http://www.thestorageworld.net Latest News and Analysis for Storage Industry Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:45:08 PST http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/us-self-storage-operator-ups-instorage-stake-to-196-per-cent-may-buy-more.html TORONTO - A U.S. operator of self-storage facilities has taken a 19.6 per cent stake in InStorage Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:IS) and indicated it may increase its holding and make a takeover bid for Canada's biggest self-storage owner.Canadian Trading Partners LLC, a creature of Warburg Storagemart Partners LP of Columbia, Mo., has acquired 2.4 ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/siteworx-inc-and-sdl-tridion-provide-web-content-management-solutions-for-mandarin-oriental-hotel.html Maidenhead, UK, October 22, 2008 - Siteworx, Inc., the independent web design and application development firm, and SDL Tridion, a leader in global web content management (WCM), today announced the implementation of SDL Tridion R5 for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's Web site (www.mandarinoriental.com)As part of its interactive marketing strategy, the Hong Kong-based luxury hotel operator worked with Siteworx and ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/sandisks-nand-flash-white-knight.html SanDisk is gaining $1bn from a Toshiba manufacturing capacity purchase deal to help prod unwanted bidder Samsung into raising its bid price. At least, that's one interpretation of a pretty darn opaque deal.The NAND flash market is over-supplied and prices have fallen, suppliers have made lots of losses, and Samsung has seized an opportunity and bid $26/share in a near $6bn ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/csc-chairman-underscores-companys-commitment-to-expand-india-operations.html New Delhi, Oct. 15, 2008 - CSC (NYSE:CSC) announced today that Michael W. Laphen, Chairman, President and CEO of CSC, began a six-day visit to India, where he will be sharing the company's strategic growth plans. He will also meet with CSC employees to discuss their role in the company's global business strategy. In addition, he will inaugurate the Noida campus, the largest CSC campus in India, and tour CSC ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/oem-relationship-between-dell-and-emc-coming-to-an-end.html Ever since Dell bought SAN supplier EqualLogic, there have been questions about Dell's commitment to continue selling the OEMed EMC Clariion CX and AX networked storage arrays. With Dell contributing proportionately less to EMC's sales, the questions are growing louder.Currently the Fibre Channel CX-4 Clariion array line top-ends Dell's in-house PS 5000 ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/sgi-touts-petascale-storage.html SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Silicon Graphics, Inc. today unveiled SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 15000, a new storage platform that pushes beyond existing limitations in access speeds, capacity, footprint and energy efficiency.Breakthrough innovations from SGI have allowed customers to eliminate bottlenecks even in the most demanding compute and streaming media environments where data sets can swell ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/staffline-uk-announces-new-managing-director.html Andrew Highland heads-up StaffLine's UK team, bringing with him over 20 years experience in the IT Management arena having previously worked at Peregrine Systems Inc and Fujitsu/ICLSt Albans, UK, 21st October 2008: StaffLine UK Ltd, a European leader in IT management solutions, today announced that it has appointed a new managing director to drive the UK division of its business ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/intels-buys-neteffect.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel Corporation today announced its acquisition of the assets of NetEffect Inc., a network connectivity solutions company specializing in Ethernet products and technologies for server compute clusters."NetEffect's role as a data communications solution provider and the company's technology will enhance Intel's current Ethernet efforts," said Tom Swinford, general manager, Intel LAN Access ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/blade-network-technologies-joins-the-vmware-technology-alliance-partner-program.html BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), an industry leader in network virtualization and high-performance solutions for servers and storage, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers."We ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/dell-bullish-on-asia-but-cautions-on-rising-costs-in-china.html CEO and Chairman Michael Dell expressed confidence Asian countries will weather the current financial crisis, stating that past experience showed the region to be more resilient to economic ups and downs."The dominant economic growth in several Asian countries including Japan could mitigate this economic crisis in the region," Dell said, speaking at a Dell Asia-Pacific ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/acquisition-of-appspeed-by-grahame-smee.html It is announced today that Appspeed Ltd, the specialist Virtualisation, Storage and Server Based Computing Distributor has been acquired by Grahame Smee, who also acts as Managing Director of Cohort Technology Ltd.Appspeed distribute a range of Virtualisation, Storage and Server Based Computing vendors including Virtual iron, RES and Provision Networks.Commenting on the ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/self-storage-rates.html Whenever there is a scarcity of room for keeping all the household items, the extra items are put in garages, attics or any other area of the household where there is some room for storing these items. Nowadays, the modern day apartments do not even have a little bit of area to accommodate extra articles of the house like an extra bed or a table. People ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/ernst-young-forecast-yet-further-shrinking-values.html The Ernst Young ITEM club has predicted that house prices will tumble by another 14 per cent during the rest of this year, with a further ten per cent likely to be taken off the average price throughout 2009.Such figures will no doubt give much confidence to buyers in the UK, with prices having already dropped by as much as 12 per cent.Interestingly, with the possibility ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/permabit-certified-by-symantec.html CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry's leading innovator of scalable, data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving, today announced that the Permabit Enterprise Archive family has completed testing through the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP) and has been certified as interoperable with Symantec Enterprise Vault. This certification provides corporate and government customers with the assurance that ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/sourcefire-partners-with-microsoft-to-protect-customers.html Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in Enterprise Threat Management, todayannounced that it will receive vulnerability information from Microsoft in advance ofmonthly security bulletins through its participation in the Microsoft Active ProtectionsProgram (MAPP). MAPP, a new program from the Microsoft Security Response Center(MSRC), provides vulnerability information ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/ibm-to-punt-entry-level-svc.html IBM is going to introduce a cheaper and less powerful SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for small/medium business (SMB) customers.The SVC sits in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) fabric and combines all the drive arrays attached to that fabric into a single virtual pool of storage. It can also thin provision that storage so that applications ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/emulex-reports-earnings.html COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), today announced results for its first fiscal quarter ended September 28, 2008.First Quarter Financial HighlightsTotal net revenues of $111.7 millionHost Server Product net revenues of $81.2 million -- 73% of total net revenuesEmbedded Storage Product net revenues of $30.4 million -- 27% of total net ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/solve-all-your-storage-problems.html In the present times, one has to compromise with homes that are just big enough to accommodate only the bare essential furniture. When moving from bigger homes to smaller ones, there will always be some household articles that turn out to be extra pieces. If they are in good shape, they cannot be disposed of with. They need to be preserved carefully. Unfortunately, as many buildings or houses ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/house-prices-to-take-over-a-decade-to-return.html House prices will not return to August 2007 levels until 2023, it has been suggested by one analyst, dashing hopes of many buy-to-let investors wishing for a quick return on their investment.Andrew Clare, professor of asset management at London's Cass business school, said in an Earth.co.uk report that despite analysts' predictions of prices rising from 2011, the chances of them ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/mobile-self-storage-survey-report-released-by-minico-and-ms-sa.html MiniCo Publishing, in a joint initiative with the Mobile Self-Storage Association (MS-SA), has released the "2008 Mobile Self-Storage Survey Report," the only report of its kind focused the mobile-storage industry. The report includes statistics, charts and analysis addressing the scope of the market, and covers topics such as accounting, transportation, marketing and operations. The ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/truly-nolen-exterminates-hard-wired-data-storage-approach-with-flexible-storage-virtualization-from.html DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, recently announced that its SANmelody? software has gone from simply providing more storage capacity to serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) solution at Truly Nolen, one of the nation's most visible pest control specialists. In a scenario that DataCore witnesses time and time again, ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/avaya-readies-unified-communications-application-server.html BOSTON Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business applications.SIP Application Server is software is based on the platform of the same name that Avaya bought last year when it acquired Ubiquity Software. Ubiquity had developed the platform for carriers to create new customer services, but Avaya has modified it ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/iscsi-game-over.html NetApp, Cisco, QLogic, Emulex and VMware have all proclaimed FCoE (fibre channel over Ethernet) heaven is just around the corner. So is this the end for the iSCSI internet storage standard Has Dell's EqualLogic purchase suddenly been devaluedThe thinking goes like this: iSCSI sends SCSI commands wrapped in TCP/IP to a storage array across an Ethernet wire, typically a 1Gbit/s line. This provides block-level access to a shared storage ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/brocade-fujitsu-siemens-computers-adds-brocades-8gbitsec-switches-to-storage-networking-portfolio.html Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), today announced that its innovative 8Gbit/sec switches have been added to Fujitsu Siemens Computers' portfolio of storage solutions. These deliver unique breakthroughs in terms of performance and end-to-end customer networking capabilities, and empower customers who are considering and deploying server virtualisation as part of their data centre strategy.Brocade led the data centre networking industry in ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/mimosa-expedites-ediscovery-by-enhancing-existing-legal-decision-support-capabilities-with-new.html Mimosa Systems, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, recently announced that it is helping customers expedite eDiscovery by augmenting existing early case assessment (ECA) capabilities with the new Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage Option (TSO). Customers already leverage NearPoint for legal decision support, making use of the fact that NearPoint ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/self-storage/storage-company-hosts-toys-for-tots-drop-off.html OCALA - JMJ Self Storage, in partnership with the Florida Self Storage Association, is working with Toys for Tots for the upcoming holiday season. JMJ Self Storage is a collection site for dropping off new toys to be distributed by the Marine Toys for Tots to needy children in the area.Toys can be donated from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, at 6900 N.E. Jacksonville Road. Items must be new, unwrapped and in their original ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/kazeon-shows-e-discovery.html MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent Information Management and eDiscovery solutions, today announced the availability of new federation, unified analysis and review capabilities for its eDiscovery solution. This capability is available in the Information Center product which provides enterprise-wide eDiscovery deployment, faster eDiscovery, ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/ibm-software-helps-clients-take-back-control-of-growing-volumes-of-content.html IBM recently announced a new family ofproducts for archiving email, classifying content and searching multipleinformation sources -- independent of where and how the content wascreated, processed and archived. IBM Content Collection and Archivingproducts are designed to help clients take back control and unlock thebusiness value of their content, while enforcing regulatory compliance ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/bluearc-and-data-domain-collaborate-to-deliver-leading-performance-and-data-reduction-strategies.html BlueArc(R) Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced that the company's new Titan storage solutions have been certified for compatibility across the portfolio of Gateway and Appliance Series systems from Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. The combination of ... http://www.thestorageworld.net/data-storage/sungard-announces-plans-to-increase-information-availability-presence-within-uk.html Makes Major Investments in Infrastructure and Service Delivery to Meet Growing Demand for Information Availability ServicesLondon, UK: 21 October 2008: To meet the increasing demand for Information Availability services, SunGard Availability Services the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability services, announced that it will make major investments in its UK infrastructure and service delivery ...