Deni Connor

 

 

dconnor@nww.com (512) 345-3850 Fax: (512) 345-3860

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

Recent articles by Connor

E-discovery options increase
Jul. 03, 2008
Four vendors - CommVault, Mimosa Systems, Data Domain and Fios - are adding to the hubbub around e-discovery with the addition of capabilities to their products.

HP adds deduplication
Jul. 01, 2008
HP last week introduced not just one, but two data deduplication technologies that let IT reduce the amount of data they back up.

Finisar spins out Fibre Channel management biz
Jun. 26, 2008
Fibre Channel test and measurement vendor Finisar last week spun out a portion of its business that is used for monitoring and analysis of storage-area networking environments.

AXS-One rolls out e-mail data migration tool
Jun. 24, 2008
AXS-One, a records compliance management company, last week announced new software that lets admins migrate data between Lotus Note/Domino and Microsoft Exchange environments.

Is the recession hurting storage?
Jun. 05, 2008
Is storage more recession-proof than other technologies? It appears to be.

Incipient unveils data migration product
Jun. 19, 2008
Incipient last week introduced a new service for its Network Storage Platform (iNSP) that lets IT administrators more easily migrate data.

DoE tool measures energy savings
Jun. 17, 2008
Responding to huge concerns about power consumption in the data center, the Department of Energy recently released a tool that lets IT managers identify where they can save on energy in their data centers.

Study proves e-discovery confusion
Jun. 12, 2008
A survey from Kelton Research commissioned by Xerox Litigation Services pointed out that while most companies have faith in their e-discovery abilities, they are not prepared to tackle the mandates of document retention ...

NetApp speeds performance
Jun. 10, 2008
NetApp this week plans to announce products and technologies that are all about performance.

Xiotech adds support for virtual environments
Jun. 03, 2008
Everyone's doing it - integrating VMware support into their environments. The latest vendor to do so is Xiotech, which last week introduced Virtual View, a software add-on to its ICON Manager management interface.

It's a product mad, mad EMC World
May. 29, 2008
EMC World happened last week in Las Vegas. At the show some 9,000 attendees heard EMC's visions for content management, virtualization and Web 2.0 storage.

Silver Peak ups WAN acceleration ante
May. 27, 2008
Silver Peak last week rolled out what it claims to be the first Gigabit WAN acceleration product, the NX-9000.

From HP Outerbay buy comes new archiving software
May. 22, 2008
HP finally integrated its database archiving acquisition with last week's introduction of its HP Database Archiving software, which lets customers accelerate the deployment of archiving projects and retain data for ...

Data Domain, Spectra Logic unveil duplication technologies
May. 20, 2008
Data duplication is white hot again this week as Data Domain and Spectra Logic introduced new products and features.

Earthly needs
May. 19, 2008
John Lewis, IS director at Geokinetics, didn't let the geophysical services company's rapid growth shake him up.

Is an online backup service OK for your data stockpiles?
May. 19, 2008
Online backup and e-mail archiving, offered as storage as a service from companies like EMC, Mozy, IBM and Asigra, are reviving the SSP and MSP opportunities.

Where to find storage-as-a-service
May. 19, 2008
$metaData.get(

Brocade rolls out 8Gbit Fibre Channel
May. 15, 2008
Brocade, following the lead of Emulex and QLogic, this week introduced 8Gbit Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBA).

HP rolls out massive array for digital content
May. 13, 2008
HP last week added a behemoth to its storage portfolio with the introduction of the HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System, ExDS9100 for short.

Easing network congestion caused by virtual servers
May. 09, 2008
Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support virtual machines (VMs) have to be more powerful. Less obviously, ...

Mimosa rolls out software for unstructured data
May. 08, 2008
Mimosa Systems this week is complementing its e-mail archiving software with a file archiving product for Windows networks that will attempt to meet the spiraling data retention needs.

MonoSphere bolsters storage capacity management
May. 06, 2008
MonoSphere, a storage capacity management software vendor, last week unveiled the latest version of its Storage Horizon software, the upgrade makes it one of the most useful tools in a storage managers arsenal.

Sun's virtualization strategy evolves
May. 10, 2008
It's not one of the first companies most IT managers associate with server virtualization, but Sun's virtualization strategy is broad enough and adaptable enough to appeal to many customers who aren't already tied to ...

RenewData unveils single-pass tape processing for e-discovery
May. 01, 2008
Renewdata, one of the darlings of the e-discovery set, this week launched a new service for processing tapes with a single pass.

Green data center strategies flagging, survey says
Apr. 29, 2008
Digital Realty Trust, a data center provider, recently surveyed data center operators on green initiatives within their organizations. The survey found that a lack of industry standards is slowing green data center ...