Deni Connor

 

 

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Network World, Inc. 118 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772

Recent articles by Connor

EMC launches Decho
Nov. 20, 2008
EMC last week joined two of its startups Mozy and Pi together to form a new company called Decho that will help consumers manage their personal digital information - their digital echo.

EMC joins the cloud
Nov. 18, 2008
EMC last week joined the cloud storage game with a hardware/software combination that offers massive storage capacity to Web 2.0, telecom and large enterprises who need somewhere to keep their object-based, unstructured ...

Dell to feature deduplication technology from EMC, Quantum
Nov. 13, 2008
Dell last week joined the data deduplication market, promising products that use software from EMC and Quantum. The company will develop a single architecture from deduplication technology from EMC and Quantum and will ...

HP throws hat in storage virtualization ring
Nov. 11, 2008
HP last week upped the ante on heterogeneous storage virtualization by unveiling a platform that pools storage across HP and non-HP arrays. The HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform, dubbed SVSP, is for ...

TimeSight aims at lifecycle management of video surveillance data
Nov. 06, 2008
TimeSight Systems last week launched what could be the first lifecycle management package for video surveillance data.

Griffin-Spalding County adds enterprise backup to its SAN
Nov. 04, 2008
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Griffin-Spalding County IT Director Rod Smith realized that his school system's network could have just as easily been destroyed, and its employees left without the data ...

Storage vendors enjoy strong financials
Oct. 30, 2008
In spite of the financial downturn that is affecting my 401K (now probably a 2K) and my retirement plans, storage companies reported strong financial results. Among the companies reporting financial results are EMC, ...

Hospital spins out data protection strategy
Oct. 28, 2008
Andy Fuss has all the bases covered when it comes to protecting his data at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I. Fuss, who is lead technical engineer at the medical center, installed two Data Domain DD565 ...

What's hot at Storage Networking World
Oct. 23, 2008
Solid state disk, data deduplication, compression and data protection were hot items at Storage Networking World in Dallas last week. Intel rolled out enterprise solid state flash drives for servers and storage. ...

Fibre Channel over Ethernet gains momentum
Oct. 21, 2008
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bandwagon gathered steam last week at Storage Networking World as QLogic, NetApp and EMC introduced products that support the new transport protocol.

Backup in a box for SMBs and consumers from Dell, Iomega
Oct. 16, 2008
Dell and EMC's Iomega last week introduced two different backup appliances for use in small and midsize enterprises and for consumers.

FalconStor, Compellent add support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Oct. 14, 2008
FalconStor this week became one of the first storage vendors to announce its support of Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology. FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) now supports Hyper-V environments and ...

Unitrends adds Web 2.0 management console to business continuity, disaster recovery ...
Oct. 09, 2008
One of the lesser-known data protection players last week announced a new version of its business continuity and disaster recovery software that lets users simplify the management of data protection environments. ...

HP acquires LeftHand Networks to beef up its small, midrange storage offerings - Network ...
Oct. 07, 2008
HP acquired one of the last independent iSCSI storage vendors last week in a $360 million all-cash deal. The company snapped up LeftHand Networks to bolster its small and mid-range storage offerings and be able to give ...

Enterprise flash drives on the rise
Oct. 02, 2008
Enterprise flash drive technology got a boost last week with several announcements. EMC unveiled a package that incorporates EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 storage systems containing EFD with Oracle Database Applications to ...

QLogic, Pillar Data, HP make storage waves at Oracle OpenWorld
Sep. 30, 2008
Oracle OpenWorld last week was a magnet for storage vendors intent on making their products work better with Oracle's databases and applications.

VMworld exhibitors aim to tackle the problem of storage in a virtualized world - Network ...
Sep. 25, 2008
Last week I went to what I thought at first glimpse was a server trade show - VMworld - and found a storage trade show where vendors were showing off their data protection and disaster recovery wares. I won't be as ...

GreenBytes Cypress aims to offer unlimited scalability in a small footprint
Sep. 23, 2008
A very cool company - GreenBytes - debuted last week introducing its Cypress storage system, a network-attached storage system that uses Sun's ZFS+ file system and Sun Fire X4540 Thumper storage boxes.

IBM recaps its last two years in storage - all $2 billion's worth
Sep. 18, 2008
IBM made an omnibus storage announcement last week - the type of announcement that only IBM can make - of having spent $2 billion on storage in the past two years.

EqualLogic rolls out massive iSCSI array
Sep. 16, 2008
EqualLogic, now part of Dell, launched a new storage array last week that is the company's largest array to date.

Adaptec RAID goes green
Sep. 11, 2008
Adaptec has joined the power and cooling game with new RAID controllers, which the company claims can reduce power consumption by as much as 70%.

ParaScale dives into the cloud storage arena
Sep. 09, 2008
ParaScale launched its cloud storage product this week intended to address the content and archival storage markets. The company will allow private enterprises to build cloud storage within the firewall for archival or ...

EMC releases multiprotocol NAS array
Sep. 04, 2008
EMC last week bolstered its products for the small and midsize business and departmental branch office market with the launch of a Celerra network-attached storage server, which handles both file- and block-oriented ...

My system crashed: How I got my data back
Sep. 02, 2008
Last week was a mess for me - my laptop and I thought my disk drive had crashed - and I lost about two days of work because of it.

E-discovery vendor StoredIQ unveils new platform support, enhancements
Aug. 28, 2008
StoredIQ last week rolled out a new version of its e-discovery appliance that includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007.