Clint Boulton

Just days after warning that its second-quarter results would miss Wall Street estimates, EMC lowered guidance again. EMC on Friday reported profit for the second quarter of $279 million, 5 percent lower than the $293.4 million reported in the year-ago quarter. Revenues were $2.57 billion, lower than the $2.67 billion predicted by financial analysts, and […]

Just because we call some businesses small doesn’t mean they don’t rack up a lot of data. Just ask Network Appliance, which has launched a new business unit to sell storage to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The storage systems vendor on Monday celebrated the new division with its first appliance, the StoreVault S500, which […]

Vowing to tighten its focus on storage systems, Network Appliance today agreed to sell its NetCache business to Blue Coat Systems for roughly $23.9 million in cash and stock. NetCache, which made $66 million in 2006, representing only 3 percent of NetApp’s revenues, makes Web appliances that businesses run in anything from primary data centers […]

EMC continued its acquisitive ways on Monday, acquiring ProActivity Software Solutions, a maker of content management software for business process management (BPM). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The purchase fits with EMC’s broad strategy for managing information with hardware systems and software tailored to shuttle, secure and save data. ProActivity, of Newton, […]

Network Appliance on Monday made a play for the high-performance computing market, unveiling an operating system that stores and retrieves data from Linux clusters faster than typical storage arrays. The software, which will run on NetApp’s new FAS6070 and FAS3050 storage arrays, allows single files or file clusters to be presented to applications as a […]

NEW YORK — For years, EMC was the vendor that competed with IBM, HP and several others in the market for storage hardware from an outpost in Hopkinton, Mass. EMC is still that company in Hopkinton, but it’s double the size and is no longer so one-dimensional. The vendor has added a number of different […]

NEW YORK — EMC has agreed to acquire nLayers, a startup that makes application discovery and mapping software. It’s the latest example of how the company is evolving to keep up with changing market demands. The purchase, for which financial terms were not disclosed, was announced during EMC’s annual analyst event Wednesday. At the event, […]

The latest version of EMC’s VMware virtualization software contains a number of features aimed squarely at storage users. VMware Infrastructure 3 is designed to break the typical constraints associated with machines configured to run only specific pieces of software. The latest version includes VMware ESX Server 3, the company’s strongest server, storage and network virtualization […]

Network attached storage (NAS) systems maker BlueArc has netted another $29 million in venture funding. The oversubscribed round was led by new investor Morgenthaler Ventures. New investors Chevron Technology Ventures and Wasatch Advisors also chipped in to help the company expand its field sales, marketing and services teams, boost research and development, and commit to […]

IBM and Network Appliance celebrated the first anniversary of their partnership with new storage appliances that act as bridges between storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) systems. Designed for small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the IBM System Storage N5200 and N5500 Series Gateways will help customers access their data more easily and improve […]

IBM on Thursday unveiled a major upgrade to its storage virtualization software, adding the ability to replicate data at faster speeds across greater distances. SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (SVC) aggregates data lodged in storage arrays from IBM, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems, among others, copies it, and recalls that data on the fly. Technologies that […]

Determined to keep tape rolling in the red-hot storage market, IBM says its engineers have hit a new record in data density on linear magnetic tape. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., packed data onto a test tape at a density of 6.67 billion bits per square inch. The compression, achieved […]