December 19, 2008 1:58 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NASNFS 4.1, which contains the specs for parallel NFS (pNFS), has officially been approved as a proposed standard, according to a blog post by
October 29, 2008 12:26 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
software as a service,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage market research reports,
storage technology researchAccording to a new IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released this week, transaction-intensive applications are giving way as the main segment of enterprise data to an expanded range of apps as well as a tendency to create more copies of data and records for business analytics...
September 12, 2008 9:34 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NASOn August 14, Rackable disclosed it was selling its RapidScale clustered NAS business, which was derived from its acquisition of Terrascale last April. Company executives said they were trying to...
August 18, 2008 1:48 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
Storage and server virtualization,
Storage managed service providers,
Strategic storage vendorsEMC blogger Storagezilla posted an interesting Flash animated video this morning about Maui, titled CloudFellas, in a post that has since been whacked. In the original post, 'zilla alluded to 'getting too far out in front of the boss', so maybe that's what happened (the post has been deleted...
August 15, 2008 9:57 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NASAfter my article the other day about storage pros hoping for a VMware performance boost from pNFS, part of the new NFS 4.1 standard currently being ratified by IETF, I came across a response from
July 21, 2008 1:24 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
small business storage,
Strategic storage vendorsIn the course of observing the festivities on NetApp and EMC blogs, I came across a sneaky little blog post/announcement from EMC about its LifeLine consumer storage product. According to The Storage Anarchist...
July 16, 2008 3:22 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving,
NAS,
Strategic storage vendorsSince he sold Softek to IBM and was appointed CEO of British-based optical storage vendor Plasmon last November, Steven Murphy has had a tough row to hoe. Plasmon is one of the few survivors--if not the only survivor--of the optical storage market, which historically has been stunted by usability...
June 25, 2008 4:01 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving,
NAS,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage Software as a ServiceStartup Nirvanix today unveiled CloudNAS, which will combine Nirvanix software agents with Linux or Windows servers at the customer site to offer standard NAS storage in the cloud. Until now, Nirvanix and most other cloud storage services such as Amazon's S3 required API integration between...
June 13, 2008 9:53 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
Storage conferences,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage Software as a Service,
Strategic storage vendorsAt a Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server roadmap session at Vision on Thursday, a Symantec exec revealed it will be coming out with its own clustered NAS system, based on the next generation of its Storage Foundation Scalable File Server. This will be accomplished by layering a NAS...