Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

EMC today announced enhancements for its mid-range CLARiiON networked storage system that are aimed at helping customers bring more off-line tape-based data online. The Hopkinton, Mass., company developed the offering — which integrates Advanced Technology Attachment and fibre channel — for customers who still store a portion of their data on tape. Some target users […]

EMC and INSCI Corp. will jointly develop content storage systems that preserve petabytes of memos, e-mails, statements, trade confirmations and other documents. The initiative, which also includes a marketing agreement, will see EMC’s Centera Content Addresses product enhanced with INSCI’s Electronic Statement Presentment Plus Suite. Financial terms were not disclosed. Internet document delivery and other […]

Same sector, different directions. McData reported financial results will be at the high end of previous estimates, while StorageNetworks announced that two of its directors have quit and that it has hired an investment banking firm to “explore options.” “We are very pleased with the continued demand for our new products, as well as strong […]

JMR Electronics yesterday announced its new Fortra(R) IDE line of storage systems. Based on JMR’s successful Fortra storage line, these IDE systems are designed to deliver performance and scalability at an affordable price to IT professionals in a 3U footprint. Fortra IDE storage systems are available in Ultra 160 SCSI or 2GB Fibre Channel configurations. […]

Houston-based NuView, Inc. late last week announced version 3.0 of its StorageX(R) enterprise file management software solution. StorageX automates file storage management, reducing the cost and complexity of enterprise storage while increasing its availability. The 3.0 release builds on previous versions of StorageX to enhance global namespace creation and management, add multi-vendor NAS management, and […]

Organizations across Asia/Pacific are focusing more heavily on their storage resources, as was evident in the first half of 2002 when the Asia/Pacific external storage market totaled $549 million, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. “E-mail, video, digital imaging and audio information are contributing to a massive explosion in storage capacity,” said Matthew Boon, […]

QLogic Corp. today announced that QLogic technology has been integrated into HP ProLiant BL p-Class blade servers to help enable robust heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) support. The advanced architecture features “Fibre Down,” an innovative technology that dramatically increases the storage expansion capabilities of blade servers by providing reliable, high bandwidth, long distance connectivity to […]

SwapDrive, Inc., the first Application Service Provider (ASP) to provide a web-based system for online data backup and storage, and Decru, Inc., the leader in networked data storage security, this week announced that SwapDrive customers can now use Decru’s security appliance, DataFort(TM) E440, in the SwapDrive server environment to secure data. SwapDrive is the first […]

CNT(R) and StorageTek(R) have announced an alliance for CNT to provide professional services to StorageTek customers. StorageTek will subcontract CNT professional services, enabling customers to benefit from proven business continuity consulting and other services. CNT and StorageTek have been offering customers joint technology solutions for many years. “CNT’s disaster recovery and business continuity offerings and […]

HP last week announced that it is the first company to deliver a comprehensive architecture for implementing network-based storage virtualization. HP plans to simplify storage management, improve storage utilization and enable storage services across heterogeneous environments through its enhanced network-based virtualization. As customers increasingly add networked storage into their environments, virtualization will enable them to […]

Qualstar Corporation today announced that it will begin shipping libraries equipped with Sony Electronics’ Advanced Intelligent Tape(TM) (AIT-3) tape drives, incorporating write-once-read-many (WORM) recording technology. The drives, now available on Qualstar’s TLS-4000 and RLS-Series Simply Reliable library families, provide non-rewritable, non-erasable data storage at a significant cost advantage over other mediums such as optical disk […]

FalconStor Software, Inc. , a leading developer of network storage infrastructure software, this week announced that Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. , has chosen IPStor to power the migration appliance which provides on-line data transport between storage systems without interrupting data access in the production environment. IPStor lowers TCO by […]