Storage news from FierceCIO

Enterprises may be harboring continued doubts about cloud-based storage systems, but the onslaught of big data may begin to override those doubts. The unprecedented expansion of unstructured data is Read more...

Enterprises have begun embracing open source storage and analysis system Hadoop even though technology issues and a host of questions related to data security and management remain. By enabling Read more...

Not so long ago Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) was the foremost networking gear provider, and it pretty much stuck to its knitting, partnering with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and IBM (NASDAQ: IBM) (and, to a Read more...

There were several data centers around Ground Zero that were wiped out on Sept. 11, 2001, and the data of dozens of organizations was lost. In the years since, backup data centers, once considered Read more...

More than 90 percent of enterprise-class corporations are foregoing public cloud storage for even their lowliest data, according to a survey by TheInfoPro. What these businesses are using for storage Read more...

Correction: The original story stated that NOAA has "20 billion petabytes" of data. This has been changed to "20 petabytes" of data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has more Read more...

Carnival Cruise Lines recently finished switching out its storage area networks from a Fibre Channel-based system to an Ethernet-based storage architecture using a virtualized server infrastructure. Read more...

The bidding war between Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell for data storage vendor 3PAR reached a dizzying height late last week when HP offered to pay $2 billion in cash for the little-known Read more...

Large corporations remain largely wary of embracing public clouds--such as those offered by Amazon, EMC, Microsoft or Rackspace--for their storage needs, preferring to continue investing in their own Read more...

Sales of disk storage systems in the first quarter this year were about 18 percent higher than in the first quarter last year, according to International Data Corp. The growth in total storage Read more...