Paul Shread

Imation hopes to capitalize on the growing market for online backup services — and its half-century of expertise in storage media — with a new offering launched today. Imation’s DataGuard Vault online backup and recovery service is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch offices (ROBOs) that are looking for a […]

Continuity Software claims it can help disaster recovery work better — and the company won’t charge prospective customers a dime if it can’t help them. The Israel-based disaster recovery management (DRM) company announced its move into the U.S. market this week, opening its U.S headquarters in Boston and a sales office in New York. CEO […]

Xiotech has unveiled an appliance that the company says gives corporations an easy answer to compliance and e-discovery demands. Xiotech’s CEMS, or Corporate Evidence Management System, can store from 2 to 6 terabytes of captured documents, handling anywhere from 10,000 to 80,000 documents a day, with de-duplication technology available in the larger unit. CEMS “proactively […]

The storage market continued to grow in the mid-single digits in the first quarter, continuing a slowdownthat began in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to Gartner, but NetApp remained a bright spot. Worldwide external controller-based disk storage revenue totaled $3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2007, a 4.8 percent increase over the same […]

Brocade capped a busy week late Thursday with a surprising announcement: the company will move into the market for host bus adapters (HBAs), traditionally a market belonging to partner Emulex and rival QLogic. Tom Buiocchi, Brocade’s vice president of worldwide marketing, said the company isn’t interested in taking market share from Emulex and QLogic so […]

Cisco Systems plans a fabric-based encryption offering for disk and tape later this year that the company says bests current approaches. The product will be delivered in the second half of the year, but Cisco has been conducting preliminary briefings to let customers know it’s coming and will issue a press release on the offering […]

The latest release of EMC’s flagship storage resource management (SRM) software includes support for VMware and better reporting capabilities. EMC ControlCenter 6.0, which the storage giant is billing as its biggest upgrade in years, now offers extensive support for VMware Infrastructure 3 software and also includes improvements in flexibility and customization for SRM reporting. Giving […]

Four IT vendors have banded together to demonstrate a new data integrity standard. Emulex, LSI, Oracle and Seagate on Wednesday unveiled the Data Integrity Initiative (DII), a technology collaboration that implements and expands the T10 DIF (Data Integrity Field) standard for complete end-to-end data integrity for enterprise storage systems. The issue is a critical one […]

Gresham Enterprise Storage isn’t a household name in data storage, but the UK firm hopes to change that. Gresham says it has sold 4,300 licenses of its Gresham Clareti Enterprise DistribuTape (EDT) application, which helps IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) users improve the efficiency, manageability and reliability of their tape storage operations. The company says […]

Sun Microsystems is shifting engineering support for its 6920 midrange storage virtualization array to HDS, deepening the storage ties between the two. As part of the agreement, HDS will support Sun StorageTek 6920 customers for five years, said Sun spokesperson Michelle Parkinson. Sun will provide customer support, with HDS engineers on the back end. When […]