Deni Connor

NuView Inc. is updating its storage management software to include data lifecycle management, snapshot backups and byte-level replication of data.

Just as Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is expanding into the port-dense chassis-based switch market, rival McData Corp. is extending its reach downward this week into small and mid-size businesses with the introduction of a four- to 12-port Fibre Channel switch.

Novell Inc. announced Monday it has acquired Ximian Inc., a provider of management and desktop software for Linux.

Start-up Voltaire Inc. recently gave users a peek at software that will let them link departmental or remote storage to servers in data centres, or connect tape drives or libraries to networks for backup.

Startup Candera Inc. this week rolled out an appliance that links Fibre Channel storage arrays and server-attached storage to form a heterogeneous pool of resources that can be provisioned from one spot.

Complying with government regulations is taking an increasing toll on IT storage budgets and resources, analysts say.

A change to Microsoft Corp.'s tape backup feature makes file backup tapes created with Windows Server 2003 incompatible with previous versions of Windows including Windows XP and Windows 2000.

EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are readying metered on-demand storage programs that for the first time automatically charge customers only for actual usage, which should help them save money and avoid having to predict future needs precisely.