Clint Boulton

EMC Wednesday upgraded its PowerPath software to help customers better move the data in their storage networks. PowerPath improves application availability, performance, and management between servers, switches, and storage. The Hopkinton, Mass. firm announced this latest step in the evolution of its AutoIS strategy, adding volume management, multi-vendor array support, and other features to its […]

EMC and Cisco Systems expanded their partnership Tuesday, with the Hopkinton, Mass. storage firm agreeing to resell the Cisco MDS 9000 multilayer directors and fabric switches. Financial details for the agreement were not revealed, but the news firmly places the MDS 900 family, launched after San Jose, Calif.’s Cisco acquired Andiamo last August, into the […]

EMC stepped up its partnership with Microsoft Monday and released a new network-attached storage appliance that is compatible with Windows. The development, dubbed a “breakthrough” by at least one industry analyst, means EMC and Microsoft customers will be able to use one console to manage all their storage, rather than having to launch separate tools […]

The migration to serial-attached storage products — which use smaller cables than their parallel brethren — continued Monday when Adaptec spearheaded an initiative with several rivals to deliver the industry’s first serial-attached SCSI disk drives. Milpitas, Calif.’s Adaptec will work with Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor, and Seagate to co-market the disk drives for enterprises. Financial terms […]

After working in stealth mode for a couple years, Candera (formerly known as Confluence Networks) Tuesday unveiled the first of what it hopes will be many products — a storage controller for managing storage devices in a heterogeneous network. But while many firms craft similar devices for facilitating storage area networks (SANs) (define), the Milpitas, […]

The long-awaited, much-tinkered-with specification for ensuring easier management in disparate storage hardware and software was released to the public Tuesday by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Introduced was version one of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S Version 1.0), which was called Bluefin for more than a year while it was undergoing rigorous testing […]

Entrenched storage tape drive vendors Quantum and Storage Technology (StorageTek) have swapped patent infringement complaints in their local district courts. Milpitas, Calif.’s Quantum struck first this week, filing a complaint in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California alleging that StorageTek has engaged in the illegal making and selling of tape and tape […]

As some evidence that itsa cost-cutting efforts have paid off, EMC Wednesday reported a profit of $35 million, or two cents per share, compared to a loss of $77 million, or 3 cents per share this time a year ago. Revenue totaled $1.38 billion, a six percent gain over the with $1.3 billion reported a […]

Microsoft Monday lent its support to a popular method for securing networks when it endorsed the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol for its pending Windows Server 2003. RADIUS (define) is an official Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) authentication and accounting system used by many Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It is widely used for […]

Many of the country’s largest systems vendors and storage technology specialists have converged at the Storage Networking World 2003 event in Phoenix this week to announce new wares, or demonstrate how their existing products work with vital emerging standards. New products introduced Not surprisingly, many of the new products concern IP-based storage, and consist of […]

When Enron was found to have shredded incriminating documents, it touched off an avalanche of concern for increased records retention, and with that concern, created opportunities for storage-oriented firms to release new products that address the issue. EMC Tuesday became the first to tap an emerging market for records retention products when it released a […]

Storage networking specialist CNT Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fibre Channel switchmaker Inrange Technologies for $190 million in cash. Terms of the deal call for SPX Corp. , which owns 91 percent of Lumberton, N.J.’s Inrange, to sell its stake to CNT at $2.31 per Inrange share. The remainder of the shares will […]