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• EMC Updates Isilon Storage Platform For Mobility, Cloud, Analytics
  4:02 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  EMC is adding mobility, cloud and big data analytics capabilities to its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS platform, and it plans to add dedupe and auditing capabilities by year-end.
• EMC's New Software-Defined Storage Play: Meet ViPR
  2:01 PM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  EMC's upcoming ViPR technology grabs the functionality of EMC, third-party and commodity hardware-based storage and presents it to applications to improve storage orchestration and management.
• Lenovo To Drop Iomega Brand On Joint EMC Products
  4:20 PM EST Thu. May. 02, 2013
  Iomega's NAS hardware will soon carry the LenovoEMC name as Lenovo looks to spark channel adoption of the storage products.
• Amazon's AWS Chief: Cloud Services Party Just Getting Started
  4:53 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  Top Amazon execs speaking at AWS Summit 2013 tell attendees that as the company moves from cloud servers, storage and databases to include networking, data warehousing and application services, AWS' full capabilities are only now coming into focus while its competitors are scrambling to keep up.
• Storage, Security Products Take Center Stage At AWS Summit 2013
  10:15 AM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  The AWS Summit 2013 conference will feature a wide range of solutions from vendors partnering with Amazon on improving the storage, movement, protection and security of data in the cloud.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For April
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  From predictive analytics to cloud and mobile application performance management to "big data" storage for SMBs, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• Egnyte, NetApp Partner On Enterprise File Sharing, Synchronization
  6:00 AM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  Egnyte has joined NetApp's partner program for service providers, making it easier for solution providers to deploy Egnyte's enterprise file sharing and synchronization technology on NetApp storage infrastructures, including NetApp Clustered Ontap, for both cloud and on-premises solutions.
• OpenStack Summit: 10 Vendors Putting Storage Front And Center
  10:50 AM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  When clouds based on the open-source OpenStack code are built, there will be no lack of storage thanks to the rush by storage vendors to be a part of the OpenStack ecosystem.
• Follow The Money: 21 Big Data Startups That Have Scored Big In Venture Funding This Year
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Dot.Com Redux? There's been a free flow of millions of dollars in venture capital to "big data" startups recently. Here's 21 that have scored big since the start of the year.
• HDS CEO Jack Domme Becomes Hitachi Ltd.'s First Non-Japanese Corporate Officer
  5:35 PM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), whose CEO is now the first non-Japanese corporate officer at Hitachi Ltd., has made a number of key executive moves as part of its bid to become less storage hardware-focused and more of an overall provider of solutions.
• Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:30 AM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  For the week ending April 12, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• PHD Virtual Buys VirtualSharp, Adds Disaster Recovery To Product Lineup
  8:07 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  The acquisition of VirtualSharp gives PHD Virtual technology for automated replication and testing of data for disaster recovery to go with its existing data protection technology for virtualized environments.
• 10 Virtualization Startups Getting Attention Right Now
  12:10 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  Virtualization startups are continuing to make noise despite many of them transforming themselves into cloud startups. Here are 10 that still call what they do 'virtualization.'
• Former Symantec CEO: 'We Did The Best Job We Could But Not The Best Job Possible'
  4:42 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  Former Symantec CEO John W. Thompson says the aim was true on the security-storage vision behind the blockbuster $11 billion Symantec-Veritas merger in 2005, but the execution could have been better.
• Intronis Names New CEO
  9:45 AM EST Tue. Apr. 02, 2013
  SaaS sales and marketing executive Rick Faulk takes the top management position and joins the board at the cloud backup company.
• Top Sales Executive Norbie Leaves Nexus Information Systems
  4:37 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  Keith Norbie, the highly respected vice president of sales and vendor management for Nexus Information Systems, has left the company.
• 2013 Partner Programs Guide: Software Vendors
  10:00 AM EST Wed. Mar. 27, 2013
  The following vendors in CRN's annual Partner Program Guide received the 5-star award for their development tools, business applications and virtualization software partner program offerings.
• 2013 Partner Programs Guide: Storage Vendors
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Mar. 25, 2013
  CRN looks at the storage vendors that received the 5-star award in our annual Partner Program Guide, for their commitment and services offered to their channel partners.
• Netgear's ReadyNAS 6.0 OS Targets SMBs, SOHOs
  10:26 AM EST Mon. Mar. 25, 2013
  With ReadyNAS 6.0, Netgear simplifies its product line in a way that finally lets customers decide which to buy based on the speed and capacity they need.
• Software-Defined Storage: Separating The Reality From The Hype
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Mar. 22, 2013
  The term "software-defined storage" may have recently sprang from thin air to take advantage of buzz over software-defined networking, but the idea of defining storage services using software independent of the underlying hardware has taken hold.
• Sanbolic Intros Melio5 Software For Making High-End Storage from Entry Hardware
  3:20 PM EST Tue. Mar. 19, 2013
  The new scale-out Melio5 software from Sanbolic could help solution providers use commodity hardware to compete against the flash storage adapters and all-flash storage arrays from larger, more established brand-name vendors.
• 10 Must-Have Apps For Cloud Storage
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Mar. 19, 2013
  The CRN Test Center looks at some of the essential apps for storing data in the cloud.
• Fusion-io Buys ID7 In Software-Defined Storage Play
  5:52 PM EST Mon. Mar. 18, 2013
  Fusion-io aims to up the ante with the acquisition of the developer of the open-source iSCSI target software that's at the heart of the Linux OS used by several major storage vendors.
• Startup Starboard Storage Cuts Sales Staff, Hangs 'For Sale' Sign
  6:53 PM EST Fri. Mar. 15, 2013
  Hybrid SSD-hard drive array developer Starboard Systems confirmed channel reports that the startup is in active discussions with other storage vendors about the possibility of being acquired by one of them.
• CommVault's Simpana 10 Adds More Than 300 Enhancements
  2:35 PM EST Fri. Mar. 15, 2013
  Simpana 10's new features include improved snapshot management capabilities and leveraging new IntelliSnap technology, formerly called SnapProtect.