Clint Boulton

HP Monday announced it has struck a balance between quality and cost with a new hard disk drive (HDD) that splices the performance and reliability of Fibre Channel technology with the lower cost parameters of iSCSI . Co-developed with HDD maker Seagate, the hybrid disk drive — dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted — combines lower […]

Tackling the age-old problem of improving backup and recovery times for stored data, EMC Monday unveiled a disk library that restores data as much as 90 percent faster than traditional tape libraries. EMC Vice President of Platforms Marketing Chuck Hollis says the storage systems vendor created the CLARiiON Disk Library to help businesses cope with […]

Information lifecycle management (ILM) and intelligent networking will be among the prevailing themes at next week’s Storage Networking World Spring 2004 show in Phoenix, according to analysts and vendors. Look for a flurry of demonstrations from key networking fabric vendors such as Cisco Systems , Brocade Communications Systems , and McDATA . But one of […]

In a sign of how vendors in the storage arena are aligning their products to fit utility computing schemas, Brocade Communications Systems unveiled two new switches with flexible power and pricing structures Wednesday. The storage switch maker designed the SilkWorm 3250 and 3850, code-named “Dazzler,” for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), but with a distinct […]

Princeton Softech has agreed to offer its database archiving software through VERITAS Software’s partner program, a deal that expands both companies’ distribution channels. James Lee, vice president of product marketing for the Princeton, N.J.-based software company, said the firms’ integrated Princeton Softech’s Active Archive software with the VERITAS Data Lifecycle Manager product for customers focused […]

Taking a page from many systems vendors, Network Appliance is developing a clustered storage infrastructure it calls a “storage grid.” The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based concern says the strategy is expected to come to fruition in three years and is one in which tiers of storage exist to manage individual devices on a network seamlessly and on […]

HP Monday refreshed its storage area networks (SAN) portfolio for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in an effort to further tap into a market that analysts say will be very lucrative over the next few years. The upgrade is part of a company-wide $750 million Smart Office strategy to lure SMBs to its camp over […]

Recognizing the importance of serving the growing legion of small and medium-sized business customers, Dell on Monday unveiled a network-attached storage (NAS) server to help SMBs manage their increasing volumes of data. Dell rivals IBM , HP , Hitachi Data Systems , and Network Appliance have all released NAS or storage area network (SAN) servers […]

Documentum has acquired content management assets from copy machine titan Xerox. Documentum, the enterprise content management (ECM) division of storage systems maker EMC , acquired the askOnce content integration technology from a Grenoble, France-based division of Xerox for an undisclosed sum. Pleasanton, Calif.-based Documentum reports the purchase has enabled it to construct a product called […]

Storage start-up Permabit unveiled its latest product offering this week. One of the few companies to address specific content-addressed storage (CAS), Permabit introduced its Permeon Compliance Vault, a complete compliance software solution designed to help enterprises meet the rules of such government regulations as SEC 17a-4, HIPAA, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The new software safeguards […]

Buoyed by momentum for products that help enterprises adhere to new government regulations regarding record-keeping, the storage software market posted a 17.7 percent rate of growth in the fourth quarter of 2003 year-over-year, according to market research firm IDC. Storage software sales for Q4 2003 totaled $1.78 billion. For the year, revenue grew 8 percent […]

The beauty of storage area networks (SANs) is that employees can gather, store, and retrieve specific information from terabytes of data at a moment’s notice. But SANs can also be surprisingly vulnerable to attacks. Storage experts say that major vendors such as EMC , IBM , HP , and Hitachi Data Systems have ignored security […]