Big Data announcements are coming from the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 in New York this week, from industry leaders such as Hortonworks, Rainstor, and Appfluent.

Seeking to redefine cloud storage infrastructure, Seagate Technology rolled out its Kinetic Open Storage Platform. The platform simplifies data management, improves performance and scalability, while lowering total cost of ownership of average...

How does Dropbox store files for those 200 million users, who store 1 billion files every 24 hours? The company uses more than uses more than 10,000 physical servers to manage user content, along with Amazon Web Services. Here's an overview from...

Taking a company public seems to be popular once again, as the enterprise flash-optimized hybrid storage company Nimble Storage has filed registration with the SEC relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.

Emerging from stealth mode Tuesday, Andreesen Horowitz-backed startup Coho Data unveiled an SDN storage appliance called Coho DataStream, which packages key elements of public cloud into an on-premise solution.

Storage and archive solution provider Spectra Logic unveiled its vision for a low-cost, massively scalable "deep storage" tier that can store data "virtually forever" by supporting migration to future formats.

SGI announced that it has acquired big data storage virtualization provider FileTek, for an undisclosed amount.

Riverbed (RVBD) announced new hardware models and upgrades to its operating system on the Whitewater cloud storage appliance family.