Paul Shread

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. […]

Hitachi Data Systems unveiled the first fruits of its partnership with Archivas Monday, a content-addressed storage (CAS) system that HDS says offers open standards-based interfaces, scalability and data protection not found in other offerings. First-generation CAS solutions weren’t built with records management in mind and tried to respond by using an API between archive applications […]

Kasten Chase may have closed its doors, but other storage security vendors are busy rolling out new products. Decru, PGP and RSA Security all unveiled new offerings on Monday. Decru, acquired by NetApp last year, unveiled a new key management platform, the Decru Lifetime Key Management 3.0 Appliance, and also announced partnerships with Symantec, Quantum […]

The first quarter of 2006 was a strong one for storage vendors, according to IDC, with the top four vendors all posting double-digit growth. Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues grew 10.3 percent from the year-ago quarter to $4.2 billion, according to IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker. The total disk storage systems […]

Kasten Chase, a pioneer in data security, announced Wednesday that it is filing for bankruptcy and ceasing operations. The company was attempting to transition from a secure modem business to storage security, but the storage business didn’t ramp up fast enough. In the first quarter of 2006, Kasten Chase reported sales of $100,000 and a […]

Caringo came out of stealth mode Tuesday with an impressive pedigree and plans to offer content addressable storage (CAS) for as little as $2,000. Caringo was named for founders Paul Carpentier, Jonathan Ring and Mark Goros, who serve as the startup’s CTO, president and CEO, respectively. Carpentier was the chief architect of FilePool, which was […]

HP on Wednesday unveiled a virtual tape offering that sells for a bit over $6,000, bringing VTL technology within reach of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). Dianne McAdam, director of enterprise information assurance at the Clipper Group, said HP doesn’t have much competition for its new VLS1002i, perhaps just Overland’s REO offerings. “There is a […]

NeoPath Networks has attracted the attention of Cisco Systems and also hired Network Appliance’s vice president of international sales as its new COO. NeoPath’s latest $11 million funding round included participation by Cisco and previous investors August Capital, DCM-Doll Capital Management and Gabriel Venture Partners. The company also announced the appointment of NetApp executive Ali […]

Hitachi Data Systems on Monday upgraded its high-end TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, boosting performance and adding new functionality for disaster recovery and security. HDS, which claims a 40 percent market share and an installed base of more than 3,000 for the TagmaStore, boosted performance by 25 percent to 2.5 million IOPS. The upgraded USP offers […]

MIT on Monday announced plans for a petabyte-scale IP storage system that can be “managed by a few graduate students,” in the words of MIT Media Lab Director Frank Moss. The system, based on Zetera’s Z-SAN technology in collaboration with Bell Micro, Marvell and Seagate, will be used for the lab’s “Human Speechome Project” to […]

Packeteer made a play for supremacy in the emerging WAN optimization and wide area file services (WAFS) market on Tuesday by acquiring Tacit Networks for $78 million in cash. Packeteer, which already leads the WAN optimization market, adds WAFS to its remote management product arsenal with the acquisition of Tacit — along with Tacit’s OEM […]

Sepaton is adding de-duplication technology to its virtual tape (VTL) appliances that the company says can reduce storage capacity needs by a factor of 25. Sepaton’s DeltaStor software uses the company’s ContentAware architecture to greatly increase the amount of data that can be stored on a Sepaton S2100-ES2 VTL appliance by eliminating unchanged or duplicate […]