January 31, 2008 1:20 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk drives,
Strategic storage vendorsXiotech put out an intriguing press release yesterday, headlined "IT MANAGERS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT STORAGE SCALABILITY AND CAPACITY." It discusses survey results from end users establishing that reliability is a key feature when considering storage systems (I personally prefer the ones that crash...
January 31, 2008 11:02 AM
Posted by: Tskyers
data backup,
disk drives,
VMwareI was talking with a friend the other day about the prospect of multi-terabyte hard drives and how painful it would be to lose that much data. My friend -- being my friend of course -- countered that it's not the amount of data, but where it resides and what the data is that's important.
For...
January 30, 2008 10:32 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage virtualization,
Strategic storage vendorsIt seems crazy, and in many ways it is. The company that essentially created the hottest market in IT has said it will grow 50% over the next year, and the company that owns it has projected $15 billion in revenues for 2008. And yet as of this morning, Company #1, VMware, has seen its stock drop...
January 30, 2008 10:26 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage technology researchI can hardly call myself a storage geek--I don't know a MAC address from a Macintosh and couldn't operate a CLI with a gun to my head. So it's rare I take a personal interest, the way Tory does, in most of the...
January 28, 2008 4:19 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
Strategic storage vendorsAs a storage reporter who's also a fanatical Red Sox fan, I'm in good position to comment on EMC's latest marketing move: the agreement with the Boston...
January 24, 2008 8:29 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageSymantec updated its NetBackup enterprise backup product last year with version 6.5, and now is preparing to upgrade its Windows-based Backup Exec software.
CEO John Thompson said Backup Exec 12 is...
January 16, 2008 5:52 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Data storage management,
disk drives,
Strategic storage vendorsAs soon as EMC's announcement that it had added support for solid-state drives (SSDs) to Symmetrix crossed the wire, guess who called? If you've been watching the storage space, you know it had to be Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), whose high-end USP array has been do-si-doing around Symmetrix in the...
January 16, 2008 4:54 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage Former Brocade CEO Greg Reyes received a 21-month sentence and $15 million fine for his role in backdating options given employees of the SAN switch vendor.
Reyes won't do jail time yet. U. S. District Judge Charles Breyer let Reyes go free pending an appeal. And it could've been worse;...
January 16, 2008 11:05 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage virtualizationIt all started with a pretty run-of-the-mill partnership agreement. FalconStor announced its storage virtualization, snapshot and replication software will support Virtual Iron's virtual servers last week, and my SearchServerVirtualization.com colleague Alex Barrett and I agreed to take...
