Paul Shread

IBM on Friday announced plans to make its continuous data protection (CDP) software available through online retailers. The move will give CDP technology exposure to a broader market. IBM’s agreement with Digital River will make Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files available for online purchase and download through the Digital River oneNetwork marketplace, which includes […]

With data growing fast and managing it a challenge, VCs continue to find much to like in the storage space. Information asset management firm Njini and storage acceleration startup Gear6 are the two most recent recipients of VCs’ largesse. Njini recently closed on a $13 million third round of financing led by Intel Capital, with […]

CA continued its data management acquisition spree on Tuesday, picking up continuous data protection (CDP) and replication specialist XOsoft for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition follows last month’s buy of records management firm MDY Group. “They’ve made some very sharp buys,” said Enterprise Management Associates senior analyst Mike Karp. “They’re buying companies that have good […]

EMC warned Monday that its second-quarter results will come in below Wall Street estimates, but the company said there was some good news behind the shortfall — stronger than expected demand for its new high-end Symmetrix DMX-3 systems. In a statement, EMC Chairman, President and CEO Joe Tucci said the company “received more customer orders […]

The storage market slowed in the second quarter from its strong growth rate, but will likely pick up again in the second half of the year, according to a report by Robert W. Baird & Co. Baird’s latest enterprise VAR survey found a “modestly weak demand environment” for the second quarter, but the pipeline bodes […]

When EMC decides to move into a market, it doesn’t fool around. The acquisitive storage giant announced late Thursday that it will acquire RSA Security for about $2.1 billion, just hours after news broke that EMC and at least one other bidder were in negotiations to buy RSA for at least $1.8 billion. EMC has […]

The IBM-led Aperi storage management effort showed that reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated, with an announcement Wednesday that it will join the open source Eclipse Foundation and donate millions of lines of code. Last week’s announcement by Sun, EMC, HP, HDS and Symantec that they would focus their storage management efforts on the […]

Compellent Technologies hopes to make information lifecycle management (ILM) easier with its new Storage Center QuickStart ILM offering. Compellent says the product is the first storage area network (SAN) that fully automates tiered storage within a single disk drive enclosure. The company says QuickStart ILM “is unique in its ability to provide not only tiers […]

How to best address the problem of storage management has become almost as confusing as storage management itself, with a number of groups springing up with the goal of making storage management easier. The divisions became a little sharper on Thursday, when Sun said it is leaving IBM’s Aperi effort to focus on the Storage […]

Storage vendors are using the occasion of this week’s Storage World Conference in Long Beach, Calif., to showcase their wares aimed at helping users gain control of far-flung data. FalconStor, for one, joined the throng of vendors offering data de-duplication with its new Single Instance Repository (SIR) software, which provides a policy-driven redundant data elimination […]

Acopia Networks is doing so well it’s being given money it hasn’t even asked for. The file virtualization startup will announce Monday that it has received an additional $20 million in venture funding, bringing its total haul to $85 million. Acopia CEO Christopher Lynch said the round, which was led by late-stage venture capital firm […]

CA made a move into enterprise records management Tuesday with the acquisition of MDY Group International. MDY’s software and services help organizations centrally manage physical and electronic records distributed across the enterprise, regardless of location or origin. CA plans to use the acquisition to help customers meet company-wide compliance, corporate governance and legal discovery requirements. […]