E-discovery vendor StoredIQ unveils new platform support, enhancements

08/28/08

StoredIQ last week rolled out a new version of its e-discovery appliance that includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007.

NextIO launches virtual interconnect platform

08/26/08

NextIO this week launched an I/O platform that allows data center administrators to connect virtually any networks together.

Rackable Systems divests,; Nexan adds SMB NAS device; IBM releases XIV clustered storage

08/21/08

Today, we have storage news from Rackable Systems, which is dropping its RapidScale storage product; Nexsan, which unveiled The Edge SMB storage system; and IBM, which released its XIV clustered storage system.

RenewData revamps its prices based on the number of e-mail custodians

08/19/08

RenewData recently revamped the prices for its e-discovery services. The company, which provides e-discovery and electronically stored information (ESI) risk management services, is now pricing its services based on the number of custodians processed. In this model, which is also available from other vendors, a custodian is an individual whose e-mails or documents are subject to review. The company claims that pricing its services based on the number of custodians it searches for is many times more economical than searches based on the number of terabytes of data processed.

IBM integrates FilesX acquisition; announces FastBack CDP

08/14/08

Following on the heels of its FilesX acquisition, IBM is rolling out software that gives customers continuous data protection for applications, databases and file servers.

EMC gets flashy with new Clariions

08/12/08

EMC last week released its much-awaited Clariion CX4 Series array.

Planning for Disaster - Houston-style, Part 2

08/07/08

Early Sunday morning late last month, specialty chemical company Champion Technologies failed back its data center to its Houston headquarters and I was a fly-on-the-wall during the process. Originally disabled by power being down in its headquarters building, Champion had to execute a disaster recovery drill and failover its data center operations to a site in Scottsdale, Ariz. That failover occurred Friday evening. All operations, which started at 6 p.m. were completed at 11 p.m. that night - five hours later.

Planning for disaster - Houston-style, Part 1

08/05/08

Where do you start preparing for a disaster? I was invited a couple of weekends ago to observe a server and storage-area network failover disaster recovery drill at specialty chemical company Champion Technologies in Houston. I jumped at the idea.

Quantum's new Vision

07/31/08

Quantum is pulling it all together - its management software that is. The company this week announced a new management interface that it calls Vision, which manages all its disk and tape systems and its backup, recovery and archive systems.

Smart move: Brocade buys Foundry

07/29/08

Brocade's recent acquisition of Foundry Networks for $3 billion should raise the market's interest in Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

Solid state disk interest grows

07/24/08

Solid state disk is getting a bigger play in the enterprise. IDC released findings on their testing that reports the differential between SSD and traditional mechanical drives may not be all that the industry has made it out to be.

Nexsan rolls out green, monster array

07/22/08

Nexsan this week rolled out a new storage array that scales from 336TB to a whopping 4PB in capacity and is energy-efficient too.

Drives hitting 1.5TB level

07/17/08

Everything is getting bigger, disk drives included. Last week Hitachi and Seagate introduced some of the biggest drives - Hitachi topped the 1TB level, Seagate rolled out 1.5TB drives.

ONStor debuts ultra-fast, scalable NAS gateways

07/15/08

Network-attached storage vendor ONStor this week mixed scalability and performance with the introduction of a new line of NAS gateways.

Overland snaps up Snap Server

07/10/08

Last week saw the latest in a series of product trades as Overland Storage acquired the storied Snap Server line of network attached storage devices from Adaptec for $3.6 million.

RAID to offer NEC drives

07/08/08

RAID announced this week that it will OEM disk-based products from NEC and sell them under the RAID Xanadu brand.

E-discovery options increase

07/03/08

Four vendors - CommVault, Mimosa Systems, Data Domain and Fios - are adding to the hubbub around e-discovery with the addition of capabilities to their products.

HP adds deduplication

07/01/08

HP last week introduced not just one, but two data deduplication technologies that let IT reduce the amount of data they back up.

Finisar spins out Fibre Channel management biz

06/26/08

Fibre Channel test and measurement vendor Finisar last week spun out a portion of its business that is used for monitoring and analysis of storage-area networking environments.

AXS-One rolls out e-mail data migration tool

06/24/08

AXS-One, a records compliance management company, last week announced new software that lets admins migrate data between Lotus Note/Domino and Microsoft Exchange environments.

Incipient unveils data migration product

06/19/08

Incipient last week introduced a new service for its Network Storage Platform (iNSP) that lets IT administrators more easily migrate data.

DoE tool measures energy savings

06/17/08

Responding to huge concerns about power consumption in the data center, the Department of Energy recently released a tool that lets IT managers identify where they can save on energy in their data centers.

Study proves e-discovery confusion

06/12/08

A survey from Kelton Research commissioned by Xerox Litigation Services pointed out that while most companies have faith in their e-discovery abilities, they are not prepared to tackle the mandates of document retention and retrieval.

NetApp speeds performance

06/10/08

NetApp this week plans to announce products and technologies that are all about performance.

Is the recession hurting storage?

06/05/08

Is storage more recession-proof than other technologies? It appears to be.

Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW.