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• Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array

  Hitachi Data Systems today announced a new midrange storage line that allows access to both block and file-based data through a single management interface.

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• Cisco, NetApp tout entry-level FlexPod cloud architecture

  Cisco and NetApp today announced plans to sell a new FlexPod cloud architecture, this time as an entry-level model designed and priced for smaller workloads.

• Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

  IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

• Ex-Vertica CEO Lynch pledges to build 'high-speed railway for Big Data'

  Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 young companies on the East Coast that deal with data sets characterized by "volume, velocity and variety."

• EMC VNXe 3100: Sweet entry-level NAS and SAN

  EMC is easily the largest enterprise storage player on the planet, with more worldwide storage revenue than its two closest competitors (IBM and NetApp) combined. But no matter how popular EMC's high-end Symmetrix and VNX product lines have been with large customers, EMC was rarely considered a great choice for the small-to-midsize-business sector.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech reaps rewards of market surge

  Tech companies, coming off a strong earnings season, were big winners Thursday as markets rose to multiyear highs on reports of a strengthening economy.

• IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

  IBM Tuesday unveiled several upgrade options for the flagship grid-based XIV Storage System, including the ability to use solid-state drives (SSDs) as cache to increase performance by up to three times.

• NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today

  Those of us with a bit of institutional memory recall a brash upstart named Network Appliance that burst onto the storage scene to challenge EMC -- itself once a brash newcomer -- and other storage royalty like IBM. But that was 20 years ago, as difficult as that seems to believe, and the company, now named NetApp, is $5 billion-plus storage leader in its own right.

• Atlantis Computing promises diskless VDI

  Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing today announced a new product that runs non-persistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.

• Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology

  Storage vendor Imation today announced it has acquired intellectual property and other assets of online backup provider Nine Technology.

• NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

  Iron Mountain today announced a secure cloud-based archive service for medical data based on NetApp's grid-architecture, object-based, storage software.

• Geelong Grammar School implements scalable SAN, disaster recovery

  Geelong Grammar School has reduced back-up and recovery time after installing a scalable storage system.

• Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product

  Texas Memory Systems (TMS), best known for its pricey, yet extremely high-performance NAND flash-based storage arrays, has introduced a new system that it said competes with Tier 1 hard drives on a price-per-gigabyte basis.

• SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key

  This vendor-written tech primer is submitted on the behalf of the NVMe Promoter Group, which is backed by Cisco, Dell, EMC, IDT, Intel, Micron, NetApp, Oracle, SandForce, and STEC. Readers should note it favors the NVMe's approach.