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November 20, 2008  6:04 PM

Copan follows the big guys, slashes staff



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

With large storage vendors - and other corporations - laying off and struggling these days, where does that leave the little guys? Today's economy doesn't bode well for startups that rely on venture funding to survive. Take Copan Systems for example. At the start of 2008, Copan CEO Mark Ward...

November 20, 2008  1:34 PM

Storage Soup is moving



Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage

Within the next few weeks, Storage Soup is moving to IT Knowledge Exchange, a TechTarget site where IT pros can ask or answer technical questions or follow dozens of IT blogs hosted there. We're moving our blog there to bring you...


November 18, 2008  3:21 PM

Asigra offers free I/O benchmarking tool for disk-based backup



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup

Backup software vendor Asigra is looking to "hold storage vendors' feet to the fire" with a new free tool it will be offering to customers to validate IOPS on disk-based backup hardware. According to Asigra executive vice president Eran Farajun, sometimes customers end up buying systems to support...


November 18, 2008  1:00 AM

What’s to become of Sun’s STK business?



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage

Many in the storage industry are wondering about the fate of the Sun StorageTek business following Sun's revelation of its umpteenth restructuring last week. In a press release issued Friday, Sun said...


November 17, 2008  6:06 PM

Symantec CEO Thompson to step down



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage

At the end of a busy Monday, Symantec revealed that John Thompson is giving up his CEO post and "retiring" to the role of Chairman of the Board, with COO Enrique Salem taking over...


November 17, 2008  12:43 PM

Nirvanix lands on The Planet



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage, Storage managed service providers

The Planet, which hosts servers and applications for its customers, is adding a cloud-based storage service to its offerings based on a new partnership with cloud storage provider Nirvanix. Nirvanix came out of stealth last fall, claiming it could offer better performance than established cloud...


November 17, 2008  4:43 AM

CA goes SaaS route with DR



Posted by: Dave Raffo
data backup, Data center disaster recovery planning, small business storage, Storage backup, Storage Software as a Service

CA jumped into the software as a service (SaaS) game by launching three offerings at CA World. The SaaS offerings include a disaster recovery/business continuity service called CA Instant Recovery On Demand, which...


November 6, 2008  2:26 PM

Harvard Law School offers clarifications on lost backup tape



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup, data security

The Boston Globe reported this morning that an unencrypted backup tape containing personal information on some 21,000 clients of the school's legal clinic has been...


November 5, 2008  11:55 AM

HP jumps into storage virtualization with midrange arrays



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage

HP rolled out the StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP)  this morning, described in a press release as "a network-based storage platform that pools capacity across HP and non-HP storage...


November 4, 2008  4:45 PM

You know things are bad for Sun when…



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage

...someone goes to the trouble of creating puppet theater to express the depths of their angst about the company's most recent...

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