July 21, 2006
Greg Reyes, former chairman and CEO of Brocade Communications, yesterday became the first charged executive in a widening stock options backdating scheme.
July 20, 2006
A recent study indicates that healthcare IT will spend $4.8 billion by 2015 to implement electronic health records in their organizations.
July 10, 2006
Sun, caught in the pique of shifting development, is letting customers know today that its open systems virtual tape library is no more.
June 28, 2006
The Bush Administration finally gets something right.
June 27, 2006
I met with Anue Systems today. Anue manufactures network emulation gear that simulates network delays and impairments such as bit errors, dropped packets and jitter in Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM and SONET networks.
June 21, 2006
McDATA today announced that the IETF has approved a new management information base (MIB) for virtual Fibre channel fabrics.
June 20, 2006
Two hundred breaches of data involving 80 million records have been reported in the past year and a half, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says.
June 14, 2006
It's interesting that in the storage industry, we've been using a storage interface that is over 26 years old.
June 12, 2006
Alberto, the first tropical depression of the season is approaching the West coast of Florida.
May 30, 2006
Hurricane season starts this Thursday -- are you ready?
May 23, 2006
In what may be the biggest data loss ever, the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs admitted that the records of 26 million veterans and their dependents had been stolen from a staffer's home.
The staffer had taken the laptop containing the names, social security numbers and birthdates home to work on a project. The laptop was subsequently stolen from the staffer's home in a neighborhood that has recently be plagued by break-ins.
The Veteran's Affairs says it is unlikely that the theives knew about the contents on the laptop.
May 22, 2006
I downloaded and installed Adaptec's StorAssure continuous data protection software today.
May 19, 2006
Symantec sued Microsoft this week over the misappropriation of its volume management software.
May 16, 2006
I was multitasking the other day -- watching Jeopardy on TV, reading the newspaper and cooking dinner -- when something storage-related caught my eye.
May 15, 2006
The consolidation of the wide area file services (WAFS) and WAN acceleration market continued this week with the acquisition of DiskSites by Expand Networks.
May 12, 2006
171 billion e-mails are sent each day, a study from the Radicati Group says. More than 70% of them are spam.
May 11, 2006
EMC, recognizing that providing service and support to its growing Microsoft base, made good on its promises to acquire companies of this kind. Today, it acquired the Interlink Group, a specialist in Microsoft integration and support services.
May 10, 2006
Normally, healthcare or financial organizations retain and archive e-mail for compliance with HIPAA or Securities and Exchange Commissions rulings.
May 09, 2006
Symantec today announced a variety of what they call 'new' suites of software and a new version of its Storage Foundation Suite.
May 05, 2006
I'm writing a story on implementing information lifecycle management and why and how companies are doing it. It appears that most ILM strategies are evolving out of a need to keep data longer for regulatory compliance.
May 03, 2006
In a surprise move, Quantum acquired ADIC yesterday for $770 million.
That's a big deal for Quantum -- it keeps the company from becoming irrelevant, observers say.
April 28, 2006
The identities of thousands of Long Island Railroad employees were set loose earlier this month by Iron Mountain.
April 27, 2006
Encrypting data at rest is becoming increasingly important as reports of lost tapes and disks persist.
April 20, 2006
In what the rumors foretold, Emulex acquired Aahrohi Communications yesterday.
April 19, 2006
I am toodling around the wilds of Wicklow -- Ireland, that is -- touring software and hardware companies.
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