NetApp to buy Onaro to boost storage management
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Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management software.
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Enterprises are reaching deeper into their pockets to add data storage capacity to their computer networks, according to an industry report released Friday.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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By edu h. lopez. Network Appliance (NetApp) has unveiled its strategy for the Philippine market as it strengthens its strategic partnership with Oracle and VERITAS.
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(InfoWorld) - Emulex will buy Sierra LogicÂ to build a bigger enterprise storage portfolio. Emulex said Tuesday it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Sierra Logic for $180 million to expand its position in the embedded storage components market. The acquisition will combine two suppliers of network storage components and may improve the reliability of storage networks that enterprise customers depend on. Sierra's line of embedded bridges and routers will join Emulex's portfolio of embedded switches and multiple protocol input/output controllers. The combination will make Emulex more competitive in selling to storage system makers, said Mike Smith, Emulex's executive vice president for worldwide marketing. Emulex's current customers include Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, and Network Appliance. "There is always a trend toward integration, and you can offer more integrated solutions the more pieces you provide. It makes you more of a single, trusted supplier," Smith said. The deal gives Emulex access to key technology developed by Sierra Logic to make SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) storage systems more reliable, said storage industry analyst Arun Taneja, founder of The Taneja Group, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Fibre Channel disk drives are used in high-end storage environments, while SATA drives are a lower cost alternative. But SATA drives are less reliable than Fibre Channel. Sierra Logic's technology makes SATA more reliable, Taneja said. "Sierra makes a SATA drive look like a Fibre Channel drive but maintains the price advantage of SATA," said Taneja. "Emulex looked at the technology and said 'It's too important to this industry. I want to own it.'" Consistent with its integration strategy, Emulex also acquired Arohi Communications, a maker of data center networking and intelligent storage platforms, in May for $39 million. The Sierra Logic deal is expected to be completed by Sept. 30 and to contribute an incremental $8 million to $10 million in revenues to Emulex in the fourth quarter. Emulex, based in Costa Mesa, California, has about 600 employees worldwide, while Sierra Logic, based in Roseville, California, has 70 employees. Smith expects most of them to come to Emulex, including Sierra Logic Chief Executive Officer Bob Whitson.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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NetApp's new FAS 2020 and FAS 2050 storage arrays are designed for companies with between 100 and 1000 employees.
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FAS200 line goes down low NetApp today announced fresh NAS kit and software as it throws itself into a low-end scrap with EMC and HP.â¦
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Iomega on Friday introduced a new network-attached storage appliance for Windows networks in small and midsized businesses.
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As small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) save more data and rely on it more, they are turning to networked storage even under the burden of limited budgets and IT expertise.Regulatory requirements, more sophisticated applications and reliance on Web-based supply chains all are forcing small businesses to collect and store more information, according to IDC analyst Rick Villars. They may not have enough data to fill an enterprise-class storage system today, but they want systems that let them add more capacity as they grow, he said.EMC is aiming at this growing market with its Clariion AX4, a platform that can scale from a few terabytes of storage to 60TB and take advantage of many advanced EMC storage management applications designed for large enterprises. The company was set to announce and ship it Tuesday.Swervepoint, a provider of promotional gifts in Middleton, Mass., has less than 1TB of data between its two locations but wants to be able to add storage capacity without buying new servers.&quot;We should buy our servers for the server qualities and buy storage for our server needs,&quot; said Kevin Phoenix, principal in charge of operations and administration.The 15-employee company&#39;s main concerns about networked storage are cost and complexity, and the AX4 eased those worries, Phoenix said. Swervepoint, which counts EMC as one of its own clients, has been a beta tester of the AX4 and purchased a unit. It came with management software that was easy to use, said Phoenix, who said he handles IT for the company but is not an IT specialist.The AX4 comes with at least 3TB of storage and can be expanded by stringing together as many as five systems with 12 drives each. Each AX4 can be ordered with either a Fibre Channel or a iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) connection, meeting demand for IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity among SMBs, according to Barry Ader, senior director of Clariion marketing at EMC. Smaller companies tend not to have expertise with Fibre Channel, which is typically used in large enterprises, he said. On the AX4, there is no price difference between the two interface options.The systems will come with 750GB drives at first, but 1TB drives will be available starting in March, opening the door to the AX4&#39;s top-end storage capacity of 60TB, Ader said. Within the full AX4 system and even within each enclosure, users can mix and match SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drives. Companies can use management tools including snapshot, failover, business continuity and Microsoft Exchange replication capability with the AX4.By mixing SAS and SATA drives, users can set up a tiered storage system in which the more critical data is on better-performing, more expensive SAS drives and less critical on lower-performance SATA disks, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT. Support for enterprise-class software is another benefit of the AX4, which goes up against SMB storage products from competitors including Network Appliance and Equalogic, King said. In particular, its support for virtualization software from EMC&#39;s VMware subsidiary appears to be stronger than in competing products, King said.
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NetApp hopes its acquisition of Onaro can boost its data center management business.
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(InfoWorld) - Netezza, a maker of data warehousing appliances, hopes to raise $108 million in an IPO of stock, the company said Thursday. Netezza filed a prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of its plans to offer 9 million shares of its stock at $12 each starting on Tuesday. The company, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, and founded in 2000, sells the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) line, a data warehousing appliance that integrates database, server, and storage functions in order to analyze data for business purposes. Netezza, which raised $98.6 million in four rounds of venture capital funding, reported a net loss of $13.9 million, or $1.09 a share, on revenue of $79.6 million in fiscal year 2007, which ended Jan. 31. It has never been profitable, the company acknowledged in its SEC filing. The company plans to use the $98.2 million net proceeds from the IPO for working capital; general corporate expenses, including product development and marketing; and to pay off a $5.9 million debt. Among other risk factors, Netezza notes that it sells only one product line, which makes it vulnerable to fluctuations in the data warehousing market and to competition for its NPS family of data warehousing appliances. The IPO is being underwritten by Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley & Co., Needham & Company, and Thomas Weisel Partners. The stock will trade on the New York Stock Exchange's Arca online-only stock and options trading system under the ticker symbol NZ.
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Network Appliance has announced what it terms a key milestone in its Storage Grid vision with the release of its Data ONTAP 7G enterprise storage software, which the company is touting as bringing newer functionality and lower costs to the concept of
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(Source: Computerworld)  When it comes to storage systems, small and medium-sized businesses have had their share of challenges. Even when some storage vendors have tried to address the unique needs of the SMBs, it has been with underpowered versions of their enterprise-class products. The advent of unified network storage, exemplified by the DellTM PowerVaultTM NX1950, has dramatically altered the SMB landscape by combining iSCSI and NAS capabilities in a single, highly functional package that delivers simplified management and enhanced scalability at a cost-efficient price point.
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Nokia Adopts SD Card Tech into Storage Portfolio TechNewsWorld
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Company hopes increased storage will boost its format's fortunes.
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IBM has agreed to buy Softek Storage SolutionsÂ for an undisclosed sum. It plans to use Softek's data mobility technology to build more flexible and efficient storage systems for customers of its Global Technology Services division.
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Storage hardware vendor Iomega has signed a deal to buy sister hardware vendors indirectly owned by the Chinese government in an effort to expand the company&#39;s product line.Iomega will purchase ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology, a Chinese company, in a stock deal expected to close in mid-2008, said Thomas Kampfer, Iomega president and chief operating officer. The deal would nearly quadruple the size of Iomega with its revenue going from $300 million a year to about $1.1 billion a year, and the number of employees growing from less than 300 to about 3,000, Kampfer said.ExcelStor has built Iomega&#39;s Rev removable hard drive products since 2004, and more recently, it has built Iomega-branded USB hard drives, Kampfer said. The acquisition will help Iomega branch out into new products, he said, although the company isn&#39;t yet announcing what new products it&#39;s looking at.&quot;For quite some time ... we&#39;ve felt that we have a really great brand,&quot; Kampfer said. &quot;We&#39;ve been searching for ways to expand our product line and gain access to more products, to move ourselves beyond external storage. We haven&#39;t had the resources -- we haven&#39;t had the development resources, we haven&#39;t had the marketing resources. We just aren&#39;t big enough.&quot;In the deal, Iomega will issue about 84 million shares of its stock, worth about $139 million, in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor shares. The deal would be one of the first times a U.S. company has acquired a company owned by the Chinese government, according to Iomega.The boards of directors at both Iomega and ExcelStor have approved the deal. The purchase must be approved by the Chinese government and shareholders.ExcelStor, which produces more than 20 million devices a year, designs and manufactures digital storage hardware, including hard drives and security storage products. The company sells its products under its own brand and also to original equipment manufacturers.In 2006, ExcelStor had revenue of $707.1 million, according to Iomega.ExcelStor is a subsidiary of Great Wall Technology Co. (GWT), a publicly traded company that manufactures computers and creates software and related products. GWT is an indirect subsidiary of China Electronics Corp., which is owned by the Chinese government.After the deal is completed, GWT and its affiliates will own about 43 percent of Iomega&#39;s stock, making GWT its largest shareholder. China Electronics indirectly owns 62 percent of GWT.Jonathan Huberman will continue as CEO of Iomega, and Kampfer will remain as president and COO, the company said. Eddie Lui, currently CEO of ExcelStor, will become executive chairman of Iomega.&#160;
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Web content delivery company Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Netli, which provides services to help accelerate content and services online, the companies announced Monday.