Judy Mottl

A little wooing goes a long way. After weeks of being rebuffed, EMC announced yesterday that it will acquire Iomega for $213 million, with the tender offer expected to complete by the end of June (see EMC, Iomega Begin Merger Talks). To accept EMC’s $213 million, $3.85 per-share offer, Iomega terminated a separate purchase agreement […]

ORLANDO, FL. — Enterprises are at a “critical intersection,” according to NetApp’s Tim Russell, as they balance the challenge of meeting data protection mandates while simultaneously keeping IT costs down and service levels up. Speaking at a Storage Networking World session on Monday, Russell, vice president and general manager of NetApp’s storage security business unit, […]

EMC is integrating its PowerPath migration and data path management software with technology from its RSA security division, and has built a new joint platform that ties together its Voyence Control change management tool with its RSA enVision platform for security information and event management. The two announcements, made at the RSA conference in San […]

EMC has acquired WysDM, a seven-year-old data protection management provider, for an undisclosed sum. The storage giant isn’t providing much in the way of details on the news, its fourth acquisition of the year, but it did say the deal is not expected to have a material impact on revenues or earnings per share for […]

Atrato’s new Velocity1000 (V1000) storage system promises to eliminate the I/O bottleneck that on-demand streaming content providers must address to produce competitive service levels of performance. The 3U Self-managing Array of Identical Disks (SAID) can deliver 25.6 to 50 terabytes of storage, handle 11,000 IOPS and 3,600 standard definition simultaneous data streams. Atrato said the […]

Wells Fargo & Company has announced an online storage service called vSafe that lets users store digital files and documents using the bank’s enterprise infrastructure. The 156-year-old financial institution said it is the first financial entity to provide such storage capabilities, and that customer need is the driving factor for the new vSafe offering. The […]

Most storage vendors push out new devices to fill out a product line, typically upgrading functionality to put more device choices into play. But not BlueArc. The San Jose-based network storage device maker is doing just the opposite. It’s taking its current network-attached storage (NAS) series, the Titan 2000 that debuted two years ago, and […]

EMC this week released an updated version of its RecoverPoint data protection software and a new virtual tape library (VTL) for mainframes. EMC’s mainframe announcement follows CA’s announcement of upgrades to its mainframe storage portfolio last week. The latest addition to EMC’s Disk Library for Mainframe (EMC DLm) portfolio, the DLm4080, uses software from Bus-Tech […]

Benchmarking has long been a contentious issue among storage vendors, but a recent Network Appliance benchmark has raised the controversy to a new level. It all started last year when Network Appliance decided to benchmark its FAS3040 modular storage system and EMC’s Clariion CX3 Model 40 under the auspices of the Storage Performance Council’s benchmark […]

IBM on Tuesday rolled out a sweeping array of enhancements to products for both enterprises and small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Customers, whether large enterprises or small startups, are seeking less-expensive storage to meet rapidly growing data requirements, said Charlie Andrews, IBM’s worldwide product manager of system storage. “The move is toward driving more efficiency,” […]

With new versions of a number of its key backup and recovery applications, enterprise software vendor CA is aiming to deliver more robust data protection capabilities that improve security — while being easier to manage and purchase. The latest version of its Recovery Management apps include enhancements to ARCserve Backup, XOsoft High Availability (formerly XOsoft […]

An industry group hopes to standardize storage interfaces with a new specification, a move that could give end users greater flexibility at lower cost. The Storage Bridge Bay Working Group’s (SBB) 2.0 specification advances a two-year-old effort to standardize storage controllers, form factors and canisters (see Vendors Unite for Standard Interface). Leaders of the group […]