Storage Industry Trends

NetApp is working with researchers at a California university to develop disk-based, low-power self-healing archive hardware meant to last decades.

Citing a tough economy, these two storage companies say their revenues slipped from the previous quarter; Western Digital to ship 10,000-rpm, 300 GB SATA disk drive.

New alliances among storage and legal compliance vendors are giving storage administrators faster ways to retrieve data for litigation in the e-discovery space.

CEO Joe Tucci says that EMC will offer virtual provisioning -- EMC's term for thin provisioning -- in all its disk arrays by summer, but that it will not impact storage demand or revenues.

In the wake of Blue Coat's acquisition of Packeteer this week, Brocade reveals that last fall it quietly discontinued two products based on Packeteer technology -- WAFS and Branch File Manager.

Blue Coat emerges as Packeteer's "white knight" and looks to gain share in WAN optimization by integrating Packeteer's QoS into its ProxySG product.

While testing the latest AutoCAD drawing files, one Cisco WAAS customer experiences the same negative performance issues as Riverbed Steelhead customers do using AutoCAD.

IBM completes deal for Diligent Technologies, moving into VTL data deduplication space that is heating up with partnerships and new products.

IBM completes deal for Diligent Technologies, moving into VTL data deduplication space that is heating up with partnerships and new products.

FalconStor's IPStor storage virtualization software will be split into three modules: NSS, CDP and VTL. The storage virtualization software will be sold in virtual appliances, offering cheap high availability for SMBs and remote offices.

The Fulton Supercomputing Lab at Brigham Young University said it brought in BlueArc Titan NAS heads when an Ibrix SAN file system on an HDS array wasn't working out.

Amid claims and counterclaims, some observers suggest that the lawsuit shows that solid-state disk drives have finally arrived as an enterprise storage play.

Atrato joins the growing list of storage vendors offering disk encryption, but analysts suspect it has more to do with building a relationship with Seagate than security.

An e-discovery suite from Autonomy Zantaz can help companies stay in data compliance by automating the processes of data classification and data deletion from storage repositories.

With vendors, such as EMC, IBM, Seagate and LSI on board, disk encryption becomes hot; Marriott goes green with underground data center.

EMC, HP, Brocade and Hifn roll out products for storage security, including encryption; Pillar introduces clustered storage controllers.

These product specs for policy management software will help storage professionals evaluate and compare policy managers.

Storage administrators need to know how to use policy management software, which dictates what data to store, where to store it, when to move it and when to dispose of aged data.

Xiotech's Emprise storage systems use a proprietary technology to reduce heat and vibration. Xiotech claims that an Emprise system will incur zero service events over five years.

Verari's new storage blades hold up to 12 TB per 1U vertical enclosure, connect via iSCSI, NFS or CIFS, and allow VMotion for blade servers in high-capacity environments.