Chris Preimesberger

ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco Systems and EMCs RSA security division introduced May 23 an extension of their partnership that entails development of encryption for spinning disk or tape storage at the network level. The two companies will combine Ciscos Storage Media Encryption, which provides encryption of stored data as a fabricwide service, and RSAs Key Manager, which […]

IBM continued its strategic foray into the unified storage sector on May 22 by introducing a new set of products across a range of products, including virtualization, storage resource management and enterprise disk. Unified storage enables the use of several types of storage connectivity, including iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS (network-attached storage) and SAN (storage area […]

ORLANDO, Fla.— For EMCs VARs and channel partners, Jan. 1, 2007 was the dawn of a new era. According to those in the know, EMC and its network of outside partners are now seeing the role of the channel in the same perspective. It might be called an “Age of Alignment,” based on the testimonies […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage capacity management software maker MonoSphere on May 21 introduced a new package customized for best-selling storage arrays made by EMC, the worlds largest data storage company. The announcement was made at EMC World 2007, which is being held at the Orange County Convention Center here through May 24. MonoSpheres Storage Horizon 3.2, designed […]

E-discovery services provider RenewData on May 21 announced the launch of a new data migration system that locates and consolidates old e-mail into a new searchable archive to create a centralized repository suitable for legal discovery. Data Migration Services is designed to eliminate costs and risks associated with maintaining old e-mail on backup tapes or […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Storage giant EMC announced that the latest version of EMC Avamar would support VMWare virtual machines, extending deduplication to a major virtual storage line and making good on two of its most significant acquisitions of the last three years. EMC Avamar v3.7 will support VCB (VMWares Consolidated Backup) as well as EMC Celerra NAS […]

Data storage market leader EMC reaffirmed that it will not reduce its 90 percent stake in its VMWare subsidiary for at least two years after a summer initial public offering, Chief Financial Officer David Goulden said May 16. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based company previously had said that it would offer 10 percent of VMWare to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell has been roundly rocked by serious problems of late: falling sales numbers, the move to replace an inefficient CEO, and major lawsuits brought by the attorney general of New York accusing the company of fraudulent or misleading sales tactics and by investors who contend that the company issued false public claims about its […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has made so secret of the fact that it has made the small to midsize business market its No. 1 storage sales priority in 2007, introduced May 14 its first high-end disk array since last fall. HPs StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array, which is designed for enterprise environments that require 24/7 business continuity, integrates […]

Network Appliance on May 15 launched a new, improved version of its data deduplication software, which can be used across a variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and genomic data. Most deduplication software is currently dedicated to backup and archival storage. NetApps A-SIS (Advanced […]