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Xiotech Extends ‘Cash for Disk Clunkers’ Through 2009

Minnesota-based Xiotech announced Oct. 5 that it is extending what turned out to be a popular sales program, "Cash for Disk Clunkers," through the...

Newcomer Avere Builds Intelligence into Tiered Storage

Pittsburgh-based storage newcomer Avere Systems introduced a series of new-generation NAS devices that dynamically move data between standard hard drive and solid-state drive...

General Atomics Wins Big DoD Storage Contract

The Station just came across a storage company called General Atomics. And you thought all the good names for IT companies were taken.In any...

Xiotech Raids EMC for New President/CEO

Xiotech, one of the more innovative midsize data storage companies, has a new president and CEO as of Oct. 1. He is Alan Atkinson,...

Ellison Reiterates Importance of Storage in Sun Deal

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking at a large Churchill Club gathering in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 21, emphasized several times the importance of Sun...

Dot Hill Makes Virtual RAID Available for New AMD Chip Set

Entry-level and midrange storage systems maker Dot Hill Systems announced Sept. 21 that its Virtual RAID Adapter software is now available for AMD's newest...

Fusion-io Co-founder Basile Named CEO of Violin Memory

Don Basile, one of the founders of Fusion-io, who helped start the company with 11 people and grow it to its current 300 customers...

Texas Memory Systems Adds Storage Management IP

Solid state disk-storage provider Texas Memory Systems, which makes the RamSan storage product line, said Sept. 8 that it has acquired several data management...

Gear6 Releases Web Cache Distribution as Virtual Appliance

Cache-centric storage startup Gear6 has announced that its Gear6 Web Cache, the company's new distribution for Memcached, is now available as a virtual appliance...

Silver Peak Systems Lands New Patent for WAN Dedupe

Blame it on the world's overall data explosion if you want, but companies that help all those gazillions of data bits move faster through...