data compliance and archiving

NetApp Plasmon’s Trojan Horse for Enterprise Data Centers

Since he sold Softek to IBM and was appointed CEO of British-based optical storage vendor Plasmon last November, Steven Murphy has had a tough row to hoe. Plasmon is one of the few survivors--if not the only survivor--of the optical storage market, which historically has been stunted by usability...

Nirvanix readying cloud-based NAS

Startup Nirvanix today unveiled CloudNAS, which will combine Nirvanix software agents with Linux or Windows servers at the customer site to offer standard NAS storage in the cloud. Until now, Nirvanix and most other cloud storage services such as Amazon's S3 required API integration between...

Users rebel against e-Discovery liabilities

Tory Skyers' post about dedupe and the law jogged my memory about recent conversations I've had with users about data compliance and archiving. It's become a big topic for this industry, and as stewards...

Compression, dedupe and the law

Data deduplication is the poster child of 2008. Everyone is rushing to add this capability to just about everything that could possibly ever sit on a network--I thought I saw an ad for a cable tester with de-dupe built in! On the face of it, de-dupe looks like the savior it's made out to be (except...

Email archiving latecomer Atempo sweetens deal with file archiving integration

Better late than never. Backup software vendor Atempo has ventured into the email archiving market by coming out with the first full integration into its product line of intellectual property it acquired with Lighthouse Global Technologies in February. Obviously, the release of an email...

Kazeon and Clearwell square off in e-discovery price prizefight

I need to start a category on this blog called "Vendorfights." Today's squabble comes from two e-discovery players. In this corner: Kazeon, which recently announced that they can do your data...

Data deduplication: no lifeguard on duty?

In the course of a conversation today with a new SRM vendor, ArxScan, CEO Mark Fitzsimmons mentioned a use case for the startup's product that had me raising my eyebrows: basically, keeping data deduplication systems honest.

According to Fitzsimmons, a large pharma company wanted the...

Oracle jumps into archiving; can Microsoft be far behind?

Oracle is getting into the archiving game with the Oracle Universal Online Archive, which will archive email as well as unstructured files. The product will use Oracle's own database as the underlying infrastructure, with Oracle Fusion Middleware on top for data ingestion and user...

EMC hashes out enterprise archiving SaaS

If you've been following the data...