Deni Connor

 

 

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Recent articles by Connor

Publisher chooses Quantum for deduplication
Jul. 01, 2009
For Mark Fishell of book publisher Hay House, de-duplication of data wa everything.

Mimosa revs up new version of its content archiving system
Jun. 29, 2009
Mimosa Systems this week announced version 4.0 of its NearPoint content archiving system, which includes capture, de-duplication, data protection, full-text indexing, data retention and mailbox management for Microsoft ...

Memory virtualization debuts
Jun. 24, 2009
Memory virtualization vendor this week announced software that allows x86-based servers to share memory and make a pool of memory available for large data sets that require it.

10Gbit Ethernet heats up
Jun. 22, 2009
You might ask what 10G Ethernet has to do with storage. There's an obvious connection now with storage vendor QLogic getting into the game.

Vultures circle over Data Domain
Jun. 17, 2009
Not a lot of news last week, but anticipating this week will be full of the gyrations between EMC and NetApp over the body of Data Domain. Already the carrion are circling ready to pick off the remainders – a law firm ...

Cisco Fibre Channel share plummets
Jun. 15, 2009
Cisco's share in Fibre Channel networking fell 45% in the 1st quarter of this year, according to a Dell'Oro report, a move Dell'Oro says may have come about because of channel conflict.

EMC/NetApp recap on Data Domain
Jun. 10, 2009
Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here's what happened in NetApp's efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor.

Storage performance/energy consumption rises
Jun. 08, 2009
Last week, industry arbiter The Storage Performance Council (SPC) announced a new benchmark for measuring the energy consumption of storage devices.

Hitachi unveils virtualization clustering
Jun. 03, 2009
Hitachi Data Systems last week introduced clustering for its Universal Storage Platform V virtualization array, a move that disappointed many analysts in the industry because they expected HDS to announce a next- ...

Help Nick Glasgow
Jun. 01, 2009
EMC employee Nick Glasgow needs a bone marrow transplant. He's suffering from leukemia. Here's the catch – if he was white, he'd be assured finding a match – but Glasgow is one-quarter Japanese and the chances for ...

IBM rolls out converged network architecture
May. 27, 2009
If converged networking was a Texas Hold ' Em game, IBM and QLogic came up with royal flushes this week.

NetApp acquires Data Domain
May. 22, 2009
NetApp blew its top last week with the acquisition of data deduplication vendor Data Domain for $1.5B.

Rackable becomes SGI
May. 20, 2009
When storage and server vendor Rackable acquired SGI recently, no one expected the company would take the name of a flagging vendor. But that is exactly what happened – Rackable became Silicon Graphics International ...

Data Domain introduces data shredding
May. 18, 2009
Lots is going on in data retention and destruction this week as Data Domain introduced a shredding feature as part of its Retention Lock software.

Compellent and SSDs
May. 14, 2009
I spent last week at Compellent's C-Dive Partner and Customer Conference in Minneapolis. While Compellent didn't announce any new products or technologies, the company presented a fresh view of not only its Storage ...

PowerFile rolls out Blu-ray appliance for archive data
May. 12, 2009
PowerFile this week rolled out a new appliance for long-term archiving of fixed content, which is estimated to be 80% of all network data. The Hybrid Storage Appliance (HSA) uses a distributed performance architecture ...

Data Domain expands replication capabilities
May. 07, 2009
Data Domain this week announced enhancements to its Data Domain Replicator software. The company, which provides deduplication appliances to mid- and enterprise-size businesses, claims new software that supports a 90 to ...

Consolidation, trading barbs
May. 05, 2009
It's been an interesting month in storage what with all the consolidation happening.

Novell's Storage Manager
Apr. 30, 2009
Novell introduced Novell Storage Manager some years back. Formerly called File System Factory, the software allows IT managers to monitor and manage the unstructured data - Word, Excel, PDFs - residing on the file ...

CA upgrades ARCserve, XOsoft with virtualization capability
Apr. 28, 2009
CA this week made its yearly update to ARCserve Backup and XOsoft software, which includes more attention to virtualized environments.

3PAR rolls out new, fast arrays
Apr. 23, 2009
3PAR recently rolled out a new midrange array - the 3PAR InServ F-Class Storage Server - that has features many associate with high-end arrays.

EMC launches a new Symm
Apr. 21, 2009
EMC last week introduced what it calls a new high-end storage architecture - the Symmetrix V-Max (short for Virtual Matrix).

Rain on Storage Networking World?
Apr. 16, 2009
Storage Networking World (SNW) happened last week in Orlando, or did it? Attendance, which was flagging and blamed on the economy, seemed to be about half of previous years. Despite a lack of users - most of those ...

Brocade ups FCoE stakes
Apr. 14, 2009
Last week at Storage Networking World Brocade stepped right into the middle of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet fray with the announcement of two new converged network adapters and a top-of-the rack FCoE switch. Since ...

EMC bundles e-discovery, compliance and archiving software
Apr. 09, 2009
EMC last week bolstered its e-discovery, compliance and archiving software with a family of products called SourceOne that lets companies manage multiple content types from a central location. EMC claims that with ...