June 13, 2008 2:23 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage conferences
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is sometimes to turn grown men into kids again. IT geeks gathered at the robotics competition at Symantec Vision actually giggled with delight at the mechanical violence.
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June 13, 2008 12:10 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageCopan has enhanced its Revolution 300 Series to beef up its virtual tape library capabilities (VTL) and try and keep distance between the MAID pioneers and those who have followed with disk spin-down products.
The most interesting Revolution enhancements involve data deduplication that Copan added...
June 13, 2008 9:53 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
Storage conferences,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage Software as a Service,
Strategic storage vendorsAt a Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server roadmap session at Vision on Thursday, a Symantec exec revealed it will be coming out with its own clustered NAS system, based on the next generation of its Storage Foundation Scalable File Server. This will be accomplished by layering a NAS...
June 13, 2008 9:44 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
StorageAfter Symantec confirmed its acquisition of backup SaaS partner SwapDrive on Wednesday, I sent out some questions to Symantec. Here are the responses I got back from a spokesperson:
How will Symantec integrate SwapDrive into Symantec Protection Network?
SwapDrive offerings are...
June 12, 2008 8:37 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage conferences,
Strategic storage vendors
Symantec's keynote stage Warp...
June 11, 2008 4:51 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
StorageAccording to a statement issued by Symantec today,
Symantec has acquired SwapDrive, a privately-held online storage company to strengthen the services offerings in the Norton consumer portfolio and to help consumers manage data across their devices. This was a small, targeted...
June 11, 2008 11:22 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
StorageWhile IBM is upgrading its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) virtualization platform, Incipient is taking one of the major features of its storage virtualization product -- data migration -- and spinning it...
June 10, 2008 8:52 PM
Posted by: Tskyers
disk drivesIt's been a while since I've been able to spend some quality time behind the keyboard, I've been suffering from a gigantic "honey-do" list and it was difficult for me to use some huge work emergency to weasel out of it! In the time I haven't been blogging there's been some major storage news: Sun...
June 6, 2008 11:50 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
SAN,
Storage protocols (FC / iSCSI)IDC confirmed Dell's claim that it has moved into the No. 1 spot in iSCSI SAN market share following its $1.4 billion acquisition of EqualLogic. According to the IDC quarterly storage numbers for...
