UPDATED: Mozy, which has been charging $4.95 per month for unlimited capacity in its MozyHome service, now will charge $5.99 per month for 50GB of storage for one personal computer. – Mozy, one of the first independent cloud storage services to break into both
the consumer and business markets six years ago before it was bought by EMC,
announced Jan. 31 that it is ditching its unlimited capacity service and
revising its pricing structure for home users.
Mozy, which has been…
StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive features 5TB native capacity per cartridge and 240Mb-per-second native throughput, which the company says is three times the capacity of any system now available. – It’s been a full year since Oracle closed its $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems and all its hardware businesses, but it’s still a little strange to see news about new Oracle data center hardware.
The world’s second-largest business software maker on Jan. 31 launched
a powerful new …
Organizations of all sizes have to deal with an economic reality when it comes to cloud computing: cloud computing requires storage. These budgets continue to remain relatively flat even as demand for cloud storage capacity grows at a rate of nearly 60 percent per year. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Stephen Wojtowecz explains how organizations can effectively manage and protect the data stored in cloud environments. – The shift to cloud brings new challenges to data storage, which is already complicated by virtualized systems, tape storage, network-attached storage (NAS) and other data storage formats. Because all data in a cloud lives in the same shared system, management of the data becomes paramount in maintai…
The new platform features gridlike scalability, multiprotocol support and faster deduplication, Sepaton said. – Sepaton, which is making storage pooling an increasingly well-known feature
of new-generation storage tech, this week released its next-generation (version
6.0) storage software, which powers storage pools in its new S2100-ES2 Series
1910/2910 systems.
The new platform features gridlike scala…
Cisco is continuing its push for a larger presence in the SMB space with new networking, security and storage products. The vendor also is offering new financing options. – Cisco Systems
is introducing networking, security and storage products to its portfolio of
offerings for small and midsize companies as it continues to push for a larger
share of that market.
Cisco has
always had a significant presence in the enterprise, but in recent years,
company officials …
This course highlights storage technology in vendor neutral terms. It is a comprehensive introduction to fundamental storage capabilities and the building blocks that underpin those capabilities across storage disciplines.
In a new partnership with Chinese Range Technology Development and the Hebei provincial bureau of industry, IBM will build the largest, most advanced cloud-enabled data storage center in China. – In March 2010, IBM announced that it
would begin investing big time in selling and building cloud computing systems
in China.
On Jan. 24, the huge American IT company made good on at least part of the
promise by announcing that it will partner with Chinese Range Technology
Development and the…
Company adds to its Application Optimized Storage product line a new appliance specifically designed for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). – Startup storage appliance
maker BridgSTOR, which launched
itself and its first two products in November 2010, already has expanded its product
line.
The Poway, Calif.-based company on Jan. 24 added to its Application Optimized
Storage product line a new appliance designed for Microsoft System…
There was a lot of storage product information to present all at once, but EMC was bound and determined to do its first product launch of 2011 in a huge way on Jan. 18. In concurrent New York City and London events, the world’s largest independent storage company took the wraps off 41 new enterprise storage products for all markets. The new items, which become available in the current quarter, include a line of low-end storage servers aimed at SMBs called VNX and VNXe, which eventually will replace the company’s standard Clariion and Celerra products; an upgraded version of the Data Domain backup packages; a new Data Domain archiving array; its first branded Isilon "big data" array; and new software for its Symmetrix VMAX systems. The entry-level VNX and VNXe storage systems feature a starting price of about $10,000, so the traditionally large-enterprise company is making a concerted effort to move downstream in the market. Oh, yes, a splashy event like this wouldn’t be complete with photo opportunities, and there were a couple of nonsensical stunts involved. – …
Among the 41 new items are a line of low-end storage servers, an upgraded version of the Data Domain backup packages, a Data Domain archiver, a branded Isilon "big data" array, and new software for its Symmetrix VMAX systems. –
Storage giant EMC likes to do product launches in a big way. But on Jan. 18 the company outdid even itself with a rollout of 41 new enterprise storage products, the most it has introduced at one sitting.
EMC’s new items, which will become available this quarter, include a
line of low-end stora…
The Orange County-based software company continues to build up its intellectual property in cloud systems and storage management. – Quest Software, which used to concentrate on producing software
tools that made dealing with complicated Oracle database deployments
bearable, continues to add to its catalog of cloud computing management
products.
The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company Jan. 18 announced it has
completed the…
Internap has started beta testing its public cloud storage service, Internap ZIPCloud Storage, which is the first major cloud deployment using the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform. – Internap XIPCloud Storage, which just went into a limited
beta test release, is the first major application using the OpenStack open
source cloud computing platform, Scott Hrastar, senior vice president of
technology at Internap, told eWEEK.
The fact that OpenStack Object Storage was an underly…
Some 80 percent of those polled by CommVault reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their budgets on data protection hardware, software, services/support and media. – Several key IT researchers
already have reported that global and U.S. IT spending in 2011 is expected to
increase modestly over that of 2010, thanks to an uptick in the general
ecomony.
Now some storage-specific
market research is coming to the fore. CommVault on Jan. 10 released the
results …
While smartphones, computers and cameras took most of the headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9, the latest data storage technology was also big news. All these new devices serve huge volumes of data that have to be stored somewhere. That "somewhere" comes in the form of hard drives; solid-state drives; thumb drives; and SAN, NAS and direct-attached rack-mounted storage servers. And while there are not quite as many new storage machines as there are phones and PCs, there are a significant number of new devices from such well-known vendors as NEC, SanDisk, Maxell, Iomega, Seagate, WD, Intel, Buffalo and many others. There also are newer companies coming onto the scene, such as Azio, Corsair, Lexar and OCZ, demanding attention with new-generation products. The latest drives have diverse designs, including highly capacious NAND flash and spinning disk hard drives with stronger even high-end government-grade encryption for consumer-level storage. They also deliver faster data movement due to dual-core processors with business-grade features trickling down into consumer devices. – …
Updates in the products include Intel’s Atom D510 dual-core processors, USB 3.0 connectivity, and several new business-class features. –
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and direct-attached storage maker Buffalo Technology Jan. 6 released a new line
of relatively low-cost, terabyte-capacity des…
Intel demonstrated its tiny 310 series solid state drive at the Storage Visions show Jan. 5 in Las Vegas. The 310 unit is capable of performing as well as the Intel X25 SSD drive and is designed for use in tablets, notebooks, and embedded applications. – Intel claims its latest solid state drive is capable of
delivering performance on par with its popular X25 drive despite the tiny
size, the company said.
Originally announced Dec. 29, Intel showcased the fast,
ultra-compact SSD at the Storage Visions show on Jan. 5, which is running in
conjunct…
Marvell’s SATA storage controller supports hybrid storage by combining solid-state drives for a performance boost and hard disk drives for high capacity storage. – Marvell
showed off a hybrid storage controller that allows users to combine solid-state
drives with hard disk drives into a single storage pool at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas on
Jan. 5.
The
storage hybrid, based on the company’s HyperDuo embedded processor technology,
is desi…
Central management enhancements include the addition of forensic-level auditing and reporting at the file level. – Government, enterprises, and small and midsized businesses have new tools
for safeguarding critical data on removable storage media with enhancements to
Imations Defender Collection Software Suite.
At the 2011 Storage Visions Conference held this week, Imation announced
additional Defender Colle…
Updates include the RDX A8 multi-cartridge storage device and a USB 3.0 interface for RDX docking stations. – Imation announced its roadmap for its high-performance RDX removable hard-disk-drive system at the 2011 Storage Visions Conference this week. The lineup based on the RDX storage platform is aimed at helping small and midsize businesses store, protect and connect business
data.
Imation said the …
A number of spam campaigns containing Rapidshare links point to Trojans and other malware stored on the cloud-based storage site. – Spammers
are using cloud-based storage services to store malware, allowing them to
circumvent e-mail spam filters, according to security experts at Kaspersky Lab
and MX Lab.
Kaspersky
Lab detected the click-fraud Trojan, a variant of the
Trojan-Dropper.Wind32.Drooptroop family, which has bee…
