Storage Soup
April 2008
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RenewData takes a single swipe at tapes
- Senior News Writer 30 Apr 2008 -
IBM starts showing its cloud arsenal
- Editorial Director 29 Apr 2008 -
Inside PiWorx
- Senior News Writer 29 Apr 2008
Even as we continue to debate whether or not tape is dead, indicating at least that its salad days are probably behind it, some of the most interesting innovations in tape technology I've seen are ...
Hardly a day goes by without a new storage service rolling out. On Monday, it was IBM's turn to launch two storage services as part of its portfolio of services for midsized customers - ...
Until now, all we've known about Pi Corp., the startup EMC purchased in February, were that it was still in stealth, and that its software was meant to provide access to content on multiple types ...
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Nexsan the brave
- Editorial Director 25 Apr 2008 -
Primary storage still means one vendor
- Editorial Director 25 Apr 2008 -
EMC, IBM, thin provisioning and wild animals
- Senior News Writer 24 Apr 2008 -
Gloves come off in the storage cloud
- Senior News Writer 23 Apr 2008 -
Data deduplication: no lifeguard on duty?
- Senior News Writer 21 Apr 2008 -
Data dedupe dance cards filling up
- Editorial Director 18 Apr 2008 -
Storage in high places
- Senior News Writer 18 Apr 2008
In a bit of a Friday surprise, storage systems vendor Nexsan Technologies today filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the SEC. The move is surprising not because of Nexsan's financial ...
The term "vendor lock-in" is rarely used in a good way by storage buyers. It usually means you're stuck with products from one vendor, making it difficult to switch if you're unhappy or something ...
My daily rounds of the storage industry web this morning brought me to The Storage Anarchist, a blog by an EMCer that I often find interesting. As it turns out, one of my articles was in his sights ...
HP Upline crashed this week, just a few days after it was launched. As Chris Rock once said, "Grand opening, Grand closing." The crash of such a brand-new service isn't as impactful on end users as ...
In the course of a conversation today with a new SRM vendor, ArxScan, CEO Mark Fitzsimmons mentioned a use case for the startup's product that had me raising my eyebrows: basically, keeping data ...
IBM's acquisition of Diligent Technologies today will alter several relationships of major vendors as they look to add data deduplication to their VTLs. Until now, IBM's VTL partner was FalconStor ...
Two press releases caught my eye this week that aren't exactly earth-shattering, but got me thinking about the way the storage market is changing and widening. First, SanDisk revealed that its ...
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Disk vs. tape, cont’d (ad nauseam)
- Senior News Writer 17 Apr 2008 -
ExaGrid, Dell, EqualLogic partner on dedupe
- Senior News Writer 16 Apr 2008 -
Oracle jumps into archiving; can Microsoft be far behind?
- Senior News Writer 15 Apr 2008 -
More SaaS: distribution and the appeal of outsourced archiving
- Senior News Writer 14 Apr 2008 -
Blog dialogue: Online vs. traditional backup
- Senior News Writer 14 Apr 2008
Disk vs. tape is not a new argument, but over time it takes on different permutations, especially as disk-based backup in its various forms gains popularity and new technologies get introduced like ...
Dell's been so acquisitive in storage lately that every new announcement from them, especially about partnerships, has me paying attention. I don't believe that their buying spree is necessarily ...
Oracle is getting into the archiving game with the Oracle Universal Online Archive, which will archive email as well as unstructured files. The product will use Oracle's own database as the ...
My previous post about the value-add of online backup got me thinking about another series of conversations I've had recently about data storage SaaS in general (more on the compliance and ...
I was very happy to see one of my regular blog-stops, Anil Gupta's Network Storage, pick up on a recent post I wrote--the one about HP's new online storage services. In his response post, Gupta ...