IT manufacturers and vendors are beginning to make their predictions for 2015, an annual tradition which creates an opportunity to glimpse inside the planning process for some of the storage sector’s big names, albeit with more than a little bit of marketing and self-promotion in the mix as well. As part of this end-of-year rite,

EMC today announced the release of a new version of its Avamar Virtual Edition which integrates the company’s Avamar solution with Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V. EMC’s Avamar offers variable-length deduplication, daily backups and recovery, and support for virtualized environments. Avamar Virtual Edition can be deployed in a Hyper-V virtual machine in order to serve as

In addition to inspiring “best of” lists across every sector and industry, the New Year is also often a time when technologists are called upon to make predictions about the coming year. Even though January is still a few weeks away, Jeremy Burton, EMC’s President of Products and Marketing, has gotten a jump on the

According to results of Dell’Oro’s quarterly report on Switching Market Share, Cisco has come out as number one in both combined fibre channel + fiber-channel-over-Ethernet (FC + FCoE) revenue and they took the number one spot in FC Modular share. These gains in Cisco’s market share are due primarily to customer acceptance of the MDS

One of the more integral components in any lab is its traditional Ethernet networking infrastructure connecting servers, storage, networking and related components. While high-speed interconnects such as 10/40GbE, Infiniband or Fibre Channel might be the primary production links for storage or other means, gigabit is still needed to make all that gear manageable. For every switch, server or

HGST, a Western Digital company, ha announced they have completed an all-cash acquisition of Skyera, a developer solid-state storage systems specifically for scale-out cloud and enterprise data centers. This acquisition will have Skyera fully integrated into HGST to improve their existing solid-state storage capabilities and portfolio. The company also indicated that this will allow HGST to broaden its

Behind the scenes at StorageReview, we go to great lengths to offer detail-oriented photography you see published in reviews. To make this possible, we have an on-site studio where we can shoot devices as small as micro-SD cards and as large multi-shelf storage arrays. This setup includes three main components; a large light tent, a

As the StorageReview Test Lab continues to grow in terms of testing capacity and testing load at any given time, the cooling requirements and associated costs balloon as well. With 2,000-6,000 watts of compute activity throughout the week, or about 7,000 to 20,000 BTU of heating capacity, the costs just to cool the space can

Pure Storage today announced FlashStack CI, a new line of all-flash converged infrastructure solutions that is launching with architectures to pair the company’s FlashArray 400 Series arrays with Cisco UCS Blade Servers, Cisco Nexus switches, and VMware vSphere 5 or VMware Horizon 6. The inaugural FlashStack CI architectures are intended for use in high-performance turnkey