Andy Patrizio

Toshiba said yesterday it will acquire Fujitsu’s hard disk drive business in a deal that will make Toshiba a major player in the HDD market and let Fujitsu shed a money-losing business. Toshiba isn’t as well known in the storage market as it is for its chip and memory products businesses, but it does have […]

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) long-rumored GDrive cloud storage business may still be on track. A Google source code file suggests that Google is indeed working on the online storage service, and also offers some indication of what the company has in mind for it. The service has been rumored for nearly three years, but it has […]

A new technology partnership could push flash memory storage into the terabyte range, another step toward greater usefulness in enterprise storage applications. At last week’s CES show, SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced plans for joint development of two new high-capacity memory sticks that will expand flash memory into the multi-terabyte range. The […]

One of the common shortcomings of blade systems is the use of 2.5-inch drives. While they are smaller and easier to fit in the chassis, they also suffer from capacity limitations. The 3.5-inch drive used in standard desktops and servers has reached the 1TB barrier while 2.5-inch drives are lucky to get half that capacity. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — EMC (NYSE: EMC) is the storage player of choice for many in the enterprise market, but lately the company has been trying to parlay that success into markets for consumers, “prosumers” (technically astute consumers) and small- and medium-sized businesses. One key to gaining that market is Iomega, which EMC purchased in […]

Trend Micro is branching out from its anti-malware roots to offer an e-mail archiving solution for mid-sized businesses running Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers (see Lawyers, Storage Vendors and Money). Trend Micro Message Archiver (TMMA) stores and compresses e-mail on its own server, allowing for the storage load to be reduced on the mail server while […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Just a week after closing its acquisition of EqualLogic, Dell is wasting no time in ramping up its storage offerings. At a press briefing here on Monday, the company announced its first Dell-branded product, the Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series, a mid- to high-end storage offering that fills out Dell’s product line. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that the small to medium-sized business  market has been “underserved,” Dell today introduced a new storage system especially for the sector. The problem, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell, is SMB-oriented storage is either a stripped down, crippled versions of an enterprise product, or the enterprise product is scaled down slightly […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Server virtualization, the consolidation of physical servers on one powerful machine, has been growing like gangbusters in major enterprises. So it stands to reason that storage virtualization could fit into that pattern, given the exploding universe of user-generated digital content. Storage virtualization was the topic of several session tracks here at […]