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Overland Launches New Autoloader for LTO Systems
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-05-01
Overland Storage, the San Diego-based company that has had to reinvent itself to remain competitive in the midrange and SMB storage markets, on May 1 announced the
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SGI Storage Gets Virtualized With New NAS
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-16
Data center systems provider SGI has introduced a new network-attached storage package, fully integrated with VMware's vSphere, that is aimed at IT systems with high-volume workloads. SGI hasn't
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WD's HGST Division Comes Out with 4TB 3.5-inch Drive
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-06
The ante has been upped again in the storage capaciousness department. Western Digital's HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division has produced the only 4TB,
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Violin Memory Snags Cool $50M in New VC Funding
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-04-02
Time to celebrate another Wall Street-type victory for the NAND flash storage array sector. Mountain View, Calif.-based Violin Memory, which makes new-generation solid-state memory
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Avere Rolls Out Edge Filer to Go with New NAS Architecture
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-03-30
They're doing some interesting things in new-generation storage IT in Pittsburgh. Noteworthy is Avere Systems, which on March 28 released a new network-attached storage
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Lions, Tigers, Bears--Oh My! Nat'l Geographic Goes Nirvanix
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-03-20
Nirvanix, one of the most progressive of the new enterprise cloud storage providers, has been making news lately.
First of all, whenever a customer with the international
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Pocket Use Case #1: Precise Software Moves to the Cloud
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-24
In the interest of saving time on delivering new and useful information, The Station is trying out a new feature here today. It's called a Pocket Use Case, or PUC for short.
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The Station Stops the Presses to Explain a Few Things
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-24
The Station wants to apologize to all of his readers. We've been spectacularly inconsistent with our posts for a long while, but that's now changing. We'll still be
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SoftLayer Launches New Worldwide Object Storage Service
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-15
Dallas-based SoftLayer came out with a heartfelt news announcement on Valentine's Day. The seven-year-old company, which started out as a Web hoster but now is into cloud
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BUMI No Dumi When It Comes to Replication-less DR
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-27
No, it's not pronounced "bummy." "Boo-mi" would probably be a phonetically more desirable description of the company that calls itself BUMI (Backup My Info!), a managed online
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HiDrive Offers Users 5GB of Free Cloud-based Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-20
A European cloud service is jumping headlong into the online storage wars here in the States. And it's put together an offer that will be tempting to a number of
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Atlantis Computing Shows Off New Approach to VDI Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-18
Upstart Atlantis Computing, which specializes in virtual desktop infrastructure storage and performance optimization, this week proclaimed that it has done away with storage
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Thailand, HP, Dell, EMC Head Storage News in 2011
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-06
Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data,
you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn't be simpler. Right. Well, the storage beat is a bit more
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Voice-activated ivee Clock Radio Stores 40 Commands
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-23
The Station got a surprising number of communications (emails, social networking IMs, etc.) about yesterday's story on the NeatDesk and Neat Receipt, so we might as well keep
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Neat Document Digitizers Cut Out Personal Paper Chases
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-22
There are still three days before Christmas, counting what's left of today. As we all know, some of the most intense gift-buying happens in the last few days before the
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