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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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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Imation Aquires Nexsan with Hopes to Improve Storage &Security Solutions

Storage solution company Nexsan has been acquired by the Imation Corporation, a storage and data security company with the goal of improving Imation's operating margins for data storage and security solutions.With the acquisition of Nexsan, Imation will be able to utilize its previously mentioned solution platforms to improve what the company can offer its consumer base.The combination of Nexsan’s products, technologies and talented teams with Imation’s global reach and infrastructure will be an excellent accelerator for our growth strategy in storage solutions.According to a conjoined statement from the two companies they have noticed that small businesses and distributed enterprises or SME storage companies are having trouble meeting consumer needs but with this acquisition Nexsan and Imation will be able to combine their services and tools to improve data storage and management issues that these businesses currently face.

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X-IO Delivers Big Storage Solution for Big Data, Offering 1 Petabyte of Capacity and 1 Million IOPS

Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies today announced ISE Station XL, the newest member of its ISE Station X family of data storage solutions. Available now the second generation ISE Station XL is a preconfigured storage solution that offers 1 petabyte (1024 terabytes) of capacity and delivers over 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a dense, energy-efficient package. ISE Station XL accelerates enterprise applications and provides unmatched price/performance all with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry.

Designed for data center operators and cloud-based service providers who need both high performance and high capacity, ISE Station XL provides built-in support for major virtualization engines from Citrix, VMware and Microsoft, removing SAN controller bottlenecks and complexity from large-scale virtualization architectures. ISE Station XL consumes only 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.

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Sterling Data Storage Launches Three Cloud Backup Services

Cloud storage and backup solutions provider Sterling Data Storage announced it has launched three cloud backup services in an effort to increase adoption rates and provide an affordable cloud backup solution. Data backup and recovery are essential value-added services for web hosting companies to provide to customers as it ensures that their data will remain secure and in compliance with ABA standards, HIPAA and SOX regulations.Partnering with providers of data backup services can give web hosts a considerable edge over their competition.In November web hosting provider HostPapa begin offering backup and disaster recovery through the Vembu StoreGrid solution while Peak 10 enhanced its recovery cloud service to its scope, processes and technology in September.The new Sterling Data Storage solutions offer three versions of its cloud backup service for businesses to provide a hosted remote storage solution.This will help businesses automatically and reliably manage data backup, data recovery and business continuity according to the press release.

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HP Launches Data Storage Solutions

Hewlett Packard this week launched three storage solutions with a common architecture across storage segments and categories so that businesses can simplify their tangled, divergent, complex and in efficient data systems. The new solutions are designed to replace other storage vendors that are simply not equipped to help organizations respond to new workloads.The StoreServ 7000 solutions which halve a company’s storage capacity requirements and double its virtual machines reducing the time to manage storage by 90 percent. The scalable StoreAll Storage which provides a simplified platform for big data retention and cloud storage and the StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup which performs backup operations up to three times faster than similar systems are equipped with Tier 1 enterprise storage features for virtualized and big data retention environments and are mid priced at approximately P1.6 million for a 10-terabyte configuration.

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CIO Strategies for Data Storage Protection

This Article focuses on augmenting your data protection strategy by combining Dell Storage solutions with a modern approach. Some of the features included in a modernized approach to data protection include:

-Data reduction - Shrink backup storage requirements by 80% or more
-Space efficient snapshots, image-level backup - Achieve low-impact, near instant recovery to any RTO
-Remote replication - Ensure business continuity during system or site outages
-Continuous Data Protection (CDP) - Meet mission-critical high-availability requirements
-Database-and application-awareness - Ease administration and ensure consistent recovery
-Virtualization aware - Streamline and accelerate protection of virtual environments
-Private/public cloud enabled - Access cloud-based resources as destination targets.

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Key Details on Wii U Storage Solutions

For months we have known that Wii U will support various storage solutions in addition to the variable internal storage that comes with different system bundles (8GB and 32GB at launch). Nintendo has now provided more details on SD card and hard drive support plus even shed some light on how much space the system's OS will take and more. Thanks to NeoGAF user cvxfreak for translating all of the details from the last second Japanese broadcast.

USB Hard drives:

The default and barring an update that Nintendo says is coming in the future, Wii U will only allow one USB drive to be connected at a time. These drives cannot be disconnected while Wii U is powered on and the system will support and read up to 2TB of storage.

Drives that will be used by Wii U must be formatted by the system's Data Management system, meaning you can not use the drive with a PC without partitioning. However all data can be moved internally and externally through Wii U's OS.

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Quantum Announces New Family of Wide Area Storage Solutions for Managing

A proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today unveiled a new family of wide area storage solutions, Lattus, which provides globally distributed disk-based archives that are extremely scalable and cost-effective and allows storage of data forever on disk without interruption or migration. Integrating dispersed object storage and Quantum file system technologies, these solutions offer a new approach to archiving that overcomes the limitations and inefficiencies posed by traditional disk architectures in multi-petabyte storage environments. Lattus-X, the first product in the Lattus family is a wide area storage solution with NAS access that will be generally available next month.

Benefits:

Benefits of Wide Area Storage Solutions Lattus is built to address the challenges inherent in current solutions based on RAID architectures that grow to the petabyte level and beyond in industries such as digital media, science research, surveillance and energy exploration. Incorporating next-generation object storage technology, Lattus products are optimized for managing large and growing repositories of big data indefinitely, thereby enabling customers to extract the data's maximum value over its entire life.

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Brocade and Hyve Solutions Partner to Deliver Fully Integrated Big Data

Big Data applications require a high-performance, fabric-based network infrastructure tightly integrated with purpose-built, high-density, flexible and efficient server and storage solutions. The Brocade VDX 8770 Switch with VCS Fabric technology provides the low-latency, high-performance cut-through architecture to address the bursty and variable traffic patterns inherent in Big Data applications. The result is a flexible VCS fabric that is designed for both scalability and performance. As network needs grow capacity can be added without manual configuration as new switches self-provision when connected to the fabric. 

Coupled with Hyve Solutions server and storage offerings this networking infrastructure creates a custom, turnkey, fully integrated, network, server and storage solution specifically designed for Big Data environments that require innovative server and storage designs. Hyve Solutions server and storage solutions integrate density, efficiency, flexibility, quality and cost-effective designs elements that are critical for an effective Big Data platform.

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Xyratex High Performance Computing data storage solutions now available through Dell

Xyratex also today announced that its Xyratex ClusterStor family of integrated Lustre HPC data storage solutions are available through Dell. With Dell's significant footprint in the commercial sector, HPC customers will now be able to scale both storage performance and capacity while aggressively reducing space, power and administrative overhead.

We have been very pleased with the market adoption of the ClusterStor 6000 HPC data storage solution we launched this summer and we continue to see terrific results from our ongoing investment in the ClusterStor software management framework and the Lustre file system, said Ken Claffey, senior director of the ClusterStor business line at Xyratex. We look forward to showing SC12 attendees the latest advancements we have been working on around these products and others and how our work is delivering significant value to the HPC end users.

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NetApp HPS Rack Simplifies Growing Data Volumes

Today NetApp is helping customers with these deployment and management challenges with the announcement of the NetApp High-Performance Storage (HPS) Rack. The prepackaged and preconfigured data storage solution delivers high performance that scales to help manage ever-increasing data growth. The HPS Rack includes preconfigured servers, management and monitoring softwar and the open-source Lustre parallel file system, enabling organizations to shorten deployment time from months to days, lower risk, reduce total cost of ownership, and speed time to results.
The NetApp HPS Rack is built on the NetApp E-Series platform. NetApp E-Series solutions efficiently process, analyze, manage, and access data at scale to meet customers’ needs in industries requiring applications with dedicated workloads, including oil and gas, financial services, media and entertainment, high-performance computing and the public sector. Customers can spark innovation, make better decisions and drive successful business outcomes at the speed of today's business.

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Best Network Drive Storage Solutions for Your Business

While there used to be a gradual change within the data storage segment, things have changed rapidly with the introduction of network attached storage drives. These NAS drives work at an increased efficiency and enable your business processes to access data in the most efficient manner. While the office space is optimized to the maximum level, the speed and efficacy of your business processes is improved and data crash hassles are completely annihilated. However, the success lies in choosing the best network drive storage solutions for your business.

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Indian Big Data solutions market to reach USD 153.1 million by 2014

 

Big Data solutions market opportunity is estimated to grow to USD 153.1 million by 2014, according to a NetApp commissioned IDC study titled "Here Comes Big Data: Perspectives from Indian Enterprises". This represents a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.8 percent for the period 2011-2014. Big Data solutions market opportunity stood at USD 58.4 million in 2011, with IT services and software contributing the major chunk of the overall Big Data solutions market.

The study revealed that Big Data solutions market in India is currently at a nascent stage, with only 5 percent of the organizations in the large and very large segment (with more than 1,000 employees) having embraced this technology. By 2014, IDC expects the market penetration to reach 18.4 percent of the organizations in the large and very large segment across different verticals.

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Imation Recognized by Tekne Awards for Innovative Data Storage Solutions - DailyFinance

A global scalable storage and data security company, was presented with a 2012 Tekne Award in the Computer Hardware and Electronic Devices category recognizing the Imation DataGuard Data Protection Appliance. Imation RDX Media Secure was also nominated as a finalist.The 2012 Tekne Awards honor Minnesota companies and individuals for technology innovation and leadership.

Data storage demands continue to evolve as IT professionals are now managing more digital content while also addressing security, business continuity and regulatory compliance. We often hear from our technology and channel partners that only Imation can deliver solutions to address the distinct storage needs of SMBs at a cost-effectiv.

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New Update! EaseUS Todo Backup 5.3 and EaseUS Deploy Manager Bring a ... - Massachusetts Newswire

EaseUS Software, as an innovative software developer for providing cost effective solutions for storage management and data protection, today released version 5.3 of its family of EaseUS Todo Backup products and the new release of EaseUS Deploy Manager. The latest version and new product has been enhanced a lot to meet the growing needs of PCs, workstations and servers users.

EaseUS provides software for important data backup, restore and retention of business-critical data. Clients include home, SMB users, service providers as well as international corporations. EaseUS’s cost-effective solutions ensure that optimal technological and economical use. Version 5.3 allows users to back up crucial information to cloud directory folder and then synchronously upload images to clouds like, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Dropbox for double protection of data.

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Nexsan SAN Storage Certified on Cisco UCS Servers - HPCwire

Nexsan, a leading independent provider of data storage systems, today announced that its E-Series high density SAN storage solution has been certified on both the Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) B-Series and C-Series server lines. The Nexsan E18, E18X, E48, E48X, E60 and E60X products are now all supported on Cisco UCS B-series and C-Series via fibre channel. Nexsan and Cisco have a strong and close technology partnership and this certification enables Cisco UCS customers to leverage all the power, efficiency and price performance of the Nexsan E-Series SAN via the UCS platform environment. Customers opting for the enterprise-class Cisco UCS servers can now enjoy complementary dense storage for unprecedented volumes of compute power and storage capacity in the least amount of space.

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CommVault shares jump on results, outlook - MarketWatch

The company, which provides enterprise level data-storage solutions, reported results for the second fiscal quarter on Monday, during the market closure, that included a 76% surge in earnings for the period. Net income rose to $13.9 million, or 29 cents per share, compared to $7.9 million, or 17 cents per share, for the same period last year. Adjusted earnings were 38 cents a share. Revenue rose 21% to $118.2 million Analysts had been expecting earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $115.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters. On a conference call Monday, the company said it believed Wall Street's revenue target for its 2013 fiscal year was "reasonable." Gabriel Lowry of Mizuho Securities wrote in a note that "CommVault is not experiencing the macro effects impacting its peer group, reflecting solid execution and strong underlying market demand.

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