November, 2008

CA goes SaaS route with DR

CA jumped into the software as a service (SaaS) game by launching three offerings at CA World. The SaaS offerings include a disaster recovery/business continuity service called CA Instant Recovery On Demand, which...

Recommended reading about EMC Atmos

Since I've been in the storage industry, I can't think of another product that generated as much hype and interest for as long as EMC's "Maui," now rechristened Atmos for its general release. Now that...

Startup looks to become ‘lingua franca’ of the cloud

Most of the time when concepts come along like the cloud, they're discussed first from a 30,000 foot, theoretical point of view. As they take shape, though, pragmatic nuances come into play. After looking at a map, you still have to get from point A to point B. The wider economy is dampening some...

Harvard Law School offers clarifications on lost backup tape

The Boston Globe reported this morning that an unencrypted backup tape containing personal information on some 21,000 clients of the school's legal clinic has been...

What if the cloud is really a brain?

Self-healing disk array maker Atrato names new CEO

Atrato Inc. made a splash earlier this year with its no-maintenance disk array (which was quickly followed to market by Xiotech's somewhat similar ISE product) and has been relatively...

HP jumps into storage virtualization with midrange arrays

HP rolled out the StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP)  this morning, described in a press release as "a network-based storage platform that pools capacity across HP and non-HP storage...

You know things are bad for Sun when…

...someone goes to the trouble of creating puppet theater to express the depths of their angst about the company's most recent...

Overland’s backed up against the wall

 Overland Storage is running out of time in its attempt to transform itself from a tape vendor to a disk system vendor.  Overland has been losing money for years, and last quarter's loss of $6.9 million left it with $5.4 million in cash. The vendor is betting its future on the

ESX and SATA: So happy together?

I'm a big fan of SAS. I've professed my undying love and devotion to it (at least until solid-state disk becomes just a little more affordable). So why on earth would I be writing about putting VMware's ESX Server on SATA disks?

I was poking around on the...