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Storage switch maker Brocade Communications Systems followed up last month’s entry-level utility switches Monday by upgrading the fabric for major enterprise customers. The company says its new SilkWorm 24000 Director for enterprises is a significant improvement over the previous Silkworm 12000 model. Brocade also unveiled an investment protection program — a rarity in storage networking […]

IBM has resumed its aggressive positioning against rival EMC by tweaking its storage management software to run on EMC hardware. Describing the maneuver as a “silver bullet” for the storage management sector, Big Blue says its IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, which allows users to virtualize storage for managing multiple devices and freeing up capacity […]

With so many new government regulations, IT managers are increasingly turning to storage companies that can deliver products capable of addressing loads of long-term data that are not permitted to change, according to compliance rules. The pressure on enterprises has paved the way for start-ups like Archivas to address a segment of the market experts […]

Data archiving specialist Plasmon has acquired Raidtec for about $6 million in cash to strengthen its storage networking portfolio. Cambridge, U.K.-based Plasmon makes optical drives, media, and libraries for storing data as alternatives to magneto optical (MO) DVD storage and tape- or disk-based backup systems. The company’s sweet spot is selling blue laser-based optical drives […]

Angling for an advantage in a sea of competing storage products, IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new software feature that allows large storage servers to be backed up at global distances at a faster rate than that of a similar product from rival EMC . Rich Lechner, vice president of IBM Storage Systems, says IBM […]

A provider of utility computing hooked up with a utility storage outfit Tuesday to create a combination that could compete more strongly with offerings from vendors such as IBM , VERITAS Software , or EMC . Utility computing provider Egenera joined forces with utility storage specialist 3PAR in a comprehensive server and storage virtualization offering […]

Believing that enterprises are willing to eschew tape storage for disk-based systems, storage start-up Copan Systems has unveiled a disk library it believes will revolutionize the market for backing up seldom-used files. The Longmont, Colo.-based company is positioning the Revolution 200T as the first and only storage machine to deliver a disk-based data repository with […]

Apple on Monday continued its foray into the enterprise storage market with a new storage area network (SAN) file system tailored to stream video for about $1,000. Xsan, designed to undercut more costly file systems from the likes of IBM , SGI , and VERITAS Software , is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac […]

Storage giant EMC reported a rocketing profit of $140 million, or 7 cents per share, for its first quarter of 2004, quadrupling its net income of $35 million, or 2 cents per share, from the same first quarter of 2003. The first quarter earnings announced today beat Wall Street’s estimates by a penny. The Hopkinton, […]

A leading storage standards body reports that a specification for rendering storage drives more “intelligent” to improve their management and performance has been ratified by the American National Standards Institute. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), which announced the news at this week’s Storage Networking World Spring 2004 show in Phoenix, says the Object-based Storage […]

To support enterprises struggling to comply with the maze of government regulations for record-keeping, IBM Monday rolled out three new software products to help track and manage internal e-mails and instant messaging conversations. IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention, IBM Lotus Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting, and the IBM Tivoli Security Compliance […]

Microsoft is looking to extend its storage offerings further into the enterprise with a series of new features. Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new feature pack that helps customers consolidate data from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 on network-attached storage (NAS) devices powered by Windows Storage Server 2003, a key component of the Windows Server System […]