StorageBrocade apparently became the first storage company to see positive effects of last week’s financial bailout when it received $1.1 billion loan to help finance its $3 billion acquisition of Foundry...
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Strategic storage vendorsThe NetApp/Sun patent infringement lawsuit that started roughly 10 years ago (or so it seems) continues on, first with this latest dispatch from Sun's general counsel, Mike Dillon, who was gleeful over...
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data backup, Storage managed service providers, Storage Software as a ServiceEMC's Mozy online backup has added a new Mac edition of MozyPro to its product line. This news follows the introduction of Mozy's first Home edition Mac client in May. The MozyPro for Mac product, which...
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Around the water coolerWitness the carnage at VMWorld of a booth giveaway gone bad...(VMblog)
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Storage conferences, Strategic storage vendorsAnd if I had to guess, I'd say it's a new disk array. A self-healing, dynamically performance-optimized disk array. For one thing, the latest fad is for new disk arrays to be promoted in what public relations pros call a "rolling thunder" fashion, where deliberately mysterious statements are made...
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StorageAll the talk about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) over the last year has raised questions about the future of iSCSI storage once the convergence of FC and Ethernet takes place. But...
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data reduction, Data storage management, Strategic storage vendors, VMwareLast week I wrote about some confusion I had regarding IBM's virtual storage optimizer (VSO) for VMware Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), especially after I was told by a VMware official that the IBM product, credited to an internally-developed algorithm,
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StorageBackup vendor Quantum and WAN optimization specialist Riverbed Technology dropped their respective data deduplication patent lawsuits against each other this week, with Riverbed agreeing to pay Quantum $11 million. Both sides dropped all claims and agreed not to file more data deduplication patent...
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data backup, Data center disaster recovery planning, small business storageSMB backup and DR vendor Unitrends has released version 4.0 of its RapidRecovery management software for its Data Protection Unit disk-to-disk backup hardware. The new version completes a yearlong effort from Unitrends to bring together what were once separate GUIs for managing backup and offsite...
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