Clint Boulton

Compellent has introduced a new piece of software, Server Instant Replay, that automatically boots servers from the company’s Storage Center storage area network (SAN) system, saving customers time and money. Typically, servers are manually configured and booted by IT administrators going from rack to rack to load operating systems and applications. After a server is […]

After years of dominating the network-attached storage (NAS) market, Network Appliance understands that in order to keep up with EMC, HP and others, it needs to offer customers a comprehensive storage area network (SAN) product line too. NetApp on Monday introduced the NetApp FAS3040 and NetApp V3040 series, new weapons in its SAN storage array […]

HP has unveiled a disk-based tape emulation system, or virtual tape library (VTL), for small- and mid-sized business customers that have a lot of files to store but don’t have big IT staffs or budgets. For less than $3,000, the StorageWorks D2D Backup System plugs right into existing datacenters via iSCSI, gets configured in three […]

Oracle is dipping a toe into storage management with new information lifecycle management (ILM) tools. The software giant on Monday began offering Oracle ILM Assistant, a free tool to help customers manage data from the time it is created in a database or other repository until it’s ready to be destroyed. ILM, popularized by EMC, […]

EMC and Dell are combining forces — and storage protocols — in a new midrange storage offering. The CX3-10 UltraScale FC/iSCSI system marks a new entry point with EMC’s Clariion machines for mid-sized customers. Designed to sock away data in businesses with anywhere from 250 to 2,500 employees, the CX3-10 is geared to handle the […]

With competition always fierce in the market for protecting corporate data, acquisitions can help a company leapfrog past its rivals. IBM could jump into the data protection management market feet first by buying partner Bocada, ratcheting up its competition with EMC, which plays in the data protection market (DPM) space thanks to an original equipment […]

IBM is taking encryption to the midrange storage market, equipping its new System Storage TS3400 Tape Library to protect data as it comes into the box. The TS3400, a two-drive library that can fit as many as 18 cartridges and store up to 37.8 terabytes of data, includes security technologies found in the IBM TS1120 […]

When EMC purchased RSA Security last year, experts wondered what the information systems provider would do with the security vendor’s assets. Would EMC operate RSA separately, or bundle the security technology across its storage systems? EMC answered that question this week at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco, revealing that it has stitched core […]

HP on Monday unveiled new storage hardware and software to address multiple storage protocols and help alleviate some of the complexity and cost of storage. Consolidating corporate data onto fewer servers and storage arrays has been a recurring goal for HP and rival vendors such as IBM, EMC and Network Appliance for years. “Customers are […]

Permabit, which once had lofty hopes of being a standalone storage systems vendor to be reckoned with, has toned down its approach. Finding it tough to crack into the daunting market shares of incumbents like EMC, IBM and HP, Permabit has scaled back, shedding its hardware offering to sell software that houses, guards and retrieves […]

Storage software continued to blossom in the third quarter of 2006, racking up $2.5 billion in revenues, or 10.7 percent greater than the $2.1 billion the market tallied in Q3 2005, IDC said on Monday. While the positioning of the top handful of storage vendors remained largely unchanged, IBM and Network Appliance grew sales by […]

Dell and Microsoft have created a new midrange storage server together, a machine capable of handling file and block-based application data in one box. The PowerVault NX1950, running Microsoft’s new Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, covers network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI SAN. Covering both file and block protocols will keep customers from needing separate […]