Paul Shread

Quantum has unveiled a free tape security offering that the company says is the first step in a broad tape security initiative planned over the next year. DLTSage Tape Security, unveiled Monday, prevents unauthorized access to data on tape cartridges, a feature Quantum says “will be particularly valuable in protecting tapes that must be transported […]

EMC has added Cisco’s low-cost MDS-9020 4-gigabit per second Fibre Channel switch as the latest offering in its Connectrix line. EMC OEMs switches from the major storage switch vendors — Cisco, Brocade and McData — for its Connectrix line. The new offering will be sold as the EMC Connectrix MDS-9020 Fabric Switch, and at a […]

Data protection and retention regulations have created a new class of data, such as event logs and audit reports, that themselves must be stored and managed to prove compliance. Call it managing information about the security of information, if you will. SenSage is one start-up targeting this new class of data. Next week, the company […]

In another vote for the marriage of storage and security, SonicWALL on Monday announced the acquisition of Lasso Logic, a data protection vendor that has focused on providing continuous data protection (CDP) for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). While not on the same scale as Symantec’s $10 billion acquisition of Veritas or Network Appliance’s $272 […]

Storage companies usually let the details that set their products apart sell their products, but backup firm LiveVault is trying a different approach to storage marketing. LiveVault has hired John Cleese, the comic actor and former front man of British comedy troupe Monty Python, to host a series of Webinars promoting the company’s backup products. […]

The storage security market has been heating up as of late, spurred by high-profile data breaches and growing congressional interest in the issue. Several vendors have come to market in recent weeks with new security offerings, and this time the vendors aren’t just standalone storage security plays like Decru, NeoScale, Vormetric and Kasten Chase. Here […]

CommVault, one of the biggest private storage vendors, has thrown its hat into the continuous data protection (CDP) ring with the latest version of its QiNetix data protection suite. In what CommVault says is the first of three major QiNetix upgrades this quarter, the company took the wraps off its new ContinuousDataReplicator (CDR) software Tuesday. […]

PMC-Sierra has entered into an agreement with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Silver Lake Partners to acquire the storage semiconductor business of Agilent Technologies for about $425 million in cash. The storage chip business is part of Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group (SPG), which KKR and Silver Lake Partners are in the process of acquiring. PMC-Sierra said […]

Intel unveiled a new storage platform Thursday aimed at making it easier for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to improve their disaster recovery and backup capabilities. Hans Geyer, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Storage Group, called the new offerings “a simple, affordable solution based on a flexible set of standards-based building blocks that […]

Overland Storage unveiled its first primary storage offerings this week, as the company continues to remake itself in the wake of sliding tape sales and the loss of its OEM relationship with HP. Overland appears determined to go it alone, fending off overtures from ADIC and announcing ambitious plans to compete with Network Appliance in […]

EMC on Tuesday announced a broad archiving strategy — and completed it with the acquisition of enterprise report management (ERM) firm Acartus. At its Momentum 2005 conference in Las Vegas for Documentum business partners and customers, EMC said it plans to offer customers “a holistic set of archiving policies and access tools for all information, […]

QLogic made a bold move into the intelligent storage switch market late Tuesday with the acquisition of Troika Networks for $36.5 million in cash. But rather than move up market into high-end storage virtualization, QLogic marketing vice president Frank Berry said the company plans to bring storage virtualization to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). “Until […]