The company’s BeyondRAID redundant storage technology is provided on the DroboPro FS storage solution. – Automated storage specialist Data Robotics introduced the DroboPro
FS, the newest member of the Drobo family of automated storage
products. Building on the Drobo FS solution introduced in April 2010,
the DroboPro FS with the newly integrated Drobo Sync application is
designed to help enable smal…
Now it is easier than ever for users to switch from a hard drive to a speedy new Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD). Intel now offers new and existing Intel® SSD users the Intel® Data Migration Software, powered by Acronis. The easy-to-use cloning utility allows users to copy their operating system, applications, documents and personal settings to their new Intel SSD in a matter of minutes.
Simpana 9 is a hardware-agnostic storage package that spiders out to find all data silos in an enterprise system and adds a small agent in each node. – CommVault isn’t one of those storage
companies that prefers to talk about what it’s going to do in a road map
discussion. It does things first, then talks about them.
The storage software maker quietly has been working for 24 months on its
frontline Simpana 9 system and released it on Oct. 5. …
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The new HLDS (Hitachi LG Data Storage partnership) hybrid drive with Micon’s 25-nm NAND flash will be used in PCs, DVD players and Blu-ray products. – Hitachi, which partners with South
Korea’s LG Data Storage to make storage
devices, on Oct. 4 introduced what it called the world’s first hybrid NAND
flash optical disk drive with its own on-board storage.
Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology supplies its new 25-nanometer NAND as the
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Seagate releases two BlackArmor NAS servers, one a 4-bay and the other a 2-bay. – Storage specialist Seagate introduced the BlackArmor NAS 220 and NAS
440 network storage server, 2-bay and 4-bay, respectively, desktop
network attached storage solutions aimed at small to medium-size
business (SMBs). Initially, both solutions will come pre-populated with
3TB drives in each bay …
The AssuredSAN 3400 Series, delivers 10G bps iSCSI storage capabilities and energy-saving features. – Storage solutions and software specialist Dot Hill Systems announced
the AssuredSAN 3400 Series, designed to deliver 10G bps iSCSI
storage capabilities to address expanding bandwidth demands, which have
been driving network convergence and I/O port consolidation. The
company said inclusion of th…
New arrays have no trouble whatsoever scaling up to manage as many as 5 million objects and 255 petabytes of data — under one management server. – There’s a new converged enterprise storage system available in the market as
of Sept. 27, and both Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems are claiming
that it’s theirs. There’s no controversy here: They’re both right.
HP and Hitachi both announced a new
converged-type storage platform for m…
Data storage virtualization startup Virsto says it has increased I/O performance for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 environments and joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance to allow better product support. – Back in February, startup Virsto introduced
both itself and a
new brand of storage virtualization software, a product the company
promised would allow better control of random data flow threads inside
virtualized systems.
After all, storage administrators were finding out all too often that
…
SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 features dense, industrial-strength data storage and mixed I/O options, with 8G-bit Fibre Channel and 40G-bit InfiniBand. – High-performance computer maker SGI on Sept.
22 introduced its newest storage system, SGI
InfiniteStorage 16000, intended for high-octane environments that deal with
mixed workloads.
Most often, HPC (high-performance computing)
systems that handle computation for projects such as genome rende…
The company’s new set of mobile applications includes updates for the free storage service’s Apple iPhone and iPad and Google Android apps. – Online storage and document file sharing service Dropbox Sept. 22
made available a new set of mobile applications, including updates for
the company’s Apple iPhone and iPad and Google Android apps, and the
first release of the new Dropbox for BlackBerry.
Dropbox is a free and premium applicati…
ZeusRAM SSDs have been benchmarked at speeds often below 23 microseconds. This ultra-low latency enables storage appliances high-speed access to data and to metadata. – SAN FRANCISCO — Solid-state storage drive maker STEC on Sept. 20 introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling, and database indexing applications.
The announcement was made at Oracle …
Oracle Executive Vice President John Fowler tells OOworld attendees that having in-house engineers working together on storage and databases has made a big difference in new-product performance. – SAN FRANCISCO–For the first time, Oracle OpenWorld is about much
more than faster databases, middleware, enterprise apps, Linux and the
America’s Cup.
Those items alone certainly are worthy of a huge conference like
this one, staged again at cavernous Moscone Center. But now, with the
addi…
Dell officials say the company’s new servers, storage and networking devices will enable SMBs to start updating aging IT infrastructures. – Dell is bringing out new servers, storage and networking technology designed
to help small and midsize businesses more easily upgrade their aging
infrastructures.
The new offerings, announced Sept. 16, will help smaller
businesses that continue to struggle with limited or no IT staffs, tight
bu…
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Reducing storage costs is becoming a high agenda item for IT organizations, yet data and efficient access to it is an organization’s most valuable asset. Struggling with the performance, scalability and management complexity required to maintain conventional file-based storage systems is a losing battle if data needs to be stored more than 90 days. One way to approach this is to use an object-oriented storage system, which simplifies the process. Object-oriented storage differs from unstructured file storage in that the objects filed are not housed in volumes or attached to a directory. Objects are simply assigned an ID number or name with detailed metadata and can be retrieved at any time. The source for this slide show is Caringo, an Austin, Texas-based provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archived content. – …
The French company’s 2big USB 3.0 device features high-speed I/O performance of up to 205MB/s and capacities up to 4TB. – SAN FRANCISCO — Paris-based storage provider LaCie on Sept. 14 launched what it claims is the first RAID system to incorporate USB 3.0 connectivity.
The company said the twin-disk LaCie 2big and the single-disk LaCie d2 — which work with both Macs and PCs — each feature high-speed USB 3.0 po…
An update of the Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox is now available for Intel SSD users. New features include a System Configuration Tuner to help users configure their system for optimal SSD performance, power efficiency and endurance. The toolbox is a free, downloadable utility that helps manage the health of your Intel SSD. Download it at: www.intel.com/go/ssdtoolbox. Check out the full multimedia press kit at www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/ssd/.
A distribution agreement between Huawei Symantec and Condre Storage will see Huawei’s products reach the U.S. market. – Network security and storage appliance solutions specialist Huawei Symantec
Technologies announced that Condre Storage, an enterprise IT distributor, has
been selected as an authorized distributor for its network storage products in
the North American market. Condre Storage has announced plans to…
Year-over-year numbers show 3.3 percent growth in the storage software market, while quarter-to-quarter results indicate a 2.3 percent revenue decrease, IDC says. – Industry analyst IDC reported Sept. 7
that the worldwide storage software sector enjoyed a small revenue gain
year-over-year in the second quarter of 2010 but also that market numbers
dropped a bit from the first quarter.
In its quarterly Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker report, IDC
…
