23/07/2009 - EMC Q2 Results Better Than Expected, Completes Data Domain Acquisition

EMC has reported a slight increase in revenue last quarter and provided an optimistic forecast for the second half of the year.
The announcement came as it completed the USD $2.1 billion acquisition of data deduplication specialist Data Domain.

22/05/2009 - Phoenix Introduces Fastest, Most Versatile SSD VME Mass Storage Module

Phoenix International has unveiled its new VS1-250-SSD Serial Attache SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) based VME data storage plug-in blade.
The VS1-250-SSD delivers high capacity, high performance data storage - with burst data transfer rate to 300MB/sec and sustained data transfer to 120MB/sec.

17/04/2009 - HealthNet's New Venture Venyu Targets SMB Storage and Security

Amerivault and Network Technology Group Inc data storage providers are to join forces to create Venyu Inc.
The new venture will provide commercial grade, customizable solutions for data storage with disaster recovery, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.

27/03/2009 - Storage Market Slows, Modest Growth Forecast

Well, it was only a matter of time. The data storage market has slowed down - and much more than anticipated, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.
IDC revealed last week that global external disk storage systems' factory revenues dropped by a half per cent in the fourth quarter.

27/03/2009 - Kroll Survey: Employees Are "Wildcard" In Data Storage Practices

While implementing data storage policies that mandate where company files are to be stored is a popular data-protection measure, employees are not necessarily complying.
This is leaving organizations vulnerable to data loss, according to a survey.

13/11/2008 - Storage To Buck General Drop in IT Hardware Spending

Spending on storage is the only area of IT hardware that will avoid a drop-off in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis.
A newly revised forecast from IDC suggests worldwide investment in information technology will slow significantly next year.

13/11/2008 - Internal Cloud Computing Option Avoids Outsourcing Concerns

Data center software provider, Cassatt Corporation, has announced new service and technology offerings to help companies safely realize "internal cloud computing".
Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp, said this was an IT approach that delivers the benefits of cloud computing using the resources that organizations already have inside their data centers.

06/11/2008 - IT Decision Makers Unclear About Unified Storage

Unified storage has yet to make an impact on IT decision makers, with few even able to define what it stands for and even less aware of the business benefits of implementation, according to a survey.
The study was conducted by Gartner and ONStor among 1600 global IT and business decision makers.

02/10/2008 - IT Managers Pushed To Cut Carbon Emissions

Almost two-thirds of IT managers are being pressured to reduce their carbon footprints, according to a survey.
The results show that 61 per cent are being directed to cut down on their energy usage and 60 per cent plan to reduce their carbon footprint within the next 18 months.

16/09/2008 - London Council Gives Virtualisation Green Light

Faced with 100 per cent year-on-year data growth, the London council of Hillingdon’s IT team has decided to virtualise its servers.
It took the decision after being faced with the rapid growth of employees’ e-mail boxes, the need to retain documents such as benefits assessments records, and the increased use of digital images in planning applications and property and highway inspections.