Paul Shread

Quantum announced late Tuesday that it will acquire Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) for about $770 million, a nearly 50% premium for its tape storage rival. Quantum, which added LTO tape technology to its core DLT format with the 2004 acquisition of Certance, will move further into the LTO space with the acquisition of ADIC, […]

EMC unveiled its data security strategy on Tuesday, including a new services offering and the availability of digital rights management software through its recent acquisition of Authentica. Lost data tapes, database breaches and regulations requiring secure data retention moved storage security to the forefront last year. In response, EMC and other vendors have been scrambling […]

Once upon a time, companies needed to have a few quarters of profitability under their belt before going public. Those times still haven’t returned. Riverbed, a promising startup in the red-hot wide area file services (WAFS) and WAN optimization space, filed plans for an initial public offering late Thursday. Riverbed, which calls its market “wide […]

Scentric came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with an information classification and management (ICM) product that the company says is the first to offer universal classification across all data types. ICM is a subset of information lifecycle management (ILM) that proponents say could make ILM at the file level a reality. The technology has […]

EMC on Monday announced a number of changes to its virtual tape library (VTL) product lineup. The changes to the Clariion Disk Library family include a new entry-level Clariion DL210 model for mid-size enterprises and branch offices, and for the whole line, virtual tape “shredding” capability for deleting data to meet business and regulatory demands. […]

A startup launched by McData founder Jack McDonnell hopes to remake high-performance storage systems with a grid-like approach. Westminster, Colo.-based Crosswalk on Tuesday launched its iGrid Intelligent Storage Grid System, which the company bills as a “vendor-agnostic grid technology that enables any application to access any authorized storage resource, any iGrid node to access any […]

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a software-enabled SAN boot of Windows Server 2003 using iSCSI technology co-developed with IBM. Microsoft made a number of other storage-related announcements at this week’s Storage Networking World conference, including the availability of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 through OEMs, plans for its iSCSI target technology acquired from String Bean Software, […]

Cisco Systems became the last of the major storage switch vendors to offer 4Gbps Fibre Channel today, unveiling the new MDS 9513 Multilayer Director, along with 4Gbps and 10Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Modules for both new and existing MDS 9000 products. With the new modules, the MDS 9513 can scale up to 528 Fibre Channel […]

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled its plans for e-mail security and archiving firm FrontBridge Technologies, including a new name and licensing model and greater security. Microsoft, which acquired FrontBridge last year, has renamed the division Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services (EHS). The new unit is composed of Hosted Filtering, Hosted Archive, Hosted Continuity and Hosted Encryption. Microsoft […]

Storage vendors continue to develop products for the nascent information lifecycle management (ILM) space, hoping to tap a growing corporate need to move data to lower-cost storage as its value declines. Compellent and ONStor partnered this week to offer what they claim is the first integrated SAN and NAS solution with automated tiered storage capabilities. […]

A startup founded by former Microsoft employees is using its knowledge of Exchange to make sure that the messaging platform stays up and running. Azaleos this week unveiled a new disaster recovery solution for Exchange, Azaleos Full Fidelity Disaster Recovery. The company also boosted its Exchange management solutions to provide assured Exchange backups, 99.999% uptime […]

CommVault Systems, long considered a candidate for an initial public offering, made it official late Friday when it filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC. The unified data protection and management software company expects to raise as much as $150 million in the IPO, with much of the proceeds targeted toward repaying existing shareholders. […]