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• Barracuda Intros Cloud LiveBoot For VMware For Speedy Disaster Recovery
  7:12 PM EST Tue. Jun. 18, 2013
  The new Cloud LiveBoot for VMware feature in Barracuda Backup 5.2 gives customers the ability to boot virtual machines after a disaster directly from backed up, compressed and deduped data in the cloud.
• HP Intros Flash-Optimized 3PAR Array, Virtual Dedupe Appliance
  3:59 PM EST Tue. Jun. 11, 2013
  HP used its HP Discover conference to refresh its storage product line, with the highlight being the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450, the first flash-optimized storage array from a top-tier vendor.
• NetApp Clustered Data Ontap 8.2 OS Highlights Software-Defined Storage, Service Quality
  10:30 AM EST Tue. Jun. 11, 2013
  New quality of service, scalability and backup capabilities in NetApp's new Clustered Data Ontap 8.2 storage operating system target making storage a centerpiece of a multitenant IT environment whether hardware-defined or software-defined.
• Dell Compellent: New Twist To Tiered Storage
  12:31 PM EST Wed. Jun. 05, 2013
  Dell Enterprise Forum news includes the ability to automatically tier data between high-performance SLC flash and high-capacity MLC flash storage, along with a new high-density enclosure.
• TechEd News: sTec Intros All-SSD Storage Appliance With Windows Storage Server 2012
  3:37 PM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  While sTec's new s3000 all-SSD storage appliance based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Sever 2012 offers availability and performance, one VAR questions whether there will be demand outside of all-Microsoft shops.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For May
  12:00 PM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  From network virtualization to big data analytics to unified communications hardware, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• Veeam Backup, Replication Software Adds Built-In WAN Acceleration
  7:57 PM EST Thu. May. 23, 2013
  Veeam has added built-in WAN acceleration and the ability to do full data restores from snapshots in its Veeam Backup & Replication v7 software as a way to improve disaster recovery capabilities for customers with virtualized environments.
• Citrix Is 'Going Mobile,' Opens XenDesktop 7, XenMobile To Any Device
  5:29 PM EST Thu. May. 23, 2013
  The new Citrix XenDesktop 7 and Citrix XenMobile, both of which were demonstrated this week at Citrix Synergy, are targeted at businesses looking to make external and internal apps and data available to their mobile users using any type of mobile device.
• TwinStrata Updates CloudArray To Target Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service
  10:22 AM EST Tue. May. 21, 2013
  TwinStrata's new CloudArray DRaaS lets customers take advantage of public storage clouds to get low-cost, on-demand Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service.
• 10 Hot Products From EMC World To Hit The Storage Scene
  2:00 PM EST Tue. May. 14, 2013
  Even thought there was nothing like the massive EMC 42-product release seen at the EMC World 2012, there was still enough new storage hardware and software unveiled at EMC World 2013 to make the visit worthwhile.
• Is Software-Defined Storage For Real Or A Lot Of Hot Air?
  10:20 AM EST Mon. May. 13, 2013
  Vendors debate whether software-defined storage will replace legacy storage hardware with commodity hardware.
• Software-Defined Deluge: Promises, Pitfalls And Players
  3:00 PM EST Fri. May. 10, 2013
  The software-defined environment is developing at breakneck speed as the industry looks at how -- and how much of -- the functionality of traditional data center hardware can be addressed via software.
• EMC Updates Isilon Storage Platform For Mobility, Cloud, Analytics
  4:02 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  EMC is adding mobility, cloud and big data analytics capabilities to its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS platform, and it plans to add dedupe and auditing capabilities by year-end.
• EMC's New Software-Defined Storage Play: Meet ViPR
  2:01 PM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  EMC's upcoming ViPR technology grabs the functionality of EMC, third-party and commodity hardware-based storage and presents it to applications to improve storage orchestration and management.
• Lenovo To Drop Iomega Brand On Joint EMC Products
  4:20 PM EST Thu. May. 02, 2013
  Iomega's NAS hardware will soon carry the LenovoEMC name as Lenovo looks to spark channel adoption of the storage products.
• Amazon's AWS Chief: Cloud Services Party Just Getting Started
  4:53 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  Top Amazon execs speaking at AWS Summit 2013 tell attendees that as the company moves from cloud servers, storage and databases to include networking, data warehousing and application services, AWS' full capabilities are only now coming into focus while its competitors are scrambling to keep up.
• Storage, Security Products Take Center Stage At AWS Summit 2013
  10:15 AM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  The AWS Summit 2013 conference will feature a wide range of solutions from vendors partnering with Amazon on improving the storage, movement, protection and security of data in the cloud.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For April
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  From predictive analytics to cloud and mobile application performance management to "big data" storage for SMBs, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• Egnyte, NetApp Partner On Enterprise File Sharing, Synchronization
  6:00 AM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  Egnyte has joined NetApp's partner program for service providers, making it easier for solution providers to deploy Egnyte's enterprise file sharing and synchronization technology on NetApp storage infrastructures, including NetApp Clustered Ontap, for both cloud and on-premises solutions.
• OpenStack Summit: 10 Vendors Putting Storage Front And Center
  10:50 AM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  When clouds based on the open-source OpenStack code are built, there will be no lack of storage thanks to the rush by storage vendors to be a part of the OpenStack ecosystem.
• Follow The Money: 21 Big Data Startups That Have Scored Big In Venture Funding This Year
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Dot.Com Redux? There's been a free flow of millions of dollars in venture capital to "big data" startups recently. Here's 21 that have scored big since the start of the year.
• HDS CEO Jack Domme Becomes Hitachi Ltd.'s First Non-Japanese Corporate Officer
  5:35 PM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), whose CEO is now the first non-Japanese corporate officer at Hitachi Ltd., has made a number of key executive moves as part of its bid to become less storage hardware-focused and more of an overall provider of solutions.
• Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:30 AM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  For the week ending April 12, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• PHD Virtual Buys VirtualSharp, Adds Disaster Recovery To Product Lineup
  8:07 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  The acquisition of VirtualSharp gives PHD Virtual technology for automated replication and testing of data for disaster recovery to go with its existing data protection technology for virtualized environments.
• 10 Virtualization Startups Getting Attention Right Now
  12:10 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  Virtualization startups are continuing to make noise despite many of them transforming themselves into cloud startups. Here are 10 that still call what they do 'virtualization.'