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Nimble Storage Joins Oracle, Cisco for SmartStack Package

SAN FRANCISCO—Hybrid NAND flash and disk storage provider Nimble Storage on Sept. 23 announced a new SmartStack converged infrastructure software package that uses Oracle...

Oracle Adds Big Memory to Big Data Hardware Lineup

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle has moved its prime focus from "big data" to "big memory," carving out yet another IT buzz phrase in the process.Mere hours...

Reaction to Nirvanix Shutdown Reiterates Importance of Backup

Nirvanix is a cloud storage service provider with a lot of promise. It has smart technology, smart people running it, previous VC backing and...

Why VCE’s Newest Vblock Systems Demonstrate Innovation

When VCE started up as an independent co-op company founded in partnership by EMC, Cisco Systems, VMware and Intel in 2009, the idea was...

CipherCloud Ratchets Up Security for Box Cloud Storage

With the U.S. National Security Agency causing international concern with revelations of how it maneuvers around encryption and gets into files transported over the...

BI Software Market Projected to Reach $40B by 2018: Researcher

Get used to the acronym IoT, for Internet of Things, because the software that is running it is fast becoming a full-fledged business market.As...

Nirvanix Going Under, Gives Customers Two Weeks’ Notice

Here's a rarity in the storage business: a cloud storage provider apparently goes under water and needs to close down operation, leaving customers only...

Coraid Appoints Dave Kresse CEO to Continue Expansion

Coraid, an ahead-of-the-curve new-gen scaleout storage provider, is making a switch at the top, but not because there are any problems with how the...

Michael Dell Finally Gets His Wish: Back to Privately Held

Let IT history note that on Sept. 12, 2013, Michael Dell regained control of the namesake company he started in his University of Texas...

Red Hat Offering Free Storage Testing on AWS This Month

Red Hat revealed Sept. 10 that it is making available storage testing as a service through Amazon Web Services, providing enterprise users a hands-on,...