Paul Shread

E-mail archiving startup Mimosa Systems has raised $17 million in its third round of funding, raising its total haul to date to $34.5 million. The round, led by Mayfield Fund with participation from current investors Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital and JAFCO Ventures, will be used to expand sales and marketing of its NearPoint e-mail […]

Gresham Enterprise Storage isn’t a household name in data storage, but the UK firm hopes to change that. Gresham says it has sold 4,300 licenses of its Gresham Clareti Enterprise DistribuTape (EDT) application, which helps IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) users improve the efficiency, manageability and reliability of their tape storage operations. The company says […]

Data warehouse appliance firm Netezza is the latest company to ride the storage IPO wave. The Netezza Performance Server integrates database, server and storage platforms and interacts with external systems to acquire and retain raw data, receive query instructions and provide analytical results. The data warehouse acts as a data repository for an enterprise, aggregating […]

A perfect storm of errors caused the Alaska Department of Revenue’s data backup procedures to fail, wiping out data on a $38 billion account and costing the state $200,000 to restore the data. The mistakes apparently began in a Dell/EMC storage array and were compounded by improperly backed up data tapes. The mishap occurred last […]

Network Appliance has added QLogic Fibre Channel switches to its product arsenal, an interesting pairing of SAN upstarts. NetApp, long the NAS champ, has been moving into the SAN space in recent months. And QLogic’s storage switch ambitions have gotten a boost from the recent merger of Brocade and McData. According to Dell’Oro Group, Cisco […]

Cisco moved further into the file virtualization space on Tuesday by acquiring partner NeoPath Networks. While block-based SAN virtualization has been slow to catch on, file-based NAS virtualization has been one of the hottest storage technologies in the last year, as companies struggle to turn far-flung file servers into a coherent whole. In a statement, […]

Storewiz hopes to make a splash in the data storage market with a unique compression approach. The company claims a data compression ratio of as much as 5:1 for its third generation of data compression appliances launched this week, and it says it can deliver those rates without affecting the performance of applications connected to […]

MaXXan Systems has a new name and a new focus. The intelligent storage switch start-up now goes by the name of CipherMax and is focusing on storage security solutions. To help with the transition, CipherMax has closed on a $10 million funding round, led by U.S. Venture Partners, Venrock Associates and Scale Venture Partners (formerly […]

Sun Microsystems is shifting engineering support for its 6920 midrange storage virtualization array to HDS, deepening the storage ties between the two. As part of the agreement, HDS will support Sun StorageTek 6920 customers for five years, said Sun spokesperson Michelle Parkinson. Sun will provide customer support, with HDS engineers on the back end. When […]

HP is moving further into high-end network-attached storage (NAS) with the acquisition of PolyServe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HP said the deal — building on a two-year partnership between the two companies — gives it a strong presence in enterprise-class NAS and will also allow it to extend NAS technology to blades, […]

FalconStor Software boasts solid success in the market for virtual tape libraries (VTLs), with high-profile OEM deals with the likes of EMC, IBM and Sun and 55 percent sales growth in its most recent quarter. According to CEO ReiJane Huai, the company is just getting started. In an interview with Enterprise Storage Forum today, Huai […]

Yosemite Technologies on Tuesday added laptop and desktop data protection to its product lineup with the acquisition of FileKeeper. FileKeeper’s near-CDP offering for desktops and laptops complements Yosemite’s server-based offerings and reaffirms the company’s commitment to the small and mid-sized business market, said Yosemite CEO George Symons, who was CTO of EMC before taking the […]