Clint Boulton

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week took the lid off of the latest advances to the long-awaited Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), a universal problem-solving standard that aims to help storage products from various vendors function together under one manageable interface. Ideally, vendors such as IBM and EMC would make their flagship products […]

Hitachi Data Systems is entering the battle for information lifecycle management (ILM) against rivals EMC and HP and has moved to fill in gaps in its storage software portfolio by adding provisioning, automation, and management capabilities with the help of startup AppIQ. HDS, a division of Tokyo’s Hitachi , reports its new solutions to provide […]

Storage vendors such as EMC and Hitachi Data Systems have been pounding the tables of late, proclaiming that they have the answer to the compliance bugbear many corporations have been facing the past couple of years with the passage – or pending passage – of federal regulations that require documents to be saved for definitive […]

Competition in high-tech can take some pretty funny twists and turns. When IBM first dropped hints of its plans to drop a “Storage Tank” onto the industry a couple of years ago, analysts agreed at the time that it would be a strong assault on competition like HP , EMC , and Hitachi Data Systems […]

VERITAS Software brought its “Project Shadow” into the light Tuesday when it unveiled a new backup and recovery option to provide always-on data protection for corporate PCs such as desktops and laptops. The Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of storage management software, in the midst of a company-wide evolution toward becoming a utility computing provider, is […]

EMC has officially sealed the deal on its bid to buy information lifecycle management (ILM) software specialist Legato Systems for $1.3 billion, or roughly 106 million shares of EMC stock, based on the closing price for both companies’ stocks on July 8. The closing paves the way for the Hopkinton, Mass.-based provider of storage hardware […]

Cisco and IBM refreshed their broad infrastructure partnership Wednesday, introducing a virtualization product geared to help customers corral data more easily and cost-effectively at a time when cutting storage area network (SAN) complexity and trimming expenses is paramount. Much-ballyhooed but not as widely implemented as high-tech analysts would like, virtualization aims to improve the use […]

EMC’s move to acquire Legato in July hardly took the storage industry by surprise — the Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage systems provider had telegraphed its interest in archiving software for months before the purchase, and analysts had also been talking up the possibility. But EMC’s bid to purchase Documentum earlier this week raised more than a […]

Gateway continued its roll-out of storage products Wednesday with the introduction of three new drives geared to provide solid data backup for companies looking to safely store their data. Poway, Calif.-based Gateway has been expanding its focus over the last year, offering more enterprise-oriented computing equipment while simultaneously working hard to infiltrate the consumer electronics […]

In another sign that 2003 is shaping up to be a stronger year for the storage industry than 2002, EMC Thursday reported third quarter revenues of $1.51 billion, some 20 percent greater than revenues reported for the same period last year. Net income for the third quarter was $159 million, or 7 cents per diluted […]

VERITAS Software continued its utility computing push this week, extending capabilities from its acquisition of Precise Software Solutions to Microsoft’s SQL Server environments. Since acquiring Precise earlier this year, Mountain View, Calif.-based VERITAS has been steadily turning into a provider of utility computing, an increasingly popular type of provisioning services offered to customers in order […]

EMC Tuesday set the stage for adding a crucial new piece to its strategy of building a complete information lifecycle management (ILM) portfolio with its bid to acquire Documentum for $1.7 billion in stock. ILM is the concept of managing stored data from its inception until its disposal, or “cradle to grave,” as many analysts […]