14/09/2010 - TwinStrata and Veeam Software Team Up to Deliver Cloud Storage for VMware Backups

TwinStrata has announced that it is jointly delivering "a highly efficient, cost-effective" solution for the creation and storage of VMware backups with Veeam Software, winner of Best of Show at VMworld 2010. According to the company, TwinStrata's CloudArray software, when used in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication, gives organizations easy access to secure, highly scalable, pay-as-you-go Cloud Storage for their VMware backups.

13/09/2010 - Storage Software Market Delivers Continued Growth in Q2

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced continued gains in the Q2 2010 with revenues of nearly $3.0 billion, representing 3.3% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 2.3% decrease from the previous quarter.

09/12/2009 - IDC: EMC Led The Overall Storage Software Market in Q3

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced another decline in year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09) with revenues of $2.87 billion, representing –7.9% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.2% growth from the previous quarter (2Q09).

IDC report shows EMC led the overall market with 23.4% revenue share in the third quarter of 2009. Symantec held onto the second position with 17.8% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.2% revenue share.

30/07/2009 - EMC Releases New Version of Retrospect

EMC has launched a new version of its Mac backup software Retrospect.
As well as adding back support for PowerPC-based Macs, Retrospect 8.1 also improves performance on Intel-based Macs.

30/07/2009 - Verbatim Releases 500 GB "Gold" 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive For 40th anniversary

Verbatim is to mark its 40th anniversary by releasing a limited edition ´gold` portable external hard drive.
The gold-coloured UV coating of the special Anniversary Edition, houses a 500 GB 2.5" hard drive that includes easy-to-use backup and synchronization software.

19/06/2009 - Storage Cost Savings and Dynamic Provisioning

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, has introduced unique capabilities across software and services to enable customers to reclaim underutilised storage capacity and increase the return on their assets.
This announcement highlights the company’s strategic Global Services capabilities to further extend the economic and optimisation benefits customers can achieve leveraging Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning technology.

12/06/2009 - INSIGHT: External IT's Joseph Stedler on the Advantages of Storage Virtualization in Private Clouds

DataCore Software has announced that hosted IT-as-a-service company External IT has standardized on its SANsymphony storage virtualization software to serve as their storage area network (SAN).
With VMware virtual servers, Citrix XenApp and DataCore storage virtualization, it allows External IT to deliver a complete virtualization infrastructure.

12/06/2009 - IDC Reports Storage Software Sales Decline

Storage software revenue has experienced its first quarterly year-over-year decline in more than five years, according to IDC.
The analysts' Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker showed that the device management, replication and infrastructure categories had the biggest declines.

01/05/2009 - Verbatim Launches Encrypted Products at Infosecurity

Verbatim has introduced its new range of hardware encrypted USB drives, solid state drives (SSD) portable drives and software encrypted DVD discs at this year's Infosecurity Show.
The storage media specialist said its new products will be aimed at anyone carrying sensitive material since the encryption prevents unauthorised accessing of the contents of the storage device.

01/05/2009 - Oracle Readies Take-Over As Sun's Loss Grows

As Oracle prepares its USD $7.4bn acquistion of Sun Microsystem, figures have emerged about the server and software maker's latest quarter losses.
Sun announced on Tuesday that it lost USD $201 million in the three months ended March 29. A year ago, Sun lost USD $34 million.

17/04/2009 - Double-Take Announces Workload Optimization Products

Double-Take Software is building on its current data protection repertoire by taking on the challenge of workload optimization, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.
Workload management encompasses the hardware, the operating systems, applications and data that underpin an organization's IT-backbone.

27/03/2009 - Cloudera Aims To Capture Data Center Market With Hadoop Cloud Solution

A startup software dealer is bringing cloud-computing technology used by the likes of Yahoo, Facebook and Google to regular enterprise data centers.
Silicon Valley-based Cloudera plans to make big data-processing capabilities accessible and affordable for all companies, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.

05/03/2009 - Hitachi GST Takes Another Shot At Consumer Storage Market

Hitachi GST is making a fresh attempt at entering the consumer storage market after its first abortive attempt in 2007, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.
Brenden Collins, Hitachi's vice president of product marketing, dismisses the earlier attempt as one that "didn't take off that well".

05/03/2009 - DataCore San Software Boosts Server Virtualization Support

The latest versions of DataCore's SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0 storage virtualization software were under preview at the recent VMWorld Europe 2009.
The products are due to be shipped later this month with 64 bit software architecture and various new features for virtual servers, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.

05/03/2009 - Restorepoint Winner of Storage-biz.news' Product of the Year Award

20/02/2009 - Three Quarters Of Organisations To Increase Cloud Computing Security

A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 470 organisations has found that 75 per cent intend to reallocate or increase budgets to secure cloud computing and software as a service within the next 12 months.
However, interviews conducted with a panel of 20 chief information Security Officers (CISOs) of large enterprises also found concerns about availability and security aspects of software services in the cloud.

12/02/2009 - StarWind Software Announces Appoints New CEO and Opens US Headquarters

StarWind Software has appointed Zorian Rotenberg as chief executive officer and announced the opening of its US headquarters.
The storage software provider's move to its new HQ near Boston, Massachusetts, comes shortly after the announcement of its spin-off from Rocket Division Inc and the investment, led by ABRT Venture Fund, meant to accelerate sales and assist in marketing efforts.

27/11/2008 - INTERVIEW: Ten Criteria For Enterprise Business Continuity Software

Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG Inc, an independent storage analyst and consulting firm, outlines 10 criteria for selecting the right enterprise business continuity software.

21/11/2008 - IBM Buys Transitive To Cut Customer Costs

IBM is to to buy Transitive in an acquisition intended to help its customers cut costs.
Once the deal is completed, IBM is expected to move the virtualization software company's California personnel to one of IBM's local sites.
Research and development staff located in Manchester, UK, will remain at their current facilities.

02/10/2008 - New IBM Cognos Analytic Application Enables Quick, Actionable Insights into Financial Performance

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today unveiled a new analytic application designed to provide organizations with fast, actionable insights into financial performance using fully-configurable reports.

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02/10/2008 - IBM Launches New Dimension Management Software for Business Users

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled new collaborative business modeling software for business users to create, maintain, govern and share business perspectives and quickly organize strategic information for improved decision-making and performance management.

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02/10/2008 - IBM Launches Cognos 8 v4 - New Business-Driven Performance Management Software

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled IBM Cognos 8 v4 which extends IBM's Information on Demand strategy to help customers improve their ability to engage the business user through a more dynamic and interactive experience, inform their decision making with greater context and relevance and align their strategy and operations through complete visibility to targets, plans, forecasts and metrics across finance and operations.

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02/10/2008 - New IBM Cognos BI Software Gives Business Users Personalized View of Strategic Information

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled major enhancements to its IBM Cognos 8 Go! software portfolio. These new capabilities extend IBM Cognos 8 BI v4 so business users can create, access and interact with personalized views of performance information to quickly make informed decisions that drive business performance.

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02/10/2008 - IBM Introduces New Solutions to Strengthen the Security of Midsize Companies

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software that helps midsize companies detect vulnerabilities that can lead to costly security breeches, improve organizational productivity, and secure data while maintaining compliance with mandatory business regulations.

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01/10/2008 - IBM Helps Clients Make Faster, Smarter Decisions with New Business Process Management Software and Services

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and services built upon service oriented architecture (SOA) to help clients redefine and improve their existing business processes. The ability to proactively manage their business processes allows leaders to better align their businesses and make smarter decisions. This can help reduce overall business costs and make a business more responsive to changes in the global marketplace.

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