Storage Management
SolarWinds, an application and network management software company, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Texas based Tek-Tools, a leading independent provider of storage, virtualization, and backup management software for $42 million in cash and stock.
This move is the latest in a long series of acquisitions of SRM ...
Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said none of the individual improvements are big news, but taken together the release "adds some nice capabilities to an already fairly comprehensive suite of storage management and high-availability offerings."
via Veritas Storage Foundation upgraded for better solid-state drive management -- ...
Symantec announced several enhancements to its Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster File System products aimed at delivering higher levels of storage optimization and availability. A critical part of transforming a data center into a more efficient and dynamic environment is ensuring the storage domain can keep pace with the ...
Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said her company has looked at SMB trends and found that server virtualization is on the top of the priority list.
via Multiprotocol arrays for better SMB storage management.
Considering that clustered file systems with global namespaces have seen little enterprise adoption (only 11% of those surveyed had deployed), numbers this high should send a message to NAS vendors: users want the manageability a global namespace provides, including the ability to scale a system across multiple nodes and still ...
Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 4:32 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters |
Despite the fact that flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) offer performance levels more than 30 times greater than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs)-as well as providing other benefits such as higher availability and reduced power and cooling requirements-the cost of flash-enabled storage systems remains a significant roadblock to widespread adoption. In ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters |
Published on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Steve Duplessie | Terri McClure |
Representing a fundamental shift in how storage systems are developed and deployed, NexentaStor is a ZFS-based open storage software solution that offers a robust, well-rounded, fully supported commercial storage solution harnessing the power of tens of thousands of open storage contributors and users. This open model allows users to choose ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Steve Duplessie | Terri McClure |
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report Microsoft SharePoint Adoption, Market Drivers, & IT Impact
Explosive data growth is driving IT managers to look for new ways to reduce the cost, complexity, and space requirements of their storage infrastructure. This ESG Lab report examines an innovative high speed data compression appliance from Storwize. Hands-on testing is used to demonstrate non-disruptive deployment, loss-less capacity savings, real-time ...
