Karen Schwartz

The rumored merger of storage software giant Veritas Software Corp. and information security behemoth Symantec Corp. may be a sign of things to come. According to various reports, Symantec, of Cupertino, Calif., is angling to buy Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas—which offers software for backup and archiving, file systems, storage and server automation, and application service […]

Small businesses that have shied away from the complexity and expense of SANs (storage area networks) in the past might finally have a way to adopt the technology fairly painlessly, if Hitachi Data Systems new “Starter SAN” idea has legs. HDS last week introduced SAN Starter Solutions, including preconfigured storage systems and components from well-known […]

Sometimes even the best-laid plans go awry. Nobody knows that lesson better—at least this week—than the founders of Candera Inc. Despite raising more than $59 million in funding from several venture capital firms and having a good idea, Candera began experiencing problems earlier this year when founder Nilesh Shah left the company, followed by vice […]

Zetta Systems Inc., a small vendor with a storage solution that boasts high levels of storage provisioning, data protection, replication and capacity planning, is quietly planning a storage revolution. The Seattle, Wash.-based company has built its product from the ground up, taking direction from its users every step of the way. Zetta first introduced Zetta […]

In the next round of the ongoing battle for ILM (information lifecycle management) supremacy, Hewlett-Packard Co. has enhanced a series of products designed to help organizations better understand and classify data in an automated fashion. The improvements focus on discovering and classifying data in storage tiers and then moving that data into appropriate storage—either disk, […]

In a move some regarded as inevitable, Hewlett-Packard has abandoned its planned porting of Compaqs Tru64 operating system to HP-UX. The original approach, which would have integrated Tru64 Unix Server and TruCluster technology into HP-UX, was scrapped this week in favor of a faster, less costly technology merger with Veritas. HP now plans to integrate […]

Although the capability has been around for several years, the concept of a tradeshow conducted solely in cyberspace is just beginning to take off. In the past year, a handful of virtual tradeshows have taken place on topics ranging from nanotechnology to plumbing and heating supplies. These events function just like conventional tradeshows, with booths, […]

Register.com Inc., which made a name for itself as a domain name registrar, is branching out into the data backup field with an offering the company says is easy enough for small businesses and individual users to embrace. The New York-based company on Friday plans to release its Register.com Data Backup Service, an automated backup […]

QLogic Corp. and McData Corp. will combine forces to develop an embedded blade server switch, the companies announced on Monday. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, the first project for QLogic, of Aliso Viejo, Calif., and McData, of Broomfield, Colo., will be the development of an embedded blade server switch aimed at large enterprises […]

The latest announcement from tape vendor Exabyte Corp. is one more indication that the tape storage market is far from dead. The Boulder, Colo., company announced earlier this week that it has released a rack-mountable LTO-2 tape autoloader that combines the companys ExaBotics robotics with one field-replaceable LTO-2 drive and seven cartridge slots, providing up […]