July 29, 2010 -- After weeks of rumors, IBM today officially announced that it plans to acquire Storwize, which specializes in real-time data compression for primary storage.
July 23, 2010 -- At the EMC Forum conference last week, the emphasis was on integration, including VMware, private clouds, Unisphere, vStorage APIs, vBlock, and EMC's entire product line.
July 20, 2010 -- EMC made a number of data deduplication announcements this week, including the introduction of the DD670 disk-based backup appliance.
July 13, 2010 -- VMware has added a slew of new storage features in the 4.1 release of vSphere that bring storage hardware acceleration to the virtualization platform.
July 13, 2010 -- A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) can have more stringent storage requirements than a virtual server environment.
July 7, 2010 -- EMC on Tuesday revealed it plans to acquire privately held firm Greenplum, a move that aims to up its appeal to IT buyers thanks to the smaller firm's data warehousing and analytics processing capabilities.
July 2, 2010 -- As part of its ongoing rollout of version 8.2 of its Akeia Network Backup software, Arkeia this week introduced a backup agent that leverages the VMware vStorage API.