Tens of thousands of users are deploying open-source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term ...

It’s a cliché by now to say that business runs on data and invariably that data is housed, managed and accessed in the Cloud. Moreover, most businesses now use a multi-cloud approach so as not to lock ...

In 2016, a group of companies banded together to address a key storage management challenge that they and their customers were facing – managing a heterogenous storage footprint that was hampering the ...

Nexenta's new NexentaStor 3.0 is the first commercial storage appliance software to incorporate in-line data dedupe with open-source ZFS, said Evan Powell, CEO of the Portland, Ore.-based storage ...

An IBM-led group of vendors on Tuesday announced the formation of an open-source community that will attempt to create a common but more flexible storage software-management platform. Under the ...

Big Blue is releasing an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

IBM announced today that the Eclipse Foundation, an open-source organization, has approved the creation of the Aperi Storage Management Framework Project, which is developing open-source storage ...

Those of you who weren’t able to attend the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum in New York last week missed out on a fascinating show. A panel discussion I moderated on virtualization and Linux ...

Bossie winners for network and online backup, NAS server, file and directory comparison, disk monitoring, and storage administration The InfoWorld Bossies are chosen annually by Test Center editors, ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Open-source software is non-proprietary software that can allow for collaboration and modification among developers. While developers are typically encouraged to view, modify, and improve open-source ...

Ten open source vendors made Network World’s Companies to Watch list one year ago. Read this story to find out what they’re up to today. One year ago, Network ...