Storage Soup
May 2011
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NetApp, CommVault forge OEM deal around SnapProtect, tape
- Editorial News Director 31 May 2011 -
Don't turn data archiving into data hoarding
- Evaluator Group 31 May 2011 -
NetApp CEO: server vendors can't keep up with storage innovation
- Editorial News Director 26 May 2011
NetApp and CommVault today said they have signed an OEM deal that lets NetApp sell and brand CommVault’s SnapProtect to move replicated data to tape. SnapProtect is part of CommVault’s Simpana 9. ...
Archiving has the potential to change individual behavior, depending on how it is implemented and introduced to data owners. An archiving system can prompt data owners to alter the way they handle ...
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens says the battle for storage supremacy is increasingly becoming a two-horse race between his company and EMC. During NetApp’s earnings conference call Wednesday, Georgens ...
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Symantec spends $390M for Clearwell, discovery
- Editorial News Director 20 May 2011 -
Storage purchasing decisions should focus on functionality, economics
- Evaluator Group 18 May 2011 -
Quantum plans source-side dedupe for DXi, StorNext on appliance
- Editorial News Director 18 May 2011 -
SanDisk acquires Pliant to tackle enterprise SSD market
- Editorial News Director 16 May 2011 -
EMC World notebook
- Editorial News Director 13 May 2011 -
Free storage features
- Evaluator Group 11 May 2011 -
EMC flashes lofty SSD plans *UPDATED*
- Editorial News Director 09 May 2011
Symantec took a big plunge into the e-discovery market Thursday night when it acquired Clearwell Systems for $390 million, giving it technology that will complement its Enterprise Vault email ...
This is the season for vendors of storage systems, servers, software and networking equipment to hold events to show off their products and discuss their strategies. EMC World and Symantec Vision ...
Quantum is preparing to add source-side data deduplication to its DXi disk backup platform, which currently performs target-side dedupe. Adding source-side dedupe will help Quantum take on EMC, ...
It’s no secret that there are more solid state drive (SSD) vendors in the market today than can possibly survive, and there is bound to be consolidation through acquisition and some companies ...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Notes, quotes and anecdotes from EMC World 2011: All of EMC’s talk about the cloud this week brought up the inevitable questions about public trust in the cloud, especially after ...
For years, storage systems have evolved with the addition of high value features. The features have become differentiating characteristics between the storage systems in many cases. They’ve also ...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The first big storage product launch at EMC World is “Project Lightning,” code-name for a PCIe flash-based server cache device to accelerate performance of its storage systems. It ...
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EMC's Tucci: It's all about the cloud
- Editorial News Director 09 May 2011 -
NetApp closes Engenio deal, launches three storage sytems
- Editorial News Director 09 May 2011 -
Archiving's two primary use cases
- Evaluator Group 05 May 2011 -
Brocade, Emulex kick off 16-gig FC hype
- Editorial News Director 04 May 2011 -
HP prepares new EVA, vows to keep XP *Update*
- Editorial News Director 03 May 2011
The early message from EMC executives at EMC World is, “If you’re not using a private cloud yet, you’re late.” That’s how EMC chief marketing officer Jeremy Burton opened the first day’s keynote ...
NetApp closed its $480 million acquisition of LSI’s Engenio storage system division today and hit the ground running with three new systems based on Engenio technology. NetApp rechristened Engenio ...
Data archiving is often incorrectly assumed to be an extension of backup. That’s mainly because earlier technology limitations necessitated the use of backup software to store data on devices. ...
Ready or not, 16 Gbps Fibre Channel is coming. Emulex and Brocade this week said they have 16-gig FC devices being qualified by storage and server vendors, although there doesn’t appear to be any ...
Hewlett-Packard today said it will launch its next-generation EVA midrange storage system in June, and denied that it will stop selling its Hitachi-manufactured P9500 XP enterprise platform. For ...