Storage News

Big data

HP unveils open Haven platform to analyse Big Data

News 11 Jun, 2013 Khidr Suleman

Acquired technology from Autonomy, Vertica and ArcSight powers billion dollar platform.

BBC

BBC cans tapeless Digital Media Initiative

News 24 May, 2013 Rene Millman

Auntie admits to wasting nearly £100 million on failed digital content management system.

Exit sign

NetApp confirms plans to cut 900 jobs

News 22 May, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Storage vendor has embarked on a company realignment scheme as Q4 profit dips.

Big data

HP teams with SAP to launch Kraken in-memory big data system

News 17 May, 2013 Rene Millman

Tech giants to harness 16 processors and 12TB to crunch through big data.

Google unifies cloud storage to give flexible 15GB limit

News 14 May, 2013 Michael Toso

Users can split free storage between Drive, Gmail and Google+ however they want.

Podium

EMC World 2013: EMC talks up flash storage ambitions

News 8 May, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Storage giant dismisses threat of flash competitors.

EMC World 2013: EMC debuts ViPR storage management software

News 7 May, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

EMC takes wraps off software-defined storage product on first day of conference.

Merger results

Fusion-IO acquires hybrid appliance maker NexGen Storage

News 25 Apr, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Flash memory purveyor splashes out $114m on hybrid storage vendor.

Library

British Library to help catalogue UK web domain contents

News 8 Apr, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

The organisation is one of six libraries tasked with recording the UK's web content.

Boxing gloves

Pure Storage prepares for flash battle with EMC

News 21 Mar, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

All-flash storage vendor marks UK launch with a heavy dose of industry fighting talk.

Oracle stocks drop as company misses Q3 target

News 21 Mar, 2013 Reuters

Tech titan blames its own sales force for dramatic undershoot

Fusion-IO snaps up ID7

News 18 Mar, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Flash storage player splashes out on UK software company.

Big Data word cloud

Gartner big data research suggests growing IT director interest

News 12 Mar, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Market watcher cites competitive fears and greater understanding as reasons for growing interest in big data.

EMC starts shipping all-Flash XtremIO storage array

News 5 Mar, 2013 Caroline Donnelly

Storage giant prepares to put Flash-based array on general release with limited rollout to select customers.

Kickstarter flooded with donations for biometric USB drive

News 21 Feb, 2013 Khidr Suleman

Project generates over $100k within 24 hours.

Servers

IBM takes on HP and Oracle with new low-cost servers and storage

News 5 Feb, 2013 Reuters

Big Blue to flesh out Power Systems range with new affordable products.

Calendar

Fusion-io slashes 2013 forecast as Apple and Facebook order cuts bite

News 31 Jan, 2013 Reuters

Flash storage firm feels the heat from drop in orders from key clients.

Big Data word cloud

Gartner hails rise of big data broker

News 10 Jan, 2013 Jane McCallion

Companies will need to employ specialists to monetise big data, analyst house claims.

HP Storage

HP Discover 2012: Firm offers "storage liposuction" with revamped portfolio

News 3 Dec, 2012 Khidr Suleman

HP introduces a single-system architecture, touting lower cost and up 100,000 times the performance of competitors in some cases.

Pages