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• Real-time tiering in a two tiered storage configuration offers the best performance gains

  Enterprises have long struggled with the storage conundrum of high capacity vs. high performance. Hard disk and solid state drives (SSDs) each offer advantages the other cannot match. Hard drives are the reigning kings of capacity, but lack the performance, ruggedness and power-saving features of SSDs. For all their advantages, SSDs are miles away from hard disk drives in delivering the capacity and cost-effectiveness required by enterprise applications.

• Do you really need data deduplication?

  Every IT decision maker either wants deduplication (dedupe) or needs it. At least that is what they are being told by the market and vendors who are trying to sell new functionality. The fact is, while deduplication can save backend storage, it is not a fit for everyone. Let's dive into the subject of dedupe and figure out if it is right for you.

• Cisco and NetApp tackle Hadoop

  Cisco and NetApp this week expanded their FlexPod storage and switching portfolio with a new design for big data workloads.

• Taking aim at Amazon, Google, Joyent offers tools to change the data analytics game

  Cloud computing provider Joyent, a company with robust engineering chops that's looking to compete with the heavyweights of the industry, today rolled out Manta, its newest service that offers object storage with baked in compute features.

• Ferromagnetics breakthrough could change storage as we know it

  A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials – and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage.

• 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

  Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.

• EMC touts VMAX Cloud Edition storage offering

  There's an increasingly competitive market for cloud storage options that are managed by providers but hosted on customer sites, providing the security of a behind-the-firewall storage option with the convenience of a managed hardware appliance.

• Panzura cloud storage controller gets NIST FIPS 140-2 certification for crypto

  Panzura, which provides what's called the Panzura Global Cloud Storage System for network-attached storage, backup and disaster recovery, today said its product has earned FIPS 140-2 validation for its encryption technology from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

• Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE

  Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach.

• Gartner: Top 10 cloud storage providers

  According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.

• Gartner: Cloud storage viable option, but proceed carefully

  Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says.

• Microsoft announces "me too" Cloud price drop for Azure

  Microsoft is the latest to drop the price of its Cloud computing services, following two price cuts each by Google and Amazon Web Services.

• Amazon Data Pipeline promises to ease management of data stored in multiple locations

  Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it.

• NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud

  Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud.

• STORE: Data storage holiday gift ideas

  If you're gadget fans like we are, all of this digital content creation leads us to need more places to store the stuff we're making.