards services and software.
Remember when HDS was known as a high-end storage array vendor with little software or services? That’s...
May 25, 2010 7:48 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendorsThe Justice Dept. today said EMC paid $87.5 million to settle a lawsuit that charged the vendor with false pricing claims and taking part in a kickback scheme with consulting firms who do business with government agencies.
The Justice Dept. claims EMC committed fraud by inducing the General...
May 25, 2010 4:10 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
cloud backup,
storage vendorsSaying it's looking to appeal to larger shops with its online data backup service, Iron Mountain Digital released version 7.0 of its LiveVault SaaS product today with new support for multithreaded applications and larger data sets.
Previously, LiveVault's "sweet spot" was protecting servers up...
May 21, 2010 7:46 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
scale-out NAS,
storage vendorsHewlett-Packard Co. added another scale-out NAS system to its portfolio yesterday when it announced DataDirect Networks (DDN)'s S2A9900 disk array will be bundled with the Lustre File System resold by the Scalable Computing and Infrastructure (SCI) group within HP.
HP began collecting...
May 20, 2010 4:21 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage,
storage vendorsAmazon Web Services today added a new offering for its Simple Storage Service (S3) called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). RRS offers users the ability to choose fewer "hops" of object replication among Amazon's facilities for a lower cost per gigabyte. With RRS, objects would survive one complete...
May 19, 2010 2:46 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Coraid today added a ZFS-based NAS to its platform of Ethernet SANs.
Coraid’s base product is a non-iSCSI IP SAN called EtherDrive based on ATA over Ethernet (AOE), but the vendor has been looking...
