Dan Muse

After years of false starts, the online storage market is suddenly for real. Vendors such as Dell, IBM, EMC and Google have been gobbling up online vendors faster than you can say “software as a service.” Symantec Corp. entered the fray today. But rather than go the acquisition route, the security and disaster recovery company […]

Server and storage virtualization technologies offer IT managers the capability to more effectively allocate their data center resources. However, monitoring and managing a virtual infrastructure isn’t without its challenges when it comes to understanding server and storage resource utilization. BalancePoint maps your virtual infrastructure and uses a green light, yellow light, red light approach to […]

Last fall, Google acquired e-mail security service provider Postini to help position its online applications as serious and secure business tools. Yesterday, the search and online application giant announced new e-mail security and archiving products branded as “Powered by Postini.” The new tools are designed to eliminate spam and viruses, protect against internal information leaks […]

Storage demands and the need to effectively manage all that data are growing faster than you can say terabytes. And a server isn’t simply a physical box anymore, thanks to virtualization technology. Noting storage networks and virtual servers need to work together, EMC Corp. today introduced a SAN array designed for small and medium businesses […]

In this compliance-crazed, litigation-laden world we live in, business and IT executives better be prepared to deliver the digital data when demanded. Easier said than done, though, as the volume of information your enterprise produces grows unabated. Looking to help you get a handle on things and be prepared for the day when the subpoena […]

Copan Systems, a vendor that specialize in persistent data storage based on MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology, yesterday announced $32.4 million in series D venture funding. After the latest influx of cash, Copan Systems has now raised $88.4 million. “Copan’s main claim to fame up until now has been making MAID more of […]

Server and storage virtualization are proving to be viable technologies that reduce operating costs and improve efficiency. However, the infrastructure connecting servers and storage networks is still an expensive and time-consuming bottleneck for many IT departments. In a move to help reduce complexity and IT spending, Xsigo Systems, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup, today announced the […]

Thanks in large part to VMware, server virtualization is paving the way for a more consolidated data center. While the financial benefits are hard to ignore, managing the performance of a virtualized data center can be a real challenge. Not only do you need to control virtual machines, you need to monitor and control how […]

Symantec used Storage Networking World as the backdrop to announce a major upgrade of its system backup suite. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 is designed to speed the recovery process, add integration with Virtualizationtechnology and expand Microsoft Exchange and data recovery capabilities. The new release also adds support for Microsoft Vista, AMD and Intel […]

In case you missed the memo, Virtualizationis more than a buzzword. It’s now being deployed as a way to consolidate servers and lower data center costs. Of course, when you have several virtual machines operating on one physical server, you better have a plan in place should a disaster strike that takes down virtual machines […]

A group of networking and storage vendors led by Emulex Corp., EMC, Brocade and others has proposed a new standard for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet. The new technology specification is called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and was presented to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More EnterpriseStorageForum […]

If disaster strikes, will your e-mail be safe and secure off-site? If the answer to that is no, Mirapoint has what it thinks is an affordable and easy-to-deploy remedy with its Mirapoint Remote Site Replication. Announced today, the disaster-recovery offering is designed to work with the vendor’s line of appliances by replicating e-mail off-site to […]