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....
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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....
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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....
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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...
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June 21, 2006
McDATA today announced that the IETF has approved a new management information base (MIB) for virtual Fibre channel fabrics....
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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May 10, 2006
Normally, healthcare or financial organizations retain and archive e-mail for compliance with HIPAA or Securities and Exchange Commissions rulings....
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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April 14, 2006
One of the coolest announcements made at Storage Network World last week was Microsoft's and IBM's rollout of a software-based driver for booting diskless servers...
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April 11, 2006
Crosswalk, a maker of storage resource management software for small and midsize businesses, is moving up the storage food chain....
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April 06, 2006
Microsoft announced this week that it has bolstered its Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 with new capabilities that make it more useful in departmental and...
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April 04, 2006
EMC and Intel are expected to announce this morning at Storage Networking World a partnership to sell EMC's Clariion AX150 low-end storage array....
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April 03, 2006
I always hate to point to someone else's blog besides mine, but when its a blog that is so entertaining, it's hard to exist....
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March 29, 2006
Morgan Stanley's e-mail woes escalated this week when an IT manager charged that he was fired for identifying e-mails that highlighted the investment firms' business...
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March 28, 2006
The International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) is proposing that the 512-byte disk block size be increased to 4K-bytes, more than eight times...
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March 24, 2006
The Better Business Bureau is launching a national initiative to help small businesses protect their customer and employee data....
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March 21, 2006
CommVault, a vendor of backup and recovery, compliance and business continuity software for Windows, Linux, NetWare, Macintosh and Unix Systems, filed for an IPO late...
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March 20, 2006
Novell's idea of frontier justice when it comes to supporting file and print services is users buying wholesale into the company’s migration path to Linux....
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March 17, 2006
It's been an expensive week for Merrill Lynch, which was fined $2.5 million for frittering away an SEC request to hand over e-mails....
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March 16, 2006
I'm headed to BrainShare next week -- BrainShare is where Novell is going to outline its plans for the next version of its Open Enterprise...
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March 13, 2006
McData made it official today when they announced that they would OEM Riverbed's wide area file services (WAFS) appliances....
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March 08, 2006
Providence Health System in Seattle reported that thieves once again stole data residing on laptops in the company's employees cars....
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March 03, 2006
John Burke, analyst with Nemertes Research, recently spoke with Linda Leung, senior online news editor, about a concept he calls information stewardship....
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February 28, 2006
The New York Post is reporting that pop songwriter Jim Steinman -- famous for writing Meatloaf's Grammy-winning "Bat Out of Hell" -- is suing Iron...
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February 27, 2006
The cost of complying with Securities and Exchange Ruling 17a-3 and 4 has more than doubled in the last three years, a recent study says....
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February 24, 2006
Network World uses McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise to protect its desktop and laptop computers. It's one of the best at protecting Windows workstations....
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February 22, 2006
Asempra Technologies, a business continuity startup, announced this week that it has hauled in $20 million in second round funding....
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February 21, 2006
Hey-la-day-la, my laptop's back. That's digging into the memory vaults, isn't it (from The Angels, a number 1 hit in 1963)?...
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February 14, 2006
Morgan Stanley, one of the first firms to be investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for compliance to SEC 17a-3 and 4, yesterday agreed...
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February 13, 2006
I'm at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS, ryhmes with Tim's), where attendees are being bombarded with security, single sign-on and RFID information....
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February 10, 2006
Phoenix Technologies, the company everyone associates with the computer BIOS, introduced new software this week called Recover Pro 6, which allows a full restoration of...
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February 09, 2006
StoredIQ, a company that makes a compliance and archiving appliance, named its third CEO in its short life of five years....
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February 02, 2006
Server virtualization is hitting it big in storage. A number of vendors, including NSI Software, DataCore and XOsoft are introducing products that protect virtual machine...
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January 31, 2006
Incipient, one of the vendors truly reaching the holy grail of virtualization, received $24 million in Series D funding today....
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January 30, 2006
Avokia, a company that is presenting at the DEMO Conference next week, has announced that it recently received $7.4 million from Globespan Capital Partners, SAP...
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January 26, 2006
An increasing rash of data loss is occuring. Maybe its just the heightened attention to the privacy of patient and customer's financial records that is...
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January 25, 2006
In a not-so-surprising study, IDC found that although many administrators mis-understood how continuous data protection works, that 45% of them are evaluating or planning to...
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January 19, 2006
Tacit Networks, a vendor of wide area file services (WAFS), is expected to make a sweet deal next week to acquire Mobiliti....
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January 18, 2006
A study commissioned by Mimosa Systems and conducted by Osterman Research contends that enterprises need access to live archived e-mail....
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January 17, 2006
An early pioneer in Fibre Channel computing -- Crossroads Systems -- reported that it was delisted from NASDAQ last week....
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January 13, 2006
A number of rumors are circulating this week. Among them are that IBM will acquire Network Appliance and that Hitachi Data Systems will introduce an...
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January 12, 2006
Sometime this Spring, Cisco will unveil what will be the largest Fibre Channel director -- a switch with 528 ports that operates at 4Gbps. We...
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January 10, 2006
An interesting study commissioned by BridgeHead Software reveals that as many as a quarter of all organizations do not archive data. (Of course, this would...
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January 03, 2006
EMC has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Captiva, a company that has technology to convert paper documents to digital form....
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December 22, 2005
This week Ford Motor Co. notified 70,000 current and former employees that a computer containing their social security numbers has been stolen from the company....
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December 19, 2005
Last week ABN Amro Mortgage Group reported that it had lost a magnetic tape containing the names, addresses, loan numbers and social security numbers of...
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December 16, 2005
Unitrends this week launched a twist on continuous data protection, which they say only protects data and not the server it is stored on....
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December 15, 2005
Protecting data in-flight - traveling across the network - has been handled with encryption protocols such as IPSec, SSL and SSH. Until now, many customers...
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December 13, 2005
Lucid8, a disaster recovery software provider for Microsoft Exchange, surveyed 360 IT managers and found that nearly three quarters had suffered an Exchange disaster....
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December 12, 2005
I'm contributing to a story in Network World on the Top Technologies of 2006. I'm looking for users to tell me what they think will...
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December 12, 2005
Bill Peldzus, director of storage architecture for Glasshouse Technologies, a storage consultancy, gives some good recommendations for buying storage gear in this week's Management Strategies....
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December 08, 2005
EMC's new and expanded service offerings the company will announce next week are important to customers because they give them choice. Customers can tailor support...
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December 07, 2005
Microsoft continued its roll into storage infrastructure yesterday with the introduction of Windows Server 2003 R2. The upgrade to Windows 2003 Services Pack 1, includes...
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December 05, 2005
I talked to Mark Leslie, founder of Veritas, recently for a profile I am writing on Diane Greene, president of VMware....
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November 23, 2005
Quite a brouhaha has started between Mike Karp, storage newsletter columnist for Network World, and Ron Milton, executive vice president of ComputerWorld, over what else...
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November 21, 2005
Online backup and recovery vendor LiveVault has a second video gem on its site featuring John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) as Dr. Harold Twain...
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November 07, 2005
I’m writing a story on decommissioning, or sanitizing tape as it's called. IT directors I’ve talked to say that for the most part they let...
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October 24, 2005
A lot is happening this week at Storage Networking World in Orlando. Vendors such as EMC, Availl and StorServer are introducing continuous data protection products...
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October 17, 2005
Compellent is rolling out new applications for its Storage Center array for small- and midsize organizations. The company's founders have a strategy that works, analysts...
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October 03, 2005
Last week I spent a short interlude at Storage Decisions in New York. Two meetings there, in particular, were interesting....
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September 19, 2005
I made my annual pilgrimage to Dell last Friday here in my own backyard, or as Dell would say "You're in OUR own backyard." But...
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September 12, 2005
Help for businesses victimized by Katrina is coming from many different quarters. Novato, Calif.-based DriveSavers is offering its services to repair computers and storage devices...
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September 06, 2005
Dell was the big winner in the storage market during the second quarter, at least in terms of growth, according to IDC....
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August 15, 2005
NuView served up some nifty software last week. Called MyView, the software lets administrators view user access and authorization to files stored on file servers...
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August 01, 2005
Yesterday I flew from Austin, Texas to Denver for what I hope will be a once-a-year storage junket. You may wonder why so many storage...
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July 25, 2005
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has just put out a buyer's guide that defines continuous data protection software (CDP)....
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July 18, 2005
The major storage manufacturers – EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems – are in the process of expanding their high-end systems with new higher-capacity, faster...
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July 04, 2005
Arsenal Digital Solutions scored a coup last week with the announcement that StorageTek would adopt its offsite data protection service....
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June 20, 2005
EMC this week will release enhancements to its content-addressable storage array Centera that may be the most important yet....
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June 14, 2005
Data recovery is the focus of Gartner’s PlanetStorage this week. The research firm says that users are changing their focus from protecting data to recovering...
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June 06, 2005
Sun acquired StorageTek last week for $4.1 billion in a move that surprised analysts, who say that Sun may not preserve StorageTek's traditional attention to...
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May 30, 2005
Veritas last week at Storage Decisions 2005 in Chicago announced a new version of its storage management software aimed at letting organizations better manage, control...
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May 23, 2005
IDC says it is time to look at the iSCSi traffic load and make decisions on how to implement it in your Gigabit Ethernet network....
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May 09, 2005
With what HP calls its most important storage announcement ever coming up next week, you can't really blame the company for being more than a...
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March 30, 2005
Network Appliance this week jumped on the storage virtualization bandwagon with the introduction of the NetApp V-Series family....
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March 14, 2005
Storage management vendor NuView last week expanded the capabilities of its data management platform by announcing that it would now support the Unix and Linux...
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March 07, 2005
Tacit Networks last week bolstered its lineup of remote office storage products with the introduction of a variety of services that run on its appliance....
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January 31, 2005
EMC this week announced that they have enhanced both its EMC Legato Networker and Dantz Retrospect backup and recovery software....
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January 24, 2005
Storage vendor Imation last week released the results of a survey of 200 small-to-midsize businesses and it turned up interesting results....
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December 13, 2004
IBM announced last week that it has extended its storage virtualization technology to EMC’s mid-range Clariion arrays....
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December 06, 2004
Revenues for external disk storage grew 3.5% year over year to $3.4 billion in the third quarter of 2004, according to IDC. The research firm...
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November 29, 2004
Intradyn is expected to announce this week several enhancements to its RocketVault SMB Backup Appliance. The product, which is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Server...
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October 25, 2004
Nortel Networks, WilTel Communications and EMC announced last week a new storage replication service for business continuity and disaster recovery. StorageXtend will make use of...
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October 11, 2004
Brocade this week is expected to announce a software tool for its Fibre Channel switch customers that lets them report on the health of their...
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September 27, 2004
Last week at Storage Decisions in Chicago, EMC announced the EMC Express Solution for E-Mail, a set of hardware and software that lets users consolidate...
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September 20, 2004
Merrill Lynch analyst Shebly Seyrafi last week revised his forecast of the storage industry. He estimates that enterprise storage will grow at an annual rate...
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September 14, 2004
Network Intelligence last week announced a secure software appliance for companies that need to comply with government regulations....
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September 06, 2004
IDC released its quarterly external disk storage market report last week. Storage systems revenue grew by 8% to over $3.5 billion in the second quarter...
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August 30, 2004
PeerDirect last week announced bi-directional replication software designed for distributing databases across large networks. The PeerDirect Replication Engine (PDRE) is intended primarily for applications used...
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August 23, 2004
McData and Qlogic last week announced an initiative to promote interoperability between their Fibre Channel switches in blade server environments. The companies will design compatible...
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August 16, 2004
Storage management startup StoreAge Networking Technologies this week is expected to announce software that lets administrators add snapshot, volume management and replication capabilities to their...
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August 09, 2004
Accordance Systems and AdventNet announced last week the availability of management software that can manage RAID devices across the LAN or WAN....
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July 26, 2004
LeftHand Networks expanded its line of products with a new Network Storage Module (NSM), which usees Serial ATA drives and incorporates iSCSI....
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July 19, 2004
EMC and Bus-Tech are expected to announce this week that the Mainframe Appliance for Storage for EMC Centera will now support FICON (Fibre Connection). Bus-Tech's...
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July 12, 2004
Intradyn recently introduced an e-mail archiving appliance for small and midsize businesses that lets them comply with SEC, NYSE and NASD regulations....
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July 05, 2004
Tacit Networks announced last week that its wide area file services (WAFS) for remote office connectivity now works on Windows Storage Server 2003. The company...
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June 07, 2004
IDC reported market share by revenue growth for external disk storage systems last week. The research firm estimated that $3.5 billion of storage systems shipped...
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May 24, 2004
String Bean Software last week announced innovative iSCSI software called WinTarget that lets storage administrators share direct-attached disks over existing networks. By using existing Windows...
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May 17, 2004
Dell and Commvault cemented a deal last week to deliver backup software to small businesses that are using Dell's storage hardware....
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May 17, 2004
SunGard Availability Services last week announced a service for archiving e-mail messaging aimed at organizations affected by government compliance standards. The company launched the Archiving...
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May 10, 2004
Novell this week announced enhancements to its File System Factory software, which allows the automated provisioning of user and group storage....
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May 03, 2004
EMC will ship virtualization capability in the first half of next year, the company reported at its EMC Technology Summit in Orlando last week. EMC...
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April 26, 2004
This week at Storage Decisions in New York City, vendors are introducing a variety of storage wares that make storage area networking (SAN) more scalable...
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April 19, 2004
IP SAN startup EqualLogic last week announced replication capability and enabled disaster recovery for its PeerStorage array. The PeerStorage array, which attaches to the Gigabit...
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April 12, 2004
Iomega is branching out from the desktop market with the introduction of a backup drive for small businesses. The REV 35GB/90GB drive comes with software...
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April 06, 2004
Storage Networking World opened yesterday in Phoenix with a slew of announcements of storage hardware and software that will help IT managers deploy, design and...
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March 29, 2004
Novell at its annual Brainshare user conference last week introduced the iFOLDER Open Source Project. iFolder is a collaborative file sharing environment. The iFOLDER Open...
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March 29, 2004
Adaptec announced the Adaptec File Saver, an appliance that is intended to be used to backup and restore data from desktop and laptop machines. Scaleable...
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March 29, 2004
3ware announced recently a new family of Seria ATA RAID storage controllers called the Escalade 9000 Series. The Escalade storage controllers support as much as...
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March 15, 2004
Research firm IDC released its storage market share numbers for the fourth quarter 2003 this week. EMC took the top slot in storage software with...
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March 15, 2004
IBM introduced last week storage management software that helps users more easily manage their heterogeneous storage environments. IBM TotalStorage Productivity center consists of Tivoli Storage...
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March 15, 2004
IMR last week unveiled an enhanced release of its Web document management software, Alchemy Web 4.0. The new release adds a browser interface and document...
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March 08, 2004
TopSpin is announcing that diskless servers can now be booted remotely from a storage array using its host channel adapter, a TopSpin Server Switch and...
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March 08, 2004
Sony is adding write-once read-many (WORM) technology to is 500 G-byte Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT) drives. A non-rewritable or erasable technology, SAIT WORM lets...
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March 08, 2004
Intransa unveiled this week a new version of its StorControl storage management software for managing the Intransa IP5000 Storage System. The IP SAN appliance now...
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March 08, 2004
STORserver announced that it is shipping new backup and recovery appliances that use SAIT tape technology. The new K3000 and K5000 SAIT appliances store as...
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March 08, 2004
TEK-TOOLS has introduced a new version of its storage resource management software. Profiler Rx 3.5 adds new modules for Microsoft Exchange Server, EMC’s Celerra, the...
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March 01, 2004
A lot is happening in storage this week and last with the introductions of products from Maxxan, Avail Solutions, Hitachi, Rainfinity, Stonefly and Rainfinity....
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February 23, 2004
Storage Networking World will be held April 5-8 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix. You can view the agenda and sign up...
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February 23, 2004
Softek announced enhanced versions of its storage resource management software suite last week. The Softek Storage Manager Version 2.2 and Softek SANView Version 5.2 have...
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February 23, 2004
Sun and storage resource management startup AppIQ have announced that they've partnered to integrate AppIQ's StorageAuthority into Sun's StorEdge Enterprise Storage Management suite of products....
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February 23, 2004
ZANTAZ, a company with hosted e-mail archiving for government compliance, acquired EDUCOM TS last week. EDUCOM TS specializes in e-mail management software....
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February 16, 2004
Blogging is infectious. Here are a couple of links to storage blogs I've found while trolling the Internet that give you some interesting perspective on...
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February 02, 2004
Is the InfiniBand wagon starting to roll again? IBM and Sun have both endorsed InfiniBand products from TopSpin. HP is expected to announce that it...
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January 26, 2004
A flurry of announcements are being made this week about products that let administrators more easily manage the data on their storage area networks (SANs)....
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December 22, 2003
In one of the biggest storage market moves of the year, EMC has added VMware's server virtualization products to its portfolio. Last week, the storage...
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December 15, 2003
OnStor recently shpped its SAN filer - a product that let's storage area network storage attach to the Ethernet network. Unlike SAN/NAS gateways like EMC's...
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December 08, 2003
While storage prices have leveled off, capacity has increased modestly in the last year, research firm IDC says. IDC released its final market share figures...
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December 01, 2003
Plasmon and Sony recently announced the launch of a new technology for archival storage that allows data to be stored in either write-once or rewritable...
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October 20, 2003
EMC continues its pushl to make information lifecycle management the focus of its efforts with the acquisition of content management vendor Documentum last week for...
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October 06, 2003
EMC has responded to price pressures and lowered the cost of their low-end network-attached storage (NAS) appliance, the NetWin 200. The NetWin 200 is based...
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September 15, 2003
When I was writing the story on Microsoft's Storage Server 2003 last week (see here), I wish I had had one of its capabilities at...
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August 25, 2003
Ciena Networks announced its intent to acquire storage-over-Sonet start-up Akara last week to bolster its storage-over-distance products....
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August 18, 2003
You say you want a storage community where you can talk about issues that concern you? Well, here it is. Today, we are starting a...
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August 01, 2003
A milestone passed as StorageNetworks, one of the first storage services providers (SSP), declared that it would liquidate the company after failing to attract a...
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July 21, 2003
Storage management software provider Storability is picking up the intellectual property of ProvisionSoft, a CMGI company that is selling off its assets....
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June 02, 2003
EMC announced that its CLARiiON CX series arrays are Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) Level 3 compliant. NEBS is important to the telecommunications industry because...
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May 12, 2003
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week cleared the way for IT managers to deploy hardware/software combinations for their data storage. At one time,...
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May 05, 2003
Recent weeks have seen vendors announcing a heap of volume management and virtualization products they hope will make it easier for users to manage, configure...
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April 28, 2003
On May 2, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) will modify its Books and Records Rule and extend its provisions to the local offices of national...
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April 14, 2003
Cisco is proving the convergence of storage with network gear this week with the introduction of two products: the FCIP Port Adapter for the Cisco...
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April 07, 2003
Storage vendors are introducing a variety of new products, enhancements and initiatives this week that bolster the scalability, capability and reliability of their products. Among...
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Does Verizon's Voyager stack up to the iPhone? Keith checks out the Verizon Wireless Voyager multimedia phone, and compares it to Apple's iPhone.
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