Paul Shread

Less than a year after announcing a partnership with Archivas, Hitachi Data Systems is acquiring the archiving startup (see HDS Makes a Case for CAS). Archivas bills itself as “the open alternative” to EMC’s Centera CAS platform, according to Archivas CEO Gary Voight. Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Tony Asaro said the deal moves HDS into […]

MonoSphere says it can save storage users a bundle. The startup says its storage capacity management software, Storage Horizon 3.0, released this week gives companies a unified view of current and projected storage capacity usage, so IT organizations can develop storage capacity plans, maximize utilization of existing storage and reduce capital expenditures. The new version […]

A day after completing its acquisition of McData, Brocade got down to the business of integrating the two companies (see BrocData Cleared for Takeoff). Brocade dismissed McData’s senior management team, although two members of McData’s board, Renato “Renny” DiPentima and John Gerdelman, will join Brocade’s board of directors, and the company also laid off 330 […]

IBM on Monday said it will acquire long-time partner Softek Storage Solutions Corp. in a move to boost its storage and data services business. IBM has partnered with the data mobility and replication specialist since 1996. After the merger is completed, the Virginia-based Fujitsu/Amdahl spinoff will become part of the Storage and Data Services business […]

The Federal Trade Commission has signed off on the merger of Brocade and McData, clearing the way for the Fibre Channel switch vendors to take on Cisco. The companies announced late Tuesday that the FTC has closed its antitrust review of the proposed merger and that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has expired. […]

EMC ended 2006 on a strong note, with better than expected earnings and sales across all product lines. Midrange hardware and software were two of the categories that carried EMC in the quarter, as the company continued its recovery from a rocky first half of 2006. EMC CEO Joe Tucci said 2006 was “somewhat disappointing” […]

Storage vendors spent Monday jockeying for position with midrange customers, with Adaptec and Hitachi Data Systems moving their products upstream and Isilon unveiling a lower-cost system. Clustered NAS vendor Isilon Systems unveiled the Isilon IQ 200, which at a list price of $39,000 sells for half the cost of the company’s enterprise line. While Isilon’s […]

IBM on Tuesday unveiled two new storage systems for small and mid-sized businesses based on hardware and software from LSI. The new System Storage DS3000 series are entry-level disk arrays that include integrated management software that Big Blue says lets customers set up and manage their data resources in just six steps. The simple configuration, […]

Brocade moved further outside its core Fibre Channel business late Monday with the acquisition of iSCSI acceleration startup Silverback Systems. “We are committed to providing customers a broad range and choice of high-performance networked storage solutions,” stated Brocade CTO Dan Crain. “Silverback’s technology and expertise in iSCSI environments will help us to deliver a new […]

Storix hopes its unique backup and recovery approach will help it stand out in a crowded market. So far, it’s off to a good start. The nine-year-old company is profitable and boasts more than 500 customers, among them IBM, Whirlpool, SunGard and Wal-Mart. Now it hopes to build on that success with its latest launch. […]

An idea more than 40 years in development is beginning to work its way into the storage marketplace. InPhase Technologies will ramp up volume production of its holographic storage drives and media in mid-2007, and early units available for the first half of the year are already committed, according to company officials (see InPhase Nears […]

Seagate Technology is moving into online backup with the $185 million acquisition of EVault. EVault will become part of the Seagate Services group, which includes data recovery, online backup/recovery and archiving for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). “Today’s announcement highlights a strategic next step into services, which is a natural extension of Seagate’s core business […]