December 18, 2012 10:13 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageExablox came out of stealth today by disclosing it has $22 million in funding, but CEO Doug Brockett is only dropping hints about its product until a full-blown rollout next spring.
Brockett and director of marketing Sean Derrington described the product as NAS-like, with flash as well as hard...
December 13, 2012 6:37 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageCompetition in the all-flash market will grow intense in 2013, and startups Whiptail and SolidFire this week moved to strengthen their companies.
Whiptail closed a $31 million...
December 10, 2012 11:59 AM
Posted by: Randy Kerns
StorageObject storage is a method of storing information that differs from the popular file storage and venerable block storage that are the most familiar in IT. It is...
December 7, 2012 9:54 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageWith major storage vendors in various stages of preparation to launch all-flash arrays in 2013, the startups already selling flash storage are working to stay a step...
December 4, 2012 10:40 AM
Posted by: Randy Kerns
StorageHewlett-Packard has announced a single architecture across storage systems that can span different sizes of enterprises. This is the HP 3PAR StoreServ that now includes the
December 3, 2012 9:33 AM
Posted by: Randy Kerns
StorageThe end of the year is a busy time for storage pros as salesman push to meet year-end quotas and IT plans for year-end operations.
Year-end operations can involve beginning the processes required to close the books of a company and many other business tasks. For the storage group, it typically...
November 28, 2012 1:08 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageSeattle-based startup Qumulo closed a whopping $24.5 million Series A funding round last week, without even dropping the F-word (flash) or C-word (cloud) that many startups rely on to woo venture capitalists these days.
The Qumulo press release did delve into data growth and played up the...
November 20, 2012 9:23 AM
Posted by: Randy Kerns
StorageIt should be apparent now that new technology drives advances of older technology. Storage companies have a lot to lose if their technology is eclipsed by newer technology, so they continue to fiercely market and invest in extending the older technology. Survival is a driving force for a company...
November 13, 2012 10:06 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
big data,
emc,
isilon,
StorageEMC acquired Isilon two years ago to fill a void among big data and scale-out NAS use cases that mainstream NAS products could not handle. Now Isilon is taking steps to become better...
