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10-02-2009 Storage Headlines

[display_podcast] Stories referenced: (0:29) Xiotech names Alan Atkinson CEO (1:12) HP expands...

HP drops roadmap nuggets at StorageWorks TechDay **Updated**

The storage blog-and Tweet-o-sphere was abuzz with details provided by HP execs at a private forum in Colorado Springs Monday about the direction of their midrange storage roadmap. Among the tidbits flying about online:

• HP has added solid-state drive (SSD) support with its most recent...

Dell drops $3.9 billion on new services business

I realize I'm dating myself here, but I get a kick out of seeing H. Ross Perot Jr. surfacing in the news this morning with the announcement that Dell Inc. has bought his IT services company Perot Systems. Perot is the son of onetime US Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot Sr., who was a prominent...

Pillar insists it’s not putting Intel SSDs ‘in the ditch’

A Pillar executive responding to a Computerworld report that the vendor is "kicking Intel's SSD to the curb" says Pillar is still considering Intel as an SSD supplier...

Spinnaker founders bring Avere out of stealth …

...but few other details are known yet of the new storage product to be released in three weeks by the original founders of Spinnaker Networks, which now forms the basis of NetApp's scale-out OnTap GX...

Oracle set to make hardware splash with Sun-based Exadata

It began with a full page ad from Oracle in the Wall Street Journal last week, throwing down the gauntlet for server hardware giant IBM, and the first definitive statement from the company in the midst of its $7.4...

Photos from Iron Mountain site visit

Yesterday, SearchDataBackup.com Site Editor Andrew Burton and I took a trip to Iron Mountain Digital's headquarters in Southborough, Mass., for some face-to-face meetings with Iron Mountain Digital's executives. Those execs had plenty to tell us about Iron Mountain Digital's plans for the rest...

Storage blogosphere rumbles with rumors of EMC Atmos Compute

Reports from storage industry blogs and an a EMC Corp. customer event suggest EMC is getting ready to launch a new cloud computing service based on its Atmos onLine storage as a service offering. Jeff Darcy, a software engineer and author of a blog dubbed Canned Platypus, reported after a...

NetApp passes CEO torch from Warmenhoven to Georgens

After 15 years as CEO – practically an eternity in the storage business – NetApp’s Dan Warmenhoven stepped down today and named Tom Georgens his successor. The move was anticipated since