August 14, 2008 10:07 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage and server virtualization,
Strategic storage vendorsNetApp has a strong working relationship with VMware, despite counting VMware's parent EMC as its storage archrival. So NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven didn't know what to make of the...
August 14, 2008 8:13 AM
Posted by: Tskyers
Data storage management,
small business storage,
Storage and server virtualization,
Storage tips"You need HOW MUCH for storage?!" That question has been heard by many of us currently submitting budgets for the next calendar year, quickly followed by "Are you SURE you need that much disk? Didn't we just get disk last year? Where did they all go!? I want your house audited....
August 13, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage protocols (FC / iSCSI)Brocade's earnings report today made it clear it is gaining market share in the Fibre Channel switch competition against Cisco.
No surprise there. Cisco's earnings last week disclosed its SAN director and switch revenue dropped 14 percent year over year. Brocade today said its switch revenue grew...
August 12, 2008 11:28 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
StorageDon't you hate it when you go into iTunes and try to play a purchased song, and it won't let you until it authenticates...again? Well, take away the authentication step and leave things hanging, multiply it by hundreds of enterprise virtual servers that cost far more than $0.99 each, and you've got...
August 8, 2008 3:45 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageRackspace Holdings became the first company to complete an IPO since March when it priced its shares at $12.50 Thursday (the price fell to $10.01 Friday on the first day of trading).
The hosting company doesn't specialize in storage, but is beta testing its
August 6, 2008 11:52 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage While EMC generally received high marks in the storage industry for brining thin provisioning, MAID, and solid state disk into its midrange arrays, the CEOs of smaller competitors 3Par and Compellent...
August 5, 2008 10:17 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
StorageOn EMC's conference call this morning officially launching the CX4, storage division president Dave Donatelli told analysts that SSDs will also be qualified for Celerra NAS systems over the next six months. The CX4-960 will support SSDs in October, and Symmetrix DMX systems are already available...
August 1, 2008 12:43 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
StorageNetApp's gift of a T-shirt the other day made me think about all the other s.w.a.g. I've collected during my time in the storage industry - I've become something of a collector of odd trade-show...
July 30, 2008 3:51 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
data backup,
data deduplicationJust about all data deduplication vendors make claims about the dedupe ratios their systems provide, with the caveat that the ratios vary by data type and backup frequency.
Sepaton today says it's willing to guarantee its ratio for Exchange. The VTL vendor said if customers don't get a 40:1 ratio...
