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The fast-growing stores of information in many enterprises have made a variety of data management tools necessary, but those many components are starting to come together. Actifio, a startup that has already sold its platform to a few customers, has built a suite of software that the company said can manage data from nearly all [...]

Cisco Systems today announced the launch of Cisco Smart Storage, its first line of networked-attached desktop storage devices aimed at businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Ray Boggs, an analyst with market research firm IDC, said Cisco’s entry into the storage device market is part of a larger industry trend of networking or data center [...]

EMC announced at its annual user conference here on Tuesday a new software add-on that it claims increases the performance of its Data Domain appliance by an average of 50 percent. Data Domain’s new Boost software, which achieves the speed increase by offloading parts of its deduplication process to backup servers and thereby freeing up [...]

BOSTON — EMC announced at its annual user conference here on Tuesday a new software add-on that increases the performance of its Data Domain appliance by an average of 50 percent. Data Domain’s new Boost software, which achieves the speed increase by offloading parts of its de-duplication process to backup servers and thereby freeing up [...]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has finished a standard that should make it easier for enterprises to move data among public and private storage clouds. The CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) specification is designed to preserve metadata about the content that an enterprise stores in a cloud infrastructure. It sets standards for defining service [...]

Pat Gelsinger made headlines in September 2009 when he left Intel to join EMC as president and COO of information infrastructure products, a group that includes the company’s information storage and information security businesses. Now, Gelsinger — who was Intel’s first chief technology officer and led both the desktop products group and the digital enterprise [...]

Dell today announced its first object-oriented storage system for data archiving capable of storing more than 2 petabytes of data. The company also said it will begin reselling EMC’s Data Domain de-duplication appliance and its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) array. Dell’s new DX Object Storage Platform is a grid-based architecture built on x86 servers that [...]

On the heels of OCZ Technology Group’s release of its first sub-$100 solid-state drive (SSD), Intel is shipping a $125 SSD called the X25-V Value SATA SSD. Affordable is the word Intel wants associated with this drive, but the price per gigabyte is the same as that of its higher-capacity consumer SSDs. The new drive [...]

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments. EMC’s new Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments adds several new capabilities, including an automated failback process for VMware vCenter Site [...]

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments. EMC’s new Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments adds several new capabilities, including an automated failback process for VMware vCenter Site [...]