Paul Shread

The storage market continued to grow in the mid-single digits in the first quarter, continuing a slowdown that began in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to Gartner, but NetApp remained a bright spot. Worldwide external controller-based disk storage revenue totaled $3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2007, a 4.8 percent increase over the […]

Brocade this week continued its move from storage switch vendor to data management company with a slew of new product announcements and upgrades. The new products, aimed at managing block- and file-based data in data centers and remote offices, address performance issues, virtualization and data protection across the company’s storage area network (SAN) and file […]

Cisco will partner with EMC’s RSA Security Division on its fabric-based data encryption offering, the companies announced this week at EMC World in Orlando, Fla. The two said the new technologies will help customers encrypt data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media and manage encryption keys within the storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, […]

EMC on Monday overhauled its backup offerings, unveiling a new virtual tape library (VTL), new versions of its data de-duplication, replication and backup software, and new bare metal recovery capabilities. The announcements came at the EMC World user conference in Orlando, Fla., which attracted more than 7,000 attendees. EMC said its new VTL, the EMC […]

Cisco Systems plans a fabric-based encryption offering for disk and tape later this year that the company says bests current approaches. The product will be delivered in the second half of the year, but Cisco has been conducting preliminary briefings to let customers know it’s coming and will issue a press release on the offering […]

The latest release of EMC’s flagship storage resource management (SRM) software includes support for VMware and better reporting capabilities. EMC ControlCenter 6.0, which the storage giant is billing as its biggest upgrade in years, now offers extensive support for VMware Infrastructure 3 software and also includes improvements in flexibility and customization for SRM reporting. Giving […]

IBM has crafted a version of its Tivoli Storage Manager to back up and manage Microsoft SharePoint environments. The new Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for Microsoft SharePoint provides backup and restore capability for SharePoint online collaboration environments. IBM notes that Microsoft provides tools to backup SharePoint’s underlying databases, sites and sub-sites, but they lack item-level […]

Onaro has unveiled a new product that makes sure applications get the storage resources they need. Onaro says SANscreen Application Insight 2.0 combines storage utilization data with an understanding of the application path to provide a complete picture of storage resource utilization and efficiency. The company says the product helps storage users analyze storage tier […]

CebaTech hopes to take the storage world by storm with a new end-to-end storage platform. The three-year-old firm says its CebaIP Platform offers an easy modular approach for design engineers to integrate features into their application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The company’s initial products will focus on data compression and encryption. […]

Four IT vendors have banded together to demonstrate a new data integrity standard. Emulex, LSI, Oracle and Seagate on Wednesday unveiled the Data Integrity Initiative (DII), a technology collaboration that implements and expands the T10 DIF (Data Integrity Field) standard for complete end-to-end data integrity for enterprise storage systems. The issue is a critical one […]

EMC reported first-quarter results Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations, thanks to strong security and virtualization sales. EMC’s VMware division grew 95 percent in the quarter, while its RSA unit grew 25 percent. The Information Storage and Content Management and Archiving divisions grew 8 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Overall, EMC’s revenues in the quarter […]

Just weeks after acquiring file virtualization startup NeoPath Networks, Cisco Systems has ceased selling NeoPath’s products. In a notice on the NeoPath Web site, Cisco said that “all existing NeoPath products have been withdrawn from active sale.” Cisco said in a statement that NeoPath’s 34 customers have service contracts ranging from one to three years, […]