Storage

Google offers long-term email archiving for $45

Google's Message Discovery, based on its 2007 acquisition of email archiving services vendor Postini, has a new option for archiving messages for up to 10 years for a flat fee of $45 per user per year. According to the

Brocade bags a billion-plus for Foundry

Brocade apparently became the first storage company to see positive effects of last week’s financial bailout when it received $1.1 billion loan to help finance its $3 billion acquisition of Foundry...

EMC rolls out MozyPro for Mac

EMC's Mozy online backup has added a new Mac edition of MozyPro to its product line. This news follows the introduction of Mozy's first Home edition Mac client in May. The MozyPro for Mac product, which...

HDS: Something self-healing and disk-based is coming. . .

And if I had to guess, I'd say it's a new disk array. A self-healing, dynamically performance-optimized disk array. For one thing, the latest fad is for new disk arrays to be promoted in what public relations pros call a "rolling thunder" fashion, where deliberately mysterious statements are made...

iSCSI’s $360M vote of confidence

All the talk about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) over the last year has raised questions about the future of iSCSI storage once the convergence of FC and Ethernet takes place. But...

Quantum-Riverbed bout ends with $11M handshake

Backup vendor Quantum and WAN optimization specialist Riverbed Technology dropped their respective data deduplication patent lawsuits against each other this week, with Riverbed agreeing to pay Quantum $11 million. Both sides dropped all claims and agreed not to file more data deduplication patent...

Unitrends unites backup, DR management

SMB backup and DR vendor Unitrends has released version 4.0 of its RapidRecovery management software for its Data Protection Unit disk-to-disk backup hardware. The new version completes a yearlong effort from Unitrends to bring together what were once separate GUIs for managing backup and offsite...

Let’s manage data, not just storage

 (Ed. Note: this guest blog comes from Siemens Medical Solutions storage administrator Jim Hood in response to the editorial in the July Storage magazine, Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the real...

Financial forecast calls for gloom

Until now, the storage industry has held up well this year in the face of any economic slowdowns - even those affecting the financial services sector.

But with the economy's problems taking...

Staples to rebrand Mozy online backup service, EMC drops Fortress name

Office supplies giant Staples is adding a rebranded version of EMC's Mozy online backup service to its Thrive online backup services, which already include a rebranded version of i365's EVault for...