Storage: Interviews

Where do you see DataCore's position in the Australian virtualisation market?

What is SpectrumData focusing on this year?

Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson last week delivered a keynote speech to thousands of security professionals at the RSA Conference 2008 in the US. Ellen Messmer caught up with Thompson at the RSA event, where he expanded on a range of topics including vendor alliances, Symantec's competition and the importance of data-loss prevention technology.

Rackspace provides datacentre facilities under a managed hosting scheme. It is building a new UK datacentre and has had a green aspect to its business for about a year and a half. How is that affecting its operations?

APC founder and CTO Neil Rasmussen was in London recently to talk about datacentres, power and efficiency - themes that have become headline news as they transmogrify into green issues. We took the opportunity to ask him - inter alia - whether the datacentre can ever be green.

Responsible for steering the course of EMC's security franchise, Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC's RSA Security division, says the unit will eventually contribute US$2 billion to EMC's annual revenue. In a recent interview with Computerworld, Coviello talked about a balance between storage and security needs, why administrators focused only on "dumb storage" are a dying breed and why selling risk needs no justification.

Ted Kummert, corporate vice president for the data and storage platform at Microsoft, came over nine months ago from Microsoft's security, access and solutions division to lead the SQL Server effort and usher the 2008 version into general release. Kummert says performance and scalability improvements will continue to put pressure on rivals like IBM and Oracle. In an interview with Network World senior editor John Fontana, he also discusses goals around a new release timetable, prescribed upgrade paths for users, a services element and virtualization.

Iron Mountain CEO Richard Reese, whose company manages more than 11 petabytes of data for corporate clients, says his biggest challenge is helping customers merge physical and data storage environments. In a recent interview with Computerworld at Iron Mountain's headquarters in Boston, Reese addressed what he called inaccurate reports that the company has lost client tapes from its trucks and facilities, the effect of regulatory compliance on retention practices, and the progress of Iron Mountain's fledgling Digital Business Unit.

Iomega is best known as a storage hardware vendor in the SMB market but vice-president of international sales, Romain Cholat, talks about its managed services plans and considers a future without boxes.

In the final part of an in-depth interview with ARN's Brian Corrigan, local EMC president, David Webster, predicts the demise of security software.

In the third part of an in-depth interview with ARN's BRIAN CORRIGAN, local EMC president, David Webster, talks about the environment and IP storage.