DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference
For a cloud storage provider, Dropbox puts on quite a show. On Tuesday it held its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco, and there was plenty of colorful activity to see.
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Red Hat builds on its open source storage portfolio
Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers.
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SanDisk enters the auto industry, sets sights on wearables
SanDisk today announced its first automotive grade NAND flash devices for next-generation 'connected cars' and auto infotainment systems.
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Dell bundles backup software, eyes further development
Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify licensing for the enterprise.
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EMC acquires TwinStrata to push corporate data into the cloud
Storage vendor EMC has scooped up cloud storage management company TwinStrata, the companies announced Tuesday.
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Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance
Dell released a new virtualized storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN on Tuesday, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load.
Features about Storage Management
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New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge
Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators.
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Burning questions: Virtualisation
Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.
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NASs for the masses
Either because server disks are full or because virtualization is a natural growth path, organizations large and small are moving toward shared storage. For large enterprises, high-capacity storage-area networks make sense, but what about small or mid-sized enterprises new to shared storage?
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Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box
Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.