Dell snaps up bankrupt Exanet

02/10/10

Dell in its second acquisition of the year announced Tuesday that it has acquired bankrupt clustered NAS vendor Exanet.

Kroll Ontrack expands into archiving

02/08/10

Kroll Ontrack last week expanded its product offerings into the archive space with the announcement of Ontrack Compass software for e-mail and file archiving.

Coraid peeks out of the cloud

02/03/10

A not-so new startup came out of stealth recently. Coraid, which was founded in 2000, announced that it has a new CEO and new funding and backing.

Intel Micron Flash Technology goes to 25 Nanometers

02/01/10

Last week Intel Micron Flash Technology (IFMT) provided tours of a NAND Flash fab in the hinterlands of Utah producing wafers at 25 nanometers. Yes, while we have all been calibrating our spreadsheets based on 34 nm lithography, the IMFT joint venture has built a 25 nm fab to crank out NAND MLC Flash that will turn the price-performance of current memory systems on their side.

Pillar rolls out new hardware; Quantum, Bocada unleash new software

01/27/10

Pillar Data updated its storage platform last week, while Quantum and Bocada launched new software to make it easier manage storage networks.

The week in storage news

01/26/10

EMC, Nexsan, BakBone Software and StorageCraft Technology last week rolled out new storage hardware and software that increases storage capacity, deduplicates data and allows the protection and recovery of Microsoft Exchange.

2010 solid state drive forces and trends

01/20/10

Happy New Year is more than a greeting in the solid state drive business. Many products that have been in the 'promised' stage are going to hatch during the next quarter or two.

Compellent rolls out Storage Center 5

01/19/10

Compellent last week announced that Storage Center 5 is available. The array now offers portable volume replication, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage, RAID 6 data protection, virtual IO ports, server mapping provisioning and consistency groups.

The state of the data center: Part 2

01/13/10

Symantec released its 2010 State of the Data Center study this week. This newsletter is part II of the study conducted by Applied Research of 1,780 respondents.

The state of the data center: Part 1

01/11/10

Symantec released its 2010 State of the Data Center study this week. The study conducted by Applied Research found that mid-size enterprises of 2,000 to 9,999 employees are more likely to adopt technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization and continuous data protection than either small or large enterprise size businesses.

2009: A year of storage acquisitions

01/06/10

2009 was marked again by its storage acquisitions. EMC acquired Data Domain for $1.2 billion. Dell picked up Perot Systems for $3.9 billion and Oracle topped out acquisitions with its $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems. Both the EMC and Oracle acquisitions garnered their share of controversy: EMC outbid NetApp for Data Domain and Oracle contended with the European Union over the acquisition of Sun.

Predictable storage predictions for 2010

01/04/10

The thing about predictions is they are predictable. Often they turn out as expected or predicted. That's the way with all the predictions for 2010 I've read in blogs in the last few weeks. So now if things are predictable or expected, here are my predictions for 2010 in the world of storage.

The year in storage

12/23/09

2009 was a year most don't want to remember. What with the recession and a downturn in storage spending taking up space in the news, there were a few highlights in the 2009 year in storage. They were in order of importance (at least by the amount of publicity they got):

EMC upgrades backup and recovery software

12/21/09

Only a few wisps of storage news this week from EMC, Virtual Instruments and start-ups Gridstore and Nasuni.

Unitrends launches vaulting and replication appliances

12/16/09

Unitrends, a vendor of disk to disk backup appliances, on Monday launched six new appliances that let customers vault and protect data across the enterprise.

Dell enters converged networking market

12/14/09

Dell entered the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market last week with OEM deals from Brocade and QLogic and endorsed 10GbE as a customer's technology of choice.

EMC finally rolls out FAST

12/09/09

EMC rolled out this week its much anticipated FAST software, which automatically migrates data between tiers of storage based on policies the storage administrator sets.

Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation

12/07/09

Symantec this week announced that it has enhanced three of its flagship products – Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server – with support for migrating data into and out of solid state drives and the ability to reclaim unused storage. In addition, the company has enhanced the failover capabilities of Veritas Cluster File System to work with structured data in Oracle, Sybase or IBM DB2 applications.

Locust launches power-efficient storage array

12/02/09

Locust Storage came out of stealth last week with the announcement of a 'green' storage product that allows a 90% reduction in power over traditional storage vendors.

Vizioncore, Drobo introduce software, hardware

11/30/09

While the rest of us were brining, stuffing and cooking turkeys in anticipation of Thanksgiving vendors such as Vizioncore and Drobo were busy introducing new software and hardware to the storage market.

Recap of a week in storage

11/23/09

Last week was a little slow in the storage world, except for news from EMC, Nexsan, Isilon, HP and others. Here's a recap of what happened last week in storage.

QLogic provides InfiniBand for HPC environments

11/18/09

QLogic announced this week that this month that its QDR InfiniBand adapters have been chosen by IBM, Dell and HP for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Specifically, IBM will integrate QLogic’s 7300 Series 40Gb/sec. QDR (quad-data rate) InfiniBand host channel adapters (HCAs) into its IBM System X servers and the company’s iDataPlex solution. Dell will also integrate the HCAs with its PowerEdge servers and Precision workstations into HPC environments. Finally, HP will resell QLogic’s HCAs and its edge and director-level InfiniBand switches with both its ProLiant and BladeSystem c-Class servers and also offer them as part of the company’s HPC United Cluster portfolio.

VMware, Cisco and EMC coalition show pre-emptive powers

11/16/09

During the last two weeks, including two full days at the EMC Analyst Summit, we have been educated (inundated) with information regarding the wonders of the coalition of VMware, Cisco and EMC to produce a series of integrated products that include unified computing (Cisco), virtualized operating systems (VMware) and integrated storage (EMC) called Vblocks.

Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled

11/11/09

Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call vBlocks, pre-configured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.

Brocade, Oracle partner for database, SAN connectivity

11/09/09

In a sweeping announcement, Brocade and Oracle last week introduced a variety of solutions designed specifically for use with Oracle database and applications. Based on existing partnerships with NetApp, Sun/StorageTek and EMC, Brocade and Oracle have put together end-to-end networking packages for data warehousing, business applications and virtualization environments.

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Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.