DSI Launches Second Generation of its Data Storage Virtual Tape Library Series

Global cloud spending is expected to grow at a robust pace over the next few years. According to a report from Seagate Market Research and IDC cloud is expected to represent 39% of total enterprise drive capacity by 2013. This augurs well for Quantum which offers solutions for storing and protecting information in physical, virtual, cloud and big data environments. Last month Quantum reported strong financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2013. For the quarter ended December 31, 2013, the San Jose, California-based company reported revenue of $159 million. On a GAAP basis the company reported a net loss of $8 million or $0.04 per share for the quarter. On a non-GAAP basis the company reported net income of $5 million or $0.02 per share.

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Data Storage Upgrades Prove Disruptive to SMBs

Managing the storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a significant challenge for IT administrators, according to a study on the top IT pain points impacting today’s midmarket enterprises from software-defined storage solutions specialist Gridstore. The survey indicated that during a major storage upgrade more than half (55 percent) of midmarket enterprises experienced business and end-user disruption while 32 percent experienced failed upgrade process where migrations didn’t complete and 9 percent lost data or access to data during the migration. When asked what their top challenges are today, the survey respondents commented that keeping it cost effective, responsive and adequate for growing businesses needs, backing up vast amounts of data, catching up with the growth of data and the expense to do that and hitting capacity limits too quickly were their top concerns.

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Aegis Technology Services Formed as a Joint Venture between Data Storage Corporation and ABC Services

Aegis Technology Services a managed services provider of cloud computing solutions for the IBM Power Systems market announced today the official formation of the company as a result of a joint venture between Data Storage Corporation, a long-standing leader in cloud storage and cloud computing and ABC Services, Inc, a certified IBM IT solutions provider. Aegis Technology combines ABC’s industry-leading managed services expertise in IBM iSeries/AIX v7 with technical support and data center operations expertise from Data Storage Corporation. This combined know-how will enable mid-market firms built on IBM hardware platforms to deploy new levels of reliable and cost-effective computing and high availability solutions, leveraging the cloud and the benefits of the Infrastructure-as-a-Servic /hosted model.

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Xyratex And Pentaho Partner To Unlock Big Value From Big Data

A leading provider of data storage technology announced that it has partnered with Pentaho Corporation which delivers big data and predictive analytic solutions from one integrated platform to develop the industry’s first fully integrated Big Data analytics and scalable storage solutions. The combined offerings which will be released later this year will help organizations decrease the amount of hardware and software required to complete major data analysis projects and unlock the limitless potential of Big Data while delivering lower total cost of ownership to end users. The combination of Xyratex and Pentaho will for the first time give users the ability to manage their vast and growing data challenges on one integrated platform. Large data silos, limited to no access for key users and the complexity and cost of buying separate stand-alone products to manage data have undermined users’ abilities to derive value from Big Data.

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Cleversafe Launches Solution Network to Build Out Big Data Storage Ecosystem

Businesses today are challenged to provide their end users with a complete storage solution. Today those requirements have grown to include always-available access to information, ways to effectively tier, retrieve and store content, backup and archive data for disaster recovery and business continuity, and to meet all governance and compliance requirements. To address these mounting challenges, Cleversafe Inc., the solution for limitless data storage, today announced the formation of The Cleversafe Solution Network designed to provide customers with a comprehensive ecosystem offering the most cost-effective, scalable and highly available end-to-end storage solutions to address today's business requirements now and well into the future. Customers inherently buy storage platforms to store data from a wide variety of applications, all focused on delivering business value. The problem is that not all application vendors are interoperable or are integrated in such a way that companies can easily fold their storage strategy together to solve the challenges associated with today's data growth.

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