Akorri’s BalancePoint analytical software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems and improve performance. – Network storage maker NetApp bolstered its presence in the virtualized computing sector Jan. 12 with the announcement that will acquire data center management software maker Akorri Networks.
NetApp reported that this is an all-cash transaction without disclosing exactly how much cash it was going…
NetApp started out in the early 1990s as a "nice little file server company," in the words of Chairman and former longtime CEO Dan Warmenhoven. Since then, however, it has blossomed into one of the world’s most successful independent data storage companies and its prospects again look good going into a new year. It is the second-largest independent NAS maker/seller in the world behind EMC and No. 3 to EMC and IBM for external disk storage, according to IDC. This slide show looks ahead at some of the important trends in storage technology the company sees for 2011. "2011 will feel much like 2010," NetApp CEO Tom Georgens said. "We’ll see the same economic conditions (low interest rates, high unemployment, long-term uncertainty) and the same major IT themes. The IT refresh will continue to drive business. Next year will be a year of solidification and increased adoption of some key storage technology trends that began in 2009/2010." It will also be the year to begin the migration of business critical production apps to the cloud and this transition will stretch beyond 2011, NetApp predicts. – …
With its new FlexPod server-storage-networking modules, NetApp goes head on against EMC’s Vblocks. – NetApp’s Manish Goel wasn’t kidding when he calmly told eWEEK that
the Nov. 9 announcement his company was making involved the biggest
product launch in NetApp history.
Goel, who serves as executive vice president of product operations for
the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage company, told eW…
NetApp and Dataguise team up to offer enterprises greater control over securing sensitive documents. – Security solutions specialist Dataguise announced it has joined the NetApp
Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. The companies said
the collaboration between Dataguise and NetApp will help customers generate
production data for test and development and distribute it safely. …
NetApp and Oracle settle a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over the origin of the Zettabyte File System. Terms were deemed confidential. – When Oracle annexed Sun Microsystems and all that intellectual property in
its $7.4
billion deal last January, it also inherited all of Sun’s legal
entanglements.
As of Sept. 9, one of those has gone away. NetApp and Oracle announced a
settlement regarding a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over th…
NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup combines Syncsort backup management software, NetApp snapshot, clone and replication, and NetApp disk storage in a turnkey package. – SAN FRANCISCO Storage
maker NetApp and data
integration/protection software provider Syncsort
announced Sept. 1 at VMworld 2010 here that they have combined to market a new
data protection package for mixed-bag data centers which means just about all
data centers.
Called NetApp Syncsort Inte…
NetApp reports total product sales grew 51 percent and revenue was up 36 percent in Q1 2011 compared to Q1 2010. – Storage and data management solutions specialist NetApp reported that for
the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, revenues totaled $1.14 billion, compared
with revenues of $838 million for the same period a year ago.
For the quarter, which ended July 30, generally accepted accounting
principles …
A new data storage package consists of VMware-validated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and NetApp FAS series unified storage using Fibre Channel over Ethernet in virtual environments running vSphere. – Fibre Channel over Ethernet got another boost July 28 from three front-line
IT companies.
Cisco Systems, NetApp and VMware jointly announced July 28 that they have made
ready for prime time a new fully certified, end-to-end FCOE storage package for
VMware virtual environments.
The package c…
NetApp integration with Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, which provides sample code and guidance for building cloud services powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and the Microsoft System Center Suite, can offer cost-conscious businesses enhanced data protection, the company said. – Data storage and data management specialist NetApp announced
enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver data protection
solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft
Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Additionally, NetApp announced
the availability of professional se…
The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard Microsoft management tools to monitor and manage virtual environments that include NetApp storage arrays. – Exactly six months after signing
a three-year development alliance that tightened up a 10-year-long
partnership, NetApp and Microsoft June 8 announced the first new products and
services resulting from that agreement.
The two companies announced that IT managers now can utilize their standard
…
Bycast, based in Vancouver, B.C., develops object-based storage software that manages petabyte-scale, globally distributed repositories of images, video and records for enterprises.
– NetApp revealed April 7 that it will acquire Bycast, a privately held
storage software maker, in an all-cash transaction. Other details of the deal
were not made available.
Bycast, based in Vancouver, B.C.,
develops object-based storage software that manages petabyte-scale, globally
distribut…
Cisco and VMware have now teamed up with EMC’s sworn enemy, NetApp, to provide similar functionality: new and improved hardware and software for next-generation, unified-protocol data centers that make full use of cloud computing as needed.
– Back on Nov. 3, 2009,
Cisco Systems, VMware and EMC came to the
media with an announcement
that they would collaborate on a new joint venture, the Virtual Computing
Environment, to produce cloud computing systems called vBlocks that
integrate hardware and software from all three companies.
T…
The two companies announce a new three-year working agreement aimed at smoothing out their common product development, service and sales roads in order to improve product collaboration and technical integration.
– NetApp and Microsoft, two companies that have worked together for more than
a decade but have never announced a formal partnership, did just that on Dec.
8.
The two companies announced a new three-year working agreement aimed at
smoothing out their common product development, service and sale…
Because of its respected products, services and talent pool, NetApp has been rumored as an acquisition target for one of the large systems vendors for more than a decade. Nonetheless, it has managed to remain independent through a plethora of market and industry changes since its debut in 1992.
– Networking provider Brocade Communications Systems made some headlines and subsequently saw its stock price jump Oct. 5 when it was leaked that it might be up for sale.
That got some people in the data center business thinking again about NetApp, a highly successful storage appliance company tha…
NetApp will supply the SAN running on QLogic’s high-performance chip set in a new partnership. FCOE, which combines the best attributes of industrial-grade Fibre Channel networking and IP-based Ethernet, is generally viewed as key to next-generation data centers.
– NetApp and QLogic on Aug. 11 announced a partnership that will provide a new
end-to-end 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage infrastructure based on the rapidly
emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard.
NetApp will supply the SAN (storage area
network) running on QLogic’s high-performance chip set…
Quantum CEO Rick Belluzzo sees a competitor wiped off the marketshare chart and possible new opportunities in the channel for his company, which may eventually get less attention from the storage giant for its deduplication software.
– The news July 20 that EMC had taken over 82 percent of Data Domain’s outstanding stock shares only eight days after outbidding NetApp has some people’s heads spinning.
We’re not talking about a small transaction here. EMC is ponying up $33.50 a pop per share in cash; the deal ultimately will be …
It’s nice to have a lot of cash in the bank. EMC said July 20 that it has already acquired about 82 percent of Data Domain’s common stock at $33.50 per share since July 8, when competitor NetApp decided to drop out of the bidding for the deduplication storage maker.
– EMC hasn’t wasted any time in taking control of its latest acquisition, storage deduplication provider Data Domain.
The world’s largest provider of storage-related software and hardware
said July 20 that it already has acquired about 82 percent of the
company’s common stock at $33.50 per share…
