Judy Mottl

Worldwide enterprise storage operating costs are predicted to spike from this year’s $1.3 billion to over $2 billion by 2009, according to IDC research. Part of the reason for the hike in costs: storage capacity is growing at an annual rate of 50 percent. Add to that an annual average increase of 19 percent in […]

Pillar Data debuted two new storage servers this week that promise to provide 80 percent disk utilization and tighter integration within Oracle database environments. The Axiom 600 and Axiom 600MC (Mission Critical) are the third and fourth products from the seven-year-old company that released its flagship solution, the Axiom 500, in 2005. The Larry Ellison-backed […]

Despite the benefits and increasing popularity of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, companies are still wary about the idea of farming out data archiving to a partner. Just 24 percent of enterprises are using hosted archiving solutions, compared to 76 percent using on-premise technologies, according to a new study by the Radicati Group, […]

Tech spending may be stagnating, but enterprises aren’t cutting back on storage management software (SMS). The market hit $10.6 billion last year, a 12.2 percent spike from 2006, and is expected to surpass $11 billion in 2008, according to a new Gartner report on trends and vendor leadership in the SMS market. Greater demand for […]

As movie theater goers watch the Incredible Hulk take on his nemesis Abomination during a New York city rooftop battle in “The Incredible Hulk,” few, if any, will be thinking about the storage power necessary to make the computer generated movie scenes. In taking on its largest movie project yet, Soho VFX, a Toronto-based visual […]

LiveOffice says it can improve e-mail archiving for small and mid-sized businesses as well as provide better backup and security with a new hosted offering called Mail Archive. The privately held e-mail services provider believes SMBs, especially those in regulated industries, are eager for a technology that offers simple archiving without any hardware costs and […]

Solid state disk (SSD) technology could get a big boost from a new technology that promises to eliminate data access delays following a shutdown or power loss. Texas Memory System’s (TMS) Instant-On Input-Output (IO²) lets enterprises gain instant access to data from RAM-based SSDs once a unit is powered on. Prior to the innovation, it […]

StorMagic is jumping into the SMB storage market with what it describes as an enterprise-level SAN at an entry-level price. The SMTB SAN features the vendor’s SM Series software for easy setup, data movement and monitoring, and a 2U 12-drive rack, available in 3 TB, 7TB and 11TB RAID configurations. Starting list price is $9,999. […]

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) hopes to eliminate storage and server virtualization management headaches with the introduction of the Veritas Virtual Infrastructure. Virtual Infrastructure is in keeping with the vendor’s strategy to provide real data protection that benefits the enterprise, according to Marty Ward, director of product marketing for Symantec’s Data Protection Group. It also represents a […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), EMC (NYSE: EMC), HDS and other storage vendors are all headed down the path to solid state disk (SSD) flash technologies, but unlike its competitors, Sun believes it’s not enough to just swap out storage disks to gain the benefits of SSDs. The company also wants to integrate flash-based SSD into […]

Despite technology’s promise of creating a paperless office environment, enterprises still struggle with growing piles of digital records. “Businesses continue to swim in a vast sea of refined wood pulp,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. “The sheer complexity of dealing with huge volumes of paper documents has implications for everything from managing accounting […]

A new archiving solution promises to make data storage and retrieval easier, less time-intensive and more cost-efficient for health care companies dealing with mountains of data they need to save and comb through later. BridgeHead Software’s PACStore tool also aims to foster improved diagnostics, since health care professionals can search for medical images stored in […]