Clint Boulton

Despite oodles of hype and promise around the utility computing space, VERITAS Software said it anticipates lower than expected revenues for its fiscal second quarter due to weak sales in the United States. In announcing preliminary results for the second quarter Tuesday, company officials said they expect revenues between $475 million to $485 million on […]

InfiniBand gear maker Voltaire unveiled several new products this week that are designed to improve storage networking on clusters and grids, including parallel file systems and clustered network-attached storage (NAS) over InfiniBand. The new infrastructure epitomizes Voltaire’s desire to pare costs associated with storage while boosting the application processing power across every server in a […]

With a mind to plugging gaps in its strategy for managing customers’ storage layers, StorageTek is unveiling a new tape system and software and a partnership with long-time chum Sun Microsystems at the Storage World Conference 2004 in Long Beach, Calif., this week. Like rival EMC , StorageTek has embarked on a plan to provide […]

Red Hat unveiled its storage file system based on Linux and made its source code available under the General Public License (GPL), Red Hat spokeswoman Leigh Day said. Called Red Hat Global File System (GFS), the cluster file system and volume manager combo are essentially the same product that the company picked up in the […]

Led by outsourcing and managed hosting, spending for storage services is improving and will top $30 billion by 2007 worldwide, according to a new report from the Dataquest unit of high-tech research outfit Gartner. The $30 billion tab is encouraging. According to report author and Gartner analyst Adam Couture, the storage services market was worth […]

HP has unveiled a new file system that combines the company’s hardware with Linux to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than traditional clusters. The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), which includes the company’s ProLiant servers and StorageWorks disk arrays, allows bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters […]

EMC has aligned its storage management software with its information lifecycle management strategy (ILM) by refreshing its ControlCenter suite to better manage storage resources across tiered environments. The Hopkinton, Mass., information systems maker created ControlCenter 5.2 with new storage resource management (SRM) features that monitor, report and provision resources. SRM software helps increase operational efficiency […]

EMC grew its storage software revenues by $145 million in the first quarter on a year-over-year basis, as the overall market grew 23.3 percent on revenues of $1.85 billion for the same period. According to market researcher IDC, while EMC’s results were buoyed by its acquisition of Legato, the overall market performed well, with its […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) became the last major storage systems vendor to endorse the increasingly popular Serial ATA (SATA) technology, introducing a software application that adds an extra layer of low-cost storage to customers’ data centers. Designed for the Hitachi subsidiary’s mid-range Thunder 9500 V modular storage server, the SATA Intermix Option lets users use […]

NEW YORK — Bolstered by a rebound in IT spending, strong market share gains and new products, EMC CEO Joe Tucci sounded an upbeat note at the company’s annual analyst meeting on Thursday. Tucci predicted that the company will achieve revenues of $8.1 billion and net income of $850 million this year, up 30% and […]

NEW YORK — Though it announced an across-the-board product refresh in February, EMC held back a bit on revealing future innovations fueled by the company’s spending on research and development. That all changed Thursday at EMC’s annual analyst meeting in New York City, when officials unveiled hardware and software projects to help the company fill […]

At EMC’s meeting with analysts in New York City last August, CEO Joseph Tucci told attendees to expect a lot of activity from the storage vendor directed toward furthering its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. This time around, at its annual analyst meeting Thursday in New York, analysts predict attendees can expect more of the […]