July 29, 2009  5:20 PM

Alliance pumps new life into Plasmon



Posted by: Dave Raffo
archiving and compliance, disk drives

Alliance Storage Technologies Inc. (ASTI), the Colorado company that bought Plasmon’s assets last January, says it is selling the Plasmon product line whole and hopes to significantly expand its business based on the proprietary


July 27, 2009  5:59 PM

Cisco makes mainframe move



Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage networking

Cisco is adding performance and security features to its MDS 9000 Fibre Channel SAN director platform to make it more palatable to mainframe shops. The enhancements will speed replication on mainframes over the WAN and add encryption and management capabilities along with 8 Gbps


July 24, 2009  8:56 AM

07-23-2009 Storage Headlines



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Podcasts

[display_podcast] (0:23) EMC completes Data Domain acquisition (2:20)

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July 23, 2009  4:00 PM

LSI buys ONStor, enters NAS business



Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; nas

LSI Corp. acquired NAS vendor ONStor today, continuing the trend of storage acquisitions that likely will continue for at least a few more months. LSI got a good price. It paid $25 million for a company that had close to $140 million in VC funding. But for now LSI isn’t talking about its...


July 22, 2009  4:35 PM

Kroll OnTrack offers data recovery for NetApp



Posted by: Beth Pariseau

An interesting little tidbit crossed my inbox yesterday - an announcement from Kroll OnTrack, which specializes in recovering damaged or unreadable hard disks (we covered some of their recovery efforts after


July 22, 2009  4:26 PM

Google-watchers uncover clues on possibly impending GDrive



Posted by: Beth Pariseau

I didn't realize before today that there is such a rich niche community of bloggers focused solely on watching every move Google makes. Color me more educated after I ran across some detective work by two bloggers today in my Google Reader (make of that what you will) which makes a case that...


July 21, 2009  9:06 AM

Group Logic looks to ease Mac integration headaches for file archives



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving

The maker of software that connects Mac workstations with Windows servers is launching a new product  that it claims will prevent "bad Mac behavior" with data archive stub files. Group Logic's main product is ExtremeZ-IP, software...


July 20, 2009  7:20 PM

SunGard exec says storage will be ‘final domino’ in cloud interoperability



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage

SunGard’s technical officer for cloud computing, Don Norbeck, talked with Storage Soup this afternoon on the service provider's participation in the


July 20, 2009  2:46 PM

EMC takes controlling interest in Data Domain



Posted by: Dave Raffo
data deduplication; disk-based backup; storage vendors

EMC today revealed it has acquired more than 82% of Data Domain shares, which means any chance of another company swooping in with a better offer is gone. Under terms of the July 8 agreement between the vendors, EMC is paying $33.50 per share for Data Domain stock for a total of