HP has announced that Lifescript, a family health publisher, has selected HP 3PAR Storage to support increased storage demands and analytic-based decision-making after a tenfold increase in online traffic and the installation of a new business intelligence (BI) platform.
In June, TwinStrata conducted a survey at the 2012 Cloud Computing Expo in New York to gauge the state of cloud storage among the represented organizations. The area of greatest cloud computing growth reported in the survey is cloud storage, with 46% of respondents indicating future plans to use cloud storage. Five out of six respondents indicated
IDC’s "Worldwide Purpose-Built Backup Appliance 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares,” offers guidance to backup appliance vendors based on emerging trends in the marketplace. The report also highlights EMC dominant 65.5% share of revenues in the purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) market. According to IDC, the worldwide PBBA market totaled $2.4 billion in revenue during 2011,
StorageReview has begun building a 4-card array that features the LSI Nytro WarpDrive WFH8-400 and Super Micro Computer X9DRX+-F motherboard, Super Micro Computer SuperServer 6047R-TXRF 4U enclosure, dual Intel E5-2600-series CPUs and 128GB of DDR3 memory. This is part of our ongoing coverage of the fastest storage arrays, both custom and those offered as a packaged
DataCore has announced that SANsymphony-V 9.0, its hardware-independent storage hypervisor solution, offers new cloud storage infrastructure functionality. The new version of SANsymphony targets organizations planning private cloud deployments, data centers implementing cloud-like services, and cloud service providers (CSPs) developing public, private and hybrid cloud offerings.
SMART Storage Systems has announced a new lineup of Optimus Ultra+ MLC-based SSDs. According to SMART, these SSDs can achieve 50 drive writes per day with MLC flash to better compete with more expensive SLC flash for write-intensive storage applications. The Optimus Ultra+ leverages the Guardian Technology Platform, SMART Storage System’s proprietary suite of features
LSI Corporation has announced a lineup of new MegaRAID SAS+SATA controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) with PCI Express 3.0 interfaces. The new controllers and HBAs extend LSI’s comprehensive portfolio of enterprise RAID and application acceleration storage solutions available in the channel, including MegaRAID and 3ware RAID controllers, host bus adapters, Nytro WarpDrive family, and advanced
Symantec’s survey of 4,506 business and IT executives reveals useful indicators for the storage industry, underscored by its finding that data growth is expected to reach 67 percent for enterprise and 178 percent for SMB during the next year. As many as two-thirds of respondents lost business important information in the previous 12 months.
Last week we were on-site with LSI at their Norcross, Georgia facility. This facility houses roughly 100 employees that span everything from their MegaRAID and high availability DAS (HA-DAS) teams, to a lab, technicians and specialists that make up the new Nytro-branded accelerated storage division. The focus of the visit centered largely around testing protocol
Seagate has announced an investment in DensBits, as the formerly hot, now scorching hot, SSD controller space accelerates. DensBits’ claim to fame is the inventor of Memory Modem. If that sounds a little too 1990’s dial-up service, rest assured that Memory Modem is actually "A modem designed specifically for Flash memory…that dramatically increases reliability and,
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