Don’t let your data center turn into a storage museum
Profile: Randy Kerns
Did you ever have a visitor to your data center say, “I didn’t know any of these systems were still around?” The implication here is that your data center is one step away from being a museum. Having “museum worthy” systems is not a badge of honor. It means that the systems in the data...
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Red Hat CEO calls storage interest red hot
Profile: Dave Raffo
Red Hat’s storage platform is still mostly in the testing stage, but CEO Jim Whitehurst said the company took its first six-figure order last quarter and sees a bright future for its software-based clustered NAS. Whitehurst talked up storage throughout Red Hat’s earnings call Monday,...
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SimpliVity receives $25M to push its converged OmniCube
Profile: Dave Raffo
SimpliVity closed a $25 million funding round today, giving the startup ammunition to market its OmniCube converged storage stack due to ship later this year. SimpliVity came out...
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Flash startup Virident pockets $26M and storage-savvy CEO
Profile: Dave Raffo
PCIe flash card startup Virident Systems closed a $26 million funding round this week, and hired a CEO that signals the vendor is entering a new phase. Former BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson is Virident’s new boss,...
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Dell says having one IT vendor simplifies storage
Profile: Dave Raffo
Despite recent market trends to the contrary, Dell storage executives maintain customers want to buy storage and servers from the same vendor. To make this case, they point to a recent survey conducted by Forrester Consulting and sponsored by Dell. That survey of around 800 IT leaders and...
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Evaluating storage performance requires credible information
Profile: Randy Kerns
Almost every conversation about storage includes performance. That’s because storage system performance is important for the responsiveness of applications. Most vendors go to great...
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HGST prepares helium-based hard drives to increase density
Profile: Sonia Lelii
Western Digital's Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) intends to ship its first 3.5-inch, helium-based hard disk drive in 2013. A technology that’s been under development...
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Amplidata gets $6 million in funding and a new CEO
Profile: Sonia Lelii
Object-storage startup Amplidata today unveiled its new CEO and another...
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Shameless Plug: Storage Decisions 2012 NYC
Profile: Rich Castagna
Normally, I'd feel a little creepy making a pitch about one of our own conferences, but there are two reasons—really good reasons, in fact—why I feel just fine about making a shameless plug for the 2012 fall edition of our 0 Comments
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EMC still leads the pack in storage
Profile: Sonia Lelii
EMC continues to be the top dog in the storage market. The vendor was the only major storage company to experience year-over-year market share growth for the second quarter of 2012, according to the latest revenue reports from research firms IDC and Gartner. IBM, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard (HP),...
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