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Nimbus Scores Major-League Win in 100TB eBay Deployment

Use cases, which illustrate real life in IT better than almost anything else, are sometimes underrated as relevant data points. Most often they do...

Seagate Gives Android Devices 500GB of Wireless Storage

Back from vacation and we're seeing plenty of news in storage, despite the usual mid-summer business lull.For example, Seagate chose Aug. 1 to open...

Teradata Apparently Getting Under Oracle’s Thick Skin

Ever heard of Oracle getting aggressive against competitors by publishing surprising claims in major international newspaper ads? Nah, can't be possible. (Right.)Well, it's true....

Gluster Seeking Beta Testers for Storage File System v3.3

Gluster, one of the more creatively named IT companies here in the Valley of Silicon, issued a beta release of open-source GlusterFS 3.3 on...

Is Cloud Storage Over-the-Top Too Expensive?

Is cloud storage, which appears to be a bargain off the top, overly expensive when compared to buying your own drive and keeping everything...

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Unveils Alternative to Hadoop

Valuable "big data" open-source software from an unexpected place is our topic for today.LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which has been using its home-developed, large-scale computing...

Nimble Storage Lands $25M Series D, and for Good Reason

Interesting bit of storage industry investment news on July 14, Bastille Day. Not that there's any connection with the French holiday, but year-old Nimble...

Nerds on Site Use iPads to Admin KineticD Cloud Storage

We at The Station enjoy discovering good and creative company names. It's perfectly OK, of course, to have your company named for what it...

Sir Paul to Rock ‘n’ Roll for HP Discover Conference

Sir Paul McCartney, who's way past 64 (hard to believe he'll be 69 on June 18), is really getting into IT lately.His new personal...

Newcomer Symform Challenges on Pricing, Unused Capacity

There's so much competition in online enterprise storage now that price wars are coming to the fore. But hey, that's capitalism -- you can...