Paul Shread

EMC CEO Joe Tucci outlined some of the storage giant’s product plans on the company’s third-quarter earnings call with analysts today. A system for Web 2.0 data centers and more products for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are on the company’s agenda, he said. EMC also plans to offer a “spindown” feature on its disk […]

IBM has acquired NovusCG, a privately held storage solutions company, to bolster its storage services and software business. The Manassas, Virginia-based firm will become part of the Storage and Data Services business unit in IBM Global Technology Services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Seven-year-old Novus employs 100 people and manages 25 petabytes […]

IBM today announced changes across its product line, touching on everything from high-end storage to SMBs, virtualization and VTLs. The high-end IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo series is getting a new storage console, the IBM System Storage Productivity Center, among other features. The new storage console offers a single view into an organization’s storage systems […]

Brocade is unveiling a new director this week at its annual user conference in Las Vegas, along with a new strategy and architecture for data center networking. Brocade said its new Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture will simplify data center connectivity by combining storage networking and server-to-server clustering in a single data center infrastructure, making […]

Storage vendors are unveiling a host of new products at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Dallas, ranging from 8Gbps Fibre Channel and security to SMB data protection. HDS, EMC, Brocade, FalconStor, Seagate, Emulex and Symantec are just some of the names launching new products this week. Hitachi unveiled a nifty storage system aimed […]

CA has combined technology acquired from iLumin and MDY to create a new compliance and e-discovery offering. CA said its new Information Governance offering gives “secure, accurate, timely access to information across multi-vendor environments without the need to modify or replace existing repositories or business processes.” The IT vendor said its offering stands out from […]

EMC made its acquisition of Mozy parent Berkeley Data Systems official today, but the storage giant doesn’t have much planned for its new online backup unit, at least that company officials will reveal. The deal, rumored to be in the works last week, is a big change for EMC, moving the company into the consumer […]

Hitachi on Monday claimed record-setting performance for its high-end Universal Storage Platform V, reopening a long-simmering debate over the value of storage industry benchmarks. The results — 200,245.73 SPC IOPS in the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark using just a single storage controller — were the highest ever for an enterprise storage system in the […]

VMware has launched a program that could help boost sales of storage virtualization products. The new hardware certification program for storage virtualization devices will work with the virtualization-enabling technologies in VMware ESX Server to give customers “the greatest choice of storage vendors when deploying virtualization across their organization’s infrastructure,” said Parag Patel, vice president of […]

Just a week after getting sued by Network Appliance over its ZFS file system, Sun Microsystems has acquired the high-end Lustre file system from Cluster File Systems Inc. A Sun spokesperson said the acquisition “has nothing to do with the NetApp lawsuit,” and was intended to expand Sun’s HPC product portfolio. Greg Schulz, senior analyst […]

With the high-end storage market slowing, vendors continue to see opportunity in the small- and mid-sized business market. Hitachi Data Systems and Network Appliance, for example, both rolled out products aimed at midrange enterprises today. HDS took the wraps off the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM, a diskless, lower-cost version of its high-end storage […]

With VMworld fast approaching, storage vendors are busy trotting out their products for backing up virtual machines. FalconStor, Onaro, HDS, DataCore, EqualLogic, Agami and, of course, EMC are just some of the vendors trotting out VMware-related storage announcements this week and next, and Network Appliance hit the road in recent weeks to make its case […]