Paul Shread

HP (NYSE: HPQ) will soon offer new disk-based backup systems with data de-duplicationtechnology, the latest storage vendor to move into the fast-growing de-dupe market. HP won’t officially announce the products for another week or two, but the company displayed the offerings this week at the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas. HP says its de-dupe […]

Atempo hopes to move into the top tier of data protection vendors with a portfolio of offerings that span file and e-mail backup and archiving. The company today unveiled Atempo Digital Archive for Messaging (ADAM) 2.0, a new e-mail and instant messaging archiving software aimed at bigger enterprises struggling to cope with data growth, e-discovery […]

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) unveiled new products today with a message that could be summed up in a word: performance. The new offerings, which include midrange unified storage systems and a storage acceleration appliance, are aimed at helping data centers and high-performance computing environments do more with less. NetApp cites as target markets software development, product […]

Sepaton unveiled a new high-end virtual tape library (VTL) appliance today that the company claims bests its competitors in capacity and performance. The S2100-ES2 Series 1000 VTL also comes with new software, improved de-duplicationperformance and scalability. The new VTL platform includes 1TB disk drives, increasing density by a third, and scales to 1.6 petabytes of […]

The storage systems market turned in a surprisingly strong performance in the first quarter, according to IDC, topping the fourth quarter’s nearly 10 percent growth rate by a full percentage point (see Is Storage Recession-Proof?). IDC reported today that worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues grew 10.8 percent in the first quarter from the […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is rolling out new data protection capabilities for Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange in VMware (NYSE: VMW) environments, the latest sign of growing development activity for VMware by storage vendors. “It should be no surprise to see data and storage management vendors jumping on and adding support for VMware given its popularity,” […]

Despite a crippling credit crunch and soaring food and energy prices, the storage market seems to be chugging along. After six weeks or so of corporate earnings reports, the storage sector appears to be holding up better than other IT segments like the server and PC markets, according to analysts. “Storage is healthy,” said Jayson […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) has added XML support to its HP Database Archiving software to help customers meet long-term data retention needs. HP said the use of XML allows data to be stored independent of the application or database it was created on, so data can be preserved without the need to maintain legacy applications and databases. […]

Brocade is ratcheting up its 8-gigabit per second Fibre Channel offerings with the release of new fabric switches and HBAs (see Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric and 8-Gig Fibre Channel Arrives … Slowly). The new Fibre Channel switches range in capacity from 8 to 80 ports, adding 8-gig fabric switches to a lineup […]

VMware (NYSE:VMW) has launched a new disaster recovery offering that helps users protect virtualized workloads, and storage vendors are lining up to support it (see VMware and Symantec Virtualize Disaster Recovery). VMware says its new Site Recovery Manager, announced last fall and shipping next month, simplifies the arduous task of disaster recovery spelled out in […]

HP today unveiled its entry in the race for Web 2.0 storage users, the multi-petabyte HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100). Ian Duncan, HP’s director of SAN marketing, said the NAS system is aimed at users experiencing “explosive growth” in files from developing and delivering services and content over the Web, but he […]

EMC is now offering its Mozy online backup service to Mac users. MozyHome for Mac has already been downloaded more than 43,000 times by beta users, and is the clearest sign yet that the high-end enterprise storage giant sees consumers as a big growth market. “This is a real clear signal that this is a […]