Data Storage News & Articles

It’s no secret that automating the transfer of data into e-Discovery is a huge advantage for companies, especially as the amount of information stored grows. But because much information remains unstructured or in the cloud, bringing it into the automation process is not always easy.  Today, CaseCentral announces availability of the self-service CaseCentral CloudConnect software for the CaseCentral e-Discovery Platform.

 It’s not a surprise that we remain fascinated by the behaviors of employees. What they do, don’t do or want to do at work not only helps us maximize their productivity, innovate the workforce or better understand their motivation. Previously we’ve examined how employees engage, collaborate and share information. Today, however, we learn more about how they use mobile devices in ways, that, well, engage more than just their workplace.

Heads up, SMBs. Symform's new Cooperative Storage Cloud utilizes a “share and share alike” model in order to provide cheap and offsite storage to MSPs and their customers. 

After two weeks of bids and counter bids, Dell (news, site) finally announced last night that it was pulling out of the race to acquire data storage provider 3Par. As a result, it is now likely that HP (news, site) will acquire the Fremont, CA, company for the US$ 2.35 billion final offer that has been accepted by the boards of HP and 3Par.

The battle to secure storage software provider 3Par (news, site) has a way to run yet. There are now rumors circulating that Dell (news, site) is getting ready to come back with a sweetner to the US$ 1.6 billion that HP offered for the same company yesterday,.

More acquisition news today. This time, from Dell (news, site)  that has just announced an intention to buy data storage vendor 3Par for US$ 1.15 billion in a deal that, the buyer says, will enable it to cut enterprise data management costs by up to 50%.

This week in GRC delivers data security tips, options for storing data off the grid and an executive shift in priorities.

In the world of Document Management two of the hottest topics are cloud computing and security. Interestingly, however, it seems that according to a report from Forrester we're not taking to cloud storage at all, and we also discovered that data security is increasingly troublesome. Could it be that there's a link between the two?

A new year for governance, risk management and compliance brings a little something for everyone. Healthcare industries get a new tool, acquisitions and collaboration bring continued success, and cloud computing impacts data storage in the UK.

Information infrastructure giant EMC (news, site) has just announced the release of the first phase of its FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) technology that will automate information storage across its information storage platforms.

Upping the ante for control of the ediscovery services market, Xerox Litigation Services (XLS) (news, site) has just announced that it has opened a secondary data storage center in Rochester, New York.