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Newcomer Maxta Exits Stealth to Converge Compute, Storage

Storage newcomer Maxta came out of stealth mode Nov. 12 with a new software-defined platform that mashes virtualized and physical storage into one single-pool...

EVault Offers One Year Free Data Protection for Azure Users

EVault, trying to lure some new enterprise customers in the Microsoft cloud, announced Nov. 7 that Windows Azure users who sign a new enterprise...

HGST Comes Out With Industry’s First 6TB Hard Drive

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Western Digital's HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division on Nov. 4 moved the storage capacity needle up a big notch by...

Brocade, EMC Join for Software-Defined Storage Package

Data center network provider Brocade and storage giant EMC are adding some new functionality for systems in which they each play.Brocade's storage-area networking management...

Dell Integrates NetVault Backup Into Disk Backup Appliance

Dell Software, which was Quest Software until last year, said Oct. 1 that its enterprise data protection product, NetVault Backup, now has been fully...

Axcient Speeds Up Data Transfer in Cloud Storage

Small-business cloud storage and disaster-recovery provider Axcient on Sept. 26 came out with a proprietary new WAN-optimized cloud sync protocol that accelerates data transfer...

Nimble Storage Joins Oracle, Cisco for SmartStack Package

SAN FRANCISCO—Hybrid NAND flash and disk storage provider Nimble Storage on Sept. 23 announced a new SmartStack converged infrastructure software package that uses Oracle...

Coraid Appoints Dave Kresse CEO to Continue Expansion

Coraid, an ahead-of-the-curve new-gen scaleout storage provider, is making a switch at the top, but not because there are any problems with how the...

Oracle Launches Advanced New ZFS Storage Appliances

Oracle on Sept. 10 unveiled several new ZFS (zettabyte file system)-based storage appliances, the ZS3 Series. The new systems use an advanced cache architecture...

Skyera Shoehorns 500TB of Flash Capacity Into 1U Box

Skyera, an upstart all-NAND flash storage provider, has been making news lately. A year ago, the San Jose, Calif.-based storage hardware and software maker...