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December 18, 2008  10:24 AM

Storage spending slowing already



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

The spending slowdown most storage industry people are expecting to hit in 2009 has already begun, according to new research from TheInfoPro...

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December 17, 2008  4:21 PM

Brocade set to close Foundry acquisition



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

Brocade cleared its final hurdle to its $2.6 billion acquisition of Ethernet networking firm Foundry Networks today when Foundry's shareholders approved the deal. In Brocade's release announcing the approval, the Fibre Channel switch vendor said it expects to close the deal Thursday. Brocade also...


December 16, 2008  3:30 PM

Everything you always wanted to know about data backup but were afraid to ask



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup

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December 15, 2008  12:43 PM

Deduping slows but doesn’t stop data growth



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

While most organizations are likely planning to trim their IT budgets next year, a lot of them are also no doubt finding that cutting storage capacity will be difficult if not impossible. Take Victaulic...


December 9, 2008  4:26 PM

NetApp discontinues replication app



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

NetApp today quietly pulled the plug on its SnapMirror for Open Systems (SMOS) heterogeneous data replication software, acquired from startup Topio for $160 million in 2006. In a press release posted on...


December 9, 2008  7:31 AM

EMC and Dell extend partnership, add NAS



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

With sales of EMC storage systems sold through Dell on the decline, EMC CEO Joe Tucci declared last October "there's a lot more we could and should be doing together" to strengthen the EMC-Dell...


December 3, 2008  5:28 PM

Users look increasingly to storage virtualization as data grows, analyst says



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage and server virtualization, Storage market research reports

I had an interesting conversation today with TheInfoPro's managing director of storage research Rob Stevenson about the results of his firm's latest survey of 250 Fortune 1000 and midsize enterprise storage users. Fortune 1000 users surveyed by TIP cited block virtualization as having the...


December 1, 2008  4:55 PM

Overland gets $9 million in financing, expects more



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

Overland Storage's employees and partners received an early Thanksgiving present last Wednesday when the struggling tape and disk vendor secured financing for up to $9 million of its domestic accounts receivable. Marquette Commercial Finance will finance Overland's accounts receivable. Accounts...


November 24, 2008  10:55 AM

No solace for Quantum



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

Like the rest of corporate America, storage companies will spend the holiday season implementing cost-cutting measures to get through the current financial crisis. Quantum today kicked off Thanksgiving week by disclosing it is chopping 180 jobs - about 8% of its workforce - and people inside the...


November 21, 2008  3:54 PM

10GigE still seeking killer app



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

Although proponents of 10 Gigabit Ethernet point to virtual servers, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as reasons it will catch on in storage, it has yet to do so. But vendors continue to build out the infrastructure in hopes of making 2009 - or 2010 at the latest - the year of 10...