More articles by Judy Mottl

The EMC unit's new NAS devices provide easy and cheap data storage for small businesses looking to protect virtual environments, but they aren't a threat to NetApp — yet.

The document archiving giant is pushing a new 'storage-as-a-service' offering that promises to make data archiving cheaper and easier.

Data de-duplication, database integration and reporting and monitoring tools are among the new features of IBM's storage management software.

The White House e-mail furor promises to continue right up to the last day of the Bush administration.

Samsung says its new solid state drives can save users a bundle.

The storage giant doesn't want to become a business intelligence vendor, but it certainly plans to leverage the technology.

The cost-cutting move reflects economic reality as well as maturation of the company's archiving product line, some say.

Flash-based storage is pricier — but that's not stopping Violin from serenading enterprises with its alternative to disk storage.

Sun's first storage appliances on the Open Solaris platform offer an inexpensive take on network storage.

With a little help from LSI, the IT vendor builds a SAN platform that promises easier storage management and cheaper cost.

Big Blue's new content management products promise better classification and retrieval of unstructured data to help with e-discovery searches.

Application-aware storage targets Oracle shops.

Big Blue revamps its storage strategy to take on the market leader. But who will be left standing once the dust clears?

Sun Microsystems and Symantec were bright spots in a very strong second quarter for storage software and hardware sales — and Sun plans more products to keep the momentum going.

Big Blue isn't standing idly by while its fellow storage titans move into flash technology.

Web services provider pushes new "block" system for storage cloud.

Profit and revenue are up despite the downturn, yet Wall Street soured on the stock after lower-than-expected guidance.

Expanding the storage farm may appear cheap, but is it a cost-effective way to store data?

With new flash drives and thin provisioning technology, EMC's midrange storage line is starting to look a lot like its high-end offerings.

Big Blue takes another whack at CDP for small offices by turning FilesX around as a Tivoli Storage Manager offering.

Texas Memory Systems debuts a RAM-based SSD that's big and powerful, but definitely not cheap.

Brief downtime hits the company's S3 service again.

The storage giant connects the dots among recently acquired offerings to ease SMB backup management tasks.

Often-derided tape storage gets a vote of confidence, as HP and Sony team on a new DAT format and IBM and Sun break the terabyte tape barrier.

The vendor has added cheap bulk storage and a new hybrid storage server to its open storage product lineup.

IDC finds that storage operating costs are rising as fast as capacity.

The Larry Ellison-funded storage company promises 80 percent disk utilization and tighter integration within Oracle.

Despite the benefits of outsourcing, business are still leery of handing off data archiving.

Demand for efficient infrastructure drives market growth.

Visual effects firm Soho VFX turned to Blue Arc for help bringing the Incredible Hulk to life.

The company's new SaaS tool handles archiving from front to back end for small businesses.

Texas Memory technology eliminates the data sync time now required when powering SSDs back into play.

StorMagic hopes to entice SMBs with an inexpensive offering tailored to smaller businesses' needs.

A new tool developed with the help of Citrix promises easier management of hardware in virtual environments.

Following on EMC's heels, the vendor plans to push solid state technology throughout its storage portfolio.

The storage titans promise easier handling of any kind of document.

BridgeHead Software's tool aims to make 'c-discovery' as easy as possible in a space where a handful of tech giants are already entrenched.

Big Blue opens a solutions center in Mexico focused just on archiving solutions.

The company's new high-end storage appliance finds a spot alongside the big players.

The company's SRM tools promise greater efficiencies and utilization rates.

Mimosa Systems now archives files, e-mail and other content for e-discovery and retention purposes.

But analysts say the storage market remains a tough sell for open source technologies.

Anyone looking for proof of data de-duplication's acceptance need look no further than Data Domain's 160 percent first-quarter growth.

The startup sees a role for data de-duplication technology in primary storage environments.

IBM officially entered the data de-duplication market today with the acquisition of Diligent Technologies.

Big Blue's new service assesses data loads and storage demands to streamline media and entertainment storage operations.

Most online e-mail archive providers charge by the byte, but Google goes subscription.

Green storage drew a lot of attention at this week's SNW conference, and with good reason — users are saving a bundle because of it.

Iomega leaves ExcelStor at the altar after an aggressive courtship by the enterprise storage giant.

Xiotech unveils what its secretive unit acquired from Seagate has been up to.

The storage giant pushes security into PowerPath and a new network operations tool.

It's no longer all about the perimeter, says NetApp's Tim Russell at Storage Networking World.

Data protection management startup WysDM is the storage giant's fourth acquisition this year.

The startup's new SAID architecture cuts through I/O bottlenecks — for a price.

The financial giant rolls out a new online document storage service.

The high-end NAS vendor and Hitachi partner overhauls its flagship storage array.

Mainframes get a virtual tape library courtesy of EMC, which also refreshes its RecoverPoint CDP software.

Network Appliance takes the unprecedented step of benchmarking its products against EMC's.

Enhancements across a number of product lines target small businesses and enterprises, touching on everything from storage hardware and tape to 8-gig Fibre Channel.

The company's backup, high availability and data replication offerings get a makeover, including better integration with XOsoft products and VMware.

The Storage Bridge Bay Working Group hopes to standardize storage interfaces with a new specification, a move that could give end users greater flexibility at lower cost.

HP says it is ready to take on NetApp in the high-end NAS market, thanks to the acquisition of PolyServe.

RevStor has come up with the storage equivalent of a computing grid, tapping unused disk space in PCs to create a storage network.

The storage giant targeting the small office-home office market? Say it ain't so.