Stories about: Rainfinity

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.

A funny thing happened on East Carolina University's journey to creating a data-retention strategy. As part of a compliance project launched one and a half years ago, Brent Zimmer, systems specialist at the university, was working with attorneys and archivists to determine which data was most important to keep and for how long. But it soon became clear that it was just as important to identify which data should be thrown away.

Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it sees as the fastest-growing part of the enterprise content management market. It plans to incorporate Document Sciences into its content management and archiving division.

Somewhere near the top of the list of activities that storage people like doing least is data migration. Slow, time-consuming, and often scheduled at convenient times such as 3 a.m. Sunday morning, it has to rank up there with tasks like disaster recovery testing and SAN reconfiguration. To make matters worse, the process often seems to be a prime candidate for Murphy's Law, often exceeding scheduled windows or needing to be rolled back and rescheduled due to unforeseen problems.

In the first part of an in-depth interview with ARN's BRIAN CORRIGAN, local EMC president, David Webster discusses the progress being made around information lifecycle management and predicts the rise of virtual datacentres.

Since 2003, when EMC launched its transformation from a simple hardware storage vendor to a multifaceted information-infrastructure provider, it has racked up 15 straight quarters of double-digit revenue growth and strong profits.

Cisco Tuesday acquired file-area networking company NeoPath Networks for an undisclosed amount.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is investing in BlueArc and OEMing product from it. The company, needing a new network-attached storage product, is OEM'ing it from BlueArc and calling it the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform. HDS is also investing an unknown amount in BlueArc as well as signing this five-year OEM deal.

EMC Monday unveiled upgraded software that can now be used to aggregate file data from network-attached and content-addressable storage systems.

As companies migrate to New Data Center architectures, it stands to reason that they'll look at a wide range of vendors with new tools to help. Here are seven promising products.

Multifaceted announcement of new products and features reflects EMC's obsession with information lifecycle management.