Clint Boulton

Due to poor execution in its enterprise server and storage business, HP warned that earnings for the third quarter would be 24 cents per share, 7 cents lower than analysts’ consensus. In a surprise conference call Thursday to discuss the news, HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said that, although the company expects to post […]

The concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) continues to get ringing endorsements from the storage sector’s top companies. StorageTek will soon add to its ILM strategy with archive software geared to help administrators manage IBM’s DB2 database on mainframes. The Louisville, Colo., company will unveil Lifecycle Director for DB2 for IBM mainframe databases at the […]

E-mail archiving specialist Zantaz moved to add litigation support software and bolster its compliance and discovery management services this week when it agreed to acquire privately held Steelpoint Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The Pleasanton, Calif., vendor will also pick up a solid client base should its bid for the Boston-based company succeed. Steelpoint offers […]

HP is acquiring business availability firm Synstar to shore up its overseas presence as it battles IBM’s Global Services division. HP’s Global Investments B.V. subsidiary agreed to pay an unspecified sum of cash for the U.K.-based provider of managed services geared to deliver business availability and disaster recovery across desktop configuration and data center environments. […]

Sticking with previously announced plans to greatly improve the storage processing capabilities of its Xeon line, Intel unveiled the IOP332 Storage I/O Processor, along with faster DDR2 memory. Formerly code-named “Dobson,” the storage processor offers customers better RAID storage performance over previous generations, according to the chipmaker, whose partners IBM, Dell and HP all released […]

The partnership between IBM and Cisco continues to pay dividends. The companies added support for mid-range arrays from Hitachi Data Systems, EMC and HP for their joint storage virtualization device. IBM officials said third-party support for the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for the Cisco MDS 9000 product was added to help customers with […]

Delivering on its promise to blend content management with storage management after its purchase of Documentum last year, EMC issued new software Thursday to help companies shuttle data across their computer systems. EMC’s Documentum Content Storage Services represents the first time a company has directly spliced software platforms from the enterprise content management (ECM) and […]

With the help of strong revenues from its VMware, Documentum and Legato subsidiaries, EMC pulled in a profit of $193 million in the second quarter, more than double its profit in the second quarter of 2003. Net income for the quarter was $193 million, or 8 cents per diluted share, which was 136 percent higher […]

Looking to improve its offerings for preserving data cost-effectively, EMC has refreshed its Centera line by reworking the archiving software so it can be accessed by disparate platforms. The Centera Universal Access (CUA), a software appliance unveiled today, supports non-integrated applications built on Windows, Linux, Unix and IBM’s iSeries platforms. It helps IT managers store […]

Looking for a larger slice of the external storage market pie, Adaptec has agreed to purchase Snap Appliance for $100 million in cash and stock. Adaptec, which develops RAID and iSCSI software, ASICs and boards, will pay $91 million in cash and $9 million of assumed stock options in the deal. San Jose, Calif.-based Snap […]

Looking to bolster the availability of data on its servers, storage systems vendor BlueArc has agreed to use switches from Brocade Communications . San Jose, Calif.-based BlueArc will now ship its Titan SiliconServer with Brocade’s SilkWorm 3250 eight-port switch or SilkWorm 3850 16-port switch to improve the delivery and management of data for customers. BlueArc […]

Executives at StorageTek , one of the top storage tape library makers in the world, had reason to smile last month when EMC announced it will partner with tape library maker ADIC. After years of castigating tape in favor of disk-based storage, EMC CEO Joseph Tucci acknowledged that customers, albeit a small number, are requesting […]