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  • Nimbus Wants to Upset Enterprise Storage Market with Flash Storage

    Nimbus Data Systems (www.nimbusdata.com) has unveiled its vision—Sustainable Storage—and architecture—S-class—for enterprise network storage that is believed to be the first all-solid-state-drive-based (SSD) solution for the same price as enterprise-class hard disks. The price/performance claims are impressive, but analysts caution that the claims remain to be substantiated in the real world. "This is clearly a stand-alone…

  • Sony Says Goodbye to Storage Icon, Floppy Disks

    The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march toward its death came to an end on Friday, when Sony announced it will end domestic sales of the disk by the end of the year, and end production of the disks by March 2011. Japan’s Mainichi Daily newspaper reported  Sony, which commands a 70 percent market…

  • EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp Stand to Gain in Growing Storage Market

    Regardless of what’s happening with the economy, the amount of data to be stored is still growing at more than 50 percent per year, and the length of time that data must be retained is being extended, too. This means it’s a very good time to be among the vendors—EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp—selling storage…

  • HP Updates Integrity Server Line for Data Center

    HP is expanding its converged data center infrastructure strategy to include its mission-critical, Itanium-based Integrity servers. The rollout includes the first update of HP’s high-end Superdome in 10 years. Hewlett-Packard is bringing its high-end Integrity server platform into its converged infrastructure strategy. HP officials on April 26 rolled out a refreshed line of Integrity systems…

  • EMC, IBM Expand Storage Licensing Deal

    A couple of IT giants have decided to maintain their like-dislike relationship, at least for another five years. EMC on April 26 revealed the extension and expansion of a licensing agreement with IBM, first signed in 2006, which will continue to enable data center customers who have production elements from both companies to deploy EMC…

  • Enterprise Cloud Network Attached Storage Provider Expands

    Enterprise storage service provide Zetta, which provides on-demand network attached storage (NAS) as a service, is opening a new data service facility in the New York City metropolitan area, the company has announced. The new data center storage facility will be the third for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which already operates two facilities on the…

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