Latest storage news.
DriveSentry offers ‘firewall’ for storage drives, 11/03/06
A Mountain View, Calif., start-up company has developed what it calls a storage “firewall” to prevent computer viruses from wrecking the data on desktop computers.
Users share disaster recovery nightmares, fixes, 11/03/06
Storage Networking World attendees – some veterans of which remember hurricane winds hitting the hotel where past instances of the Orlando conference were being held – this week traded descriptions of steps they’ve taken to prepare for disasters.
Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: Saving space with de-duplication, 11/02/06
With the steadily increasing amounts of data that reside on enterprise systems, it’s little wonder that we look for any help we can get to tame the data beast.
Storage grid? Storage cluster? . . . Do definitions matter, 11/02/06
ORLANDO — Grid storage and storage clusters — are the terms interchangeable? They could be if you ask users and industry analysts who participated in several panels at Storage Networking World this week.
HP announces storage blades, bigger virtual tape library, 11/01/06
HP is announcing Tuesday what it says is its first dedicated storage blade for its BladeSystem c-Class enclosure product line, which will give users access to up to 876GB of storage.
EMC acquires data deduplication vendor Avamar, 11/01/06
EMC on Tuesday acquired Avamar Technologies for $165 million to bolster its data protection portfolio.
Hitachi maps out 2.5-inch hard disk road map, 11/01/06
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is planning capacity increases for its 2.5-inch hard-disk drives over the next 12 months, the company said Wednesday.
FANs to leave SANs for dead, 11/01/06
With data storage demands rising every year, and technology lagging behind, analysts say big business will adopt file-area networks by 2008.
