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Red Hat launches Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services, which aims to take advantage of Amazon's cloud while offering excellent performance.
Symantec announces new NetBackup and BackupExec

Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management.
EMC announces general availability of VFCache 'Project Lightning'

EMC has launched a product that combines flash and caching technology to improve the performance of applications.
EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.
Nimbus announces E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage

Nimbus Data Systems has announced the new E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centres that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.
Intel buying Qlogic InfiniBand to aid exaflop HPC programmes

Intel announced yesterday that it had agreed to buy parts of Qlogic's InfiniBand business as the chip maker looks to provide storage and server bandwidth that will allow systems to achieve exaflop computing.
NetApp announces hike in hard disk prices

NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems from 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.
'Royal wedding' tops Google list of search terms for 2011

The Royal Wedding, which took place in April this year, has been named the fastest rising search term of 2011, by Google.
Red Hat RHEL 6.2 boosts SME storage capabilities

Red Hat has updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its flagship operating system, with new technologies designed to cut the cost and improve performance of enterprise storage, the company announced yesterday.
HP announces B6200 StoreOnce Backup System deduplication appliance

HP have announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance - the B6200 StoreOnce Backup System - that is capable of storing up to 768TB in a single chassis.

Latest Features

Five ways you can extend your current storage gear

Recent flooding in Thailand has affected many hard drive manufacturers, resulting in price hikes for hard drives of as much as 50 to 100 percent. How long this will last is unclear, but in the meantime, you can postpone new purchases of storage gear by implementing these methods to help reduce unnecessary files, reduce the space used on the system, and allow for expansion with existing systems.
Top 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

Microsoft claims 300 new and improved features in Windows Server 8, but after a few days in Redmond watching demos and stepping through lab sessions, we wonder whether the marketing guys accidentally left off a zero.
Getting the most out of flash storage

Over the past few years mainstream enterprises have been turning to NAND flash storage to boost speed and decrease latency, but some vendors still produce products that inhibit customers from achieving flash's full potential.
IBM futuristic storage aims for speed and density

IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.
Analytics firm Polk expands performance with Oracle Exadata machines

Oracle wants to triple the number of installed Exadata database machines to 3,000 in its current fiscal year, and it could get there by tapping existing customers like automotive analytics vendor Polk.
Desktop virtualisation: How to succeed

If you've already virtualised the servers in your data centre, desktop virtualisation may seem like the next logical step. But businesses are finding that the benefits of hosted virtual desktop technologies are more nuanced. The advantages may be harder to quantify and harder to justify based purely on traditional ROI calculations.
A simple guide to thin provisioning

While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilisation rates, a costly problem that can be addressed with thin provisioning technology.
Oracle to continue supporting Lustre

While a number of small companies have been ramping up support for a file system called Lustre that Oracle acquired in its Sun Microsystems purchase earlier this year, Oracle itself has no plans to abandon the technology, a company executive told the IDG News Service in an interview.
How can IT shops reduce server virtualisation's impact on storage?

Virtualising x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process - as servers change, the whole data centre must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualisation advantages can be cancelled out when data centres rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualisation age.
Macbook Air could foretell death of hard drives

Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air - and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks - could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.

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