Clint Boulton

VERITAS Software Monday announced the immediate availability of a new, more tightly integrated version of VERITAS Global Data Manager, which, unlike its predecessors, manages and monitors backup and recovery processes for both the company’s NetBackup and Backup Exec products. VERITAS Global Data Manager, which previously managed NetBackup but not Backup Exec, lets administrators view several […]

As mounting evidence that serial technologies are gaining momentum over their parallel brethren in the storage industry, Adaptec Monday launched a Serial ATA (SATA) product family that features motherboard solutions and RAID cards to connect PCs and servers to storage devices. Short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, RAID is a category of disk drives […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Monday said it has begun the second phase of testing for the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) (aka Bluefin). In development for a couple of years, SMI was created by SNIA members to facilitate interoperability across disparate storage systems, regardless of vendor. The standard is largely seen as the saving […]

EMC and Hitachi , whose subsidiaries compete with EMC in the storage sector, Tuesday settled pending patent infringement litigation. Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC had been in legal spats with rival Tokyo’s Hitachi over the last year, but now it seems the companies have patched things up well enough to the point that the settlement includes five-year […]

Agere Systems has introduced a platform that makes speedy serial interfaces work for storage applications. Agere’s Serial Storage Interface Platform (SSIP) is a configurable serializer-deserializer (SERDES) which can be combined with Agere’s TrueStore read-channel technology to develop storage SoCs and controllers. The product allows hard disk drive and system manufacturers to move from parallel interfaces […]

HP Monday triggered across-the-board improvements to its network-attached storage (NAS) portfolio and joined the iSCSI party by introducing software that enables server and storage connectivity to Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) across an Ethernet network. According to Mark Nagaitis, director of product marketing, Infrastructure and NAS Division at HP, the NAS enhancements are a […]

A week after the Internet Engineering Task Force ratified the iSCSI standard for storage networking, research firm META Group said Fibre Channel will continue to reign as the dominant SAN architecture in data center deployments in the SAN storage market through 2006, or even 2007. SAN storage interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with […]

IBM has broadened its storage product line for medium-sized companies, including a new high-end midrange disk system and the next iteration of its midrange tape system for archiving data and disaster recovery. Big Blue, presiding over its IBM PartnerWorld conference in New Orleans this week, introduced the FAStT 900 from its TotalStorage line of midrange […]

A number of storage solutions vendors have quickly announced support for Internet SCSI (iSCSI) following the standard’s ratification last week by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Network Appliance (NetApp) Monday announced that it will bring iSCSI products to the fore and that it has made some upgrades to its hardware and software lines. On […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Oracle Wednesday pledged to pad their long-standing storage-oriented relationship with new endeavors in technology, services and support, as well as sales and marketing, to lure enterprise customers. Financial terms of the bolstered alliance were not made public. HDS, a Hitachi division who works closely with Oracle to make sure that […]

Folks in the storage industry have been talking about iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) for so long, those new to the sector would swear it has been a fixture. But Tuesday marked the official ratification of iSCSI (pronounced “I-scuzzy”) by its master, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Bryce Mackin, Marketing Chair for the […]

Responding to the trend for intelligent switching storage platforms, startup MaXXan Systems Tuesday unveiled the MaXXan MXV320 SAN switching product, which pipes storage application functions such as virtualization and data replication as network services. The San Jose, Calif. company is taking its products public after two and a half years in stealth mode and has […]