Paul Shread

EMC posted 21 percent sales growth in the second quarter, led by strong midrange storage sales and strength in the company’s RSA security and VMware virtualization divisions. EMC CEO Joe Tucci said the company is “in a sweet spot of the IT industry,” and said new storage systems introduced last week give the company momentum […]

Security firm Hifn is acquiring storage startup Siafu Software, furthering the marriage between data storage and security. The merger combines Hifn’s network security and data compression technology with Siafu’s encrypted iSCSI appliances, which already use Hifn chips. “This acquisition dovetails precisely with the direction this industry is heading,” said Benjamin Woo, IDC’s research vice president […]

CommVault has overhauled its flagship data management software and given it a new name. Simpana 7.0, formerly called QiNetix, now includes features such as single-instance storage, security and encryption, and search, discovery, indexing and classification, along with a Web-based interface for users to access all that unified data. The services can be performed before or […]

Content archiving pioneer Zantaz is being acquired by enterprise search company Autonomy Corp. for $375 million. Pleasanton, Calif.-based Zantaz is ranked number two in the e-mail archiving market by IDC, behind Symantec’s KVS unit. The company boasts more than $100 million in annual sales and is growing at 23 percent annually, operating at breakeven, according […]

Storage area network (SAN) vendor Compellent Technologies is the latest storage firm to seek its fortune in the public markets. Compellent filed its S-1 securities registration statement with the SEC today, the first step on the road to becoming a publicly traded company. The company is the latest to file for an initial public offering […]

Quantum is giving de-duplicationcustomers a choice. The company unveiled a new high-end disk backup and replication system this week that lets customers decide whether to run de-duplication before or after backing up, allowing them to choose between saving “space or time,” as Quantum disk systems product manager Mike Sparkes put it. The new DXi7500 enterprise-class […]

Call/Recall hopes to put optical storage on the enterprise map with new technology that squeezes 1TB on a single disk and offers transfer rates that compete with hard disk drives. Call/Recall, a 20-year-old company with its roots in HPC storage, says its two‑photon 3D optical storage technology is the brainchild of company co-founder and chief […]

HP announced a number of new products today designed to lower power costs and boost security. The company said its “green” storage technology can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centers in half. Introduced at the HP Americas StorageWorks Conference in Las Vegas, HP’s new Adaptive Infrastructure offerings include thin provisioning and […]

Imation hopes to capitalize on the growing market for online backup services — and its half-century of expertise in storage media — with a new offering launched today. Imation’s DataGuard Vault online backup and recovery service is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch offices (ROBOs) that are looking for a […]

Continuity Software claims it can help disaster recovery work better — and the company won’t charge prospective customers a dime if it can’t help them. The Israel-based disaster recovery management (DRM) company announced its move into the U.S. market this week, opening its U.S headquarters in Boston and a sales office in New York. CEO […]

Xiotech has unveiled an appliance that the company says gives corporations an easy answer to compliance and e-discovery demands. Xiotech’s CEMS, or Corporate Evidence Management System, can store from 2 to 6 terabytes of captured documents, handling anywhere from 10,000 to 80,000 documents a day, with de-duplicationtechnology available in the larger unit. CEMS “proactively captures, […]

Data Robotics hopes to simplify storage with what it calls “the first fully automated storage robot.” The company, the brainchild of BlueArc founder Geoff Barrall, says its “Drobo” offering protects data while providing scalability and easy expansion. Drobo limits human interaction and is self-monitoring, self-healing and intuitive, the company says. Aimed at consumers and small […]