Symantec boosts storage management tool; Users want self-healing, 50-year storage

Opinion
Aug 6, 20071 min

Latest storage news.

Symantec boosts storage management tool, targets virtualization, 08/01/07: Symantec Wednesday plans to introduce a version of its storage resource management software that boasts advanced virtualization and replication features, and works across larger storage and computer networks.

Study: Users want self-healing, 50-year storage, 07/31/07: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Data Management Forum has just reported-out the results of a landmark study that looked at the current state of long-term storage — that is, data stored for more than 10 years. Some disturbing results jump out of this study. They suggest that we live in a digital version of the Dark Ages.

Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: Even Amazon is surprised by the innovative ways companies are using its storage, computing and other infrastructure services.

Symantec outlines its storage-as-a-service goals, 08/02/07: Symantec, like other vendors such as EMC, has recently started talking about delivering storage-as-a-service.