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Quantcast gives the boot to Hadoop's HDFS

Boots up – and opens up – homegrown QFS alternative
OCZ VeloDrive

'Seagate's OCZ gobble was real, but went sour in CEO row'

Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control

Acronis sucks up another Red Hatter

We'll do anything to get out of the backup ghetto
Comment Bubble 10

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.
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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.

Last of the indie dedupe firms: We CAN fight off backup giants

Interview Bill Andrews, Exagrid's CEO, is a driven man, even though he's been at Exagrid for seven years. But Andrews still has a job of work ahead of him bringing Exagrid out from under Data Domain's massive market shadow.

News

Actian Vectorwise TPC-H

Actian daubs go-faster stripes on cheapo database kit

Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches
Sliced Bread

CEO bloodbath in storage land - four bigshots gone in one week

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence ...

New CEO takes reins at Virident with $26m in the saddlebag

Looking to get founders harnessed up, whipped into shape
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Speaking in Tech: We infiltrate Hitachi Data Systems' secret labs

Podcast How to keep data doubloons out of Davy Jones' bitlocker

Nimble Storage bags ex-NetApp man for Asian push

Confirms appointment of Peter O'Connor

Shuttleworth drops one million cluster bucks on Ceph upstart

Billionaire Linux kingpin Mark Shuttleworth has injected $1m into storage startup Inktank to bring the team's distributed file system Ceph to cloud computing.
US dollar

Array biz Nimble: Quick, lob us $40m before storage giants wallop us

Hybrid flash and disk drive array start-up Nimble Storage has been given $40.7m in venture capital funding to boost sales, marketing and engineering.
WD RE4 Enterprise disk drive

WD to parade flash-disk mutant for Wall St moneybags this week

Western Digital will face investors on Thursday and tell them what the world's new number-one disk drive supplier is going to do to stay at the top.

Spotlight

Adapteva's Epiphany-IV chip
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Microsoft System Center logo
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
Oracle Sparc T4-4 server
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
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Sysadmin blog Deployment tool jumps onto the cloud train
Review Perfect upgrade for punters with a passion for the obscure
Sysadmin blog Cup of coffee actually a carboy of toxic Kool-Aid
Sysadmin blog Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure