Paul Shread

Zmanda is adding new features to its cloud-based backup offering to better compete with market leaders EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC). Zmanda uses open source-based backup software and Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Simple Storage Service (S3) to best EMC’s MozyPro and Symantec on price. Now the company hopes its latest features will catch on […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) today rolled out a data storage device for the smallest businesses, along with new storage offerings for small to mid-sized enterprises. The HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault starts at $700 and is aimed at companies that have up to 10 PCs or Macs and might not even own a server yet. The […]

New rules requiring that federal records be kept secure and readily available could mean more compliance business for data storage vendors. Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) this week said it has opened four centers just to store federal documents under the new regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The regulations, in 36 Code […]

Two data storage startups launched this week with a message for the times: Doing more with less. MaxiScale and Symform are aimed at different markets, but both promise users resilient storage infrastructures for less. MaxiScale has developed a clustered file system that runs on commodity hardware and is aimed at Internet-facing applications that process billions […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has added cascaded replication to its Data Domain deduplication appliances, adding an extra layer of data protection for enterprises seeking greater resilience for their data centers. Cascaded replication allows Data Domain appliances to replicate to multiple sites that have Data Domain appliances, instead of replicating to just a single site or cross-replicating […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) is adding to its DCX Backbone family with new blades for spanning data centers and adding FCoE connectivity. The Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade connects two or more data centers to improve business continuity and disaster recovery, while the Brocade FCoE 10-24 Blade offers Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities for server I/O […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has added to its Ionix suite of IT management tools with a new solution for visualizing configurations across the data center. EMC Ionix Data Center Insight combines dependency mapping and discovery to show relationships between storage, networks, servers and applications. EMC said the new tool “enables customers to evolve their configuration management […]

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and NEC showed off new data storage systems in a week that was full of news from storage vendors. NetApp announced the new FAS2040 storage system and price reductions for its FAS2020 systems and software, which now come with high-capacity drives and multi-protocol support. The FAS2040 offers twice the performance and 30 […]

STEC (NASDAQ: STEC) may finally be in for some competition. Pliant Technology unveiled its Enterprise Flash Drive technology yesterday — and marketing vice president Greg Goelz said the company expects the drives to begin appearing in data storage systems by the end of the year. With a two-year head start on the rest of the […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has hired a top Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) executive to run its data storage business, the company announced today. Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, which accounts for more than half of the chip giant’s revenues, will head EMC’s flagship storage division, which has been headed by 18-year EMC […]

One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte. The good news is the company has decided to share what it learned. In a recent blog posting, Tim Nufire, vice president of engineering at Backblaze, explained how the company […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) today unveiled a new NAS system that can get small businesses into network-attached storage for as little as $3,000. Based on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Storage Server 2008, the new Dell PowerVault NX300 stores up to 4 terabytes of data on SASor SATAdrives in a 1U rack space, and more NX300 arrays […]