Clint Boulton

EMC is answering questions regarding what it plans to do with its Legato and Documentum acquisitions by rolling out new compliance software packages. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage systems provider unveiled EMC Proven Solutions for e-mail and content archiving and retrieval. Also in its update: new data management functionality for its Centera platform, as well as […]

Dot Hill Systems has joined the ranks of vendors offering low-cost storage provisions with new hardware geared to pack more capacity into a data center without packing a punch to the customer’s checkbook. The Carlsbad, Calif.-based storage systems manufacturer has hinged its new SANnet II SATA systems on Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Serial ATA or […]

Dell and EMC Wednesday dusted off their tight partnership Wednesday by unleashing a new storage area network (SAN) server for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that is as aggressively priced as it is full featured. Competition for market share in the SMB space has been sizzling for the past year in the IT community, and […]

A few years ago, IBM promised a file system with multi-vendor interoperability. On Tuesday, Big Blue made good on its word with the next iteration of its TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS). It supports storage devices from rivals EMC , HP , and Hitachi . SFS, formerly code-named “Storage Tank,” was first launched last October […]

Buoyed by support from key partners, Microsoft Monday announced it has released for general availability its feature pack for consolidating data from Exchange Server 2003 on network-attached storage (NAS) devices running Windows Storage Server 2003. Original equipment manufacturers EMC , Dell , and HP will be offering the feature pack on their NAS devices. The […]

Looking to expand its offerings for the lucrative small and medium-sized business (SMB) space, EMC Thursday introduced the NetWin 110, the second member of a NAS storage system family tailored to run Microsoft Windows software. EMC NAS Product Marketing Manager Tom Joyce says the 110 is designed for customers that would like to add storage […]

While it’s tempting to think that IBM may be late in the game to information lifecycle management (ILM), the company insists that such cradle-to-grave management is just one important piece of a more broad strategy: e-business on-demand, the company’s ambitious task of bringing computing to end users more efficiently than ever before. “It would be […]

Months after its competition trumpeted information lifecycle management (ILM), IBM Wednesday leapt onto the ILM bandwagon with a new storage strategy that combines ILM, virtualization, and tiered storage with the company’s broad on-demand approach. At a press event in Cambridge, Mass., IBM executives promised to integrate and simplify storage management in order to enable users […]

Brocade Communications Systems and IBM have embarked on the next leg of their six-year partnership, agreeing to bundle new Brocade storage area network (SAN) switch modules with the IBM eServer BladeCenter to facilitate server consolidation. Code-named “Blazer” by Brocade, the Enterprise and Entry SAN Switch modules are the latest additions to the San Jose, Calif.-based […]

VERITAS Wednesday defined more of its utility computing play, including product roadmaps, services, and a key partnership with Sun Microsystems . Day two of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s annual software event found the firm agreeing to expand its relationship with Sun by increasing its support for the Solaris platform to include the Solaris Operating […]

Arguing that a solid storage infrastructure is the best starting point for a utility computing model, VERITAS Software CEO Gary Bloom Tuesday announced steps to create a flexible platform for on-demand environments. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which entered the utility computing market about a year ago, also unveiled several software upgrades at its VERITAS […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has aligned its software and hardware systems more closely with a new initiative dubbed “application optimized storage.” The push, announced Tuesday, includes a device to fill a gap in the company’s Thunder modular storage system line, along with new software from the company’s HiCommand Storage Area Management Suite. HDS Thunder 9585V […]