All those video cameras can be a boon for storage companies

Whenever Big Brother is watching, there is a storage vendor eager to store whatever Big Brother is seeing. And today, Big Brother is watching more places than ever before.
The video surveillance market consisting of cameras, software, DVRs, storage and other hardware is expected to reach...
Oracle launches all-flash SAN, backup box for databases

Larry Ellison took aim at EMC when he introduced a flash storage array and disk backup product at his Sunday keynote at Oracle Open World.
Never mind that the world is filled with
Nasuni tests storage volume with more than 1 billion files

Generating a billion files to prove a point is no trivial task. Nasuni Corp. claimed to have spent 15 months creating and testing a single storage volume within its service with...
All-flash pioneers holding up well despite increased competition

It’s been awhile since startups had the all-flash array market to themselves. All the major storage vendors now have one or more all-flash platforms. Still, the...
Overland increases revs, losses while waiting for Sphere 3D

Overland Storage had significant revenue increases while continuing to lose money last quarter as it absorbed Tandberg Data while waiting to be absorbed by Sphere 3D. Overland...
EMC merger intriguing but unlikely

There has been a lot of speculation about who will succeed Joe Tucci if the EMC CEO really retires next February as planned. The leading candidates were thought to be from inside...
Backup appliance sales take turn for the better

The backup appliance market rebounded last quarter following a year-over-year decline in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC’s quarterly tracker numbers. The...
Blue Waters’ storage needs run deep

You think you have high storage capacity needs? Well, this week the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) added 20 PB – that’s right, petabytes – of tape capacity for online data for its Blue Waters supercomputer. And that should last about a year. The NCSA uses four...
Best storage products of 2014—enter your new or enhanced products

Now in its twelfth year, the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition is open for entries. If you're a vendor, a PR firm representing a vendor or just a very satisfied user, fill out
Axcient buys DirectRestore for granular recovery in the cloud

Cloud provider Axcient has acquired DirectRestore to bolster application recovery capabilities in its