Violin Memory Maestro software can migrate data from disk to flash arrays

Violin Memory Inc. launched software and an appliance this week that enables application acceleration, tiering and data migration between legacy spinning-disk storage arrays and Violin flash storage.

The Maestro Memory Services Software Suite ships on a 2U Violin Force 2510 Memory appliance.

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HP turns StoreOnce into virtual storage appliance

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today added to its disk and tape backup portfolios with a virtual appliance version of its StoreOnce deduplication technology and a midrange tape library.

The StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) is a software appliance system that runs as a virtual machine (VM) on industry standard hardware. The StoreOnce VSA runs the same software as HP's StoreOnce disk-based dedicated backup hardware appliances, so it includes federated deduplication and cross-family replication.

HP slapped the software-defined storage tag on the VSA.

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Sanbolic gives Melio clustered file system a distributed architecture

Sanbolic Inc. today launched its Melio 5 clustered file system and volume manager software with a new distributed architecture to turn commodity hardware into scale-out storage systems that take advantage of such flash resources as PCI Express cards and solid-state drives.

Melio 5 is host-based distributed software that creates storage nodes on commodity hardware, then clusters the nodes and provides RAID data protection capabilities for high availability. Melio 5 is designed to scale up to 2,048 nodes or 65,000 storage devices.

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Virtual storage 2012: VDI, VM-aware and software dominate news

The biggest news stories of 2012 about storage for virtual environments and storage virtualization involved using storage better for virtual desktops and servers. Software, particularly for virtual appliances, was also big news, but old-fashioned storage virtualization systems have stuck around too.

Here are the major news stories and trends in this category in 2012.

1. VDI storage problems solved

At many companies, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology went from the test and development phase to successful implementations this year, largely because those companies solved their VDI storage problems.

Storage vendors are offering reference architectures and benchmarks for VDI deployments using their products alongside those of computing and networking partners. Increased use of solid-state storage is also improving user acceptance of VDI.

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