Stories about: Adic

EMC said Friday that it will "rebalance" its workforce by 1,000 employees this year, using the savings from layoffs to hire new workers for sales and marketing. At the same time, the storage vendor announced preliminary fourth-quarter and year-end results that beat its expectations and set a revenue record.

ADIC Wednesday announced that it has enhanced its data archiving software to support mixed media, as well as the ability to migrate data between them.

StorageTek shareholders voted for Sun's US$4.1 billion takeover Tuesday with over 99 percent of shareholder votes in favor. Just 0.33 percent of votes were against the Sun deal with 0.46 percent abstentions. Shareholders will be paid US$37 cash per StorageTek share they hold.

Sun Microsystems' US$4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology is expected to close Sept. 1, leaving in its wake a much smaller independent tape-vendor market. Mark Canepa, executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group at Sun Microsystems, will be overseeing the combined Sun/StorageTek division, which will be located on StorageTek's Colorado campus.

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.

FalconStor Software has added continuous data protection (CDP) to its Virtualtape Library (VTL) software.

After reading through four weeks' worth of columns on the subject, my editor offered what's probably the best description of SNW (Storage Networking World) Spring 2005: "This has been a heckuva show."

HP and Sepaton, a virtual tape start-up company, are expected to announce next week at HP's StorageWorks user conference an OEM agreement for HP to market a disk-based data protection appliance.

As companies move to consolidate tape and disk storage systems, tape storage vendors are offering additional options to increase the value and flexibility of their systems.

Apple Computer Inc. Tuesday announced it has shipped a new file system and an upgraded server.

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.