Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) made separate announcements today with a similar theme: new products aimed at midmarket users continuing to experience storage growth, ...

Moving from a FAS2020 (12x300GB, two controllers in an "active/passive" configuration - controller 1 owns 10 disks, 7 data, 2 parity, 1 spare, while controller 2 owns just 2 in RAID4, 1 data, 1 parity ...

NetApp signed an OEM agreement this week with CommVault under which it will integrate that company's data snapshot technology. Under the deal, NetApp will OEM the SnapProtect feature of CommVault's ...

Anyone have any experience using a V-Series in front of your existing storage to dedupe VMWare datastores? I am looking at this for next years budget (35% guaranteed reduction in total storage used ...

The NetApp NearStore VTL products add some new wrinkles to the technology it acquired in the Alacritus buyout. Virtual tape libraries employ disk-based backup storage that emulates the behavior of ...

Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network ...