Iron Mountain makes records management acquisitions
Iron Mountain announced on its earnings call this week that it
intends to acquire the privately held ArchivesOne, a records
management company which claims more than 8,500 customers in
vertical markets, including professional services, healthcare,
legal and finance, as well as 31 facilities located in 10 states.
Iron Mountain also announced it has acquired overseas records
management firms Societa Italiana Archivi s.p.a. in Italy and
Gesellschaft fur beleglose Dokumentenbearbeitung gmbh (GbD) in
Germany. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Iron Mountain chairman and CEO promised future acquisitions are
to follow for the company, which is trying to change its core
business from tape vaulting to online-hosted data and records
management.
NetGear to acquire Infrant Technologies
NetGear announced it plans to acquire privately held Infrant
Technologies for $60 million in cash over the next three years if
specific revenue targets are reached. Infrant, based in Fremont,
Calif., makes NAS boxes and RAID arrays aimed at the consumer,
small business and home office markets.
QLogic profit falls 43%
QLogic reported fiscal Q4 net income of $18.4 million, down from
$32.5 million in the same quarter of the previous year. The company
said higher than expected engineering, marketing and stock option
expenses; gross revenues rose 12.7% to $147.1 million.
EMC updates PowerPath with migration plugin
EMC announced an update to its high availability (HA) PowerPath
software, a plugin called EMC PowerPath Migration Enabler software,
which keeps arrays in sync during Open Replicator operations and
"encapsulates" virtualized volumes on the Invista platform during
data migrations. EMC also announced the 500,000th license for
PowerPath since its introduction in 1998, which was bought by
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
Long Block Data sector standard finalized
The International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association
(IDEMA) announced that its workgroup has finalized the definition
of the Long Block Data (LBD) sector standard and is releasing it to
hardware and software developers. The new standard is meant to
replace the 30-year-old standard of 512 bytes per disk-drive sector
with 4,096 bytes. According to IDEMA, larger blocks will add
reliability to disk drives as data sets and drive capacities grow,
add less overhead to data transfer, reduce format time and require
shorter periods to scan and defragment disks.
Other World Computing announces compact 1 TB drives
Other World Computing (OWC) announced the availability of a 1
terabyte (TB) Quad Interface single-drive product, the OWC Mercury
Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface" 1.0 TB external drive solution. The
product uses a single 1 TB drive platter rather than pooling
capacity on two platters within the drive enclosure and is
available for $599 manufacturer's suggested retail price
(MSRP).
GFI introduces free online storage device scanner
Data security software maker GFI Software announced EndPointScan, a
free online service that allows users to check which devices are or
have been connected to computers on its networks and by whom. The
service is meant for environments in which unauthorized attachment
of portable storage devices poses a security or compliance
risk.
HP announces data retention system for telecoms
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced Data Retention and Guardian ONline
(DRAGON), a product bundle that includes a multitier data archive,
a search and retrieval engine, prioritization intelligence and data
security features aimed at European telecoms now subject to
European Union laws requiring them to keep data online and
searchable for law enforcement agencies. U.S. telecoms may soon
face similar compliance requirements if similar legislation
proposed this year in Congress, the
SAFETY Act, is passed.
City of Overland Park deploys Revinetix for backup
Revinetix announced that Kansas' second-largest city, the City of
Overland Park, has installed two 15 TB Revinetix Sentio 4000 backup
appliances. The city's network administrator, Randy Oerhle, said in
a press release that the Revenetix appliance was less expensive
than backup products from EMC, CommVault, Veritas and "associated
VTLs," and that a move from tape to disk-based backup reduced the
city's backup window from 24 hours to between five and six
hours.
Helsana deploys Brocade directors
Swiss healthcare insurance company Helsana, already a Brocade
customer, intends to use Brocade's 48000 directors for the
expansion of mainframe and open systems storage at two data
centers, according to a press release.
Onaro updates performance management software
Storage monitoring software maker Onaro announced the immediate
availability of SANscreen Application Insight Manager (AIM) 2.0,
formerly named Performance Insight. AIM now allows users to
correlate the traffic workload on SAN ports with applications and
their data paths.
FilesAnywhere updates online storage service
Web backup company FilesAnywhere announced new storage plans today
for its online file storage service. A 5 GB WebAdvanced storage
plan is now available for $8.95 per month with unlimited uploads
and downloads. New high-capacity storage plans ranging from 100 GB
to 500 GB were also introduced.
StoneFly adds boot from SAN
Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) subsidiary StoneFly announced that
all new StoneFly IP SANs equipped with the newly released StoneFly
StoneFusion 6.0 Intelligent Network Platform can be used with
emBoot's boot-from-SAN software for Windows and Linux systems.
IBM OEMs AvePoint for SharePoint backup
IBM announced it will integrate DocAve SharePoint backup software
from AvePoint Inc. into its Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup
product. The product includes support for both 2003 and 2007
versions of SharePoint, as well as item and site-level backups of
SharePoint files.
Spectra Logic announces LTO-4, free key management
Spectra Logic announced its support for the new LTO-4 format in its
T50, T120 and T950 tape libraries. Spectra Logic also announced it
will be offering BlueScale Encryption's key management free for
LTO-4 encryption keys.