Storage Soup
September 2008
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Let’s manage data, not just storage
- TechTarget 30 Sep 2008 -
Financial forecast calls for gloom
- Editorial Director 26 Sep 2008 -
Staples to rebrand Mozy online backup service, EMC drops Fortress name
- Senior News Writer 25 Sep 2008
(Ed. Note: this guest blog comes from Siemens Medical Solutions storage administrator Jim Hood in response to the editorial in the July Storage magazine, Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the ...
Until now, the storage industry has held up well this year in the face of any economic slowdowns - even those affecting the financial services sector. But with the economy's problems taking center ...
Office supplies giant Staples is adding a rebranded version of EMC's Mozy online backup service to its Thrive online backup services, which already include a rebranded version of i365's EVault for ...
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Last stand for NetApp’s DataFort?
- Editorial Director 24 Sep 2008 -
Seagate lets its services stand alone
- Editorial Director 23 Sep 2008 -
Much ado about virtual desktop data storage
- Senior News Writer 22 Sep 2008 -
Further news and reading from VMWorld
- Senior News Writer 18 Sep 2008 -
VMWorld in Pictures
- Senior News Writer 18 Sep 2008 -
Riverbed preps primary storage dedupe device
- Editorial Director 16 Sep 2008 -
Sun’s “Thor” finds a new green friend
- Senior News Writer 15 Sep 2008
In his latest blog, NetApp chief marketing officer Jay Kidd waxes enthusiastic about Brocade’s new encryption devices: Brocade has new blindingly fast Fibre Channel switches and director blades ...
Seagate is creating a new umbrella company for the services businesses the disk drive vendor has been accumulating over the last few years. In 2006, Seagate acquired ActionFront Data Recovery Labs, ...
Last week at VMWorld, IBM announced the Virtual Storage Optimizer (VSO), ESX-based software that reduces virtual desktop storage by creating a "golden image" of the desktop's operating system and ...
A couple of additional storage announcements not captured in our VMWorld preview wrap: EMC Corp. said EMC Control Center (ECC) 6.1 will now support reporting on thin-provisioned volumes within ...
As far as I could tell, they did not actually serve liquid genius here. A busy - and vast - show floor. Psst...roadmap stuff over here... Some of the storage roadmap stuff. Still undecided whether ...
Riverbed took the wraps off what it previously described as its "data center product" Monday, unveiling its Atlas primary data deduplication device at its financial analyst conference well before ...
A startup called greenBytes emerged from stealth today, bringing with it modifications to Sun Microsystems' ZFS file system that will add power-saving features to the SunFire X4540 "Thor" storage ...
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Vmworld: Hope Springs Eternal!
- The Sasha Company 15 Sep 2008 -
HP to EMC: Drop the SPC smoke screen
- Editorial Director 12 Sep 2008 -
Rackable to replace RapidScale with NetApp
- Senior News Writer 12 Sep 2008 -
Ocarina will pay you 10 grand to beat it at data compression
- Senior News Writer 10 Sep 2008 -
Sun CEO dons rose-colored storage glasses
- Editorial Director 09 Sep 2008
I've been on an emotional roller coaster recently. I've had a slim chance of making it out to Vmworld in Las Vegas this week and I got really excited. Then ... crushing blow I couldn't go, then the ...
Heweltt-Packard has fired the latest shot at EMC in the battle over performance benchmarks. HP this week posted records for megabytes per second and price performance in SPC-2 performance benchmark ...
On August 14, Rackable disclosed it was selling its RapidScale clustered NAS business, which was derived from its acquisition of Terrascale last April. Company executives said they were trying to ...
Ocarina Networks, which came out of stealth in April, claims its compression appliance will reduce file data on primary storage systems. Its main competitor, StorWize, applies standard ...
The political conventions are over, but Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is spinning Sun storage in a way that would make any candidate proud. In his latest blog, Schwartz points to recent figures from ...