Crossroads Systems Inc. announced Wednesday that the company has signed a global cross-license agreement with IBM. The two companies also signed a new agreement that will offer the Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) to IBM customers. Crossroads cross-licensed its intellectual property with IBM in order to extend both companies' ability to build upon and expand their work together. The agreement includes rights under all of Crossroads' and IBM's current patents.
Overland Storage, a provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, announced Thursday that it has expanded its product deployment footprint in the higher education market with over two thousand college, university and vocational school deployments globally. By utilizing Overland's SnapServer line of network-attached storage and NEO Series tape solutions, educational institutions have simplified data management operations and addressing growing storage needs.
Quantum Corp., a provider of backup, recovery and archive offerings, announced Wednesday a new OEM (original equipment manufacturing) agreement with HP under which HP will brand and sell a new enterprise tape library based on Quantum's Scalar i6000 platform. The agreement builds on the partnership the two companies have established in tape-based storage, including a previous OEM relationship in enterprise tape automation.
