Vendors have Vision for future storage
Vendors have Vision for future storage
Vendors have Vision for future storage
Computer History Museum to highlight storage
Storage technology firm 3PAR confirmed late Friday that its board has accepted Hewlett-Packard's acqusition offer of $US30 per share, ending more than a week of competitive bidding with Dell.
FalconStor Software Inc. and Violin Memory Inc. today announced a new appliance aimed at accelerating data transfers on storage area networks (SAN) through the use of solid state drives as a massive cache.
Three data storage start-ups have landed more than $US28 million in first-round funding from venture capitalists, a rare feat in an economy that has punished new vendors looking to obtain financing.
EMC has remade its management team by luring a high-ranking executive away from Intel, potentially setting up a succession process to replace chairman and CEO Joe Tucci, who will stay at EMC through 2012.
Backup provider AmeriVault Corp. and managed services provider Network Technology Group Inc. (NTG), both owned by Provider HealthNet Services Inc., Monday announced plans to join forces as Venyu Inc., which will offer data backup, disaster recovery and managed data center services to small- to mid-sized businesses.
Storage vendor Sepaton has secured a sixth round of financing worth US$15.5 million, the company announced Monday.
Sun is overhauling its virtual desktop software with new features that reduce storage needs by creating clones of virtual machines, and let users operate multiple virtual desktops on the same client.
IDC's quarterly data storage sales report shows that quarterly revenue for worldwide storage systems was down 5.9% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to a year earlier. But the capacity shipped increased by 27.3% year-over-year to a total of 2.46 petabytes.
Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced two new midrange, modular disk arrays that double the capacity, memory and throughput of its previous 6500 series arrays.
The UK storage industry is split on the impact that the current economic downturn will have on IT's purse-strings, according to a new survey from Hitachi Data Systems.
The storage market is thriving despite a tough economy, as exploding digital information growth has forced customers to add more capacity and upgrade to newer storage systems that are faster and more efficient, analysts say.