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Quantum computing gets recursive

Quis custodiet ipsos quanta?
Richard Chirgwin, 01 Oct 02:57

Sceptical markets snub Violin Memory: Can the flashy biz bounce back?

Comment It ain't getting any easier in the flashy upstart world - where's the dosh, Don?
Chris Mellor, 30 Sep 18:03

Hyperscaling gives you power when you need it

How to grow and shrink like Alice
Dave Cartwright, 30 Sep 17:03

How to break out of the storage hardware zoo

In search of scalability
Bryan Betts, 30 Sep 15:23

Actifio and the curious affair of the AIX copy reduction tech

'Been breeding in the wild for a long time, there's some strange beasts out there'
Chris Mellor, 30 Sep 06:56

Hong Kong's data centres stay high and dry amid Typhoon Usagi

Feature 180 km/h winds kill 25 in China, but the data centres keep humming
Phil Muncaster, 30 Sep 06:31

VMware vSAN test pilots: Don't panic but there's a chance of DATA LOSS

AHCI SATA controller won't play nice with Virtzilla's robo-storage beta
Simon Sharwood, 30 Sep 01:23

EMC snaps up ex Symantec veep to rule new HPC skunkworks

And hybrid cloud storage gateways - which EMC don't (yet?) do
Chris Mellor, 27 Sep 14:38

eBay unveils data center that runs on fuel cells

Filthy backup diesel generators worry about job prospects
Jack Clark, 26 Sep 18:45

WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP

Less than £0.04/GB, but it loses the Thunderbolt speed
Chris Mellor, 26 Sep 12:13

When the SSD came to storage land: How flashy upstarts got their break

Storagebod Startups rush in where vendor giants fear to tread
StorageBod, 26 Sep 08:35

Brocade virtual fabric tells multi-tenant story

Claims better networking, easier moves
Richard Chirgwin, 26 Sep 04:33

A Tapestry of network complexity

Open source network scoring tool set for release
Richard Chirgwin, 26 Sep 00:42
HP

HP unleashes OneView admin tool on lazy, uncooperative servers

One platform to manage them all, one platform to define them
Jack Clark, 25 Sep 20:45

Opinion

Google Lenoir datacentre with Oracle tape libraries

Disk-pushers, get reel: Even GOOGLE relies on tape

Comment Prepare to be beaten by your old, cheap rival

Fancy facing an Amazon backup beatdown on cold storage spinners?

Blocks and Files Seagate's EVault arm does, according to storage insiders
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 08:03

Storage array giants eye up cloud rear ends – but will it end in tiers or tears?

Blocks and Files Spooks, schnooks ... NSA isn't going to scare off this money maker
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 06:59

How many apps does it take to back up your data?

Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott counts the ways
Trevor Pott, 23 Sep 17:00

News

5 years in storage: Flash mutants, big data and (WTF is) the cloud

So many changes ...to StorageBod's *vocabulary*, at least
StorageBod, 25 Sep 16:03

Virident bulks up FlashMAX, but it still can't sprint

Flash card's had too many protein shakes and not enough treadmill time
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 11:59

Look out, world! HP's found a use for Autonomy - rescuing Win XP bods

Life-support switch-off deadline looms, wouldn't want anything to happen to your lovely data
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 10:43

Disk-pushers, get reel: Even GOOGLE relies on tape

Comment Prepare to be beaten by your old, cheap rival
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 09:04

Fancy facing an Amazon backup beatdown on cold storage spinners?

Blocks and Files Seagate's EVault arm does, according to storage insiders
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 08:03

Storage array giants eye up cloud rear ends – but will it end in tiers or tears?

Blocks and Files Spooks, schnooks ... NSA isn't going to scare off this money maker
Chris Mellor, 25 Sep 06:59

Dedupe-dedupe, dedupe-dedupe-dedupe: Flashy clients crowd around Permabit diamond

3 of the top six flash vendors are casing the OEM dedupe tech, claims analyst
Chris Mellor, 24 Sep 08:05

Microsoft lures punters to hybrid storage cloud with free storage arrays

Spend on Azure, get StorSimple box at the low, low price of $0
Simon Sharwood, 24 Sep 01:58

How many apps does it take to back up your data?

Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott counts the ways
Trevor Pott, 23 Sep 17:00

Pure poaches NetApp preacher

Stewart dumps disk array drama to fluff flash
Chris Mellor, 23 Sep 14:24

StorNext gets revamp, Quantum claims 5x data throughput boost

Multi-threaded code, flash, metadata redesign and Infiniband support
Chris Mellor, 23 Sep 07:04

Flash biz and virtual database chum: Our tests show we bust spinning rust

Pure Storage and Delphix splatter platters in home-made benchmark
Chris Mellor, 20 Sep 17:03

Five reasons why you'll take your storage to the cloud

And five reasons why you won't...
Trevor Pott, 19 Sep 11:14
IBM 3410 open reel tape subsystem

Tracking the history of magnetic tape: A game of noughts and crosses

Feature Part Two: 'Tis a spool's paradise, t' be surrrre
Bob Dormon, 19 Sep 10:07

Cloud storage biz, one careful owner, six years on the clock... any takers?

Nirvanix keels over, careened by Channel consort, d'ye see?
DDN WOS7000

Wizard of WOS drops screen, reveals TREELLION object storage array

Data Direct Networks prepares to board Amazon S3. It's cutlasses now, lads
Chris Mellor, 19 Sep 07:03
Hadoop elephant

Apache Foundation embraces real time big data cruncher 'Storm'

Does for real time processing what Hadoop did for batch processing
Simon Sharwood, 19 Sep 03:55
Oracle engineered systems

Oracle halves cost of ExaLogic middleware platform

How much would you expect to pay for this quality elastic platform?
Simon Sharwood, 19 Sep 02:33