Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is looking to boost its current archiving and e-discovery package with the acquisition of e-discovery specialist, Clearwell Systems. As reported on eWeek, data storage and protection provider Symantec will acquire Clearwell Systems for $390 million and integrate it with its own Enterprise Vault eDiscovery product. “Clearwell’s platform comprises several modules. The […]

Wikibon compared two leading choices that server & blade manufacturers currently have for CNA technologies– QLogic and Emulex. These technologies are used in host bus adaptors, (HBAs), top-of-rack (ToR) switches and enterprise switches. Other suppliers such as Brocade have announced their intention to supply CNA technology and began shipping single chip CNAs late in 2009; […]

Wall Street Equity Research brings investors market knowledge on the aspects moving the data storage devices stocks, and offers complete analytical research on companies like Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) and NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP). According to the firm’s latest report, the Data Storage Device sector, which includes players like Brocade Communications Systems Inc. […]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, has developed and started sampling 100, 200 and 400-GB multi-level-cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for use as the primary storage in enterprise storage systems. As reported by Samsung in its news release the performance of Samsung’s new MLC-based SSDs closely approaches or even exceeds some of the SLC NAND-based SSDs […]

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) has recently announced its intent to acquire cloud-based medical archiving leader InSite One. The InSite One solution helps customers reduce costs associated with long-term data storage and migration, provide off-site disaster recovery services and eliminate one of the biggest shortcomings in healthcare today—the sharing of images between medical professionals in the diagnosis and […]

Cloud-based e-discovery software provider, CaseCentral, has been named as a Top Player in The Radicati Group’s “E-discovery Solutions – Market Quadrant 2010” market brief. CaseCentral offers a secure, cloud-based e-discovery platform that provides corporations and law firms control over their e-discovery projects while enabling seamless collaboration with users outside the firewall. “‘Our placement in the […]

By Teresa Worth and David Szabados Solid state storage is an exciting technology area that offers the promise of high performance for a wide range of applications in the enterprise. Unfortunately, some SSD vendors have caused confusion with bold claims (and by positioning their products for the enterprise based on those claims) that have not […]

This year’s set of CEO Vision Awards go to an interesting mix of executives from across the technology industry landscape. John Chambers, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs and Paul Maritz are all repeat winners and this year they are joined by EMC CEO Joe Tucci. Here’s a recap of Tucci’s leadership in 2010 from InternetNews.com. “Two […]

Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel and a laundry list of other IT vendors have formed the SSD Form Factor Working Group with the goal of developing standards for PCIe-based solid state disk (SSD) drives, according to this report from sister site InfoStor. “A number of manufacturers are shipping solid-state disk (SSD) drives that connect to […]

InMage has optimized it software for data protection in virtual server environments. The company’s new vContinuum software combines backup, replication and disaster recovery in a unified workflow with additional features, including continuous data protection (CDP), automated thin provisioning, compression and “sparse retention.” InfoStor has the story. “Citing the drawbacks associated with existing approaches to backing […]

Overland Storage is prepping a new SAN array with a wide range of host connection options, including 1GbE or 10GbE iSCSI, 6Gbps SAS or 4Gbps Fibre Channel. Sister site InfoStor reports that the SnapSAN S1000 disk array will also include “green” features like disk spin-down, variable-speed drives, and temperature monitoring and automatic fan adjustment. “Overland […]