New storage boxes are bigger on the inside
Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro. It now claims to provide the simplest and best value iSCSI SAN in the world.…
Cramming eight on a card
Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.…
USB 2.0 wireless
Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.…
Virtual Steelhead speeds iSCSI WAN traffic
WAN optimiser Riverbed has announced virtual Steelhead for the cloud and a way to speed up iSCSI data traffic.…
To lose one is unfortunate, to lose two looks like carelessness
Atrato has replaced its sales VP, Marty Sos, after just three months, and recruited a marketing VP as well.…
Mighty strong quarter there
NetApp recorded more than doubled profits for its second fiscal 2010 quarter, out-performing its largest competitors and beating its own plans and Wall Street’s expectations alike.…
Wants to be a bigger player in the big drive market
Toshiba is planning to enter the high-capacity enterprise 3.5-inch hard disk drive market.…
Living together, not marriage
NetApp and Fujitsu are partnering to integrate some of their products, enable faster data centre server system deployment, and develop a joint go-to-market strategy.…
At least a little
Quantum has entered the small tape library market with products that provide more than the everyday 2 and 4U boxes offered by everybody else.…
2TB drives in the house
Isilon has doubled the capacity of its largest clusterable network-attached storage (NAS) system by using 2TB drives.…
New CEO means new marketeer
Comment Incoming Xiotech CEO Alan Atkinson has replaced Xiotech's head marketeer with an IBM recruit.…
In the end, there can only be WAN
Riverbed is looking to develop its WAN optimisation product line by buying its competitor, Expand Networks.…
'Chutes and scores
Parascale has integrated its private cloud NAS with virtual servers meaning you can boot backed-up VMs straight from the cloud.…
An almighty tower of SSD power
ViON have produced a 100TB DRAM solid state drive, which they claim to be the largest flash memory-based storage box in the world.…
Western Digital the likeliest suspect
Dr Geoff Barrall, founder and CEO of Drobo gave out his opinion in London last week that there should be a 3TB drive for Drobos by April next year. He didn't name the supplier, but Drobo does use Western Digital drives, so this 3TB drive could be a black one.…
Klayko lays down law. In a tank top
At Brocade's 6 November sales kick-off, CEO Mike Klayko said Brocade is not looking for a buyer.…
Bleeding cash still
There were signs of hope for the ailing Overland Storage last quarter, but these have been comprehensively dashed by the latest results. Can it still be saved?…
Crossroads for ex-EMC man Dave Donatelli
Comment What is the future for HP's high-end XP storage arrays? Which way will incoming HP server-networking-storage boss David Donatelli jump?…
Not the girl for me, even after lending her $100m
EMC, flushed and happy with Data Domain, has dumped its Quantum-based Disk Library products, just like that.…
Low- or high-end as you prefer
Intel is spreading its solid state drive (SSD) wings with new models at the top and bottom of its range.…
This is not just Flash, this is consumer Flash
El Reg wondered why SandForce was talking about consumer flash in a job advert: now we know. OCZ will be making consumer and enterprise flash product using SandForce controllers.…
New species spreads to four new environments
Microsoft has shot Exchange Server 2010 worldwide spurring storage suppliers to instantly announce their support for the application.…
Space reclamation improved too
IBM has improved the efficiency of its XIV arrays with instant deleted file space reclamation and added long-distance asynchronous mirroring to better protect and distribute XIV data.…
Why would a fabless silicon startup need that much cash?
Solid state drive (SSD) controller start-up SandForce has landed $21m of C-round funding, just eight months after a $20m-plus B-round. Why does a fabless silicon startup need that much cash?…
Aims to outshine Sun
SpectraLogic is claiming the tape library top slot with its 30,000-plus slot T-Finity library, leaving IBM, Quantum, and Sun StorageTek in the dust.…
Industry dithers over what's next
Current perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) for hard drives is going to reach its areal density limit, and it looks like the industry has not yet decided on which candidate technology is going to replace it.…
Cloudy for i365 days
Microsoft is going to use Seagate software and its EVault cloud service to take on Symantec's backup products in heterogeneous Windows shops.…
Sunday night = Monday night
UK2.net, the web host which last week lost its customers' emails, is still working on the completion of the email migration - originally promised to be completed by last night.…
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