Clint Boulton

In line with previous reports, EMC Wednesday unleashed its grandest storage system to date, improved upon its replication software, and added new data migration support. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage company is improving on the Symmetrix DMX line it announced less than six months ago, a product line that EMC President and CEO Joseph Tucci said […]

In its salad days, Rainfinity attempted to navigate through a younger, evolving computing market with its Reliable Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) technology, which was commercialized in the security space. RAIN is a patented clustering technology that was conceived and developed by a team of Caltech scientists who are among the company’s founders. Though it […]

EMC Wednesday is planning to unveil a refresh of its high-end storage systems, the Symmetrix DMX line, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The sources told internetnews.com these particular revisions include enhanced interface support and advanced replication capabilities. “EMC is stepping up their ability for these issues,” the sources said. The Symmetrix DMX […]

Computer hard drive manufacturer Western Digital said it has succeeded in a bid to acquire the assets of bankrupt hard drive parts maker Read-Rite for $95.4 million in cash. A bankruptcy court presiding over the Read-Rite assets approved the sale, which includes Read-Rite’s wafer fabrication operation in Fremont, Calif., as well as an option to […]

Storability Software has purchased the resource management software assets of the now defunct ProvisionSoft, continuing the consolidation trend in the storage industry while affirming the sector’s interest in enterprise management software. Storability, a provider of storage resource management software, bought the DynamicIT line of the former start-up for an undisclosed amount. The Southborough, Mass.-based outfit […]

Consistent with what has quickly become an industry-wide trend to give customers more control over the computing resources they need, storage systems provider EMC Monday unveiled a new billing tool for customers to buy storage when they require it. Called OpenScale, the Hopkinton, Mass.-based company has quietly been using the capacity-on-demand feature for quite some […]

Computer Associates International and Sony have agreed to bundle their complementary storage products in order to attack mid-range and enterprise storage markets where IBM , VERITAS , and many others compete. Islandia, N.Y.’s CA said it would bundle its BrightStor storage management line with Sony’s PetaSite and StorStation storage systems for the North American, European, […]

When folks think of storage software, the first names that come to mind are likely to be VERITAS, HP, IBM, or even EMC. But Microsoft? Well, it’s true. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has been gaining momentum in a niche of the storage software market known as NAS, or network-attached storage. NAS is hard disk […]

What sales slump? Storage systems provider EMC on Wednesday reported a profit for the second quarter of $82 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $1 million for the second quarter of 2002 with no earnings per share. Analysts were generally expecting earnings per share of 3 cents. The Hopkinton, […]

IBM and Cisco deepened their longstanding storage networking pact Tuesday when Big Blue agreed to include the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Storage Services module in its MDS 9000 storage area networking (SAN) directors and fabric switches. With the deal, for which financial terms will not be made public, SANs may be connected to remote SANs […]

EMC’s bid to acquire Legato Software Tuesday for $1.3 billion has caught the attention of analysts that follow the sector and has quelled debate over whether or not the deal, rumored as far back as a year, would happen. Now that it has, a different debate has arisen. While most analysts have lauded the deal, […]

On a kick to propel its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy into high gear, storage systems giant EMC purchased Legato Systems Tuesday for $1.3 billion in stock. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based vendor bought the Mountain View, Calif.-based storage software maker to ratchet up its ILM portfolio, which helps enterprises manage storage from the time it is […]