Scale-out NAS purchasing considerations
Profile: Randy Kerns
Scale-out NAS is becoming popular, with most major vendors offering these types of products. As a reminder, scale-out NAS systems will increase performance and capacity...
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Oracle buys Ellison’s storage company, Pillar
Profile: Dave Raffo
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today answered the question of what he will do with Pillar Data Systems, which he has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into.
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IDC: data’s rapidly increasing, staffing isn’t
Profile: Dave Raffo
IDC today released the results of its annual EMC-sponsored Digital Universe study, which confirms what storage...
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BlueArc files for IPO, again
Profile: Dave Raffo
Following a year of large storage acquisitions, it looks like 2011 might be more IPO-friendly for storage vendors.
Two weeks after solid-state storage vendor
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Xiotech’s SSD strategy: beat Fusion-io
Profile: Dave Raffo
The people who run Xiotech are closely watching Fusion-io these days.
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Misconcpetions about storage tiering in the mid-tier
Profile: Randy Kerns
During many of my discussions with IT managers and directors who would be classified in the mid-tier enterprise space (over 1,000 employees), it has become clear that few have deployed storage systems using
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Too much air time for Tucci?
Profile: Dave Raffo
EMC CEO Joe Tucci isn’t publicity shy, but he almost certainly wishes he could have avoided his front-page exposure in the Wall Street Journal this week. The Journal...
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Lustre as a real storage system
Profile: Randy Kerns
In the high performance computing (HPC) world, Lustre serves as...
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Vendors’ Battling Business Units hurt customers most
Profile: Randy Kerns
Understanding storage technology can be difficult enough without vendors adding to the problem with odd product positioning. Yet vendors often make things worse when talking to customers or prospective customers. I recently had conversations with two IT professionals that brought to light this...
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Quantum pockets Pancetera for virtual server backup
Profile: Dave Raffo
Quantum acquired startup Pancetera Software today, giving it virtual server backup for its 0 Comments
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