Clint Boulton

HP and Hitachi Data Systems played musical chairs with their top storage officials over the long weekend, and HDS followed it up today with a new archiving platform. HP has named HDS CEO David Roberson as senior vice president and general manager of its enterprise storage business, effective May 30, a move that could make […]

With the launch of its Universal Storage Platform V earlier this week, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) unveiled more than just a high-end storage array. The company articulated a new message for delivering storage services. That message is service-oriented storage (SOS), storage services that invoke the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model of distributed computing. This approach is […]

Network Appliance has added de-duplication software to its primary storage systems. Ravi Thota, director of product marketing for data and storage management at NetApp, said single-instance storage (A-SIS) de-duplication, once limited to a joint offering with Symantec NetBackup, now works on FAS filers and NearStore R200 storage systems. De-duplication tools eliminate redundant data because only […]

Hitachi Data Systems on Monday raised the stakes in the high-end storage battle with a high-performance system that blends virtualization and thin provisioning to provide a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to storage. Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V is designed to help HDS gain ground in the high-end storage market against EMC’s Symmetrix 3 and IBM’s […]

EMC on Monday debuted Innovation Network, a global community of EMC researchers and university research partners determined to solve challenges posed by the information explosion. IDC projects that the explosion of information, which includes e-mail, images and other digital documents, will reach nearly a trillion gigabytes by 2010. Map that explosion in digital information against […]

Netgear on Thursday padded its storage networking gear portfolio by acquiring Infrant Technologies for $60 million in cash. The networking vendor wants Infrant’s ReadyNAS network attached storage (NAS) appliances, which provide RAID data protection for small businesses looking to sock away a lot of data without breaking the bank. The current Infrant product line includes […]

It’s no secret the storage system market is ruled by a handle of top-tier vendors, such as EMC, IBM, HP, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. These companies command some 95 percent of a total disk storage market that IDC said notched $24.4 billion in 2006. But there’s still a few billion dollars to be made […]

Hoping to boost its enterprise hard disk drive business, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies this week introduced three new drives, including the company’s first small form factor storage device. The 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147 marks Hitachi’s entry into the small form factor market, which has been successful for market leaders Seagate and Fujitsu, and shows that […]

Rumors of tape’s demise remain greatly exaggerated. Corporate compliance and records retention regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley are making sure of it, giving organizations an enduring need for the tried and tested method of long-term data archiving. But the new generation of LTO tape comes with a new twist inspired by data privacy and […]

Storage Networking World kicked off in San Diego today with high-profile and lesser known companies touting products that help businesses sock away data while meeting compliance regulations. EMC introduced new versions of its e-mail and file system archiving software to make it easier for companies to meet internal and federal governance rules. EMC EmailXtender 4.8 […]

Sun Microsystems has donated data storage technologies to the OpenSolaris community, a move that will allow developers to run the software on storage arrays from Sun competitors IBM, HP and Dell. The systems vendor is donating management features from Solaris ZFS, the dynamic file system in the Solaris 10 operating system that makes it easier […]

Quantum reborn as a backup and recovery specialist after exitingthe hard disk drive market, has upgraded the data-management software it acquired when it purchased ADIC last year. StorNext 3.0 brings data sharing to servers on the local area network (LAN) and includes Quantum’s data de-duplication technology, which deletes duplicate data to reduce required storage capacity. […]