Ibm Expands Storage Virtualization For Smbs With San Volume Controller Entry Edition New Svc Entry
Storage Networking World -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its industry leading storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, will be packaged for small and medium sized (SMB) businesses, one of the faster growing parts of the storage marketplace.(1)The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software is designed ...

Pgp Launches Network
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced a significant expansion of its channel strategy with the launch of the PGP Managed Service Provider Network (MSPN). PGP Corporation is broadening access of its encryption solutions to mid-market and small businesses through a new worldwide network of managed service providers and existing ...

Iomega Offers 1tb Of Network Storage For 300
StorCenter ix2 comes in 1TB and 2TB ($479) versions and provides a centralized network storage repository for homes or small offices. "It's ridiculous how cheap these things are, but it is what it is," says Iomega President Jonathan Huberman.Storage new-product news usually involves items that are bigger, faster and cheaper, as disk drives themselves become more capacious and cutthroat competition lowers pricing.However, ...

Five Opportunities Three Rules For Cloud Storage
If virtualization was last year's hottest water-cooler topic, cloud computing has to be this year's. Vendors are scrambling to adapt their business models and "cloud enable" offerings to take advantage of an increasing willingness by all sizes of IT shops to use hosted services, including for storage. In fact, in a recent InformationWeek cloud computing poll, ...

Symantec Corporation Symantec Reduces Storage Costs By Optimizing Thin Provisioned Storage Veritas
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation that maximize the value of thin-provisioned storage environments by optimizing migrations and enabling storage reclamation. Storage Foundation leverages the industry's only cross-platform thin-provisioning optimized file system and provides the only online ...

Data Center Rethink Needed Warns Analyst
IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centers in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.Speaking at Burton's Catalyst Conference in Prague, Drue Reeves, VP and research director says it is self evident that business dependency on IT will continue, but applications and workloads are tied to physical resources. Inefficiency abounds said ...

Digital Partners Inc Named Only Reseller Of Breakthrough Xraid Hardware For Apple Platforms Being
Digital Partners Inc., the leading Apple reseller for businesses across the U.S., announced recently it is now the only reseller of Active Storage XRAID hardware, the high-speed storage solutions for Apple platforms. The announcement was made in coordination with Active Storage's debut of its storage products, the first non-Apple storage solutions that are Apple-native right out of the box. "We are very excited to be on the ground ...

Tarmin Touts Active Archiving Software
Storage Expo UK-based software developer Tarmin Technologies has come out of stealth this week with an intriguing archiving tool called GridBank. As the name implies, this is grid-based and looks rather like ILM version 2.0 - but Tarmin CEO and co-founder Shahbaz Ali prefers to call it active archiving.Currently in beta and due for full release in ...

User Reports Dedupe Ratios Of Up To 4501 At Storage Expo
Users at Storage Expo in London this week reported achieving huge data reduction ratios using data deduplication, with international property advisor CB Richard Ellis achieving up to 450:1 while another user, Associated Newspapers, has clocked up to 60:1.Both users also reported much improved backup and restore times and recovery points as well as being able to ...

Overland Storage And Tributary Systems Announce Hp Nonstop Computing Product Line Expansion
Overland Storage (Nasdaq: OVRL) and Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI), announced today the addition of two new LTO-4 tape automation products, leveraging Overland's NEO tape technology, for the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem and the Integrity NonStop server environments.HP NonStop Systems power some of the world's most demanding data centers, providing highly available transaction processing for financial services, ...