Paul Shread

Digi-Data took the wraps off its latest high-end offering last week, a high-performance, scalable system that offers 10-25 terabytes of capacity for less than $100,000. Digi-Data CEO Bill Tomeo calls the company’s new STORM Xtreme Array “a quantum leap when it comes to storage architecture.” Traditional upper-midrange systems support 4-8 Fibre Channel ports, Tomeo says, […]

It seems just about every storage vendor wants to get into the replication business these days. With data booming and the need to protect it growing, it’s a rare storage vendor that doesn’t offer data replication technology. Adaptec’s Snap Appliance division this week took the wraps off the latest product for companies hoping to get […]

Iron Mountain moved further into the backup and recovery space Tuesday with the acquisition of Connected Corp. for $117 million. Connected backs up desktop data for more than 600 corporations, with more than 2 million licenses worldwide, and the company has also begun to offer server and email backup products. For Iron Mountain, which boasts […]

Much of the tech sector has suffered this year from oversupply and weaker than expected demand, but storage value-added resellers (VARs) are upbeat on the prospects for a strong fourth quarter. Wall Street research firm Robert W. Baird released its third-quarter VAR Survey this week, and the results suggest that the storage sector could end […]

Sierra Logic has developed a chip that the company says makes serial ATA drives as reliable as Fibre Channel ones. Sierra Logic bills its Silicon Storage Router (SR-1216) as the “first-ever integrated silicon Fibre Channel to Serial ATA solution.” The SR-1216 chip and firmware lets OEMs offer enterprise-class availability “at a fraction of the cost […]

With an EMC pedigree and scores of customers, Diligent Technologies seems like a natural for attracting venture capital. But what’s really surprising is why top VC names are willing to fork over $22 million to the company: to finance products that won’t begin to appear on the market until the middle of next year. Diligent […]

CreekPath made a splash this week with the announcement of $22 million in new venture funding and the appointment of a former Veritas executive as its vice president of engineering. CreekPath’s third round was funded by new investor Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and existing investors New Enterprise Associates, A.G. Edwards Capital, TeleSoft Partners and Sequel […]

Storage vendors just can’t seem to get enough of the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. Emulex and Brocade Communications pushed further into the SMB space this week by expanding their partnership to simplify the deployment of storage area networks (SANs). As part of the agreement, Brocade and Emulex will develop what they claim is […]

Quantum sees a future filled with 10-terabyte tape cartridges — as big as today’s largest libraries — and multi-terabyte storage devices for less than $1,000, or just pennies a gigabyte. Those were just some of the visions the company shared this week as it outlined its 10-year DLTtape roadmap. Not the least among its goals […]

Because Avamar is saving its customers a bundle on storage and network costs, VCs are willing to invest some cash in the startup. Avamar announced this week that it has closed on a $15 million funding round, bringing the five-year-old startup’s total funding to more than $50 million over five rounds. The payoff has been […]

Brocade co-founder Kumar Malavalli is back with a new venture targeting backup and recovery. The former Brocade CTO took the wraps off InMage this week, a start-up founded in late 2001 that Malavalli says creates a new category — “data continuity” — by delivering “business event recovery at any location, any time, within any storage […]

The storage software market remains very much a two-horse race, according to the latest numbers from IDC. EMC and Veritas dominated the space in the second quarter, with 32.5% revenue share and 22.6%, respectively, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker (see table below), which measures software sales in areas such as replication, storage […]