Paul Shread

Online storage services took the spotlight in IBM’s semiannual services product release this week, thanks to Big Blue’s recent acquisition of online backup pioneer Arsenal Digital. “The online backup opportunity is going to be really strong for us in ’08,” said Adam Trunkey, spokesman for IBM Information Protection Services. The additions to the mid-market Express […]

EMC rode its core storage products to solid first-quarter results, despite what the company said is a tough economic environment. “The global economic environment is tough, and I don’t anticipate it will get easier anytime soon,” EMC CEO Joe Tucci said on the company’s conference call today. Revenues rose 17 percent from the year-ago quarter […]

HP’s new online backup service is off to a rough start. HP Upline was unveiled two weeks ago, just as Google was rolling out its latest online service. Its maiden voyage apparently didn’t last too long, as the service reportedly was knocked offline April 17 and hasn’t been back since. An HP spokesperson said the […]

IBM has acquired continuous data protection startup FilesX to add enterprise-class CDP to its storage software offerings. FilesX, based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, specializes in CDP and near real-time data and application recovery software for enterprises and remote and branch offices. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close shortly, were […]

In a play on converged data center networks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Cisco is buying the 20 percent of Nuova Systems it doesn’t already own (see Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric). At this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla., Cisco also unveiled the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, a product […]

Intel and LSI say they plan to change how RAID is deployed on servers and workstations, but users will have to wait a while for details. The two announced a partnership at Storage Networking World in Orlando this week to “redefine how advanced RAID data protection is deployed on future Intel Xeon-based server and workstation […]

HP on Monday will update its security product portfolio with new offerings aimed at data protection and compliance in storage environments. The products include a secure fabric switch, courtesy of Cisco; an encryption kit for tape autoloaders and libraries; integration of the company’s compliance and key management appliances; and a free online security assessment tool. […]

HP moved to boost its e-discovery business late Monday with the acquisition of Australia’s Tower Software. HP said the addition of document and records management software will position it to better compete in the fast-growing market for e-discovery and compliance solutions. Tower’s electronic records management capabilities will be added to HP’s existing e-discovery and compliance […]

de-duplicationvendor Data Domain has become the first storage vendor to take advantage of a new interoperability feature built into Symantec’s Veritas NetBackup that allows data to be backed up to disk without the need to emulate tape (see Symantec Looks Beyond Virtual Tape). The Veritas NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) API promises to ease management for IT […]

Symantec made its latest move to keep pace with EMC in the storage management market, unveiling a new version of Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows. Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 High Availability for Windows, which will become available in June, will support Windows Server 2008 and offer more efficient operation, ease […]

EMC has increased its offer for Iomega, and the offer appears to be good enough to open merger talks between the two (see EMC Makes a Play for Iomega). EMC has offered $3.75 a share for Iomega for the company’s 54.8 million outstanding shares, 50 cents a share higher than EMC’s previous offer. Iomega said […]

PivotStor hopes to stand out in the crowded e-mail archiving market by packing its appliances with features and offering them at a low starting price. The startup’s EP Series e-mail management appliances offer archiving, indexing, classification, encryption, antivirus protection and spam filtering starting as low $1,250 for a desktop unit that scales to 50 e-mail […]