Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

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CommVault Systems this week released the first service pack update to its Simpana 7.0 data protection and archiving suite, adding a new workflow between its replication and single-instance storage... More...
Apr 11, 2008
NetApp and a research team at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) are working on a prototype of a storage system that gives new meaning to long-term archive.

The collaborative project... More...

Apr 29, 2008
Two partnerships among storage and legal compliance vendors were created this week to offer streamlined data retrieval for storage administrators in need of litigation support.

Attenex has linked up... More...

Apr 28, 2008
EMC plans to have virtual provisioning shipping in all its disk arrays by summer, but that the effect of the technology on IT storage spending has been "way overplayed." That's according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci... More...
Apr 28, 2008
FalconStor Software has upgraded its IPStor storage virtualisation software and broken it into three parts: network storage server (NSS), continuous data protection (CDP) and virtual tape library (VTL).

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Apr 16, 2008
Sun Microsystems is pushing its open source focus and server-centric approach to storage with new online documentation and services meant to encourage customers to create storage devices using the... More...
Apr 30, 2008
EMC finally snapped up Iomega today, but not before the purchase price was jacked up by some $35 million (£17.5m) above EMC's initial offer.

The deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter, was... More...

Apr 9, 2008
Xiotech has been around for decades, while Atrato has just recently come out of stealth. But both companies have rolled out new storage systems in the last month that make the same promise - years of service... More...
Apr 11, 2008
SunGard this week said it will host secondary storage systems for customers of VMware Site Recovery Manager failover software, eventually leading to cloud-based disaster recovery services for VMware... More...
May 8, 2008
EMC's Mozy backup Storage as a Service (SaaS) products are beginning to offer feature parity for Mac workstations with the release this week of MozyHome.

According to Vance Checketts, Mozy chief operating... More...

May 2, 2008
Dell's $155 million (£77.5m) acquisition of email archiving Storage as a Service (SaaS) vendor MessageOne officially closed last week, freeing Dell executives to flesh out the company's plans to use SaaS... More...
May 1, 2008
EMC is giving Application Discovery Manager (ADM) a refresh by adding reporting on virtual hosts to its application topology maps and more integration with EMC IT Compliance Analyzer to enforce... More...
May 21, 2008
CommVault System's recent earnings show its addition of archiving, replication, single instance and continuous data protection (CDP) have boosted sales, and the data protection vendor is eyeing more hot... More...
May 15, 2008
Two US customers that recently upgraded to Yosemite Technologies' Backup Standard 8.5 backup software have given a thumbs-up to the Unlimited Server Bundles licensing model that Yosemite established... More...
Jun 2, 2008
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is making software and hardware upgrades, combining six storage management applications into one suite to streamline tasks while doubling the cache size of its USP-V high-end... More...
May 20, 2008
Mimosa Systems is rolling out file archiving for its NearPoint data compliance and archiving product, months after competitors, including Symantec, EMC and Autonomy Zantaz, came out with their file... More...
May 6, 2008
Storage administrators at the Storage Decisions conference in Toronto last week said they're beginning to realise a longstanding dream of managing storage according to applications and business... More...
Jun 9, 2008
EMC officials fleshed out the company's long-term archiving strategy this week at EMC World in Las Vegas, detailing planned upgrades for email archiving and content archiving.

On Tuesday, Mark Lewis... More...

May 22, 2008
Xiotech has launched Virtual View, a plug-in for its ICON disk array management software. The Virtual View plug-in can help storage administrators centrally manage storage resources used by VMware... More...
May 30, 2008
Storage users at EMC World in Las Vegas this week said they'll evaluate EMC's new data deduplication and spin-down drive technologies with an eye on energy savings.

On Monday, EMC rolled out disk libraries... More...

May 21, 2008
Following IBM's acquisition of Diligent Technologies last month, IBM has admitted that FalconStor Software's Single Instance Repository (SIR) data dedupe failed to make it through the qualification... More...
May 15, 2008
With the release of its SASBoy disk array, Nexsan Technologies is combining two technologies rarely seen together: high-performance SAS disks and spin-down for power savings.

SASBoy, Nexsan's first SAS... More...

Jun 3, 2008
BridgeHead Software has launched an archiving application that can search and index data stored in a proprietary Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). The PACStore application performs... More...
May 30, 2008
Autonomy Zantaz has released a software suite to help customers automate the process of data classification and delete data in storage repositories for the purposes of compliance and e-discovery.

The... More...

Apr 15, 2008
Hewlett-Packard this week officially introduced its new storage system intended for Internet-scale applications. The HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100) is scheduled for beta... More...
May 7, 2008
UK Storage Podcasts
Data Migration Strategies and Best Practices by EMC Corporation
involving much more than just ripping out one data storage cabinet and plugging in another. This SMBStorage.com tipcast explains the data migration process and...
Podcast on Green Storage with Nik Simpson, storage analyst for The Burton Group by 3PAR
with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world. Nik Simpson is a...
Podcast: Intelligent Data Migration:  How to Reduce Costly Errors & Increase Efficiency by SANpulse Technologies Inc.
faced by an IT professional managing PBs of data storage and data migration efforts.

Moving data from one set of systems to another - is an ongoing process that is...

UK Storage Webcasts
Simplifying Data Management, Reducing Storage Costs by F5 Networks
they need to be.

Are you drowning in data? Storage growth rates that average 40 to 120% every year are causing skyrocketing costs...

Reduce Storage Cost up to 40% with Hitachi File and Content Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
up methods for active and inactive data can simplify management, reduce capital cost structure and operational costs.

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Next Generation Backup and Recovery by Sun Microsystems and Symantec
to protect critical business data and minimize business disruptions during recoveries. In this informative...