Storage

HP’s storage blades for the future!

Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find common ground by bunging storage/virtualization/networks together. HP, with it’s ever increasingly popular PODs, will have [...]

Free 4Tb CloudFolder by Caringa: Get it on your PC now!

Here’s a vid:

AUSTIN, Texas, June 23, 2009 – Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archive content, today released CloudFolder, a free application for Windows that simplifies storing any files and folders to a CAStor™ cluster.
CloudFolder can be downloaded, installed, configured and ready to use in seconds. [...]

Meet DataDirect: Cloud Storage vendor with a difference!

Instead of taking a clustered-filer-in-the-data-centre approach like Isilon, or using Panasas-like parallel access to files, it’s put its head in the clouds and gone for a geo-cluster of quasi-filers that store objects. There is API-access to a global namespace for objects that, DDN says, can scale to store more than 200 billion files and deliver [...]

Data Domain to EMC: No! No! No! No!

Well that’s how El Reg is reporting. Data Domain has rejected EMC’s and offers four reasons to say no.
The first one is that, if Data Domain talks to EMC or did not reaffirm its NetApp agreement, then NetApp could walk away leaving Data Domain bereft and at risk of EMC not completing its takeover offer. [...]

IDC: Storage spending on the decline; Dell and Hitachi perform better

It reports that iSCSI sales, a relatively small segment of the market, did well, posting 40.5 percent revenue growth. Natalya Yezhkova, IDC’s Storage Systems research manager, said: “Price sensitivity was a big factor in the healthy growth of iSCSI SAN, the only installation environment segment that ended the quarter in positive territory.”
Dell led the iSCSI [...]

Cool HBA challenger Brocade HBAs are certified by HP!

Madhu Matta, VP of Brocade’s Server Division, said: “Our HBAs allow customers to consolidate more servers and virtualise server-to-storage environments, while simplifying overall management across the SAN in a cost-effective manner.”
This claim is based on Brocade’s assertion that its HBAs extend ProLiant I/O performance “to an industry-best” 500,000 IOPS per port, and that “Brocade HBAs [...]

Cool Application-aware storage vendor Pillar Data supports Citrix XenServer environments

Yep, Oracle Chief’s venture Tako Ventures’ baby Pillar Data Systems is now all ready for Citrix XenServer.
Pillar’s CEO explains what an Application-Aware Storage subsystem is:

SAN JOSE, Calif., – June 2, 2009 – Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware storage systems, announced the availability of new Citrix XenServer™ storage profiles for the Pillar Axiom, [...]

EMC gate crashes NetApp’s party; Bids $1.8 Bn for Data Domain

That funny picture on El Reg suggests that the guy standing against the glass is EMC, a possible outsider? Anyways EMC surely didn’t want to be left out.

“Strategically, this combination will further enhance our ability to broaden EMC’s best-in-class storage portfolio for the benefit of EMC and Data Domain customers and this, in turn, will [...]

EXANODES VM EDITION STORAGE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE NOW SHIPPING

Boston, May xx, 2009 – Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced first official customer shipments of its Storage Virtual Appliance, the award-winning Exanodes™ software for VMware environments.
Exanodes VM Edition Storage Virtual Appliance (SVA) is ideal for designing high-end, clustered virtual iSCSI SANs that leverage the storage resources of [...]

Pillar Data - A storage company backed by Oracle

Oracle has its own hardware ventures, notably the database machine developed in partnership with HP. And now it is buying Sun, which has its own significant storage offering.
So where does Pillar fit into Larry Ellison’s scheme of things? Come the end of the recession, he can make a decent return on his investment by getting [...]