July, 2008

Symantec storage revenues stay solid, while channel unrest continues

According to Symantec's earnings call last night, updates to NetBackup announced at Symantec Vision in June helped keep its storage business strong this quarter. Storage and services revenue increased 20% year over year to $616 million, which COO Enrique Salem attributed in part to new NetBackup...

Sepaton promises 40:1 dedupe, or your next disk’s on them

Just about all data deduplication vendors make claims about the dedupe ratios their systems provide, with the caveat that the ratios vary by data type and backup frequency. Sepaton today says it's willing to guarantee its ratio for Exchange. The VTL vendor said if customers don't get a 40:1 ratio...

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

Oh, snap. NetApp has struck back in the ongoing catfight with EMC - this time in the form of a T-shirt.

In a down economy, the rich get richer and the poor go broke

In an economic downturn, not everybody makes it through in one piece. Though the storage market has fared better than many (apparently the list of things in life you can count on has been expanded to three: death, taxes and data growth), it isn't without its casualties. Ciprico and Agami are the...

Marc Farley, citing allergies, bolts Dell/EqualLogic

The turnover that often occurs when a large company buys a smaller one has begun at Dell/EqualLogic, about seven months after Dell closed its $1.4 billion acquistion of the iSCSI SAN vendor. The most visible of these departures was delivered via vlog by

Another archiving alliance — Atempo and Permabit

HP settles EDS shareholder lawsuit

Last week I noted that EDS shareholders had filed suit to delay the closing of HP's acquisition of the IT services company. The Wall Street Journal has since reported that HP and EDS will...

Bad week for cloud storage

Last week, we saw a good bit of rain falling on cloud storage's parade. First there was another Amazon outage. Then it came to light that a cloud storage site called

Be immune to e-discovery requests and avoid having to archive emails

Want to avoid having to archive your emails? All you have to do is get elected President. Or, at least, be President Bush. The overseer of unprecedented government snooping tactics on private citizens has taken umbrage at the suggestion that his email correspondence be similarly...

Did Brocade buy the right company in Foundry?

That's the question I've heard asked in the wake of Brocade's blockbuster $3 billion acquisition of Foundry this week. Some have suggested that Juniper Networks, which is much more competitive with Cisco in the Internet router market, might have been a better choice. To get a better sense of where...