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March 15, 2004 15 Mar'04
Fujitsu opts for EMC storage products

EMC has signed up Fujitsu Siemens Computer (FSC) as a reseller of EMC disc storage products, only days after Fujitsu announced...
March 10, 2004 10 Mar'04
IBM pushes latest storage management suite

IBM has unveiled a storage software suite which allows storage servers and networking devices to be monitored and allocated on...
February 25, 2004 25 Feb'04
Dell prepares to slash San prices

Dell is to deliver cheaper storage area network systems to attract SMEs that do not want the expense of existing Fibre Channel...
February 20, 2004 20 Feb'04
IBM addresses growing data retention needs

IBM is attempting to steal the emerging market in data retention with the release of its TotalStorage Data Retention 450.

February 12, 2004 12 Feb'04
Computer Associates and Overland speed backup and recovery

Computer Associates International and data storage company Overland, a provider of backup and recovery solutions, will market a...
February 11, 2004 11 Feb'04
EMC rolls out product upgrades

EMC has launched a series of upgrades across all of its tiered storage platforms, including Symmetrix DMX, Clariion CX, Celerra...
February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04
EMC upgrades Symmetrix as part of overhaul

EMC has upgraded all its disc arrays and network-attached storage (Nas) devices, as well as some of its key storage management...
February 04, 2004 04 Feb'04
EMC offers latest storage services

EMC has unveiled a comprehensive set of storage services to help customers plan, build and manage integrated infrastructure.
January 30, 2004 30 Jan'04
Adaptech adds virtualisation to its products

Adaptec has bought UK network storage infrastructure software provider, Elipsan, to add virtualisation facilities to its...
January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04
IBM scales up NAS gateway

IBM is scaling up with its latest network-attached storage gateway, which can support at least 224Tbytes of storage.

January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04
BlueArc unveils latest Nas box

BlueArc has unveiled its Titan SiliconServer, a modular network storage product that scales in such a way that a single file...
January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04
Resource guide to disk-based backup
January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04
Storage products to double backup speed

Several storage companies are testing devices that could double the throughput of Fibre Channel storage-area networks and...
January 08, 2004 08 Jan'04
Veritas to buy Ejasent for $59m

Storage software maker Veritas Software has agreed to acquire application virtualisation technology developer Ejasent for $59m in...
December 16, 2003 16 Dec'03
EMC boosts software options with VMWare purchase

Storage giant EMC plans to buy software company VMWare, a move that further strengthens EMC's growing software portfolio.
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
Sub-1in hard-disc drives move into the market

The growing demand for low-cost, high-capacity and compact storage for mobile devices is pushing development of small form-factor...
December 03, 2003 03 Dec'03
IBM's Piper sets out to lure EMC customers

IBM is arming 100 of its consultants and a handful of its channel partners with a storage migration appliance, codenamed Piper,...
November 24, 2003 24 Nov'03
HP creates storage line for SMEs

Hewlett-Packard has launched a storage product line aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
EMC earmarks $100m for India units

Storage company EMC is to invest $100m in India over the next five years.
November 20, 2003 20 Nov'03
Sans too pricy for SMEs, says Cisco exec

Networks that pool together storage resources may be common in the enterprise, but their cost so far has kept them from being...
November 20, 2003 20 Nov'03
Cisco upgrades San management software

Cisco Systems has upgraded the storage management software on its multiprotocol storage switches to include five new networking...
November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03
Iomega plans 35Gbyte removable storage

Iomega will launch two removable magnetic-based storage formats in the first half of next year, one aimed at small and medium...
November 05, 2003 05 Nov'03
Veritas releases major software upgrades

Veritas Software has announced major upgrades to its storage backup products which are designed to tackle the management of data...
October 29, 2003 29 Oct'03
Hitachi Data partners with Ixos and AppIQ

Hitachi Data Systems has partnered with Ixos Software and AppIQ with the aim of improving its content and storage management...
October 27, 2003 27 Oct'03
Bluefin surfaces as SMI-S

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is to demonstrate a set of open interfaces backed by the likes of...
October 21, 2003 21 Oct'03
IBM adds fibre channel disaster recovery to Shark

IBM will announce a number of enhancements to its Shark Enterprise Storage System (ESS) Model 800 arrays designed to increase the...
October 20, 2003 20 Oct'03
BBC opts for metered storage

BT Broadcast Services has signed up as the first customer for Hewlett-Packard's utility storage offering.
October 09, 2003 09 Oct'03
Hitachi revamps high-end arrays

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced major upgrades to its two highest-end storage arrays, including software that allows the...
October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
EMC strengthens Nas offering

EMC has begun shipping three network attached storage (Nas) devices designed to appeal to departmental and small and medium-sized...
September 29, 2003 29 Sep'03
Dell's storage business booms

Dell's storage business has netted the company $1bn in revenue in its 2003 financial year, which represented 20% of its total...
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Global storage software sales reach $1.5bn

Organisations are spending more than $1.5bn on storage software worldwide in the second quarter, up 7.3% from the previous...
September 11, 2003 11 Sep'03
Cisco expands storage switch line

Cisco has introduced the MDS 9120 and MDS 9140, fixed-configuration switches which fill out the lower end of its MDS family....
September 10, 2003 10 Sep'03
IBM unveils 'next-generation' tape drive

IBM has introduced what it claims is the highest-capacity and most powerful tape storage device in the world, the TotalStorage...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
Chip maker AMCC moves into San arena

Network chip maker Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC) has moved into the storage area networking market by acquiring JNI for...
August 28, 2003 28 Aug'03
Veritas will benefit from independence, says CEO

Veritas Software will continue to benefit from its independence in the storage software market as rival EMC closes its deal to...
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
Sun and Hitachi extend storage relationship

Sun Microsystems, Hitachi and its wholly-owned subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems announced that they have decided to extend their...
August 07, 2003 07 Aug'03
EMC looks to software and services

EMC wants to position itself as an end-to-end provider of hardware, software and services to meet all of its customers' storage...
August 07, 2003 07 Aug'03
Xiotech debuts 'clustered' controllers

Storage company Xiotech has announced a new clustering technology for its storage array designed to increase resiliency and ease...
July 31, 2003 31 Jul'03
EMC boosts performance on DMX

EMC has announced enhancements to its high-end storage Symmetrix DMX line, assuring customers the company is listening to...
July 17, 2003 17 Jul'03
Products and services launches spur strong growth for EMC

Data storage company EMC has reported strong second-quarter results.
July 14, 2003 14 Jul'03
Sun consolidation strategy causes confusion

Sun Microsystems has laid out a roadmap for its storage and IT services strategy, saying it will offer multivendor storage...
July 10, 2003 10 Jul'03
HP adds developer program to storage spec

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a development program which offers technical and marketing support to company partners working to...
July 10, 2003 10 Jul'03
Long distance fibre channel over IP piloted

Sprint, Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco Systems have set up an experimental storage area network (San) which demonstrates a less...
July 09, 2003 09 Jul'03
StorageTek boosts Virtual Storage Manager

StorageTek has boosted the performance, capacity and connectivity of its Virtual Storage Manager product.
July 08, 2003 08 Jul'03
EMC to pay £790m for storage rival Legato

Data storage company EMC has agreed to buy Legato Systems, a maker of storage management software, in a stock transaction valued...
July 02, 2003 02 Jul'03
Software AG enhances XML document storage

Software AG has released Version 4.1.4 of Tamino XML Server, which features better search tools and an API for the C programming...
June 24, 2003 24 Jun'03
HP unveils five new storage services

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled services designed to assist clients with the management and implementation of storage systems.
June 04, 2003 04 Jun'03
IBM to unveil San virtualisation tool

IBM said its first virtualisation engine, which allows customers to pool storage capacity from different arrays so that it can...
May 30, 2003 30 May'03
HP to unveil new low-end NAS array

Hewlett-Packard will begin shipping a network attached storage (NAS) server on Tuesday that will cost $5,000 (£3,030) less than...
May 14, 2003 14 May'03
IBM to release Shark storage upgrades

IBM has announced enhancements to its flagship storage array, the Enterprise Storage Server Model 800.
March 05, 2003 05 Mar'03
Storage specification helps hospitals move to electronic archiving

An evaluation group based at St George's Hospital in south London has identified a way of storing medical images without using...
February 17, 2003 17 Feb'03
IBM adds to midrange storage line

IBM has bolstered its midrange storage hardware line with two products that aim to improve on the speed and features of previous...
November 18, 2002 18 Nov'02
Z-force links Nas devices

Storage device maker Z-force has demonstrated the linking of a number of heterogenous network attached storage (Nas) devices to...
October 07, 2002 07 Oct'02
HP details new consumer desktops and notebooks

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled five new notebook and three new desktop PCs, all featuring consumer-friendly features such as...
September 11, 2002 11 Sep'02
API swap builds foundations for Bluefin storage standard

High-end storage vendors Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi have announced that they have exchanged application programming interfaces...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
Quantum introduces new entry-level NAS box

Storage vendor Quantum has announced a new compact network-attached storage NAS box for workgroups with features previously...
May 03, 2002 03 May'02
Hitachi and others breaks storage capacity barriers

A number of storage technology breakthroughs were announced this week, including the doubling of hard disc and tape memory...
February 04, 2002 04 Feb'02
Toshiba pushes hard disk density higher

Engineers at Toshiba have demonstrated a working prototype of a hard disk drive that crams in 50% more data than previous models...
December 20, 2001 20 Dec'01
Successful collaboration, a far from standard storage tale

The success of the linear tape open (LTO) standard is an example of how co-operation works in the storage world.

The partnership between Seagate,...
October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01
Users hit out at storage vendors

End users say few technologies measure up to their increasingly complex environments. Some are concerned that the slowdown in IT...
May 15, 2001 15 May'01
EMC envisions "Information Plants"

The eventual arrival of cheaper storage, higher bandwidth, and improved management technology will foster the creation of...
November 22, 2000 22 Nov'00
Compaq goes into storage on demand

James Rogers
Compaq is selling storage on demand as part of a new "utility" offering to businesses, which will ease the management of...
June 07, 2000 07 Jun'00
Storage market set to benefit from increased e-business

The explosion in data caused by e-business need not lead to sleepless nights for IT directors.James Rogers looks at some of the...