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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 [...]

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 [...]