Category Archives: Peter Williams

Imation’s Nexsan boosts storage value credentials with eMLC flash and 4TB SATA

NST5000 Series hybrid offers 5PB capacity and halved solid state cache costs – and hints at a future climb up the enterprise food-chain Continue reading

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Storage technology trends to veer off course in 2013?

Not quite your average predictions list Continue reading

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Will we reach true storage agility in 2013?

The concept is simple: make it quick and easy to tweak the whole server-storage infrastructure to meet fast-changing business needs; but is this hope realistic? Continue reading

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IP Expo 2012: an oldie’s view

After 47 years in the industry, I no longer feel a need to rush around IT exhibitions cramming in maximum information; here I hope is my more measured overview Continue reading

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Rebranded Storage Fusion adds server virtualisation analysis

Software designed to provide overview straddling applications, server and storage relationships Continue reading

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Nimble announces scale-to-fit on the fly storage expansion

This is about flexibility – part scale-out for extra storage capacity with no performance loss but part to fit a mid-market organisation’s application mix Continue reading

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Coraid releases ZX-Series NAS – rides file data explosion into big data

Coraid’s ZX-Series combines ZFS and scale-out Ethernet SAN to provide unified storage for cloud, video and big data workloads Continue reading

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Virsto for XenDesktop 5.5 extends multi-visor virtual storage provision

Virsto expects dramatic rise in VDI usage as it adds XenDesktop with VMware to its VDI portfolio Continue reading

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Nutanix virtual server-storage appliance removes network hops to data

No-SAN virtual server-storage appliance scales out to thousands of VMs Continue reading

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Tegile Systems’ special SSD-SAS mix optimises storage performance-capacity-price

18-month old VC start-up uses its unique architecture to achieve the best of all storage and data protection worlds Continue reading

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