IDC reports on storage growth
For all the bluster from IBM that accompanied
IDC's storage hardware report, the worldwide quarterly disc
storage tracker for Q1 2007 from IDC told the same old story: EMC
in the lead in the storage market with revenues of $912 million,
virtually even with the same quarter last year (where IDC shows its
revenues at $911 million).
Hewlett-Packard (HP) lost 1% in revenue, but topped IBM in
second place with $575 million in revenue. However, in terms of
market share, IDC put HP and IBM in a "statistical tie" at 13.4%
and 12.7% revenue share, respectively. EMC was sitting pretty at
21.2% market share but IDC also gave it some bad news. Systems
costing less than $50,000 accounted for the majority of the overall
market's 5.9% growth from a year ago to $4.3 billion in revenues,
according to analyst Brad Nisbet, who was quoted in a press
release.
EMC opens $160M R&D center in Singapore
EMC said Thursday it will hire more than 100 engineers and spend
U.S.$160 million to open a new 15,000-square-foot research center
in Singapore. (EMC already has a smaller engineering operation
established in that country.)
EMC announced its plans to up its research
and development (R&D) efforts worldwide last month.
In a separate release, EMC announced that legal and financial
services firm Corporation Service Co. (CSC), has replaced its
manual paper processes with EMC's Captiva InputAccel document
capture software, Documentum enterprise content management software
and Centera archive storage, all of which have been integrated with
a proprietary application.
3PAR, NetApp in cahoots
LUNs from 3PAR's Inserv arrays can now be extracted through
Network Appliance's (NetApp) V-Series file system gateway and
presented through a NetApp management interface, thanks to a new
joint marketing and support agreement between the two companies.
The companies said the new partnership sprang from a few large
joint customers in finance and government.
In other NetApp news, users will now be able to take NetApp
snapshots through the SharePoint interface with NetApp's newly
announced SnapManager for SharePoint -- once it's generally
available in August.
Xiotech adds risk management product
Continuing to revamp itself as a compliance company, Xiotech
announced a new product, the Corporate Evidence Management System
(CEMS), which monitors network traffic and places email messages
and 390 types of file attachments into a repository where they can
be monitored, according to user-set compliance policies.
Verari gets $20M
Verari Systems, makers of HPC systems for OEM vendors, including
Panasas, announced it has raised $20 million led by Carlyle Venture
Partners, a fund managed by The Carlyle Group, along with Voyager
Capital, Sierra Ventures and "a strategic investor." The financing
is expected to be expanded up to a total of $25 million to include
several other private investors.
Elsewhere, data compression startup Storewiz Inc. pulled down $9
million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital.
Bus-Tech ports to HDS archive
Bus-Tech, a provider of mainframe tape-on-disc controllers and data
center connectivity products, announced it has ported its Mainframe
Data Library and Mainframe Appliance for Storage to Hitachi Data
Systems' (HDS)
Content Archive Platform.
CaminoSoft certifies with Plasmon
CaminoSoft announced it has completed interoperability testing of
its Managed Server HSM software with Plasmon's UDO Archive
Appliance.
Sun launches EU telecom retention system
Sun joined
HP and
Openet/ETI in announcing a product bundle
intended for European Union telecoms that are now expected to
retain user records online for use by law enforcement. The
package is an integration of Sun's SunFire X4500 server (aka
Thumper) and archiving software from CopperEye.
Silver Peak unveils 2.0
WAN optimization player Silver Peak unveiled a brushed-up cacheing
algorithm, a revamped GUI, application-specific policy management
and "zero touch configuration" for remote office boxes with version
2.0 of its self-titled software.