March, 2010

Iron Mountain rolls out data classification for cloud data backup service

Iron Mountain officially launched its new data classification features for its Connected PC cloud data backup service,

Storage parts distributors converge with Avnet-Bell Micro deal

Two storage-focused equipment distributors converged today as Bell Micro agreed to be acquired by Avnet for $594 million, $342 million of which will go to pay off Bell Micro's debts. The impact of this announcement is mainly...

Another former EMC’er joins HP Storage

The storage Twitter-sphere was abuzz this morning with reports from bloggers attending HP's Storage Day, an event for end-user and partner bloggers to hear about HP's vision for storage. Among those tweets a familiar name began to...

EMC’s Gelsinger coy on platform consolidation

Is EMC merging its Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS platforms or not? EMC president of information infrastructure products Pat Gelsinger discussed that topic with financial analysts today, and refused to tip his hand either way. Gelsinger spoke about driving synergies between the midrange Clariion...

EMC’s cooking up a new Clariion

EMC watchers are well aware the vendor is due for a Clariion refresh, and industry sources say that is coming early next month. Sources say details on the next generation Clariion will be disclosed in April with the systems going GA in June although some features won’t make it until the...

03-25-2010 Storage Headlines

[display_podcast] (0:26) Dell brands EMC's Celerra, Data Domain; adds object storage platform (3:27)

Atrato tweaks SSD features

Editor's note: After this blog was initially published, Atrato alerted us to a misunderstanding about the GA date of certain features. The corrected text is below.   Self-healing array maker Atrato Inc. is finally...

CommVault cozies up to Dell EqualLogic, continues rivalry with Data Domain

Dell is trying to stay vendor neutral in its data deduplication strategy, which isn't always easy to do when partnering with data deduplication backup rivals EMC, CommVault and Symantec.

Emulex announces convictions in Chinese counterfeit case

Emulex says two men were convicted in China for selling counterfeit versions of its Fibre Channel HBAs. According to the Emulex statement:

Following a complaint by Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), counterfeiters of Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) were recently...