As the storage industry consolidates, the net effect change how customers purchase and deploy their next storage products and the net effect is not necessarily synergistic. The HDD Duopoly In the HDD market, unit shipments keep growing and the suppliers have voluntarily merged to the extent that we are left with Seagate and WD (pending [...]
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The company announced on February 8, that it follows its previously announced 8 bay arrays with a 12 bay iSCSI model. But it is also updating its 8 bay products. Drobo was initially successful with the Apple/creative audience connecting to single Macs/PCs. But Drobo soon developed larger versions connecting to servers and networked environments of [...]
Fusion-io was in Europe at the IT shows IP Expo and SNW. The company provides Flash based IoMemory PCIe modules emulating block-based storage. By operating at micro second speeds it has the ability boost application performance operating in excess of 100,000 IOPS. Simplicity is the best enabler Simplicity beats complexity and Fusion-io offers additional benefits [...]
HDS launched its new high-end VSP disk system this week. It features: SSD tier-0 Dynamic Tiering Thin Provisioning Faster controller processors, more bandwidth Lower energy footprint High-end or Midrange? The disk system vendors in the high-end segment are catering for very big arrays, while this segment has been under pressure from the high-end of midrange [...]
Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server. In this announcement Symantec Dec 7 announcement improves the functionality of Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF) by such features as thin provisioning, enhancing failover and recognising SSD, as well as adding performance. Thin API. Veritas File System provides thin reclamation on third party [...]
