Paul Shread

Persist Technologies emerged from stealth mode last week with the unveiling of its AppStor software solution, which the company claims provides secure storage and retrieval of data from any location at any time. AppStor “effectively addresses major issues associated with the growth, storage, and retrieval of enterprise content and reference information, including email, office documents, […]

Data Domain has released a new disk-based recovery storage appliance that delivers 20-to-1 compression, which could potentially save users a lot of money in disk and tape costs. The DD200 Recovery Appliance was designed to support existing backup software, and is the first disk-based recovery appliance to combine full recoverability verification with speed and cost […]

Adaptec has acquired a German data protection firm from Intel. ICP vortex Computersysteme GmbH, a provider of data protection products for European customers, had been an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel since March 2001. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal is part of Intel’s continuing effort to focus more on its core silicon […]

QLogic’s lone foray into 4Gb Fibre Channel is paying off handsomely. The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) recently voted to extend 4Gb Fibre Channel from an “inside the box” storage device interconnect into switched SAN fabrics. And within days of the vote, QLogic announced that several companies — including Agilent Technologies, FalconStor Software, Fujitsu, JNI, […]

CNT has unveiled the first new product since its merger with Inrange, a Fibre Channel/FICON director that the company says is the first to offer integrated metropolitan and wide area network capabilities. By giving the FC/9000 Fibre Channel/FICON Director product integrated metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) capabilities, the FC/9000 can support […]

HP retained the top storage spot in the first quarter, according to IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, but IBM and Dell are growing fast. HP boasted 26.3% market share and $1.26 billion in revenues in the first quarter, IDC said (see table at bottom). IBM was second at 19.1% and $917 million — […]

Spinnaker Networks claims chart-topping performance and scalability for its new NAS server — and at least one analyst agrees that the company may have come up with the complete package. Spinnaker says the new SpinServer 4100 delivers a 50% performance increase over the SpinServer 3300 — and a 40% performance advantage over Network Appliance’s FAS960 […]

Troika Networks has raised $13 million to help the company market its network-based storage services platform. Services like backup, snapshots, and replication, which have traditionally been deployed in every system in a network or within storage arrays, can instead be run within the SAN, Troika says. By centralizing management and control of services, companies can […]

PMC-Sierra and Trebia Networks have developed a complete Gigabit Ethernet to Fibre Channel reference system for speeding the deployment of IP storage systems. The reference system integrates Trebia Networks’ chart-topping SNP-1000 and SNP-1000L storage network processors with PMC-Sierra’s PM8356 QuadPHY FC and PM8354 QuadPHY 1G SERDES and RM5200 MIPS-based processors. The companies say the new […]

Punch Networks has introduced a new suite of Punch Paris turnkey storage appliances for enterprises seeking “a stand-alone, fully-encrypted hardware and software storage solution.” The Punch Paris server software is an application-level secure storage virtualization solution, a type of solution that the company says has until now only been appropriate for larger-scale data center environments. […]

With corporate use of Instant Messaging booming, Iron Mountain has teamed with four solution providers to offer IM records archiving and retention. Enterprises have begun to realize the importance of managing and controlling Instant Messages as electronic records, reports Iron Mountain. The financial services industry is leading the trend, with Instant Messaging falling under the […]

EMC has released its lowest-cost hardware yet, taking aim at other recent competitors such as IBM’s FAStT600. EMC announced a number of enhancements to the CLARiiON CX200 networked storage system, including a new single-controller option with estimated end-user pricing starting at $10,000, integrated ATA drive technology, and a 60% performance boost. EMC also simplified CLARiiON […]