New CEO Thompson Sets Course for Storage Startup Virtual Instruments
7/30/2010 2:16:11 PM
Virtual Instruments, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These data storage products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical application performance. - Three months after taking over leadership of storage optimization startup Virtual Instruments, CEO John Thompson for 9 years CEO of Symantec has mapped out the path his company is going to be taking for the next few years. As virtualization continues to become more prominent in IT production sy...

IBM Acquires Storwize for Data Compression
7/29/2010 12:03:50 PM
With its acquisition of Storwize, IBM in effect answers a move by another Tier 1 data storage hardware maker, Dell, which just bought Storwize competitor Ocarina Networks. - As had been rumored for months, IBM on July 29 added another storage-related company to its acquisition list its fourth in three years with the announcement that it will buy storage optimization specialist Storwize. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With the deal, IBM in effect ...

Symantec Storage Sales Issues Led to Flat Quarter
7/28/2010 5:42:58 PM
Storage management and security software provider Symantec reports that net income for its fiscal first quarter was $161 million, up substantially over the net of $74 million for the year-ago quarter, but its revenue was flat. - Symantec, which provides storage management and security software for IT systems, bucked a trend of sorts on July 28 when it reported plateaued financial results for its fiscal first quarter of 2010. Symantec reported revenue for the fiscal first quarter of $1.43 billion, which is flat when co...

Cisco, NetApp, VMware Combine Forces on FCOE Storage System
7/28/2010 3:07:08 PM
UPDATED: A new data storage package consists of VMware-validated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and NetApp FAS series unified storage using Fibre Channel over Ethernet in virtual environments running vSphere. - Fibre Channel over Ethernet got another boost July 28 from three front-line IT companies. Cisco Systems, NetApp and VMware jointly announced July 28 that they have made ready for prime time a new fully certified, end-to-end FCOE storage package for VMware virtual environments. The package c...

Newcomer Nimble Storage Packs Primary, Backup into One Appliance
7/26/2010 9:22:51 PM
Newcomer Nimble Storage marked an important day in its corporate life earlier this month when it announced two things: its own launch as a startup and the fact that it is shipping the industry's first completely converged primary iSCSI storage, backup and disaster appliance for midrange or larger enterprises. - Convergence continues to be a natural evolution in enterprise IT, whether it's about entire data center systems or single units within those systems. Newcomer Nimble Storage marked an important day in its corporate life earlier this month (July 15) when it announced two things: its own launch ...

Oracle Scales Up StorageTek LTO-5 Tape Libraries
7/26/2010 3:29:48 PM
Oracle reveals high availability and capacity enhancements to its Sun StorageTek tape libraries and drives. - There's been a lot happening in the LTO-5 tape world lately. On July 26, Oracle revealed high availability and capacity enhancements to its Sun StorageTek tape libraries and drives. On July 19, the LTO-5 Ultrium industry group, led by IBM and Hewlett-Packard, came out with an update on the ...

Sun DTrace Creator Cantrill Decides to Move On
7/26/2010 12:12:20 PM
Bryan Cantrill, who started at Sun Microsystems in 1996, was the key developer of Sun's Solaris DTrace data center analytics software tool and a prime mover behind the Fishworks team that created the S7000 storage appliance, code-named Amber Road. Cantrill is now leaving Oracle. - Bryan Cantrill, one of Oracle's brightest young senior engineers, announced July 25 in his blog that he is leaving the company. Cantrill is one of a number of high-profile Sun Microsystems employees that have left Oracle since its January acquisition of Sun. Others include CEO Jonathan Schwar...

Nimbus Crams Terabytes of Flash into New System
7/22/2010 5:20:40 PM
The San Francisco-based startup announced a new enterprise flash system, the S1000, that is loaded with a whopping 10TB of solid state capacity per shelf a system scalable to 250TB within a single file system. - Newcomer Nimbus Data Systems certainly isn't bashful about going full force into the promising solid-state enterprise storage market. The San Francisco-based startup, which has trademarked its products as Sustainable Storage, July 19 announced a new enterprise flash system, the S1000, that is l...

Overland Unveils Unified Version of SnapServer Array
7/22/2010 1:56:31 PM
SnapServer N2000 is a block-and-file-level NAS or SAN package aimed at virtualized environments running VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer. It is integrated for Windows and Unix and can scale up to 144TB in a mere 2U form factor. - Overland Storage, a diversified storage supplier that is on a comeback after facing serious financial challenges a few years ago, on July 22 unveiled a new unified version of the popular network-attached SnapServer storage array for midrange and larger enterprises. SnapServer N2000 is a bl...

Xiotech Aims New Array at VDI Deployments
7/21/2010 5:01:19 PM
Xiotech's new version of its branded Emprise virtualized data storage system, the Emprise 9000, emphasizes the enterprise arrays as the true foundation of virtual desktop infrastructures. - Xiotech, which has always positioned itself as a maker of intelligent and ostensibly, more efficient storage, July 20 came out with a new system that's apparently quot;smart quot; enough to specialize in the needs of virtual desktop deployments. The Emprise 9000, a new version of the compan...

Storage Industry Group Starts New Cloud Backup-Recovery SIG
7/21/2010 3:09:46 PM
The Cloud BUR (Backup and Restore) SIG is a project of SNIA's Cloud Storage Initiative that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a delivery model that provides on-demand storage billed only for what is used. - Nobody doubts that there is a lot more education needed in all business markets about the intricacies and attributes of cloud data backup/restore, archiving and disaster recovery. To accomplish this, an influential industry group, the Storage Networking Industry Association, on July 21 anno...

EMC Turns In Another Boffo Quarterly Report Card
7/21/2010 11:20:02 AM
The world's largest independent storage and data security vendor posted record Q2 revenue of $4.02 billion, a 24 percent increase from the same period a year ago. - EMC is making a habit of beating analysts' earnings estimates. On July 21, the world's largest independent storage and data security vendor posted record Q2 revenue of $4.02 billion, a 24 percent increase from the same period a year ago. EMCs three-month revenue exceeded an estimate of $...

Dell Acquires Dedupe Specialist Ocarina Networks
7/19/2010 4:23:26 PM
Ocarina brings second-generation deduplication capability to bundle inside Dell's EqualLogic storage product line, which is aimed primarily at unstructured data in midrange enterprise-size data centers. - Dell, continuing to bring innovative young companies into its realm, revealed late on July 19 that it acquiring San Jose, Calif.-based storage deduplication software provider Ocarina Networks. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ocarina brings second-generation deduplication capabilit...

EMC Rolls Out Another Data Domain Midrange System
7/19/2010 12:40:43 PM
Storage and security giant EMC introduces the DD670, a midrange deduplication data storage system, along with a new disk library and a deduplication expansion module for its mainframe disk library product. - EMC keeps moving right along in developing the technology it acquired with Data Domain. It's also putting Intel's Xeon multicore processors to work for the first time. On July 19, the storage and security giant introduced a new midrange deduplication storage system from its Data Domain divisi...

Mac OS X Backup Tools That Every Apple User Needs
7/18/2010 9:04:04 AM
Backup tools can address the needs of the individual, the organization or somewhere in between; this look at what's available in backup for Mac OS X systems runs the gamut. - ...