Storage Expo back again
Blog If it is October it must be Storage Expo and the annual UK show for all things storage is back again. What credit crunch, storage seems to be an area so crucial that even in these grim times people still feel the need to check out what it news...
[October 16, 2008, 7:12]
Green IT still a priority despite credit crunch
News A survey conducted by the organisers of Storage Expo 2008 has concluded that IT budgets are getting tighter because of the credit crunch, but that this will have an uncertain effect on spending on green issues.
[October 14, 2008, 13:45]
RFID could boost compliance effort
News In his keynote speech at Storage Expo 2004, Capgemini Group chief technology officer Andy Mulholland said that retail and supplier firms are already adopting the technology because it can produce a seamless audit trail of goods.
[October 13, 2004, 13:45]
How the financial crisis is affecting IT firms
News ZDNet UK's Colin Barker asked Storage Expo attendees whether the financial crisis has had an impact on their business.
[October 27, 2008, 12:22]
Brocade: Faster and greener than the competition?
News At Storage Expo 2007, Tom Buiocchi, Brocade's worldwide vice president of marketing, tells ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker about how his company's 48000 Director for storage area networks has been upgraded to perform at 8Gbps — allegedly giving twice...
[October 19, 2007, 19:09]
Is virtualisation really gaining a foothold?
News At Storage Expo 2008, ZDNet UK takes to the show floor to find out what companies are doing with virtualisation tech.
[October 27, 2008, 11:09]
Copan explains Maid storage principles
News At Storage Expo 2008, the company demonstrated its Maid (Massive Arrays of Idle Disks) technology and explained how keeping disks available but not spinning makes sense in terms of saving energy. It is a year-and-a-half since Copan Systems first...
[October 20, 2008, 13:25]
HDS comes down in scale to compete
News Hitachi Data Systems had its new server, launched on Monday, ready to parade before the public at Storage Expo 2008 on Wednesday. The smallest of the systems, the $31,500 (£18,300) AMS 2100, is part of a range that scales up to the $81,500 AMS 2500.
[October 16, 2008, 15:55]
SteelEye offers multi-site protection on Linux
News At Storage Expo 2008 in London on Thursday, SteelEye Technology launched software offering multi-site protection for Linux systems so organisations with shared storage clusters can use an off-site system for disaster recovery.
[October 16, 2008, 15:53]
Storage vendors clash in green debate
News Speaking at the Green IT Debate at Storage Expo 2007 on Thursday, Bob Maness, vice president of worldwide marketing at Pillar Data Systems, said that one of the main technologies in question — thin provisioning — "offered no solution" to the...
[October 19, 2007, 15:28]
Ellison's storage start-up hits Europe
News Aiming to combine the worlds of SAN and NAS, brash start-up Pillar Data Systems had its European launch in the UK at Storage Expo on Wednesday. Pillar's Axiom systems are designed to work across different storage architectures while remaining cost...
[October 12, 2005, 18:15]
Dialogue Box 7.5: Showtime for storage
Articles Rupert and Charles head to Olympia to find out what's hot at Storage Expo. Computers of all kinds, from client to cloud, need access to stored data.
[October 30, 2009, 16:14]
Just how safe is storage in the cloud?
Articles At the recent Storage Expo show in London, ZDNet UK talked to two experts — Iron Mountain Digital technology vice president Steve Blumenau and Double-Take Software business development manager Peter Laudenslager — about the cloud and the twin...
[November 18, 2009, 16:15]
Chapter and verse on the big challenges in storage
Articles ZDNet UK asked four experts — Quantum chief executive Rick Belluzzo, Iron Mountain Digital technology vice president Steve Blumenau, Gartner senior research analyst Rene Millman and Double-Take Software business development manager Peter...
[October 20, 2009, 16:47]
Assessing the enterprise future of solid-state storage
Articles To find out when that situation might change, ZDNet UK canvassed the views of four experts — Double-Take Software business development manager Peter Laudenslager, Iron Mountain Digital technology vice president Steve Blumenau, Gartner senior...
[November 2, 2009, 15:16]
LinuxWorld: Veritas brings storage software to Linux
News Veritas, which earlier had sold backup software for Linux, said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that later this year it plans to bring its to open-source operating system its "clustering" software, a respected high-end package that lets one...
[January 30, 2002, 14:37]
Australian university leading global storage charge
News Jaded visitors sometimes complain that there's no longer anything really new at local IT industry exhibitions, but those who attended IT Expo incorporating Comdex and NetWorld+Interop in Melbourne on Wednesday were treated to a worldwide debut.
[September 7, 2001, 9:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, they're coming over for Storage Expo and the CEO may be available…" and on she went. For all I know, they could well have spent Larry's dosh on making the world's most exciting storage solutions — but they didn't do so well on the
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Macworld speculation focuses on ultraportable
News As the Macworld expo gears up to open on Tuesday, the greatest amount of speculation about new products centres on a possible ultramobile MacBook laptop. This slenderness could be the result of a switch from traditional hard drives to flash-based...
[January 14, 2008, 17:03]
Does Zip have a future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. As Zip's position worsened the overall storage market increased...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]



