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Storage Predictions for 2012: Infiltration of ‘Small Data’ and a New Kind of Cloud

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:05:00 +0100

Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year. These predictions are based on the company’s interactions with thousands of customers, analysts and industry luminaries.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 11/11/2011

3X Systems to Distribute Private Cloud Backup Appliance to Canadian Computer Resellers

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:25:00 +0100

3X Systems, manufacturer of the 3X RBA Remote Backup Appliance, announced a distribution agreement with Foreseeson Technology, of Richmond, British Columbia. Foreseeson Technology will distribute the 3X Systems portfolio of backup appliances through its network of Canadian resellers.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 30/11/2010

Efficient Data Center Design Can Lead to 300% Capacity Growth in 60% Less Space

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:39:00 +0100

Emerging trends in data center design mean that new data centers will be able to provide a 300 percent growth in capacity in 60 percent less space than existing data centers, according to Gartner. New data centers are being designed to be efficient in terms of power utilization, space allocation and capital expenditure.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 25/11/2010

Teneo Partners with Veloxum for First VMware Platform Optimisation in UK

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:06:00 +0100

Teneo, an infrastructure optimisation specialist, has announced a partnership with Veloxum, a global infrastructure utilisation solutions vendor. Veloxum’s ACO offering enables VMware platforms users to analyse and optimise all elements of their platform including the server capacity, networking, physical storage and interaction with clients.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 12/11/2010

Seagate Announces Interest Regarding A Going Private Transaction

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:01:00 +0100

Seagate has announced that it has received a preliminary indication of interest regarding a going private transaction. The company is in discussions with the party from whom it received the indication of interest, and its board of directors is evaluating the indication of interest and other strategic alternatives.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/10/2010

Urgent Requirement for £1billion Upgrade to Britain’s Data Centres

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:56:00 +0100

UK data centres are facing a ‘data crunch’ unless more than £1billion is invested in this critical IT infrastructure over the next 12 months according to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of data centre specialists, Migration Solutions.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 22/09/2010

TwinStrata and Veeam Software Team Up to Deliver Cloud Storage for VMware Backups

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:51:00 +0100

TwinStrata has announced that it is jointly delivering "a highly efficient, cost-effective" solution for the creation and storage of VMware backups with Veeam Software, winner of Best of Show at VMworld 2010. According to the company, TwinStrata's CloudArray software, when used in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication, gives organizations easy access to secure, highly scalable, pay-as-you-go Cloud Storage for their VMware backups.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 14/09/2010

Storage Software Market Delivers Continued Growth in Q2

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:18:00 +0100

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced continued gains in the Q2 2010 with revenues of nearly $3.0 billion, representing 3.3% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 2.3% decrease from the previous quarter.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 13/09/2010

Mercury Technology Delivers “Green” Cloud for Oracle EBusiness Suite Using RamSan Flash Storage

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:53:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems and Mercury Technology today announced that the Mercury Technology ultra high performance “Enterprise Cloud” hosted solutions for Oracle-based applications are powered by Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan PCIe-based solid state disks (SSD).

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 21/07/2010

CDW-G Releases 2010 Government Virtualization Report

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:44:00 +0100

CDW-G has released its 2010 Government Virtualization Report, an assessment of client, server and storage virtualization in Federal, state and local agencies. The report reveals that 77 percent of agencies are implementing at least one form of virtualization, and of those, 89 percent are benefiting from the technology.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 13/07/2010

SGI Releases InfiniteStorage 5000 SAS External Storage System

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:12:00 +0100

SGI, a provider of HPC and data center solutions, today announced the release of SGI InfiniteStorage 5000, a RAID storage system that combines leading edge hardware with a choice of host interfaces and drive technologies in a powerful external storage platform. SGI InfiniteStorage 5000 is SGI’s first storage system to employ 6Gb/s SAS technology.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 16/06/2010

TwinStrata Improves Its CloudArray Cloud Storage Software

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:43:00 +0100

TwinStrata and TriCore Solutions announced customer validation of cloud storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Oracle RMAN based on TwinStrata CloudArray software.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 25/05/2010

HyperOffice Releases New Version of Cloud-Computing Collaboration Software Suite for SMBs

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:33:00 +0100

HyperOffice made the new version of its award-winning, cloud-computing messaging and collaboration suite widely available to small and medium-sized businesses.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 25/05/2010

2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum: Interview with Mathieu Poujol of PAC

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:23:00 +0100

„Cloud Computing will strongly influence the future of the IT. But it will take time before it become the main way of delivering IT,” said Mathieu Poujol, a Director of Technologies at PAC, in an interview with Storage.Biz-news.com.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 20/05/2010

StorSimple Announces Integration with Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain, and Microsoft

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:06:00 +0100

StorSimple today announced integration with Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain, and Microsoft to enable customers to seamlessly and securely use these cloud storage services with their existing data-center applications.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 05/05/2010

300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:27:00 +0100

According to new research from IDC, HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 04/05/2010

QStar Technologies Joins Active Archive Alliance as a Founding Partner

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:33:00 +0100

QStar Technologies announced today that it has joined the Active Archive Alliance as a founding partner. The Active Archive Alliance is a non-profit storage industry association dedicated to promoting active archives for simplified, online access to all archived data.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/04/2010

Turbulence Ahead for Cloud Computing

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:12:00 +0100

Cloud computing took a serious hit with Google’s exit from search business, and its subsequent service issues, in mainland China, announced Canalys.

While cloud solutions will remain appealing for certain customers with limited international ambitions, the platform’s inherent security and access issues will herald a shift back to traditional software models, said the industry analyst group in a recently issued report.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 27/04/2010

New SATA-II 2.5 SSD Introduced

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:41:00 +0100

Accelerated Memory Production today announced the introduction of its exclusive new Sandforce Driven SATA-II 2.5” SSD,. A new generation of Solid State Drives that offers high capacity with faster transfer speeds and smaller form factors. The new flash-based drive delivers the benefits of a small form factor combined with lower power consumption compared to traditional drives with greater speed capability.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 26/04/2010

TwinStrata Unveils Cloud Storage Enablement Strategy

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:28:00 +0100

TwinStrata debuts today with its vision for intelligent storage cloudsolutions. Taking an innovative approach, the company is bringing to market cloud storage enablement software solutions to help mid-sized companies in a variety of industries address challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 20/04/2010

Texas Memory Systems’ New RamSan-630 Achieves 1 Million IOPS in 6U Flash Storage

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:46:00 +0100

The new RamSan-630 offers up to 10-TeraBytes of SLC Flash and 500,000 sustained I/Os per second in a 3U enclosure. This means that users can achieve 1-million IOPS and share bandwidth (4GB/sec soon to be 8) access for their Oracle, SQL Server and other applications using a relatively tiny 6U of rack space.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 08/04/2010

Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

maria@biz-news.com (Maria Fuster) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:22:00 +0100

Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 04/03/2010

Tight Competition for Biz-News.com Product of the Year Awards

editor@biz-news.com (Maria Fuster) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:32:00 +0100

Contenders for the Biz-News.com Product of the Year Award are on a tight struggle to obtain the leading amount of votes for the 2009 Awards.

The awards are people’s choice; users are being called upon to express their consumer experiences during 2009.

What Storage service worked for you best? Which service would you recommend to your friends and colleagues?

Let us know and award them a vote by filling this form.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/01/2010

CloudBerry Backup Lets Users Back up Windows Home Server to Amazon S3

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:18:00 +0100

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

CloudBerry Backup is also available as a Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 07/01/2010

Biz-News.com: A Retrospective of 2009

mfuster@biz-news.com (Maria Fuster) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:18:00 +0100

Yet another year of hard work with great rewards has gone by.
This year Biz-News.com has brought new features that we hope have enhanced your reading experience.

We have realized 85 exclusive interviews with C-Level executives who have introduced their companies to us and have explained how their innovative ideas are changing the Tech sector.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 23/12/2009

Toshiba Launches Highest Density Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:57:00 +0100

Toshiba announced the launch of a 64 GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry.

The new device combines sixteen 32Gbit (equal to 4GB) NAND chips fabricated with Toshiba's 32nm process technology, and also integrates a dedicated controller.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/12/2009

IDC: EMC Led The Overall Storage Software Market in Q3

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:00 +0100

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced another decline in year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09) with revenues of $2.87 billion, representing –7.9% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.2% growth from the previous quarter (2Q09).

IDC report shows EMC led the overall market with 23.4% revenue share in the third quarter of 2009. Symantec held onto the second position with 17.8% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.2% revenue share.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 09/12/2009

Seagate Introduces Its First Enterprise SSD: Pulsar

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:31:00 +0100

Seagate introduced the Seagate Pulsar drive, the first product in its new enterprise SSD family.

Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar uses SLC (single-level cell) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. It leverages non-volatile flash memory rather than spinning magnetic media to store data.

According to Seagate, its new SSD achieves a peak performance of up to 30,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, 240MB/s sequential read and 200 MB/s sequential write.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 09/12/2009

Symantec Enhances Veritas Storage Foundation

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:54:00 +0100

Symantec announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server, the heterogeneous storage management and high availability solutions for UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.

Additionally, near instantaneous recovery of applications is now possible with Veritas Cluster File System through tight integration with Oracle, Sybase and IBM DB2 –allowing for “fast failover of structured information and near linear scalability.”

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 07/12/2009

Micron First To Deliver Native SATA 6Gb/s SSD

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:43:00 +0100

Micron claims it has raised the performance bar for SSDs with the launch of its RealSSD C300 SSD, the industry’s fastest for notebook and desktop PCs.

While benchmark tests have shown that the C300 SSD is the fastest PC SSD leveraging the industry standard SATA 3Gb/s interface, the SSD performance is further boosted by natively supporting the next generation high-speed interface – SATA 6Gb/s, according to Micron.

The C300 SSD leverages the SATA 6Gb/s interface to achieve a read throughput speed of up to 355MB/s and a write throughput speed of up to 215MB/s. Using the common PC Mark Vantage scoring system, the C300 SSD turns in a score of 45,000 from the HDD Suite.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 03/12/2009

Samsung Begins Volume Production of 30-nm-class, 3-bit MLC NAND Flash Chips

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:48:00 +0100

Samsung announced that it commenced the industry’s first volume production of 3-bit, multi-level-cell NAND flash chips using 30-nm-class process technology at the end of November.

The chips will be used in NAND flash modules accompanied by Samsung 3-bit NAND controllers to initially produce 8 GB microSD cards.

The company also announced other NAND advancements - the industry’s first mass production of its 30-nm-class, 32 Gb, MLC NAND memory with an asynchronous DDR interface.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 02/12/2009

Nitty-Gritty of Cloud Storage: Interview with Robert Peglar, Xiotech

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:15:00 +0100

The storage industry has been a hot bed for innovation and debate with discussion on local storage versus cloud storage, and the pros and cons of each. "I believe most company will end up using a combination of both, physical on premise and cloud," said Robert Peglar, VP of Technology for Xiotech, in an interview with Biz-news.com.

Many companies find it hard to understand storage and for some the learning curve is too high. Xiotech says they provide simplicity in accessing and integrating into their own company's growth.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 25/11/2009

Will Chrome OS Lead Consumers into Cloud Computing?

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0100

"Chrome OS is ideal for ‘smartbooks’ and will lead consumers further into cloud computing," says Canalys in its recent Notebook Pulse Report.

Canalys therefore expects that devices running chrome OS will be bundled with mobile data contracts, and support for ARM-based processors will make it an ideal ‘smartbook’ OS.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 24/11/2009

DroboElite Brings BeyondRAID Technology to SMBs

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0100

Data Robotics announced DroboElite, the first iSCSI SAN storage that manages itself. DroboElite is a business class data storage solution that brings the company’s BeyondRAID technology to small and medium businesses.

DroboElite delivers automated capacity expansion and one-click single- or dual-drive redundancy for data protection for Windows, Mac and Linux machines.

The new system extends the number of Smart Volumes – Data Robotics’ unique thin provisioning that pulls storage from a common pool of drives – so that users can now create up to 255 virtual storage volumes.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 24/11/2009

iSuppli: Cloud Computing Can Effectively Leverage Blade Servers and Virtualization

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:00 +0100

Although global shipments of blade servers are set to decline in 2009, the market is expected to return to robust double-digit growth during the following years as global economic conditions improve, according to iSuppli.

Blade server shipments will amount to 1.04 million units in 2009, down 9 percent from 1.14 million in 2008. This contrasts sharply with the 31.1 percent increase in 2008.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 20/11/2009

Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009”

editor@biz-news.com (The Biz-News.com Team) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:00 +0100

Last year Biz-News.com celebrated the “Product of the Year Awards 2008”. Nominations where received from all parts of the globe. First hand users explained their experiences and recommended best practices for the most innovative products out there.

Honouring those who have fought to make the most of this year, Biz-News.com again wishes to call upon its readers to nominate their favourite product of the year.

Nominations will begin on November 19th and will close on February 15th 2010. Runner ups will be featured in our editorial and winners will have an exclusive interview complete with user reviews and photographic backup published on Biz-News.com.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 19/11/2009

Research: Bringing Cloud into the Datacenter Transformation

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:27:00 +0100

“Datacenter transformation is a stark reality facing most customers in the Asia/Pacific region,” says IDC. Based on its recent datacenter research, the ageing and somewhat inefficient datacenters that were built seven-ten years ago are struggling to keep up with the current technology – leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity.

“However – the report says - the current economic environment has led many CxOs to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same.”

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 17/11/2009

ParaScale Launches Open Private Cloud Storage Platform

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:39:00 +0100

ParaScale introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software R2.0 - version 2 of its PCS clustered NAS system. The new release targets enterprise storage administrators who must economically scale capacity and performance, and service providers who want to offer a variety of storage cloud services.

This latest release of ParaScale Cloud Storage software reflects the growing realization by global customers that existing approaches to managing their stored data assets prevent them from rapidly delivering a pool of storage that easily scales capacity and performance independently and economically.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 17/11/2009

Compuware Expands SaaS Portfolio With Gomez Acquisition

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:40:00 +0100

Compuware, software and consulting provider, announced it has completed its acquisition of Gomez, one of the two major forces in web application monitoring services that has a leading SaaS solution for desktop/laptop web application monitoring.

“This is a very interesting and potentially game changing move in both the end user experience monitoring and the application performance management (APM) markets,” Jean-Pierre Garbani wrote on the Forrester Blog for Vendor Strategy Professionals.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 11/11/2009

Taking Technology to Higher Level: Interview with Manoj Bhoola, Country Manager at HP

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze, Johannesburg) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:35:00 +0100

Does your organisation need technology products, solutions and services that drive innovation and rapidly scale up or down to meet changing times?

Well, look no further than HP, the world's largest technology company, says Manoj Bhoola, Country Manager, HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP Enterprise business.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 10/11/2009

In The Era Of Virtualization: Interview with Richard Gilder, CEO of Intercept

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:00 +0100

The cloud has been a popular computing term for 2009 and going into 2010 will likely see the rise of that term as content become more accessible from multiple location as opposed to being locked down by local storage.

Intercept is a virtualization company within the UK specializing in desktop virtualization, server virtualization, application virtualization and storage virtualization. A very large part of their business is based in the cloud. Majority of our clients seek virtual hosting for their enterprise computers. They basically help develop a system allowing generic access, via the cloud, to any application that a company has.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 06/11/2009

Vordel Introduces Cloud Service Broker to Manage Multi-Domain Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0100

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), released the Vordel Cloud Service Broker that aggregates and manages multi-domain services.

The Multi-Domain Registry (MDRR) aggregates together services across domains. These domains include not only Cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, but also local on-premises services, and business partner services. In this way, all of the services on which a business depends are managed in one place.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 05/11/2009

AFCOM Survey: Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyberattack

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0100

Significant findings of AFCOM’s 2009/2010 Data Center Trends survey reveal that though threat of cyber terrorism is real, it is not being adequately addressed by the world's keepers of the most confidential financial, military and personal data.

Survey also reveals that despite hype around cloud computing, only 14.9 percent of data centers have deployed cloud solutions to date - and it shines a new light on the fate of mainframes.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 02/11/2009

Intel and Numonyx Announce a Breakthrough in PCM Technology

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:00 +0100

Intel and Numonyx, a provider of memory technologies, announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Gladinet Launches Cloud Gateway for Cloud-Hosted Desktop

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0100

After pioneering the concept of integrating a wide range of cloud services on a PC desktop with its introduction of Cloud Desktop earlier this year, Gladinet, the ubiquitous cloud storage client, rolled out Gladinet Cloud Gateway v1.0 and Cloud Desktop v1.3.

If Cloud Desktop turns the Internet into a virtual PC, Cloud Gateway is its file server. Built on the same open platform as Cloud Desktop, the Gateway connects individual desktops to cloud storage through one access point.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Texas Memory Systems Sets New SPC-1 Records for Flash Storage Performance

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:28:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems announced that its RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) has submitted a record setting SPC-1 Result.

Launched in August, the RamSan-620 produced 254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS with Average Response Time of 0.72 milliseconds all from a 2U rack-mount chassis and delivers its performance at a cost of only $1.13 per SPC-1 IOPS.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 27/10/2009

iSuppli Reports Strong DRAM Market Growth

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0100

The DRAM industry in the second and third quarters of 2009 posted the strongest sequential growth in revenue and pricing seen in at least five years, indicating that the recent market rebound is real and is likely to continue into 2010, according to iSuppli.

“The continued increase in prices comes as another indicator that the DRAM market is emerging from what has been a long and painful slump,” said Mike Howard, senior analyst, DRAM, for iSuppli.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 23/10/2009

Transformational Impact of Server Virtualization on IT Infrastructure

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:15:00 +0100

A recent IDC survey investigating server virtualization deployments in vorious organizations reveals that the technology is transforming server, storage, and networking infrastructure and even more so the way their datacenters are and will be built and managed.

The survey also suggests that many users are pushing their virtual server environments to the limits, which is causing several problems, such as virtual server sprawl and storage I/O bottlenecks.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 22/10/2009

Panasas Announces the World's Highest-Performance File Storage System

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:00 +0100

Panasas intoroduced the ActiveStor Series 9 parallel storage system, which is believed to be the highest-performance file storage system in the world, as the company claims.

Unlike single-dimensional storage solutions, which offer either high-bandwidth performance or optimized IOPS, the ActiveStor Series 9 uses multiple storage technologies in a synchronized architecture to produce both.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 21/10/2009

Barracuda Launches Integrated Local and Cloud-based Backup Solution in Europe

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:07:00 +0100

Barracuda Networks announced the European launch of its Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution.

It combines the Barracuda Backup Server for restoration on the local network with the Barracuda Backup Service, a cloud-based backup service hosted by two data centres in Europe.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 16/10/2009