February 24, 2010 4:16 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data deduplication,
disk-based backup,
storage vendorsThis morning we published a Q&A with EMC backup and recovery division president and former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman on our SearchDataBackup.com site. However, not all of our conversation...
February 24, 2010 1:39 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
archiving,
disk arrays,
storage vendorsCopan has finally found a buyer, at the fire-sale price of $2 million.
SGI said Tuesday night it picked up Copan’s assets in a foreclosure sale, including its product portfolio and “select” employees, and will maintain the MAID vendor’s Longmont, CO, headquarters.
Copan has been on...
February 23, 2010 11:37 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
This past Sunday, a friend of mine and I took a trip to a staple of most New England childhoods (mine included): Boston's Museum of Science. As we explored the exhibits, a surprising number of which remain unchanged since I was a kid, an exhibit called "
February 23, 2010 7:25 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
data deduplication,
disk-based backupTandberg Data is getting into the data deduplication game for SMBs with a new application for NAS and removable disk systems, with the help of a little-known dedupe developer.
Tandberg today...
February 23, 2010 1:34 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage networking,
storage vendorsIt’s been a little over a year since Brocade completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks, and the Ethernet thing isn’t working so well so far.
Brocade reported $97.1 million in revenue from Ethernet switches last quarter, down 26% from the previous quarter. That caused...
February 22, 2010 9:21 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage,
data compliance and archiving,
Storage Software as a ServiceIron Mountain's $112 million acquisition of Mimosa Systems today is an admission by Iron Mountain that the concept of cloud archiving is not yet ripe. Iron Mountain bought Mimosa as an on-premise...
February 22, 2010 2:43 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving,
Storage Software as a ServiceIron Mountain Inc. today said it intends to acquire data archiving software vendor Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments.
Iron Mountain already...
February 18, 2010 10:38 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage networking,
storage vendorsIt’s no secret that the relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco has deteriorated now that Cisco is selling its own server product, the Unified Computing System (UCS). Like IBM and Dell, HP has been lining up other Fibre Channel and Ethernet switch partners, including a
