December 15, 2008 9:41 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk drives,
Strategic storage vendorsBringing up the rear among major vendors pledging support for solid-state drives (SSD), Hitachi Data Systems today said it would ship SSDs in its enterprise Universal Storage Platform and midrange USP-VM disk arrays in the first quarter of next year.
HDS did not reveal any partners for the SSDs...
December 9, 2008 1:55 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsPillar's CEO Mike Workman dropped by our office today, and said that while Pillar retains its earlier reservations about SSDs not being best utilized behind a network loop, the company will support...
November 17, 2008 12:13 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage,
Strategic storage vendorsCan you hear the Decho? That's what EMC's calling its newly launched subsidiary, Decho (short for Digital Echo) Corp. Decho will be a combination of two formerly separate EMC businesses: Mozy Inc. and Pi Corp.
Decho will continue to offer consumers and businesses Mozy-branded online backup...
November 5, 2008 12:41 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsAtrato Inc. made a splash earlier this year with its no-maintenance disk array (which was quickly followed to market by Xiotech's somewhat similar ISE product) and has been relatively...
October 29, 2008 2:41 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsAbout three weeks ago, Sun general counsel Mike Dillon posted about the results of some pre-trial maneuvering between his company and NetApp over the patent-infringement...
October 28, 2008 4:01 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsData protection appliance vendor STORServer has a new management team, replacing president and CEO John Pearring with a president and a separate CEO, both promoted from inside the company.
Chief operating officer Laura Buckley takes over as president and Bob Antoniazzi moves up from VP of...
October 24, 2008 1:24 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
SAN,
Storage protocols (FC / iSCSI),
Strategic storage vendorsDuring a conference call with storage reporters today to discuss the future for data center networking, Dell senior storage manager Eric Endebrock pointed to the convergence of Ethernet and Fibre Channel as inevitable. "Change is afoot," he said. "FCoE is a more straightforward management...
October 23, 2008 3:07 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving,
Strategic storage vendorsSeveral weeks after recommending to investors that they approve a bid by a private equity company to take over the struggling maker of optical storage...
October 23, 2008 11:34 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsThe New York Times and BusinessWeek are reporting today that Sun...