Storage Archive

Oracle reels off one exabyte in tape storage


Object storage a rival? Not even close. At least, not yet
Oracle has been boasting about its dominance in tape, saying it has now shipped more than an exabyte’s worth of media for StorageTek T10000C tape drives in the nine months after its release – a faster ramp than for any other StorageTek product.…

Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM Disk Review


Just as all hard drives and SSDs are not created equal, neither is RAM, as we’re finding in our expanding coverage of traditional DRAM used in a RAM disk scenario. Corsair’s Vengeance DDR3 RAM kit is part of Corsair’s quad channel high-performance line of RAM, featuring PC3-12800 (1600MHz) speed rating and 9-9-9-24 [...]

Seagate Q2 2012 – 47 Million Drives Shipped


In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate indicated total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in December were roughly 119 million units, which included a pre-flood inventory of 11 million drives. Of those drives, Seagate shipped 47 million, compared to 48.9 million in the same quarter [...]

CommVault Simpana Software Innovations Released


CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, [...]

CommVault Simpana Software Innovations Released


CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, [...]

Seagate Q2 2012 – 47 Million Drives Shipped


In their Q2 2012 quarterly earnings call, Seagate indicated total drive shipments in the quarter that ended in December were roughly 119 million units, which included a pre-flood inventory of 11 million drives. Of those drives, Seagate shipped 47 million, compared to 48.9 million in the same quarter [...]

SGI slings out departmental filer box


Modular InfiniteStorage
SGI has produced a modular version of its InfiniteStorage product for the departmental NAS market that comes as a storage server or a JBOD.…

SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Announced


SGI has announced the Modular InfiniteStorage, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers that provides unique flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for compute and data management applications. SGI’s single modular platform has the ability to address a wide range of storage and application needs [...]

PMC’s 12Gb/s SAS Controllers and RAID-on-Chip Controllers Now Available


PMC has announced the release of its 12Gb/s SAS protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, and expanders to enable advanced performance and scalability for server and networked storage. High-performance SSDs can deliver upwards to 100 times more IOPS than HDDs, creating the need for a new class of storage controller. PMC’s SAS [...]

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS with HDFS Announced


EMC announced the EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with HDFS, which when used with EMC Greenplum HD, it has the ability to deliver powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable, and efficient storage platform. The new enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and [...]