Clint Boulton

USB drives have been a popular gadget among consumers who like to move digital content from one computer to the next. Their wild popularity, born out of portability and capacity, has led enterprises to look into the benefits of using the drives. But USBs also scare many companies, which routinely ban them for fear that […]

Looking to help programmers house large amounts of data for their Web development projects, Amazon Web Services today rolled out a new storage service, Amazon S3. Amazon is the latest dot-com giant to see dollars in online storage. Google is also considering launching an online storage service, and the search giant has other ambitions in […]

Dell, EMC, Intel and LSI Logic earlier this week said they have formed the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB), whose mission is to provide some flexibility in the way interface cards can be used on storage boxes. Currently, specific interface controllers for classes of storage such as JBOD and RAID, are created differently and […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has appointed Dave Roberson as president and CEO, replacing Shinjiro Iwata. Effective April 1, Iwata will shift over to become chief marketing officer for the Information and Telecommunications Systems Group (ITSG) for HDS’ parent company, Hitachi Inc. HDS also announced that Minoru Kosuge, executive vice president and chief storage architect, has […]

EMC has quietly acquired Authentica, a privately-held maker of security software that helps companies and government agencies protect critical information, for an undisclosed sum. Authentica makes the Active Rights Management platform, which lets companies control and manage information housed on anything from e-mail to Microsoft Office documents and Adobe PDF files. The software is often […]

EMC has found a way to apply automated root cause and impact analysis software to the networked-attached storage (NAS) realm, an achievement one analyst calls “huge.” The company next week will unveil Smart IP Availability Manager for NAS, industry sources told internetnews.com. The software, which will work with new Celerra NAS servers EMC plans to […]

With corporations under pressure to retain documents and produce them quickly in legal proceedings, storage vendors have been one of the primary beneficiaries of the fast-growing e-discovery market. EMC on Monday sharpened its e-discovery offerings with a bundle of storage hardware, content management software and services to help businesses pinpoint electronic files. The bundle approach […]

Convinced that it can outsell Network Appliance and EMC with its scalable architecture, BlueArc introduced the Titan 2000 network attached storage (NAS) system family. BlueArc officials said the Titan 2100 storage system and the Titan 2200 storage system run as many as 100,000 operations per second. These speeds are twice the performance of BlueArc’s first […]

HP is adding to its storage arsenal by scooping up partner OuterBay, a provider of archiving software for enterprise applications and databases. OuterBay’s software is used to manage database clutter and improve database performance. The Cupertino, Calif., company’s Application Data Management suite shuttles data between storage tiers, ensuring access to archives across applications, platforms and […]

Network Appliance on Monday will introduce new virtual tape library (VTL) technology, which allows users to back up to disk without changing their tape backup software and processes. The new machines give storage users more flexibility to address rapidly growing data and regulatory compliance demands. NearStore Virtual Tape Library machines, NetApp’s new disk-to-disk backup storage […]

Information systems vendor EMC has acquired Internosis Inc. in a bid to improve the way it delivers professional services to customers with Microsoft-based software systems. Privately-held Internosis specializes in IT strategy, application development, IT infrastructure and managed services for Microsoft environments. EMC, whose services revenues have been growing faster than the Hopkinton, Mass., company’s hardware […]

EMC’s $30 million acquisition of Acxiom’s grid software operating system might seem like small potatoes compared to some of the company’s blockbuster purchases. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see that the company is gradually adding pieces to its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy that will enable it to better compete with IBM, HP […]