Network Storage News
NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers
Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage...
Hitachi releases first 25nm SLC SSDs for storage arrays
Hitachi GST announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B, which uses high-endurance SLC NAND flash memory to create an enterprise-class drive that also comes...
Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed
European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.
Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN
Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old...
IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching
Enhancements to IBM's XIV Storage System include an SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times.
EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions
EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards,...
Online backup services keep your data safe
It's a fact of modern life that archiving data is essential to prevent a data disaster. Still, something like one-third of computers are never...
Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive
Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD, sporting its smallest 25nm NAND flash memory and...
Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software
Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud...
EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards
EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to...
EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance
EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the...
Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra
CRU-DataPort's Drive eRazer Ultra ($249) is a small device that lets you "sanitize" hard disk drives -- that is, remove any data that...
Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation
Riverbed Technology plans to make enterprise data centers look like local storage at branch offices with Granite, a new accelerator technology the...
Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012
Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to...
Megaupload user content safe for two more weeks
Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to users of Megaupload's online storage service following the company's dramatic...
Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays
Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the...
2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity
While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two...
Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop
Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around...
Final phase of Mass. data protection law kicks in March 1
All companies storing personal data on Massachusetts residents have until March 1 to ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers...
Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to...
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