File-based Disk Storage Systems and File System Software
NetApp issued a couple of interesting press releases last month. It started the month of March with an announcement that it had shipped more than 30,000 SAN deployments worldwide, and ended the month with an announcement that it has deployed more than 150,000 unified storage systems. In ...
I have not blogged for a while; we’ve been busy putting all the pieces in place to kick off a new multi-client research project on scale-out storage adoption in enterprise IT. In my January brief on unstructured data trends for 2010, I listed continued interest in scale-out ...
CIOs care about risk, cost, and business responsiveness but the complex, inflexible, and proprietary nature of legacy storage systems has not helped those causes. The biggest opportunity for storage savings comes from addressing unstructured (or file-based) data. Unstructured data growth shows no signs of abating: it will make ...
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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 ...
User-generated content, unstructured data, video surveillance, low-latency trade data, and life sciences are some of the fastest data growth types, but it seems no industry is safe from massive file data growth. Across the board, file formats are richer and file sizes are growing exponentially. This massive data growth is ...
Recognizing that the market is looking for efficient scale-out solutions to help reduce operational costs, HP worked quickly to integrate technology from its IBRIX acquisition and recently announced the HP StorageWorks X9000 products almost three months to the day from the acquisition’s close. HP now offers an entire IBRIX Fusion-based ...
As discussed in my last blog, many storage vendors talk about storage tiering, but they often mean “in the box” tiering that supports a variety of drive types within a single array. Considering that most data only stays active for about 30 days after it is created, it makes sense to ...
We’re now in the process of putting the finishing touches on a new research brief on unified storage adoption and trends. I’ll share some with you here – subscribers can read the rest when the brief comes out (I’ll add a link when it gets published). For the purposes of our ...
Published on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
Recent ESG research shows a significant demand for efficiency factors when it comes to evaluating and purchasing NAS systems. While this trend is currently aligned with poor macroeconomic conditions, it also signals a change from which data center managers will not retreat in the future.
Top NAS Features Reveal Emphasis ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
