Storage

Violin Memory introduces Flash Storage Platform designed for primary storage

February 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Violin’s new platform is the first all-flash storage system designed to run all primary storage for less than traditional spinning disks, and should significantly expand what to date has been a limited North American channel presence.

Shawn Massey on selling disaster recovery

New Year’s Podcast Series: Shawn Massey of Storagecraft

February 10, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Storagecraft channel sales manager Shawn Massey recaps 2014 in DR, and offers his preview for what his company, and the industry, will accomplish in 2015.

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.

EMC rides EVO:RAIL with VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance

February 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC finally unveils its hyper-converged offering, with a key differentiator being a Market feature that allows EMC and ecosystem partner software to be downloaded.

Arcserve’s first appliance to hit the street by end of February

February 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

These models are aimed at the SMB and lower mid-market spaces, but more will be following which will take on the higher midmarket where the Symantec-Veritas NetBackup 5000 plays.

Startup Infinio looks to channel to take on flash vendors with new I/O optimization solution

February 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Infinio is announcing a partner program, looking to sign up and support a significant number of partners to sell an innovative software-based I/O optimization solution.