April, 2008

RenewData takes a single swipe at tapes

Even as we continue to debate whether or not tape is dead, indicating at least that its salad days are probably behind it, some of the most interesting innovations in tape technology I've seen...

IBM starts showing its cloud arsenal

Hardly a day goes by without a new storage service rolling out. On Monday, it was IBM's turn to launch two storage services as part of its portfolio of services for midsized customers - organizations with 100 to 400 employees and a handful of Windows servers. The interesting thing about IBM's...

Inside PiWorx

Until now, all we've known about Pi Corp., the startup EMC purchased in February, were that it was still in stealth, and that its software was meant to provide access to content on multiple types of Web-enabled devices. While that description makes sense, it also is vague enough to leave open the...

Nexsan the brave

 In a bit of a Friday surprise, storage systems vendor Nexsan Technologies today filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the SEC.

The move is surprising not because of Nexsan's financial situation, but because storage IPOs are so

Primary storage still means one vendor

The term "vendor lock-in" is rarely used in a good way by storage buyers. It usually means you're stuck with products from one vendor, making it difficult to switch if you're unhappy or something better comes along. Still, with probably more options for storage products than ever before, most...

EMC, IBM, thin provisioning and wild animals

My daily rounds of the storage industry web this morning brought me to The Storage Anarchist, a blog by an EMCer that I often find interesting. As it turns out, one of my articles was in his...

Gloves come off in the storage cloud

HP Upline crashed this week, just a few days after it was launched. As Chris Rock once said, "Grand opening, Grand closing." The crash of such a brand-new service isn't as impactful on end users...

Data deduplication: no lifeguard on duty?

In the course of a conversation today with a new SRM vendor, ArxScan, CEO Mark Fitzsimmons mentioned a use case for the startup's product that had me raising my eyebrows: basically, keeping data deduplication systems honest.

According to Fitzsimmons, a large pharma company wanted the...

Data dedupe dance cards filling up

IBM's acquisition of Diligent Technologies today will alter several relationships of major vendors as they look to add

Storage in high places

Two press releases caught my eye this week that aren't exactly earth-shattering, but got me thinking about the way the storage market is changing and widening. First, SanDisk revealed that its flash cards are...