Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

There is no love lost between HP and Dell. In what could be perceived as a case of adding insult to injury, HP’s chief financial officer and interim CEO, Cathie Lesjak, boasted that the $2.4 billion winning bid for storage vendor 3PAR was below its “walk-away price,” sister site ITChannelPlanet reports. “[HP] (NYSE: HPQ) paid […]

The Mark Hurd soap opera continues as HP has sued to stop his hiring as president of Oracle. Legal wrangling aside, is Hurd the right fit for the Ellison juggernaut? Hurd’s abilities as a turnaround CEO are unrivaled, but he’s a better seller than a builder. Datamation’s Rob Enderle explains why he thinks former HP […]

Pliant Technology’s latest offering upon the altar of solid state storage comes in the form of two solid state disk (SSD) drives based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash technology, a lower-cost alternative to the company’s family of SSDs based on single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash. Pliant expects the cost-per-GB pricing for the MLC SSDs […]

As part of its “Just Right IT” initiative, HP refreshed products across its server, networking, desktop, printer and storage lines, all of which are targeted at the SMB market. The new hardware and software offerings include the HP (NYSE: HPQ) StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA, the software-only P4000 VSA for Hyper-V, and Data Protector Express 5.0 […]

The first installment of our storage product roundup from this week’s VMworld conference focused on the cloud, file-based storage and iSCSI. This time around, sister site InfoStor recaps the data protection, backup and recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery products unveiled at the show. “Syncsort and NetApp teamed up to introduce NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, […]

As it attempts to restructure IT as a service, VMware its new vFabric application fabric for the cloud, as well as security and management technologies designed to enable the cloud as an IT service platform at this week’s VMworld conference in San Francisco. According to this report from sister site ServerWatch, vFabric relies in […]

The duel between HP and Dell over 3PAR hit a fever pitch on Friday when HP countered Dell’s $27-per-share offering with a $30-per-share bid, bringing the value of the deal to about $2 billion. Later in the day, 3PAR announced that the HP bid was a “superior offer” to Dell’s, and 3PAR’s board of directors […]

Akorri has released the 3.5 version of its BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software complete with predictive analysis capabilities for SAN devices. The main aim is to optimize performance and capacity management across both physical and virtual devices, according to this report from sister site InfoStor. “Akorri has released the 3.5 version of its BalancePoint virtual […]

FalconStor Software is positioning its performance-boosting SAN Accelerator as a fit for CPU-hungry virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. The Accelerator leverages solid-state disk (SSD) drives to boost I/O performance. InfoStor has the story. “Most IT organizations considering a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) are still in the proof-of-concept stage, but it’s already clear that the storage […]

Dell beat analysts’ revenue estimates this week, reporting a strong second quarter for fiscal 2011. The company credits its results – including 63 percent revenue growth in the EqualLogic storage line – to a variety of factors, including a continuing corporate refresh cycle that helped cushion slow growth in its consumer business, according to this […]

HP’s third quarter earnings may have been solid with server and PC sales boosting revenue and profits, but the company must now turn its focus to finding a new CEO. On the storage front, HP’s Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS) revenue came in at $4.4 billion, up 19 percent from a year ago and operating […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is recruiting end users and storage industry experts to participate in a newly formed Cloud Backup and Recovery group. The group’s mission? Define requirements and best practices for cloud storage, according to this report from InfoStor. “The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recently announced the Cloud Backup and Recovery […]