Clint Boulton

Network Appliance Tuesday plans to unveil new storage systems and software at its annual analyst meeting to demonstrate the company’s progress toward a “storage grid” architecture. The use of grid technology to simultaneously throw resources from many computers at a task is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s information technology realm. With Oracle making it the […]

Dell and EMC executives this week offered an update of their partnership for selling storage systems, highlighting research that shows second-quarter revenues for the collaborative effort grew 106 percent year-over-year. Dell Storage General Manager Darren Thomas said his company’s external storage business, which consists of network-attached storage , direct-attached storage , and tape, surged 68 […]

Driven by new federal regulations, a new business category called information lifecyle management (ILM) has taken center stage in the storage industry. ILM is geared for the cradle-to-grave management of “unstructured data” such as e-mails, attachments, and audio and video clips. Previously, CEOs didn’t want to keep this information; now they have no choice. Lawmakers […]

VERITAS Software and Cisco Systems are teaming up to make storage simpler and more cost effective.The two companies Monday announced they have bundled their software and hardware, respectively, on a product they hope will one day become the prime alternative to pricey storage systems from vendors such as IBM , EMC , and Hitachi Data […]

In a follow-up to last week’s bid to acquire archiving specialist Persist Technologies, Hewlett Packard has moved to extend its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy overseas by partnering with systems integrator Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y). Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP will work with the Paris-based firm to help customers manage critical data from its […]

Microsoft today announced that 13 storage hardware makers have prepared their iSCSI products for use with Windows under a program that ensures compatibility between storage devices and systems and the Redmond, Wash. giant’s software. The companies include McDATA, QLogic, Adaptec, ADIC, ATTO Technology, Cisco, Crossroads, FalconStor, EqualLogic, Intel, Intransa, Lefthand Networks, Network Appliance, SpectraLogic, and […]

Looking for elbow room in the crowded enterprise storage market, Gateway used the annual Comdex show in Las Vegas Tuesday as its soapbox to launch a slew of new storage products. The Poway, Calif.-based company, which held a consumer electronics-oriented media event last week in New York City in which it alluded to the major […]

LSI Logic has decided to send its chips and storage products in different directions. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company will separate its storage systems operations from its semiconductor business and create an independent storage systems company. The independent company will be based upon LSI Logic’s subsidiary, LSI Logic Storage Systems, which is currently reported as a […]

With networking chip providers looking to amp the performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) at the request of HDD manufacturers locked in a fierce competition with each other, Agere Systems Tuesday said it just made sense to join forces with HDD maker Maxtor to co-create a Serial ATA (SATA) system-on-a-chip (SoC). Often used in consumer […]

Storage Technology (StorageTek) today announced it has teamed with enterprise content management (ECM) player IXOS Software in a strategic alliance to add IXOS’ e-mail archiving software into its own archive and content management suite. The company also plans to resell the German company’s ECM software with its own storage management software. For Louisville, Colo.-based StorageTek, […]

VERITAS Software embarked on the next leg of its utility computing sojourn today with the announcement of its CommandCentral Service 3.5 for enterprises that desire data protection and backup and recovery services on a pay-for-use basis. Members of the firm’s executive management team were on hand in New York City to announce the news an […]

To say mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and strategic activity in the storage space are heating up is a gross understatement, especially when the conversation involves EMC . The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company has unleashed a flurry of news recently regarding its new push for information lifecycle management (ILM), which is perhaps the hottest phrase uttered since […]