Stories about: Overland Storage

Sun is offering to give away its encryption key management software interface for nothing.

At its annual Technology Day in New York next week, Dell is expected to talk about its storage and server roadmaps and make what it says is a significant storage announcement. Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor this week caught up with Praveen Asthana, director of Dell storage to talk about the company's storage strategy. Although Asthana discussed where Dell is going in storage, he declined to comment on next week's storage news and the company's pending OEM relationships with Overland Storage for low-end tape library products and with Engenio for low-end disk, which will compete with the Dell/EMC AX100 storage array.

Jason Hamlett was caught by surprise last December when an oil refinery explosion destroyed his company's new office space in Hemel Hempstead, England, and caused its existing offices and data center to go offline for 48 hours. The ferocious Buncefield fire burned for several days and was the largest to hit Europe in peacetime.

Overland Storage Monday launched a set of entry-level tape autoloaders and tape libraries for small and mid-size businesses or remote offices within an enterprise.

In a routine reminiscent of mum at dinner time, thin provisioning forces storage-hungry users to watch their habits.

Though they disagree on the timing, analysts claim the planned buyout of Storage Technology (StorageTek) by Sun Microsystems will probably force the cancellation of StorageTek's reseller agreement with HP.

NeoScale Systems on Monday announced its CryptoStor for Tape 700, a new family of tape media security appliances that help organizations achieve information privacy and regulatory compliance by dynamically compressing, encrypting, and digitally signing data as it is written to tape libraries or virtual tape systems.

IT managers may need more storage to handle all the storage announcements occurring this week at the Storage Decisions show in Chicago.

EMC this week reported double-digit revenue growth during its second quarter across almost all of its product lines, from storage systems and software to services. While the results met analyst expectations, some experts said EMC should be wary about losing sales in its core product, the high-end Symmetrix storage array.

Storage Technology (StorageTek) has produced a new 100TB tape library that slots into a standard rack size but provides twice as much capacity as competing products.

Many believe the differences between an enterprise and an SMB (small to midsize business) storage problem is a matter of size. Overland Storage Inc. hopes to bridge those differences this week by introducing the REO 4000, its second disk-based family of storage appliances aimed at SMBs.