Network Storage

Responding to market demand, the high-performance storage specialist Dot Hill and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) vendor Sepaton have announced that they are teaming up to produce a new RAID 6 VTL solution.

Following on from yesterday’s announcement that it will be offering solid state disks in its enterprise class Symmetrix DMX storage systems, EMC has announced virtual provisioning and new management capabilities for the systems.

EMC is set to shake up the enterprise storage market after becoming the first vendor to integrate flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) into its core products.

Iron Mountain is promising greater access to essential documents with the release of its new Digital Record Center, and IBM-powered data repository that it says securely stores physical records while enabling rapid access to digital copies.

Clustered NAS vendor ONStor is further expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific, pushing its operations much further into the Chinese market with a new office in Beijing, and the appointment of a new Managing Director.

In a bid to streamline storage and server virtualisation, FalconStor and Virtual Iron have joined forces to create a global alliance.

The analysts at Garnter have kicked off the new year with the declaration that despite great improvements being made in business continuity management and disaster recovery, most companies are still not prepared for serious IT outages.

Sun Microsystems have set the ambitious target of zero data centres for their Sun IT division by the year 2015, with the elimination process beginning as soon as possible.

Dell has rolled out a new storage area network (SAN) device for small to medium businesses, promising to meet the growing storage needs simply and cost effectively.

According to new research from Ireland’s Research and Markets, virtualisation is set to make the single largest impact on both the hardware and support sides of IT budgets through 2010.

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