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Oracle adds SAN vendor to its empire

Posted June 29, 2011 - 8:09 am

Oracle is building out its array of hardware products with the acquisition of storage vendor Pillar Data Systems, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in July, were not disclosed.
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Report: Large companies shun cloud for some things it does badly at great expense

Posted May 23, 2011 - 11:25 am

If you wanted to create a low-cost tier of storage for rarely accessed files, would you build a big database that takes a long time to upload and a high cost to maintain?
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Compellent adds virtualization, hardware upgrades to its SAN

Posted November 22, 2010 - 8:59 am

Compellent today announced the next generation of its storage area network, which adds support for non-disruptive movement of data volumes between arrays as well as a new controller that offers Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI transport protocols.
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How to deal with a storage capacity crisis

Posted November 16, 2010 - 3:15 pm

Sometimes, despite best-laid plans, storage capacity hits the wall and creates an emergency situation. Don't panic -- fix it right.
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InfoWorld review: Dell iSCSI SAN sizzles with SSD, dynamic storage tiering

Posted October 20, 2010 - 7:52 am

The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload
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How I Freed Up Storage at the Speed of SaaS

Posted October 13, 2010 - 12:20 pm

What do you do when you're running out of SAN space halfway through the year? Here's one IT group's experience with a SaaS app that quickly identified unnecessary files that were hogging space.
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Ctera brings the cloud down scale

Posted July 13, 2010 - 9:35 am

The Ctera C200 provides SAN, NAS, and cloud storage that's simple and cost-effective.
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Brocade, HP unveil data center extensions

Posted June 23, 2010 - 12:25 pm

Brocade this week unveiled data center products available from OEM HP that are designed to support next-generation Fibre Channel rollouts anchored to optimizing application performance and scaling virtual machines.
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Within Reach of Most IT Budgets, SANs Pay Off

Posted June 21, 2010 - 10:01 am

Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use of data storage has become affordable for all but the smallest of IT shops.
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Compellent announces SAN, NAS integrated array

Posted April 27, 2010 - 8:44 am

Compellent released a new storage device, the zNAS, which allows both file-based and block-level data to be stored and managed through a single user interface.
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IDC: Worldwide disk storage capacity grows 33% in 2009

Posted March 6, 2010 - 9:20 pm

IDC released its worldwide disk storage market report for 2009, which showed the first quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue for disk systems since the third quarter of 2008, with more than 3.3 petabytes of capacity shipping in the fourth quarter alone.
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FalconStor, Violin team on SAN accelerator

Posted March 1, 2010 - 8:49 pm

FalconStor and Violin memory jointly announced the availability of a gateway product that attaches to a SAN and accelerates I/O performance through the use of special software and solid state drives.
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Review: Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN kicks it to 10G

Posted February 24, 2010 - 11:07 am

Dell's EqualLogic PS6010XV 10G iSCSI array delivers big time performance, offering an easier and lower cost option to Fibre Channel.
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HP upgrades entry level, mid-range arrays

Posted February 16, 2010 - 1:47 pm

HP today announced it is shipping an upgraded configuration of its StorageWorks MSA P2000 array that doubles the drive count and adds 2.5-in, small form factor drive capability. The company also announced the availability of its SAN clustering software, SAN/iQ with its MSA P4000 midrange array.
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Overland Storage releases its first iSCSI SAN

Posted February 16, 2010 - 8:47 am

Overland, which is trying to remake its identity from a tape library company into a full storage systems company, has released its first iSCSI SAN, which it says is easy to deploy and offers robust management capabilities.
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Holiday Gift Ideas: Storage

Posted November 19, 2009 - 2:03 pm

Network storage, hard drives, memory cards and everything in between.
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Brocade partners with Thales for network-based encryption appliance

Posted October 27, 2009 - 1:46 pm

Brocade and Thales have combined switching and encryption technologies to create a SAN-based appliance that encrypts data on the fly at high speed and performs centralized key management.
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Cheap SANs boast high-end features

Posted October 5, 2009 - 8:49 pm

This is a good time to be buying a midrange storage-area network. Gigabytes per dollar is dropping, throughput per dollar is increasing and affordable systems are delivering sophisticated features that used to be reserved for the high end of the market.
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For sale: Cisco data center rival Brocade

Posted October 5, 2009 - 2:20 pm

Brocade has reportedly put itself up for sale, a development that portends significant consolidation within the data center IT industry.
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Test Center: SANs tuned for virtualization pack nice surprises

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:38 pm

Compellent, Dell, HP, Pillar Data, and roll-your-own Pillar/DataCore bring strong storage management features to XenServer, VMware, and Hyper-V environments
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Compellent Storage Center 4.0: Fully-integrated, full-featured 4Gbps Fibre Channel system

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:37 pm

Compellent's Storage Center 4.0 offers ease of use, a great feature set, and excellent performance at a good price for a 4Gbps Fibre Channel system. Support and phone-home maintenance is also excellent.
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Dell/EqualLogic PS4000: iSCSI for the common manager

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Dell acquired EqualLogic in 2007, adding a strong iSCSI player to their existing Fibre Channel storage options. EqualLogic offers some very usable iSCSI systems at good prices, from a base of around $10,000, to $17,000 as tested, to well over $100,000.
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HP StorageWorks 2000sa: Compact, fast, affordable; lacks some features

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:28 pm

The HP 2000sa G2 Modular Smart Array is the first storage system we've received that uses 2.5-inch drives, fitting 24 drives into a 2U chassis rather than the usual 16-drive 3U chassis that we see on most systems.
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Promise vTrak/Datacore SANMelody: DIY option for Fibre Channel or iSCSI

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:26 pm

This is a build-it-yourself look at what can be done on a tight budget. The Promise vTrak E610f is a 16-drive enclosure that includes two 4Gbps Fibre Channel RAID controllers that offers RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 (or 10), 5, 6 (double parity drive), 50 (two mirrored RAID 5 volumes) or 60.
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Atlanta Falcons storage solution hits the ground running

Posted July 15, 2009 - 6:31 pm

AMB Group, the parent company for the diversified business and investment assets of Arthur M. Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, struggled to find a strategy to manage its annual storage growth of nearly 15 percent. AMB Group found itself playing a constant game of catch-up by spending large amounts of money for bigger servers with greater attached hard drive space. The company quickly realized it needed to go long, as in a long-term, cost-effective, IT solution to support its continuous business growth.
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