NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3

NetApp recently released the third major iteration of their Clustered Data ONTAP operating system.  Clustered Data ONTAP is known for its unique feature set such as non-disruptive operations, massive scale and a seamless management experience across the FAS product line. … Read More

Microsoft Sheds Light on Azure’s Storage Growing Pains

Microsoft, like other cloud providers before it, has faced some growing pains on its Azure platform.  On November 19, Azure customers began experiencing performance and availability issues on the platform.  Virtual machines, websites, and Visual Studio Online were among the … Read More

The New Data Center: Serious Simplicity Masks Crazy Complexity

Times are changing. The days of the backroom engineer sitting alone in a locked room denying knowledge to the rest of the organization are over. Today, CIOs and other business and technology leaders seek technology solutions that don’t require Ph.D. … Read More

Crowd-sourced Metrics and Automated Support Should Be Key Features In Your Next Storage Array – It’s Good For The Business

Most of today’s enterprise arrays – particularly those that are shipping from relatively young companies such as Nimble Storage and Tegile – have built-in comprehensive phone home capabilities. What I mean by that is this: on a regular basis, these … Read More

Microsoft Goes All-in With Unlimited Storage for Office365 Users

The online storage game just became even more aggressive as Microsoft made a bold move to unlock the limits of their OneDrive service for Office365 subscribers today. By taking the leash off of storage, this could certainly change the view … Read More

SuperMicro Teams with Nexenta for Unified Storage Offering

SuperMicro is becoming a standard name in the enterprise data center, despite what many would have anticipated. Much like how Toyota built on a new model of delivery and timed their rise to the fore of auto-making, seeming upstart SuperMicro … Read More

Nutanix Unveils a Flashy New Offering

As the all-flash market heats up with more vendors entering into the game, hyper-converged juggernaut Nutanix puts their name into the hat with a new all-flash offering. Not only is the new all-flash NX9000 series going to feature speedy SSD … Read More

SolidFire Sparks New Funding and Product Line

As the lyrical masters of Grandmaster Flash said: “Flash is fast. Flash is cool”, and this is proving to be true in every sense as the flash storage market place got a new offering this week care of Boulder, Colorado … Read More

Understanding Database Impact on Storage

One of the challenges with understanding storage in a virtualized environment, is the specific use-case around database systems. In fact, there are multiple use-cases within the various types of database environments that can each have very distinct performance characteristics.

Exactly the … Read More

Scale Computing Provides Hyperconverged Infrastructure for the SMB

In the quest for unending growth, many technology startups focus squarely on the midmarket space and above, hoping for huge deals that can boost their bottom lines, often on the way to raising more venture capital or even an IPO.  … Read More