March 1, 2010 10:50 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage and server virtualizationThat's the happy tune VMware backup pros are likely singing today, after VMware officially sent out a statement to customers announcing that
February 26, 2010 4:05 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
management software,
server virtualization,
Storage and server virtualization,
storage vendorsEMC has sold its Ionix data center management software to VMware -- which EMC owns controlling interest of -- for $200 million.
The software VMware acquired includes Server Configuration Manager (formerly Configuresoft), FastScale, Application Discovery Manager (formerly nLayers), and Service...
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 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
February 16, 2010 3:50 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
disk arrays,
Fibre Channel SANs,
iSCSI SANThis should be a busy year for Hewlett-Packard storage, with upgrades expected to each of its major SAN array platforms. HP started that process today by launching two new systems at the low-end of its storage portfolio – the Modular Smart Array (MSA) platform for SMBs, workgroups and branch...
