Paul Shread

WysDM Software will unveil its latest data protection management (DPM) offerings at next week’s Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla. The startup, which already boasts an OEM deal with EMC, will add to its diagnostic and predictive offerings with WysDM for Backups 3.0 and WysDM for Fileservers 3.0. “Reporting is not enough,” said WysDM […]

Network Appliance is moving into information classification and management (ICM), thanks to an OEM deal with Kazeon. Under the terms of the OEM, development, and marketing agreement, Kazeon and NetApp will integrate the intelligent data classification and search capabilities of Kazeon’s Information Server with NetApp’s storage systems, and NetApp will resell Kazeon’s Information Server as […]

Storage virtualization is widely viewed as lagging server virtualization, but IBM sees that trend changing fast. Big Blue already boasts more than 1,400 storage virtualization customers — and that number is up a stunning 40% since May. That growth is also occurring across all market segments — more than 800 of those customers are small […]

A little more than a year after acquiring Snap Appliance for $100 million, Adaptec has announced plans to divest its storage systems business to focus on software and serial storage technologies. “Our management team has been conducting a very thorough analysis of all of Adaptec’s businesses and operations,” said Scott Mercer, interim CEO of Adaptec, […]

Imation hopes to make it easier for storage users to get into disk backup with a new disk cartridge that fits into standard tape libraries. Imation’s new Ulysses technology is a Serial ATA (SATA) 2.5-inch disk drive in an LTO Ultrium cartridge form factor. Used with the Ulysses tape drive emulator, the removable media accelerates […]

New York — If sessions at this week’s Storage Decisions conference are any indication, information lifecycle management (ILM) technology is a long way from fulfilling its promise. In response to an instant poll of attendees conducted by GlassHouse Technologies Senior Vice President for Consulting Richard Scannell, only 8 percent of those responding had complete confidence […]

Microsoft will officially launch its first backup and recovery product late Tuesday, a near-continuous data protection (CDP) application. Data Protection Manager (DPM) is loaded onto servers running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Storage Server 2003. The server is then added to the storage environment for greater data protection. DPM can work with just about any […]

Iron Mountain is putting its money where its mouth is and encrypting its data tapes with Decru’s DataFort storage security appliance. Iron Mountain recommended data encryption in April after several high-profile incidents of lost backup tapes. At the time, Iron Mountain cited an Enterprise Strategy Group study that found that only 7% of users encrypt […]

StoredIQ, which automates classification and management of enterprise information, has joined the Google Enterprise Professional Program. StoredIQ is one of four startups that compete in the information classification and management (ICM) space, a subset of information life cycle management (ILM), according to Taneja Group analysts. The others are Arkivio, Kazeon Systems and Njini. A fifth […]

ONStor and 3PAR have teamed on a new unified storage offering that the companies say tops Network Appliance in performance, scalability and manageability. The new UtiliCat offers enterprise-class consolidated SAN and NAS services through the combination of ONStor’s Enterprise NAS Gateway solutions and 3PAR’s Utility Storage technology. Unlike other unified storage approaches that require customers […]

Mendocino Software has closed on an $18 million funding round to help bring its continuous data protection (CDP) product to market later this year, but the company remains mum on reports that EMC will be reselling the product. “We have two major OEMs signed, but we have not made any public announcements about those relationships […]

EMC widened its lead in the storage software market in the second quarter as top competitor Veritas slipped, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker. EMC grew sales 13.1 percent in the quarter, compared to 7 percent growth for Veritas, which was in the process of being acquired by Symantec in a deal that […]