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• Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

  Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information

  By Lucas Mearian | 04 May, 2012 05:14

  The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted.

• Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 May, 2012 20:08

  Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing pressure as data centers move toward Ethernet for all data network traffic and SAS for hardware interconnects.

• DropBox adds photo auto-upload feature for cameras, smartphones

  By Lucas Mearian | 28 April, 2012 05:20

  On the heels of this week's Google Drive announcement, cloudstorage provider DropBox said it has expanded its automated photo and video upload service to include just about any device, including cameras.

• EMC reportedly in talks to buy flash maker XtremIO

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 April, 2012 02:30

  EMC is in talks to acquire start-up XtremIO, a San Jose-based maker of all-flash arrays, according to a report in the Israeli business publication Globes.

• StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 April, 2012 03:02

  StorSimple has introduced four cloud-connected storage appliances that offer better performance and more local capacity, the company said on Tuesday.

• Asavie launches pay-as-you-go VPN for iPad users

  By Lucas Mearian | 04 April, 2012 00:14

  Asavie Technologies today launched a SaaS-based VPN for iOS devices that provides remote access to corporate data .

• LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards

  By Lucas Mearian | 03 April, 2012 02:20

  LSI today announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the servers.

• As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself

  By Lucas Mearian | 29 March, 2012 21:12

  The 60th anniversary of IBM's digital tape is coming up in May. Oh yeah, and tape is dead. Or so industry pundits have declared, echoing similar prognostications for the mainframe.

• OCZ talks up 2TB, 4TB SSDs, previews Thunderbolt-enabled drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 March, 2012 08:00

  Solid-state drive maker OCZ this week revealed a slew of upcoming NAND flash products, including 2TB and 4TB drives as well as the first SSD using a Thunderbolt interconnect -- offering twice the throughput as SATA 3.0.

• 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.

• Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5B, 6.2 petabytes

  By Lucas Mearian | 03 March, 2012 03:42

  In the last quarter of 2011, disk storage systems generated more than $8.5 billion in revenue, representing a 3.5% increase from the prior year's fourth quarter, according to research firm IDG. For all of 2011, disk storage systems grew 7.7%.

• QNAP NAS server makes the business grade

  By Paul Venezia | 01 March, 2012 22:11

  I've seen a number of QNAP NAS arrays over the years, and the TS-EC1279U-RP is the best of the bunch so far. Previous iterations were solid performers for the price, but they lacked features that would bring them to the next level. This has been sorted out with the QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP.

• TMS releases upgraded OS, flash array with 40Gbps InfiniBand

  By Lucas Mearian | 28 February, 2012 16:08

  Texas Memory Systems (TMS) today announced an upgrade to its RamSan operating system that's designed to support high-speed access to large and small block data sets.