Space Management

Wed, November 09, 2011 - In terrestrial systems, you don't think about disk space. In the clouds, you have to, if you don't it will cost you.

Thu, August 04, 2011 - Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache products to virtualized environments.

Fri, July 22, 2011 - With an eye toward helping tomorrow's data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in 10 billion files in 43 minutes.

Thu, July 14, 2011 - In conjunction with VMware's release of its vSphere 5 cloud OS, EMC has released virtual storage appliance software and a new, lower-end version of its high-end virtual storage array, VMAX.

Fri, June 17, 2011 - Sanbolic today unveiled an updated version of its data sharing and file management software that now includes dynamic data migration.

Tue, June 14, 2011 - NetApp announced upgrades to its OnCommand management software for storage, which now allows it to plug into most leading cloud management systems.

Mon, June 06, 2011 - Hewlett-Packard announced a series of upgrades to its storage products, including the addition of data snapshots, and a portfolio of pre-configured storage systems.

Mon, June 06, 2011 - The 2011 Marconi Prize, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize in Information Technology, has been awarded to two major contributors to cellular communications: Qualcomm Co-founder Irwin Jacobs and the late information theorist and professor Jack Wolf.

Wed, May 25, 2011 - NetApp today reported that it earned more than $5.1 billion in revenue in 2011, more than $1 billion more than in 2010.

Wed, May 25, 2011 - EMC today formally announced a reseller partnership with MapR, which makes a proprietary MapReduce file system based on Apache Hadoop.

Mon, May 23, 2011 - Intel’s sale of chips and related products to data centers is growing by over 20 percent year-on-year in Asia-Pacific, on the back of increased data center capacity creation in China, South Korea, and Australia, a company executive said.

Wed, May 18, 2011 - WindSpring, which makes data compression and search technology for embedded systems in the auto industry, is now hawking its wares to the general storage market to allow compressed data sets to be searched without a performance hit.

Thu, May 12, 2011 - Data center operator Tata Communications will invest S$440 million (US$357 million) in Singapore over the next four years to meet a fast-growing regional demand for data center capacity.

Tue, May 03, 2011 - At its users conference this week, Symantec released a slew of upgrades to its midrange backup, enterprise archive and data management products and said it will begin offering a SaaS model.