Paul Shread

CA (NYSE: CA) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) have made e-discovery central to a pair of new data management offerings. CA’s Information Governance Suite and Symantec’s Enterprise Vault 8.0 are the latest attempts by storage vendors to capitalize on the booming e-discovery market created two years ago by amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) today unveiled a new disk-based backup solution, but don’t call it a VTL. Dell said its new PowerVault DL2000 is designed to back up data directly to disk without having to first emulate tape, similar to Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) high-end OpenStorage API, only aimed at small and mid-sized businesses and branch offices. […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) today became the second major storage vendor to make a big move into the iSCSI market this year, with a $360 million acquisition of LeftHand Networks (see Fortune 500 Firm Ditches Fibre Channel for iSCSI). The move follows Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) $1.4 billion acquisition of EqualLogic earlier this year and adds HP’s […]

NEW YORK — Data de-duplicationmay not be widely adopted just yet, but if a few contented users are any indication, it may not be long until the technology becomes a staple in IT environments. At a panel of dedupe users at the Storage Decisions conference here yesterday, three users — representing three different dedupe vendors […]

Security is becoming an increasingly important part of storage fabrics, based on recent announcements from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD). Encryption of Fibre Channel data in motion was a big part of Cisco’s new switch lineup announced last week. And Brocade followed this week with a plan for securing data at rest. […]

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled new storage networking technologies this week aimed at making storage more efficient in virtual machine and converged network environments (see Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric). The new offerings include 8-Gigabit per second Fibre Channel switching models and an upgraded SAN operating system renamed NX-OS. SAN-OS has been renamed […]

Judging from the number of announcements at Virtualizationevents this week and last, storage vendors are finding plenty of business protecting virtual server environments (see Virtual Machines Pose E-Discovery Risk, Vendor Says). EMC (NYSE: EMC), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), HP (NYSE: HPQ), Hitachi Data Systems, Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) are just some of the […]

As if enterprises didn’t have enough worries already about e-discovery, Kazeon Systems has found a new one: virtual machine (virtual machine) instances that may have been forgotten or abandoned. Not surprisingly, Kazeon is offering a solution for the problem: support for VMware (NYSE: VMW) in its Information Server product line. Version 3.1 of the software […]

3PAR (NYSE: PAR) has upped the performance of its storage servers while boosting capacity utilization. Craig Nunes, 3PAR’s vice president of marketing, said that by building thin provisioning into its third-generation ASICs, the company was able to boost performance while maintaining high capacity utilization. “You don’t have to trade off performance for good capacity utilization,” […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has bundled its midrange EVA4400 storage array with its PolyServe file services technology to create a new unified storage offering. The HP StorageWorks 4400 Scalable NAS File Services also adds management and replication software and Windows or Linux support to “deliver server and storage virtualization in a single package,” said Ian Duncan, […]

Thanks to changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that require companies to produce documents in legal cases or face stiff penalties, vendors have been springing up to help companies navigate the morass of electronic documents to find those that are relevant to a case. Such solutions aren’t cheap — but neither are […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has lowered the entry point for its wildly popular Celerra unified storage offerings. The new Celerra NX4 starts at $20,300, about $12,000 less than the fast-growing NS20. Users sacrifice a little performance and scalability for that price, but it also broadens the market for one of EMC’s most popular products. Brad Bunce, […]