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NetApp beats rivals to win BT global deal

Christopher Griffin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

BT selects NetApp for a 38-site virtual data centre product. HDS, HP, EMC and Sun lose out in the final round for the multi-million pound project.

Unilever cuts fabric problems by 50% with NetWisdom

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:47:43 EST

Multinational Unilever has cut fabric errors in half and now manages annual data growth of 50% on its 5 PB SAN Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom product.

What you should know about flash memory in storage

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST

A tiered storage array with flash at its apex would deliver a much better balance of capacity, performance and value than flash sledgehammer systems devised to exert brute storage performance force on all IOs. But neither SPEC or TPC benchmarks have been designed to take this into account.

Storage roundup: BiP settles on NetApp filers in disaster recovery move; IBM SVC to support SSDs

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:38:45 EDT

Storage roundup: BiP Solutions settles on NetApp filers in disaster recovery move; IBM SVC to support solid-state drives; Sun adds Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array; and more.

Data storage users beat budget blues with tiered data storage, data deduplication

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:06:37 EDT

Ballooning data volumes and flat storage budgets have users in the UK turning to tiered storage, iSCSI and data deduplication to cut costs and make the most of their IT budgets.

Storage roundup: Unilever monitors SAN with NetWisdom; BT chooses NetApp for new hosting service

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Unilever chooses NetWisdom to optimize its SAN traffic; BT to use NetApp storage products in its new Virtual Data Centre; Civica UK tiers storage using Compellent SANs; and more.

Ad agency uses 3PAR InServ to support server virtualisation project and reduce capacity purchases

Kim Hefner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:56:34 EDT

Internet advertising agency TrafficBroker chooses a 3PAR InServ SAN with tiered storage and thin provisioning over 'bells and whistles' of rival Compellent.

Storage roundup: Mimecast helps Salvation Army, StorMagic boosts channel network and more

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:08:10 EDT

Mimecast helps Salvation Army with email; StorMagic boosts channel; SaaS supplier gets 3PAR; NetApp SnapMirror compression; 3PAR and Exanet partner; BakBone embraces disk.

Oxford Archaeology CIO not buying dedupe hype; finds open storage more valuable technology

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:07:10 EDT

Oxford Archaeology CIO Chris Puttick talks about why he believes data deduplication is an over-hyped technology, and why open storage is the most valuable technology in storage.

EU probe of Oracle takeover leads to uncertainty for Sun customers

Antony Adshead — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:19:59 EDT

The European Union Competition Commission's investigation into Oracle's proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems has led to uncertainty among Sun's data storage customers.