IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.

ERP X3 becomes Oracle ready, OpenText expands agreement, and NetApp regarded as the place to be

Those of us with a bit of institutional memory recall a brash upstart named Network Appliance that burst onto the storage scene to challenge EMC -- itself once a brash newcomer -- and other storage royalty like IBM. But that was 20 years ago, as difficult as that seems to believe, and the company, now named NetApp, is $5 billion-plus storage leader in its own right.

NetApp signs more than 20 new partners in six months

Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing today announced a new product that runs non-persistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.

NetApp this week announced to customers that beginning Feb. 6, it will be raising the price of hard disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% because of worldwide supply shortages.

Storage vendor Imation today announced it has acquired intellectual property and other assets of online backup provider Nine Technology.

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What was your first job?

Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.