Storage
Gather round, EMC's ol' man Tucci knows Big Data's 'killer app'
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
WSJ bigs up Nimble and Coraid, massages their VC backers
Storage start-ups bag spots on top 50 investor-backed firms list
Varonis pushes out cloudy file transaction-tracking snitch
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Sanbolic pulls out FLASH liquid, scrubs vigorously round data bowl
Mmm! Fit to shove your head into
Whiptail lifts flash-array skirt: We're ready for bigness
But EMC's about to kick the door in. You ready for that?
Gridiron builds mutant monster using NetApp's 'other' array
Engenio plus TurboCharger = flash-handling, data-caching beast
'Seagate's OCZ gobble was real, but went sour in CEO row'
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
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.
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
NetApp insists it won't drop StorageGRID
If you have any internal objects, fling them now
They said it wasn't right for biz - but Samsung unveils TLC SSD
Can first 3-level cell flash handle big loads?
Toshiba leaps aboard flash-platter combo bandwagon with a wild cry
I didn't get a hybrid drive outta that guy!
Ex X-IO exec Alan Atkinson takes reins at Dell's Compellent
Just suddenly appears behind desk one day
Cash-rich SimpliVity bets the farm on rip-'n'-replace boxen
Will enterprises junk legacy IT for virtual data centre-in-a-box?
Actian daubs go-faster stripes on cheapo database kit
Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches
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
Speaking in Tech: We infiltrate Hitachi Data Systems' secret labs
Podcast How to keep data doubloons out of Davy Jones' bitlocker
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.
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 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
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
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'
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Sysadmin blog Deployment tool jumps onto the cloud train
Storage bods, your time is up
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