Clint Boulton

Cisco Systems gave InfiniBand a big boost today by agreeing to buy networking gear maker Topspin Communications for $250 million in cash and options. Privately-held Topspin is one of the top providers of switches designed to knit servers into a grid, adding network and storage. The switches also provide a backbone for utility computing, server […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has released a beta of new disk-data protection software that provides near continuous data protection (CDP). The Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help corporations trim operational costs associated with the manual recovery of lost data, chores that can be onerous for IT workers. The software, which runs on […]

EMC next week will announce its most powerful network-attached storage (NAS) machine to take on NAS market leader Network Appliance, internetnews.com has learned. The Celerra NSX is an array that will host up to 8 blades that perform up to 300,000 network file system (NFS) operations per second, a source familiar with the company’s plans […]

Sun Microsystems is adding enterprise-grade virtualization utilities to its StorEdge 6920 operating system, code-named Unity 3.0. Storage virtualization allows customers to improve the way they manage information by lumping chunks of data into one large pool for easy access. Because the technology is expensive to craft, virtualization is often offered only in products that serve […]

FineGround has taken its Web application delivery prowess to the storage space. The company began offering a new wide area file services (WAFS) system Monday that allows users to share and store files from one box in a data center. WAFS is an emerging field in the storage sector that lets users access a remote […]

Network Appliance has moved to bolster its backup and recovery systems by acquiring Alacritus for $11 million in cash. Alacritus makes Securitus, a virtual tape library (VTL) system that lets disks emulate tape by creating separate virtual tape libraries for each host while sharing the same physical tape library. This allows users to share a […]

IBM will resell hardware and software from Network Appliance, as both companies seek to put more distance between themselves and EMC in the storage market. Under the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement, IBM will resell networked-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, and IP storage area network (SAN) products from NetApp. This includes NetApp NearStore disk-based backup and […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) plans to announce new network-attached storage (NAS) blades, which will run embedded in its TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP), according to a source familiar with the plans. The NAS blades, thin servers that slide into bigger servers, will consolidate existing NAS gateways and filers in an enterprise environment, according to the […]

IBM reaffirmed its plans to add more logical partitioning (LPAR) capabilities to its DS8000 storage systems, reducing the need to have separate machines and saving companies money. The DS8000 employs logical partitioning features, which allow clients to run several storage workloads and create virtual storage images. Later this year, the DS8000 will run applications inside […]

Network Appliance renamed and revamped its key file system line to improve the way it works with storage systems from competitors. Formerly called gFiler, the NetApp V-Series is a combination of software and hardware that consolidates DAS , NAS and SAN , virtualizing storage from several competing vendors in one pool to help corporations better […]

IBM is looking to gain in the storage virtualization arms race, and plans to launch its strategy in storage rival EMC’s backyard on Wednesday. In a Cambridge, Mass., event titled, “Virtualization Everywhere,” IBM storage head Andy Monshaw and his colleagues plan to “showcase the world’s most advanced virtualization technologies,” according to an IBM spokesperson. IBM […]

HP has overhauled its grid software for information lifecycle management (ILM), doubling its capacity and slashing the price by almost half. The system, called StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS) 1.1, helps users locate specific files by facilitating full text indexes and original content across storage “smart cells,” a form of grid computing , said […]