Tag: Storage
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Red Hat Enters Storage Software Business With Gluster Buy
Red Hat, the world’s most financially successful Linux software and services company, made a bold move into the storage software business Oct. 4 with the acquisition of Gluster, whose open-source storage file system for unstructured data runs a growing number of new-generation IT companies. The transaction will cost Red Hat about $136 million in cash.… Read more
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Nimbula Updates Infrastructure as a Service
Silicon Valley cloud firm Nimbula updated its Infrastructure as a Service Platform (IaaS) platform today and unveiled a number of new partnerships in order to give users more simple control over their compute and storage resources. Immediately available, Nimbula Director 1.5 now supports a geographically distributed cloud, offering users the ability to manage a multi-site… Read more
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IBM Report Finds IT Departments Favor Solid-State Storage Technology
IT professionals are embracing high-performance solid-state disks to support growing data storage demands driven by cloud computing and analytics technologies, a survey by technology giant IBM revealed. More than half (57 percent) of the customers surveyed responded that their organizations need to develop a new storage approach to manage future growth. The survey of 250… Read more
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EMC Launches Greenplum Analytics Appliance
EMC took another dive into the "big data" processing pool Sept. 21 when it introduced a new analytics appliance that runs on its Greenplum software. The announcement was made at the O’Reilly Strata Conference in New York City. The data storage provider is positioning the Greenplum Modular Data Computing Appliance as the industry’s first "complete"… Read more
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Storage Software Revenues Post Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Growth: IDC
The storage software market experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth during the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the IT research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) and the company’s Worldwide Storage Software QView. The total market value approached $3.4 billion during the quarter, up 11.3 percent over the same period last year.… Read more
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D-Link Releases ShareCenter Pro Unified Storage System
Networking solutions provider D-Link announced the ShareCenter Pro network storage solutions, which support concurrent NAS and iSCSI connectivity and are designed for SMB environments. With the ShareCenter Pro N-Series and S-Series models, D-Link has expanded its business storage offerings to offer unified storage solutions with built-in security, data protection and disaster recovery functionality well-suited for… Read more