Paul Shread

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) will acquire Australia’s Rocksoft Limited for $63 million in a move aimed at helping companies get a handle on exploding data growth. Rocksoft’s data de-duplication software detects and eliminates redundant data, improving the utilization of disk resources and data transport networks. ADIC said it plans to use the technology to […]

The storage industry is abuzz about an inadvertent posting on Google’s Web site that revealed the search giant’s plans to get into the online storage business. Storage industry watchers are intrigued by Google’s possible entry into the online storage market, but they also have some concerns about security and compliance issues. “I’m a huge fan […]

EMC has finally qualified McData’s flagship backbone director, more than a year after McData first launched the Intrepid 10000 (i10k). The long qualification process led some analysts to believe that EMC might once again be squeezing price concessions from its offspring. McData has been locked in a battle with Cisco for supremacy in the high-end […]

Brocade moved further outside its core Fibre Channel SAN business this week with the acquisition of file virtualization company NuView. NuView’s products, which help manage files in distributed, heterogeneous computing environments, will be offered as part of the Brocade Tapestry family of infrastructure management solutions, which include Wide Area File Services (WAFS), Application Resource Manager […]

Microsoft made a couple of big moves in the storage space on Friday, deepening its partnership with EMC and acquiring iSCSI technology from String Bean Software. Microsoft acquired the WinTarget technology from String Bean Software of Montgomery Village, Md. WinTarget is an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage area networking (SAN) solution designed and […]

The storage market posted its strongest growth in years in the fourth quarter of 2005, with external storage system sales growing 17.9% from the same quarter in 2004, according to IDC. “The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year,” said Brad Nisbet, IDC’s program manager for storage systems. “Data growth […]

Hitachi Data Systems has entered the fixed content archiving market by striking up a partnership with Archivas. The two announced plans to deliver solutions that will “define a new ‘active archive’ market space,” pledging to “address customer needs for the long-term preservation, simplified management and rapid retrieval of structured and unstructured data.” HDS and Archivas […]

Optovia Corp. has unveiled technology that could make it easier for data centers to replicate data over long distances. Optovia’s SpanExpress optical amplifier solution eliminates intermediate amplification sites between primary and secondary data centers, allowing data centers to be located as much as 200 kilometers apart without the need for mid-span amplification. Optical signals typically […]

Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems refreshed their storage lineups Tuesday with some new offerings aimed at the SMB market. HP updated a number of its offerings and unveiled a new tape library aimed at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), and HDS announced plans to further purse the SMB market with a new Microsoft Simple SAN […]

QLogic will spend some of its cash hoard to move into the InfiniBand (IB) market. The Fibre Channel HBAsvendor and switch maker will pay $109 million for IB startup PathScale and assume the firm’s outstanding unvested stock options. PathScale is developing System Area Network fabric interconnects for high-performance clustered system environments. The company has a […]

A startup claims to have broken through the “security ceiling” limiting the application acceleration market. Burlington, Mass.-based Certeon on Monday unveiled its Secure Application Networking WAN acceleration solution, which the company claims can “dramatically improve application response times while maintaining security from the data center to the desktop.” The result, says Certeon CEO Peter Dougherty, […]

IP storage pioneer StoneFly Networks is being acquired by network attached storage (NAS) firm Dynamic Network Factory. Six-year-old StoneFly was a pioneer in iSCSI technology, and even boasted the domain name iSCSI.com. But as the market for IP SANs heated up, StoneFly lost ground to competitors such as EqualLogic, LeftHand Networks and Intransa. StoneFly will […]