News

• Why Israel is a hotbed for flash storage innovation

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 19:48

  At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker's intellectual property.

• Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 20:53

  Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to both block and file-based data through a single management interface.

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  By Jim Duffy | 13 April, 2012 22:39

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• Cisco, NetApp tout entry-level FlexPod cloud architecture

  By Lucas Mearian | 11 April, 2012 05:12

  Cisco and NetApp today announced plans to sell a new FlexPod cloud architecture, this time as an entry-level model designed and priced for smaller workloads.

• Distribution Central to distribute NetApp Syncsort Backup

  By Patrick Budmar | 10 April, 2012 09:59

  Distribution Central has signed a deal with Syncsort to distribute NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) locally.

• Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

• Ex-Vertica CEO Lynch pledges to build 'high-speed railway for Big Data'

  By Bob Brown | 28 March, 2012 04:36

  Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 young companies on the East Coast that deal with data sets characterized by "volume, velocity and variety."

• Optus Business and Alphawest serve up ‘Your IT as a Service’

  By Hafizah Osman | 21 March, 2012 15:51

  Optus Business and Alphawest serve up ‘Your IT as a Service’

• EMC VNXe 3100: Sweet entry-level NAS and SAN

  By Matt Prigge | 07 March, 2012 22:15

  EMC is easily the largest enterprise storage player on the planet, with more worldwide storage revenue than its two closest competitors (IBM and NetApp) combined. But no matter how popular EMC's high-end Symmetrix and VNX product lines have been with large customers, EMC was rarely considered a great choice for the small-to-midsize-business sector.

• NetApp Q3 FY12 revenue reaches $1.5bn

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 February, 2012 14:10

  Storage and data management company, NetApp, has reported total revenue of $1.566 billion for the third quarter of 2012 fiscal year, ending January 27.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech reaps rewards of market surge

  By Marc Ferranti | 18 February, 2012 02:31

  Tech companies, coming off a strong earnings season, were big winners Thursday as markets rose to multiyear highs on reports of a strengthening economy.

• IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 February, 2012 09:21

  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.

• NEWS ROUND-UP: Top news from Sage, OpenText, and NetApp

  By Nermin Bajric | 25 January, 2012 11:14

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

• NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today

  By John Gallant | 20 January, 2012 09:33

  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

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 January, 2012 07:58

  NetApp signs more than 20 new partners in six months