Storage

Joe Tucci’s game of catch

As a fanatical Red Sox fan and a storage reporter, the whole EMC-logo-on-Red-Sox-uniforms thing has been a matter of some, er, ambivalence for me. It's also been the source of...

Another storage analyst defects to a vendor

Barry Murphy, formerly of Forrester Research, has been named the new director of product marketing for Mimosa, tasked with "expanding the company's eDiscovery and content management partner ecosystem and...

The economy and technology innovation

I love listening to NPR. I listen to, watch and read many news sources, but I find the stories they choose and the nuances they bring to their reporting refreshing. I was listening to NPR this morning when a very rare thing happened--I heard someone being interviewed that I've interviewed before...

Mendocino Software, R.I.P.

Not all storage startups either went public or got acquired for big bucks over the past two years. Mendocino Software sold little of its  continuous data protection (CDP) software and found no takers for its intellectual property, so Wednesday it sold whatever was left at

Are storage vendors squeezing dedupe?

As the first vendor to make data deduplication a key piece of the backup picture, Data Domain has benefitted most from the dedupe craze. And now it has the most at stake when deduplication becomes mainstream. If all the major storage vendors offer deduplication, there goes at least part of Data...

QLogic president quietly slips away

QLogic opened last week by declaring it has 8-Gbit/s HBAs and switches available, and ended the week by quietly disclosing the resignation of its president and COO Jeff Benck.

The connection between the two pieces of news isn't yet clear, but until Friday both 8-gig and Benck were...

Interesting tidbits from around the storage blogosphere

The storage market is a vibrant one right now, and as social networking concepts like blogs become more popular in the corporate world, the storage industry has a lively, varied blogosphere to match. Below are examples of some of the more interesting commentary I've seen lately, in case you missed...

8-gig era officially begins

QLogic this week became the third vendor to claim it is the first to ship 8 Gbit/sg Fibre Channel equipment. QLogic says its 8Gb PCI-Express HBAs and 8-gig switches are available as a Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit  and from QLogic distributors. Although other vendors...

EMC/IDC report: in storage, corporations are getting personal

EMC and IDC have published an update to their Digital Universe report, which met with skepticism when it was originally published last March. We're generally skeptical of...

New data protection gadgetry hits the streets

Two storage-related announcements came out of CeBIT this week that have turned a few heads. The first is the FlashBack Adapter from thumb-drive king SanDisk. The device fits into the ExpressCard slot of a user's PC, and automatically and continuously backs up and encrypts data onto a flash memory...