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• Start-up Infineta attacks data center connection logjams

  By Tim Greene | 12 May, 2010 00:59

  Start-up Infineta Systems is coming out of stealth mode just in time to reveal that it is working on one of the knotty problems raised this week at the EMC World conference – how to connect data centers efficiently for backup, replication and cloud services that rely on live migration of virtual machines.

• Comcast offers online backup, sharing through Mozy

  By Stephen Lawson | 19 February, 2010 11:54

  Comcast will bundle online storage capacity from EMC's Mozy division with its broadband service and let residential subscribers share the content they store with friends -- or with the entire Internet.

• Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 February, 2010 05:36

  A storage start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.

• US veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 November, 2009 10:37

  With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.

• IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  By Stephen Lawson | 15 October, 2009 08:16

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

• EMC adds virtual machine management to Clariion arrays

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 August, 2009 05:27

  EMC Corp. today introduced new virtualization-aware capabilities for its Clariion CX4 midrange networked storage systems, which make CX4 software and disaster recovery applications aware of connected virtual machines.

• NetApp CEO: Virtualization driving sluggish storage market

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 January, 2009 08:19

  Storage companies are feeling the pain of companies cutting IT costs and overall spending, but the move to server virtualization is driving some demand, according to NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven.

• ParaScale pushes private storage clouds

  By Bryan Betts | 30 October, 2008 05:03

  Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a redundant and self-healing private cloud of storage.

• Teradata releases 50 petabyte data warehousing appliance

  By Eric Lai | 14 October, 2008 10:31

  Teradata made a trio of announcements today designed to keep the data warehousing vendor in the pole position of the suddenly competitive business intelligence race.

• HP to buy LeftHand Networks for $360 million

  By Stephen Lawson | 02 October, 2008 08:21

  Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for medium-size companies and remote offices and branches.