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December 18, 2008  10:48 AM

Sun repackages data center products and services



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

Yesterday I met with Amy O'Connor, who has recently been named VP of services for Sun Microsystems. She told me about new product and services packages Sun would launch today. We also had an interesting discussion about the state of Sun and its services division. The announcement made today was...

December 15, 2008  9:41 AM

HDS adds solid-state drives to USP disk arrays



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk drives, Strategic storage vendors

Bringing 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

Pillar pledges SSD support in 2009



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

Pillar'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

EMC forms new subsidiary to house Mozy, Pi



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage, Strategic storage vendors

Can 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

Self-healing disk array maker Atrato names new CEO



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

Atrato 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

NetApp’s Dave Hitz says Sun ‘dragging its feet’ in patent lawsuit



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

About 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

STORServer gives C-suite a forklift upgrade



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

Data 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

Dell prepares for converged networks, FCoE and iSCSI



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
SAN, Storage protocols (FC / iSCSI), Strategic storage vendors

During 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

Plasmon to be taken private



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data compliance and archiving, Strategic storage vendors

Several 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

Sun denies reports that co-founder Bechtolsheim is leaving



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendors

The New York Times and BusinessWeek are reporting today that Sun...