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Data Robotics, the brainchild of BlueArc founder Geoff Barrall, takes another step in moving from the consumer into the SMB networked storage space today with ta self-healing appliance that allows shared access among multiple hosts.
The Drobo Elite is the third model in the Drobo product ...
Hardware
Western Digital
Microsoft
(0:23) NetApp’s Georgens reports improved revenue; shrugs off EMC-Cisco deal
(3:17) EMC gives Avamar desktop and laptop support
(4:55) Quantum builds Scalar automated tape libraries for SMBs to scale
(6:10) HP expands laptop and desktop data backup with Data Protector Notebook ...
Other
Mozy says a high volume of traffic is to blame for a backup monitoring glitch flagged by a MozyHome user on his blog, but the online backup service says it has not lost any customer data.
Dan Frith, a technical consultant in Australia, wrote on his blog Penguin Punk earlier this week that he ...
Other
Another industry executive has defected to Xiotech Corp., this time from IBM, a little over a month after the company hired a former EMC executive as CEO.
Xiotech issued a press release today announcing the appointment of Brian Reagan as senior vice president of marketing and business ...
Hardware
IBM
SuperComputing 2009 is underway this week at Portland, and that means lots of InfiniBand news around products and OEM deals.
QLogic said today it has scored a string of OEM deals for its 40 Gbps InfiniBand devices, bringing its 7300 Series host channel adapters (HCAs) and 1200 Director ...
Hardware
Hewlett-Packard
(0:23) Microsoft Exchange 2010 adds email archiving and high availability features
(2:57) EVault and LiveOffice look to add cloud storage to Microsoft DPM 2010 and Exchange 2010
(6:08) Spectra Logic looks to leapfrog high-end tape storage market with T-Finity tape library
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Other
Claiming its approach to enterprise data security key management will assure users of reliability, CA this week launched a new Encryption Key Manager (EKM) software offering that runs on z/OS mainframe and can manage keys for CA Tape Encryption as well as IBM tape formats.
Stefan Kochishan, ...
Hardware
IBM
Although Hewlett-Packard spent $2.7 billion to buy 3Com Wednesday largely to make it more competitive with Cisco on the Ethernet switching front, the deal will also have implications for Cisco’s main storage competitor Brocade.
First, the deal means HP won’t be buying Brocade – at least not ...
Hardware
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
3PA actually beefed up its storage virtualization and provisioning features today without using the word “thin.” The vendor that pioneered thin provisioning rolled out three applications for automating storage management that work in connection with its thin provisioning but are not directly ...
Hardware
IBM
SSD supplier STEC’s stock price has taken a dive since the vendor reported last Tuesday that EMC will carry over its 2009 inventory of Flash drives into 2010. Shares have fallen almost $9.00 to $13.18 at today’s close. According to a report from MarketWatch :
Much of the ...
Other
HP made some storage updates today as part of a larger announcement aimed at SMBs looking to cut costs, including new Hyper-V bundles.
Storage-related updates include:
New application-integrated snapshot option for LeftHand iSCSI SANs. LeftHand already had application-integrated ...
Hardware
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft
QuorumLabs joined the storage world this week with a business continuity-in-a-box appliance for SMBs.
QuorumLabs claims its onQ boxes can help a company recover from any outage with one click, hence its tagline “One-Click Recovery.” It offers four models of the appliance in 1U or 2U ...
Other
(0:21) Enterprise data storage industry looks to EMC, Cisco and VMware’s alliance with caution
(3:00) Brocade SAN gear certified for Oracle bundles
(3:36) Hewlett-Packard adds Ibrix-based network-attached storage, upgrades storage virtualization
(4:47) Arkeia takes aim at EMC ...
Other
ZL Technologies Inc. sent out a notice today that its lawsuit against analyst firm Gartner has been dismissed.
In a statement, CEO Kon Leong said:
ZL believes that Gartner’s overwhelming influence on large corporations’ purchasing decisions, and its inaccurate ratings, including its bias ...
Online
There’s been some head-scratching around the storage industry after EMC CEO Joe Tucci and CFO David Goulden said on EMC’s earnings call last week that EMC would discontinue its reseller relationship with Dell. The execs said Dell and EMC would continue to focus on their OEM ...
Hardware
Michael Dell
EMC and Cisco today officially confirmed their long-awaited joint venture, called Acadia.
In a joint press release, the vendors referred to Acadia as “a joint venture focused on accelerating customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures through an end-to-end enablement of service ...
Hardware
Intel
Rumors began swirling around the time of VMWorld in September that EMC and Cisco would be creating a joint venture to sell infrastructure to support VMware. Last week, two stories appeared on the news wires indicating an announcement may be imminent.
A story from the Dow Jones Newswire that ...
Other
(0:23) Signs point to licensing problems as Apple discontinues ZFS development
(2:18) Quantum: ‘Our strategy is working’
SAN sales boosted by need for storage efficiency
(4:39) EMC lays out data archiving and eDiscovery plans
(6:19) Emulex leads its convergence strategy with Ethernet ...
Other
FalconStor Software is preparing its cloud strategy around a new file system it developed in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Executives on the vendor’s earnings call Wednesday evening described HyperFS as a storage virtualization/SAN-based clustered file system that will ...
Other
Two startups are taking a software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach to reporting on storage assets.
Storage Fusion Ltd , a UK company spun off by a private investment firm last year, claims to be reporting on storage environments of up to 60 PB, and signed a licensing agreement with GlassHouse ...
