Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
Tags: BAG, storage virtualisation, IT team, public sector
Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
Tags: Dell, operating system, Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
Tags: IT managers, data storage professionals, big data analytics, TheInfoPro
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems announced today that it is selling a prebuilt infrastructure and a pretested reference architecture that combine servers, networks, storage and management components that can be deployed in days. HDS's ...
Tags: HDS, storage vendor, prebuilt infrastructure, UCP
LONDON -- Cloud computing may have become the “phrase du jour” for the IT industry but the vastly overused term still means different things to different people. Here are a few cloud computing definitions from IT pros, ...
Tags: cloud computing, IT industry, London, software, IT
As storage spending consumes an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets across the public sector against a backdrop of severe spending cuts, the case for using open-source storage software in government is gathering momentum. The public ...
Tags: storage spending, IT budgets, storage software, software
CommVault has announced Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, a software product for automating snapshot management and application-aware recovery. The introduction comes as the company attempts to support recovery of critical ...
Tags: Commvault, automation software, application management, disaster recovery
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds. The Storage Networking ...
Tags: cloud, cloud data management interface, storage, public clouds
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
Tags: big data, converged it, Hitachi, IT, social innovation
IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
Tags: Charityshare, Violin Memory, TMS, Gartner
All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
Tags: operating system, flash arrays, all-flash array, single array
Solid-state drive makers OCZ and BitMicro on Tuesday separately announced new controllers that will be the basis of new flash drive lines intended to boost performance of consumer and enterprise applications. OCZ announced its new ...
Tags: OCZ, Bitmicro, Controllers, SSD Lines, flash drive lines
NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
Tags: FlexPod storage stack sales, 176 FlexPod units, storage hardware
IDG News Service-Vivekenand Venugopal,VP&GM,Hitachi Data Systems,talks about the firm's storage strategy,its BlueArc acquisition,big data,and in the process,takes a dig at the competition. CW:Why does every storage company talk about ...
Tags: Vivekenand Venugopal, NetApp, acquisition, competition
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...