NetApp

NetApp announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase LSI's external storage systems business, Engenio, for $480 million.

Maybe the logistics of the announcement went awry, but NetApp and its shareholders should be happy with the details of the data storage company's fiscal second-quarter performance.

NetApp and Syncsort are bringing storage and data protection together in a single product, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, to offer quick backup and restoration of an enterprise's data.

As customers' storage needs scale up, storage virtualization advances and customers explore cloud computing, NetApp seeks a new competitive edge.

NetApp and VMware have each built highly efficient new data centers designed to provide millions of dollars of savings on energy.

EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion. The all-cash offer is "clearly superior" to NetApp's $1.9 billion proposal, which includes stock and cash, EMC CEO Joe Tucci said in a letter to Data Domain's board that EMC publicly released.

As part of its ongoing channel commitment to make working with NetApp easier and more predictable, the company yesterday announced enhancements to its existing partner offerings, new sales enablement and marketing support.

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Many industry observers believe EMC isn't all that interested in Data Domain and instead began a bidding battle to force its nemesis NetApp to raise its offer for the de-duplication vendor. If they are right, the plan has worked brilliantly.

NetApp Inc. today said it will offer $1.9 billion to buy data de-duplication vendor Data Domain Inc. to beat out EMC's $1.8 billion offer for the company.

Thomson Reuters plans to double data storage utilization from 30% now to 60% by using virtualization and thin provisioning technology from NetApp Inc., and to use the capital expenditure savings from that project to fund a server virtualization project using VMware aimed at transitioning roughly one-third, or 7,500, of the company's servers to virtual machines. Here, Christopher Crowhurst, Thomson Reuters's vice president and chief architect of Architecture & Business Systems Infrastructure, discusses the project.