Buying storage is like buying a car…

Here's an interesting ancedote from a user requesting more storage at his company and likening the process to...
Yahoo to offer unlimited email storage

According to the New York Times, Yahoo! will offer subscribers unlimited email storage on their free webmail...
The dark side of data protection
As backup software vendors are discovering, being flexible is the name of the game when it comes to incorporating the management of some of today’s hottest storage technologies – CDP, data classification, data de-duplication or integration with VTLs – into their backup software. I am also...
HDS’s Yoshida: Storage headed for a “bust”

Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida has an interesting post up on his blog that predicts storage is headed for a "bust" period in terms of petabytes shipped per year. He's basing this in part on IDC's recent numbers which show that server shipments are down thanks to virtualization. Yoshida...
Datacatch extends Google Desktop to thumb drives, CD-ROMs

Another software company riding the Google wave came to our attention this week--Datacatch, an Australian company which already markets an indexing tool for offline media written by Windows clients, including tape, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, as well as flash drives. Datacatch has been...
Microsoft, EMC get closer

EMC and Microsoft announced a partnership today under which Microsoft will integrate EMC's Smarts network discovery and modeling software into future versions of Microsoft's Systems Center Operations Manager. The companies also said they will be working on common models for networking and...
Storage security podcast

These days, its tough to ignore the ever-present coverage of security breaches and identity theft in the news. In this podcast, storage security expert Kevin Beaver offers practical answers to the most...
Analyst warns of “gotchas” with Google

The Burton Group put out a press release this week warning of some "gotchas" with Google's software as a service (SaaS). Storage Soup caught up with Burton Group enterprise search and records management analyst Guy Creese...
Teracloud is just giving it away

TeraCloud has introduced a pay-as-you-go pricing model for its SRM software that includes the ability to run at least one level of the package for free--indefinitely. TSF Express, newly introduced as part of this program, in an SRM tool compatible with Solaris, Linux, Windows and AIX. TSF Express...
Some sweet specs on Google and Hubble

Our story on Google's storage assistance to academic and research institutions focused on the Archimedes Palimpsest,...