July 23, 2009 4:00 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; nasLSI Corp. acquired NAS vendor ONStor today, continuing the trend of storage acquisitions that likely will continue for at least a few more months.
LSI got a good price. It paid $25 million for a company that had close to $140 million in VC funding. But for now LSI isn’t talking about its...
July 16, 2009 8:49 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; archiving; disk arraysMark Ward has stepped down as CEO of Copan Systems after three-and-a-half year on the job, but the executive team says it’s “business as usual” for the MAID pioneer and archiving vendor.
A Copan executive responded to calls about Ward’s status by delivering a statement from the board...
July 15, 2009 12:46 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; disk arraysIf 3PAR’s results are an indication, storage spending failed to show any signs of a rebound last quarter.
3Par Tuesday afternoon said its revenue for last quarter was below its previous forecast, and down from the previous quarter. The storage systems vendor disclosed that it expects to report...
July 9, 2009 1:23 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
converged networks,
Fibre Channel SANs,
storage networkingIt turns out Broadcom can take a hint after all.
After Emulex repeatedly spurned its acquisition offers, Broadcom today threw in the towel and said it will walk away. However, the Ethernet-chip maker may not be giving up on buying a storage company altogether.
"Although we were unable to...
July 8, 2009 4:51 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Online BackupCarbonite made a big splash in the consumer space this week with the announcement that Sun Microsystems Inc. (soon to become part of Oracle Corp.) will offer a free 30-day trial of its online backup service to Sun...
June 30, 2009 5:30 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data deduplication,
Strategic storage vendorsOther than the extension of EMC's bid for Data Domain last Friday, the NetApp / Data Domain / EMC drama has begun to simmer along at a more muted pitch than we saw during the initial bid and counter-bid process. For...
June 24, 2009 6:29 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage managed service providersA new private-cloud SaaS player launched this week, with plans to combine VMware and Data Domain products into an off-site disaster recovery service with a money-back recovery time service level guarantee.
Simply Continuous, based in San Francisco, is offering two services: Data Recovery Vault...
June 18, 2009 6:24 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup,
Strategic storage vendorsNothing like a good vendor fight to keep the week interesting. This time, it's Symantec and CommVault who have been going at it in press releases and statements after TheInfoPro released its Wave 12...
June 15, 2009 2:20 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; data deduplicationNot surprisingly, Data Domain management today recommended its shareholders reject EMC’s offer to buy the deduplication vendor “at this time” in favor of an offer from NetApp.
The reason it’s not surprising is that EMC’s June 1 cash bid of $30 per Data Domain share was
