20-year storage industry veteran Curtis Breville, is the founder of geniusTek (www.geniusTek.net), an analyst firm committed to intelligent IT strategies, and is the writer of the column, Ask Mr. Storage (www.askmrstorage.com), which answers questions in order to simplify the challenges of the data storage industry.
Solid-state storage startup Pure Storage goes GA with its FlashArrays, upgrades software and reveals customers in its limited access program.
Fusion-io Inc., announced this week that the company would work with the SCSI Trade Association on SCSI Express standard for PCIe-based storage.
How do you define SSD? Check out this list of important SSD terms. The list includes terms you should know and some that may seem obscure.
Expert Mike Laverick explains the concept of VMware Ready so listeners can gain a better understanding of what VMware-certified hardware means.
Seeing its technology as a good fit for solving VDI storage woes, Virsto Software extends its support to Citrix Systems’ XenDesktop VDI environments.
In this interview, find out more about new vSphere 5 storage features and how they compare to vSphere 4’s, how the new vSphere Storage Appliance works, and the latest on vStorage APIs.
Creating a private cloud can bring cost savings, scalability and self-service, but the transformation may involve moving to object storage.
MercadoLibre’s "Swift" OpenStack Object Storage makes use of clusters of commodity servers to store typically static data; MD5 hash algorithm assigns unique identifiers to files.
MercadoLibre blazes open source cloud storage trail using OpenStack components for object storage, block storage and computing to set up a private cloud infrastructure.
Financial services firm overhauls data protection to meet recover time objectives and recovery point objectives.
This tip examines several examples of DR research from independent sources and DR vendors.
This tip examines some key government cybersecurity initiatives and their relevance to the private sector.
Our senior news director Dave Raffo attended Symantec Vision last week, and we have compiled his reporting for your convenience.
Find out how common it is to run virtual machines from backup without first restoring them in this Expert Response from Brien Posey.
Find out the advantages CDP (continuous data protection) offers in backing up virtual servers in this Expert Response from Brien Posey.
Storage Radio: Listen to this week’s storage headlines, including EMC’s new VMAX 40K, its acquisition of XtremIO and Symantec user backlash.
Of all the ways to handle the storage requirements of 'big data' analytics, the Hadoop cluster is receiving the most attention. Find out why.
Learn the differences between managing big data and traditional data warehousing. We'll also explore big data analytics, MapReduce and Hadoop.
Solid-state storage startup Pure Storage goes GA with its FlashArrays, upgrades software and reveals customers in its limited access program.
MercadoLibre’s "Swift" OpenStack Object Storage makes use of clusters of commodity servers to store typically static data; MD5 hash algorithm assigns unique identifiers to files.
MercadoLibre blazes open source cloud storage trail using OpenStack components for object storage, block storage and computing to set up a private cloud infrastructure.
