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Week in review podcast: Nexsan’s unified storage architecture; and more
Listen to the week’s top storage news: Nexsan launches its first multiprotocol storage system; IDC reports slowdown of storage sales growth; and more.Podcast | 09 Mar 2012
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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost.News | 05 Mar 2012
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Starboard Storage offers unified storage system with SSD storage tiers
Newcomer Starboard Storage brings out a unified storage system that uses solid-state drive (SSD) storage tiers for performance acceleration.News | 13 Feb 2012
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Coraid expands ANZ presence
Ethernet SAN solutions developer has invested $50M towards international expansion and increasing its ANZ presence.News | 10 Nov 2011
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What the Dell/EMC breakup means for the storage industry
Dell and EMC have both decided not to enter another formal alliance, a decision analysts say is a very significant change in the storage industry’s dynamics.Report
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Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census
Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.News | 26 Sep 2011
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Bad Sectors: the latest storage news
Our regular roundup of storage news sees EMC notch a Canberra win, a couple of agencies announce their plans to buy SANs, Ninefold's sneakernet, a nasty rumour about HP and a new entrant to the local SAN market.News | 25 Sep 2011
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VMware CEO Paul Maritz on the role of storage in the virtual world
VMware has recently released some products that threaten traditional storage models. What’s the company up to? CEO Paul Maritz explains the company’s attitude to storage in this brief podcast from VMworld 2011.News | 29 Aug 2011
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How ASIC stops I/O storms hurting its SANs
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has deployed virtual desktop infrastructure, creating 3000 desktop images for its 2300 staff. At VMworld it explained how it runs that fleet without boot storms hurting its SANs.News | 29 Aug 2011
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Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board
Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.News | 01 Aug 2011
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Storage networking infrastructure trends must figure in upgrade plans
Staying abreast of the latest trends in storage networking infrastructure will help you when you’re ready to consolidate and virtualize your data center.Feature
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Why storage administrators have become bandwidth day traders
Virtualisation has “removed the natural constraints for server deployment” and the result is fierce competition for storage area networks’ resources and a new role for storage administrators.News | 15 Apr 2011
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Intel introduces OpenFCoE, offers cheap fibre channel over Ethernet on-ramp
Intel has introduced a new, cheap, way to connect servers to Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, and taken a dig at other FCoE rivals along the way. But the release may not save users the real cost of a new FCoE network.News | 30 Jan 2011
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Brocade gets into the HBA business
Analysts predict the move will result in price improvements for users and suppliers, and reduce the number of SAN vendors involved in a deployment.News | 25 Aug 2010
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Melbourne IT plans to deploy EMC's new VPLEX storage federation and virtualization array
EMC has announced a new storage virtualization device, named VPLEX, which allows the creation of logical storage resources that span physical arrays on multiple sites. Local beta tester Melbourne IT plans to deploy the product.News | 11 May 2010
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EXCLUSIVE: NetApp document Tip EMC's Celerra, Clariion to go EOL in 2010, successor to emerge in Q3
In a document sent to staff and resellers, NetApp predicts the configuration of EMC's Clariion and Celerra successor, but says the new products will only be announced at EMC World as a marketing gesture, but will not ship until the third quarter of the year.News | 30 Apr 2010
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Good reasons to adopt 8 GB Fibre Channel
Do you really need 8 GB Fibre Channel? If you want to take advantage of server virtualization, and solid-state disk, the answer is yes!News | 26 Feb 2010
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Disappearing cheap IBM SAN: the disty done it?
UPDATE: dStore says the the product's distributor is behind the disappearance of an ultra-cheap SAN from its site.News | 08 Dec 2009
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Sun hints at Oracle-on-open-storage roadmap
Sun has hinted that its open storage systems will be able to handle Oracle applications in an appliance-style configuration and has also said it intends to take on tier one array vendors, with EMC and NetApp firmly in its sights.News | 16 Nov 2009
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) implementation guide
If you're thinking about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), read on to learn about some of the issues you will face when upgrading to the new standard.Tip
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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost.News | 05 Mar 2012
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Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board
Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.News | 01 Aug 2011
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ISCSI replacing Fibre Channel as dominant storage network technology
ISCSI is well on its way to replacing Fibre Channel as the de facto technology for SANs.News | 28 Oct 2010
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ISCSI storage gets performance makeover
Vendors, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.News | 18 Oct 2010
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REVIEW: NetGear ReadyNAS NVX
NetGear’s ReadyNAS NVX is a solid unit that will only be enhanced b the company’s recent appointment of a pre-sales champion to develop solutions for its channel.News | 25 Aug 2010
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Riverbed testing iSCSI optimisation for cloud computing
Riverbed working to optimise iSCSI performance over wide area networks, to boost storage systems’ performance in cloud computing rigs.News | 23 Aug 2010
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iSCSI, the cloud, and the accelerator start to converge
As iSCSI gains traction in the market, it’s bringing about an interesting shift: the idea of storage networking, even if it’s not described in such terms, is becoming attractive to smaller businesses.News | 20 Aug 2010
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Small storage devices a hit at big hotel
Riverbed working to optimise iSCSI performance over wide area networks, to boost storage systems’ performance in cloud computing rigs.News | 23 Apr 2010
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EXCLUSIVE: Four new Sun Open Storage models revealed
SearchStorage ANZ can reveal the specs of four new open storage devices from Sun, codenamed “Anago”, “Witte”, “Riverwalk 2” and “Iwashi+”.News | 18 Nov 2009
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Dell bundles software with new SAN
Dell has announced a new SAN and Microsoft Storage Server Appliance and says it expects both will help it to win more business from vendors of larger arrays.News | 17 Jun 2009
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Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census
Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.News | 26 Sep 2011
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Four hot storage startups from the floor at VMworld 2011
VMworld 2011’s Solutions Exchange saw a bright new crop of storage companies step onto the industry’s stage. We were there to watch them debut.News | 12 Sep 2011
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How ASIC stops I/O storms hurting its SANs
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has deployed virtual desktop infrastructure, creating 3000 desktop images for its 2300 staff. At VMworld it explained how it runs that fleet without boot storms hurting its SANs.News | 29 Aug 2011
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Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board
Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.News | 01 Aug 2011
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New Zealand Bank banking on SAN virtualisation strategy
Kiwibank has acquired new HDS SANs to assist with its virtualisation strategy, but has not consolidated SANS, instead buying single-purpose arrays.Case Study | 17 Jul 2011
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EMC plans VMAXe vBlocks
EMC plans create vBlocks around its new VMAXe storage array, says Brian E Gallagher, President of the company’s Enterprise Storage Division.News | 17 Jul 2011
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VSphere Storage Appliance to replace mid-range arrays: analyst
An analyst says VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance, launched today, will eventually cause the demise of products like EMC’s Clariion and NetApp’s low-end FAS.News | 13 Jul 2011
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REVEALED: HP's 5th generation EVA arrays
HP will soon launch two new additions to its EVA range. The new range is dubbed the P6000 and HP will offer two models, the P6300 and P6500. The company has also lashed rivals EMC and NetApp, saying its new products are simpler and more reliable.News | 04 May 2011
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Why storage administrators have become bandwidth day traders
Virtualisation has “removed the natural constraints for server deployment” and the result is fierce competition for storage area networks’ resources and a new role for storage administrators.News | 15 Apr 2011
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EMC SAN leads server upgrade at Statewide Super
Trouble finding disks for an old SAN saw Statewide Super look for a new array, provided by EMC. The key element of the decision? Cheap vendor finance.CASE STUDY | 21 Nov 2010
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Avere Systems gives NAS acceleration devices an edge
Avere Systems upgrades NAS acceleration software, adding more control over namespace and asynchronous replication for the cloud.News | 30 Mar 2012
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Scale-out network-attached storage: Options in today’s market
Scale-out NAS systems are gaining interest due to rapid growth of file data and “big data” analytics. Here’s a look at the scale-out NAS vendors.News | 07 Feb 2012
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Scale-out network-attached storage: What you need to know
Scale-out NAS is replacing traditional network-attached storage. In this guide, you’ll find out how to stay ahead of this emerging technology trend.Tip
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How to choose a NAS
Choosing a NAS might be complex but there are a few things you can do to simplify the choiceTip
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Apple’s weird storage decision
Apple has adopted a non-standard SATA interface in new iMacs. We’re trying to figure out why.News | 20 Jun 2011
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REVIEW: Synology DS1511+
Synology’s DS1511+ is a NAS with intriguing possibilities that become apparent once you get over some irritating glitches.Review
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EMC won’t sell one VNX product in Australia
EMC has officially launched its new VNX and VNXe products, but will leave one of the new products out of its local range and sell a Clariion system instead.News | 18 Jan 2011
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Symantec Australia leaves its NAS offshore for now
Symantec has launched a new range of storage appliances, but isn’t bringing all of them to Australia ... yet, so it can concentrate on taking on the data deduplication market pioneered by Data Domain.News | 18 Jan 2011
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EMC acquires Isilon
EMC has acquired clustered NAS specialist Isilon for $US2.25 billion.News | 15 Nov 2010
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NetApp wins big at DECCW
NetApp has had a big win at the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.News | 12 Oct 2010
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Avere Systems gives NAS acceleration devices an edge
Avere Systems upgrades NAS acceleration software, adding more control over namespace and asynchronous replication for the cloud.News | 30 Mar 2012
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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost.News | 05 Mar 2012
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Scale-out network-attached storage: Options in today’s market
Scale-out NAS systems are gaining interest due to rapid growth of file data and “big data” analytics. Here’s a look at the scale-out NAS vendors.News | 07 Feb 2012
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Scale-out network-attached storage: What you need to know
Scale-out NAS is replacing traditional network-attached storage. In this guide, you’ll find out how to stay ahead of this emerging technology trend.Tip
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REVIEW: Synology DS1511+
Synology’s DS1511+ is a NAS with intriguing possibilities that become apparent once you get over some irritating glitches.Review
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Hitachi Data Systems teams with Microsoft for unified computing platform
HDS has become the latest vendor to offer a stack of storage and servers, after the company decided to bring its previously Japan-only Blade Symphony product to the rest of the world.News | 19 Apr 2010
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Is NetApp preparing to defend 'unified' storage?
NetApp seems to be mobilising its bloggers to defend its “unified storage” position as the industry prepares for EMC's rumoured entry into the space. Also this week, bloggers start to contemplate deduplication in more depth.News | 01 Apr 2010
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UPDATE: New channel focus leads to depature of NetApp Australia marketing director
NetApp and its Australian Marketing Director Roger Mannett have parted ways, as the company increases its focus on the channel.News | 03 Mar 2010
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Another internal NetApp document comes to light, HDS rounds on EMC’s FAST
The storage blogosphere has lit up with comment, criticism and crankiness about EMC’s FAST technology, with HDS and 3Par leading the charge. NetApp is silent, for now, but is still leaking internal documents, while Seagate announces a solid state disk.News | 10 Dec 2009
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Rein in NAS with file virtualisation
File virtualisation can reduce storage TCO and increase availability, as we explain in this feature on the technique.News | 09 May 2008
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