Data Center
Cloud storage exempt from Ninefold's uptime boost
Cloud company says uptime will rise yet still has all its disks in one basket
Oracle nudges Sparc T5s back out to 2013
OpenWorld 2012 Solaris 11 gets an update, Sparc T4s carry on
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Riverbed plunks ESXi hypervisor in Steelhead WAN optimizers
Gooses performance with flash, optimizes virty desktops
Gather round, EMC's ol' man Tucci knows Big Data's 'killer app'
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
Power7+ chips debut in fat IBM midrange systems
Near the top at first, trickling down to smaller boxes next year
HP previews OpenFlow virty network controller
Tie those applications to the network with flexible pipes
Gridiron builds mutant monster using NetApp's 'other' array
Engenio plus TurboCharger = flash-handling, data-caching beast
Kaminario's K2 data-gobbling champ squeezes out 2 million IOPS
BuT enterprise-class storage isn't JUST about the numbers
Opinion
HP snorage must wake up before biz bosses kick it out of bed
Blocks and Files At the HP analyst day this week, enterprise group executive vice-president Dave Donatelli laid it on the line for subsidiary 3PAR and the StoreOnce team: you gotta help get us out of this place.
Gather round, EMC's ol' man Tucci knows Big Data's 'killer app'
Oracle OpenWorld Joe Tucci, EMC boss and non-Oracle oracle speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, said that predictive real-time analysis would be the killer Big Data application.
Varonis pushes out cloudy file transaction-tracking snitch
I was on a storage start-up press tour of the eastern USA, taking in Miami, Boston and New York – don't ever say this business doesn't have its moments – and a supplier had cancelled, so we went to see Varonis instead. The company's Data Goverance Suite has a DatAdvantage set of modules which look at file transactions: creations, reads, writes and deletes by users.
News
Scottish PhDs hoist kilt to reveal storage array killer
Spare PC disk bytes poured into Scotch broth of storage
Big Blue: 'New PureSystem? Madness? No, THIS IS SPARTA!'
October date set for server family launch bash
Keep your Playboy mansion, Supermicro is my nerd vice palace
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
WD hopes biz barons will grab its new 4TB data tubs
Drives are Western Digital's 'largest'
Oracle cranks up the flash with Exadata X3 systems
OpenWorld 2012 Ellison: Rotating disk drives are so 20th century
'Seagate's OCZ gobble was real, but went sour in CEO row'
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
'Double Stuf' Power7+ sockets: Yummy, but so is overclocking
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Google charms Greenpeace with wind powered data center deal
Oklahoma: Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
NetApp insists it won't drop StorageGRID
The Register's storage desk has been told by insiders that NetApp is going to drop its bought-in StorageGRID product in favour of an internal object development from its Indian operation.
HDS's young HUS array gets BIG new brother
HDS has merged its high-end array code with its low-end HUS hardware. The unified file, block and object storage HUS 100 array is barely two months old and now has a larger brother.
UK air traffic controller lands 6,000-seater VDI on flashy Violin arrays
The UK's national air transportation service is basing a 6,000 seat private cloud VDI system on flash arrays from VIOLIN Memory.
Spotlight
Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Spinning disks and squabbling sisters