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Violin's $200 Million Acquisition? Don't Buy It

January 22, 2013 11:22 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Violin Memory has acquired GridIron Systems, a maker of SAN cache appliances. Speculators put the acquisition at $200 to $300 million, but the numbers don’t add up.

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Tags: Violin Memory, GridIron Systems, acquisition, cache, NetApp

Channel: Virtualization, Servers & Storage, Tapes and Disks

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Storage Head-Scratchers

January 18, 2013 10:43 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Not every idea that comes out of the storage industry is a good one. Here are three developments in storage encryption, patents and holographic storage that have got me scratching my head.

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Tags: encryption, patents, holographic storage

Channel: Tapes and Disks, Servers & Storage, Data Protection, Data Center

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Can Hybrid Drives Win the Notebook Market?

January 14, 2013 11:38 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Solid-state hard drives (SSHDs) offer the speed of all-flash drives and the capacity of traditional disk. But increased capacity and falling costs of SSDs may negate those advantages in the notebook market.

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Tags: SSHD, SSD, flash, disk drives, notebooks, Toshiba, Western Digital, Seagate

Channel: Tapes and Disks, Servers & Storage

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Imation Acquires Nexsan; Steps Toward Full-Service Storage Provider

January 02, 2013 06:49 PM
Posted by Howard Marks

Imation continues to broaden its product portfolio and strengthen its hand in SMB and SME data centers with the purchase of Nexsan.

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Tags: Nexsan, Imation, storage, SAN, SMB

Channel: Data Center, Tapes and Disks

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Flash Vendors Acquire the Cache

December 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Samsung’s acquisition of caching vendor NVELO hints that SDD caching may be moving from servers to desktops.

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Tags: Samsung, NVELO, SanDisk, SSD, caching, servers, desktops

Channel: Content Management, Tapes and Disks, Servers & Storage, Data Protection

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Hot Flash: Researchers Use Heat to Counter NAND Flash Wear-n-Tear

December 10, 2012 11:40 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Engineers have announced a new technique using heat to extend flash write/erase cycles from 10,000 to 100 million or more. But while tech breakthroughs are great, prudent management may be a better solution to flash’s lack of endurance.

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Tags: Flash, NAND, SLC, TLC, MLC, storage, controllers, Macronix, heat

Channel: Backup & Recovery, Data Center, Tapes and Disks, Content Management, Servers & Storage, Data Protection

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