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
February 18, 2010 3:32 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage management,
storage vendors,
unified storageNetApp appears to be the big winner in storage sales at the end of 2009 as spending picked up after a slow year. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.01 billion in revenue for last quarter. Its product revenue increased 17% over the last year, while larger rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard had year-over-year...
February 8, 2010 7:51 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
clustered NAS,
storage vendorsDell today confirmed it has made an offer to acquire the assets of bankrupt scale-out NAS vendor Exanet and is waiting for approval from a court in Isreal, where Exanet is based.
The Israeli financial newspaper
February 5, 2010 6:28 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
clustered NAS,
storage vendorsNAS vendor Isilon recorded its first profitable quarter to end 2009, three years after becoming a public company. It didn’t make it by much, but it was a milestone nonetheless.
Isilon reported net income of $140,000 for the quarter, or income of $1.6 million on a non-GAAP basis with...
February 4, 2010 5:49 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Cloud storage,
data deduplication,
storage vendorsCommVault added block-level data deduplication to its Simpana data protection and management suite at the start of 2009, and introduced
February 3, 2010 10:20 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage vendorsOracle laid out its strategy for Sun's product lines last week, following the approval of the $7.4 billion deal by European regulators. It was met with dismay in some corners of the IT world, including some
January 21, 2010 7:45 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage vendorsDisk drive maker Seagate Technologies last night reported its earnings for its fiscal second quarter of 2010 (ending on Jan. 10), and the results follow on IBM's storage sales upswing with continued reports of an enterprise storage spending rebound.
"Over the course of calendar year 2009 the...
January 20, 2010 4:59 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage vendorsDuring its conference call to report fourth-quarter earnings last night, IBM reported its storage sales were up 1% year-over-year, in line with the cautious optimism about storage sales that has been growing over the last few months.
Specific product highlights in storage included Tivoli...
January 19, 2010 8:31 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk arrays,
storage vendorsEMC launched a news midrange Clariion model today, the High Density Clariion CX-4.
The new storage frame can hold up to 390 disks in three rack units and supports 2 TB 7200 RPM and 5400 RPM SATA drives, or a combination of SATA drives and up to 60 solid-state drives (SSD).
The new Clariions...
