Network Storage

Data Domain has joined all the cool storage cats and become a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and in particular a founding members of the association’s data deduplication and space reduction group.

As the solid state disk (SSD) market hots up the knives are coming out, with Seagate claiming SSD manufacturer has infringed on a number of its patents. STEC has now responded saying Seagate’s claims are without merit.

Data Domain has become the latest company to join the Green Grid, an group of storage companies committed to improving efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of data centres.

Hitachi has rolled out a new enterprise hard disk, promising the usual bundle of increased performance and greater capacity.

IBM has come up with a strong showing in its first-quarter 2008 results posting to the New York Stock Exchange.

Diagnostic health firm DDI Health has picked DataCore to handle its storage virtualisation, claiming the firm’s technology is the right tincture for its data storage and VMware ills.

Oracle has grown its enterprise content management offerings with a new online archive and email archival service, both components of its Fusion Middleware.

IBM says it may have a stunning replacement to NAND flash memory on its hands, thanks to a new breakthrough in spintronics physics.

SAP is looking to develop new strategies for "business process-driven" virtualisation in a new co-operative effort with a range of enterprise storage and IT vendors.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for Australia and New Zealand has announced its board of directors for 2008/09.

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