Storage

Advent of modern storage

Storage systems are undergoing important changes. New systems are becoming available that are both sophisticated and make storage “simple.” Simple is mainly a euphemism for automating many complicated tasks that administrators had to deal with before, but there’s a lot more to this than just...

Storage product rollouts are more spread out these days

Last week two major storage vendors made significant system announcements. Hitachi Data Systems rolled out its Hitachi Unified...

Catching up with dedupe

It’s been a slow news year for data deduplication. The data reduction technology has yet to make its big splash for

HP goes all-flash with new LeftHand iSCSI system

Hewlett-Packard today quietly launched an all solid-state drive (SSD) version of its LeftHand iSCSI SAN array. Unlike the server and services announcements HP made at its Global Partner Conference, HP made its storage news with little fanfare on a company

IBM wants EMC’s storage customers

IBM Corp. is gunning for EMC with its XIV storage system, and "Big Blue" claims it is making a dent in EMC's lead. IBM last week added a multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive...

Physical, virtual backup still mostly a two-headed beast

We received a couple of reminders this week about how important backing up virtual machines is in an organization’s data protection strategy. First, virtual server backup...

NetApp’s backup plan examined again

NetApp’s failed attempt to buy Data Domain in 2009 brought a lot of speculation that the storage systems vendor would shift its attention to another backup vendor. NetApp executives played down the speculation. They said they didn’t need a backup platform, but they wanted Data Domain because...

Storage Headlines for September 30, 2011

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Check out our Storage Headlines podcast, where we review the top stories of the past week from SearchStorage.com and Storage Soup.

Here are the stories we covered in today’s podcast

QLogic takes another whack at converged storage networks

QLogic is taking the stance that having multiple personalities is the sane way to approach converged storage networking. With Fibre Channel (FC) remaining the dominant protocol and

Arkeia adds dedupe, SSDs to backup appliances

Arkeia Software CEO Bill Evans has watched Symantec roll out a steady stream of backup appliances over the last year, and he asks, “What took so...