Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

In what it calls a transformational year for the company, 2011 saw OCZ Technology shift its corporate focus away from the DRAM market while enhancing its lineup of solid state drives (SSD). In an interview with Alex Mei, executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer of OCZ, Digi Times discusses OCZ’s recent shipping of its first […]

In an announcement by Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), the company introduced the RealSSD P320h solid-state drive (SSD) series. A new portfolio of PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state storage systems, the RealSSD P320h delivers extreme performance and endurance demanded by data-intensive enterprise applications including cloud computing, high-performance computing, data analytics, business intelligence, and video on demand, according […]

Meeting the demands of one of the fastest growing industries today, EMC (NYSE:EMC) has expanded its product line to unified storage with its newly launched VNX storage platform. NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) has significantly gained share in the data storage market but with competition from the storage market leader EMC in its core unified storage market, NetApp […]

Chris Mellor, in his article on The Register, examines the rising stars of the storage system market, EMC (NYSE: EMC) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP). The two pure play storage companies are ahead of Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), HP (NYSE: HPQ) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) by gaining market share based on revenue. Dell, HP and IBM, claims […]

According to Business Wire, DataCore Software announced its newest software release, SANsymphony- V. Storage-related barriers that prevent IT organizations from realizing the financial and operational goals of their virtualization initiatives are eliminated with this next-generation solution,the company claims. Well received in the industry, SANsymphony-V software allows data centers to achieve the robust and responsive shared […]

Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS)has introduced the 1U rackmount RamSan-710, the company’s second RamSan Series-7 system. The RamSan-710, claims the company, is the fastest (5 GB/s) 1U shared storage system. Easy to install, with four 8-Gb Fibre Channel or QDR InfiniBand ports, reports Businesswire, the RamSan-710 turbocharges datacenters with minimal impact on power and space. […]

In a press release on the company’s website, Bocada Inc. announced that it has added enhanced reporting functionality to its Prism solution. This addition, claims the company, provides a clear view into the performance of duplication jobs while tracking the data as it moves through its entire lifecycle – from initial creation to offsite storage. […]

InnoDisk Corp. dips into the server storage market through its acquisition of Actica, a USA-based server DRAM vendor. Developed for server applications, Actica Server Storage Solution offers both DRAM and Flash products. Included in the offerings are ECC Registered DIMM, PCIeDOM and SATADOM D150QV-L, E-class which are designed as enterprise SSD; and also Matador III, […]

To improve the speed, efficiency and simplicity of backup and recovery operations for customers, CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) has entered into a global OEM agreement with NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP). Under the agreement, NetApp will integrate elements of CommVault’s Simpana 9 software with NetApp SnapShot and replication technology, under the NetApp SnapProtect brand. Enterprise organizations face significant […]

In a press release presented on Market Wire, BridgeSTOR announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) to provide the first Application Optimized Storage (AOS) appliance equipped with Symantec Backup Exec 2010 deduplication suite. The agreement allows BridgeSTOR to deliver a deduplicating backup appliance with hardware-accelerated inline data compression, a […]

Businesswire reports that Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS) has introduced its patented Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) error mitigation technology on the RamSan-70 PCIe Flash card. This offering sets a new standard for Flash reliability through the addressing of plane and chip failures by dynamically bypassing failed Flash, reducing maintenance requirements and extending operating lifecycles. The […]

According to CRN, IO Turbine, a storage startup company, has released software that takes advantage of SSD and Flash storage on servers, increasing the performance of primary storage in virtualized server environments. Overcoming bottlenecks caused by multiple virtual machines sitting on clustered physical servers which are trying to access NAS or Fibre Channel or iSCSI […]