Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

The consumer-products company Colgate-Palmolive has deployed the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (code named “Shark”) Model 800, with the result being a 30 percent boost in database-application performance, according to company officials. In addition, with the combination of IBM eServer pSeries and the Enterprise Storage Server, the company has reduced their SAP processing time by […]

Tech Data enters the small-business world with a new bundled storage area network (SAN) solution for the small-to-midsize-business (SMB) market. The offering combines products from Brocade Communications Systems, Computer Associates (CA) and Emulex. The storage market for the SMB is considered to be lucrative in the coming years. According to research firm AMI Partners, worldwide […]

Penguin Computing has released the Relion 230 Server today — its first Intel Xeon-based large storage IDE system. The Relion 230’s IDE disk subsystem features six cold-swap ATA-100 hard drives. Drive capacities are available from 40GB to 200GB at 7200RPM, yielding an internal storage maximum of 1.2 terabytes. Customers can also incorporate various levels of […]

Computer Associates International (CA) has announced availability of Version 9 of BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare. In its release, the company emphasized simplified licensing and aggressive pricing. BrightStor ARCserve Backup for NetWare provides support for NetWare 6 environments, including Open File Agent technology that delivers “Copy on Write” functionality, which enables data to be continually […]

Continuing our series of Industry Interviews, we spoke with Charles Milligan, Manager of Advanced Technology for StorageTek. Charles is responsible for identifying and proving emerging technologies that have potential to disrupt the storage systems markets, by architecting solutions to adopt them and creating intellectual property to control them. In simple terms this means that his […]

Tek-Tools has announced the availability of version 2.4 of its Storage Profiler application. The new version includes DNS monitoring, Uptime Monitoring, Scheduled Reports, Duplicate Files and Enterprise Reports. According to the company, Storage Profiler’s new DNS monitor is a “near real-time tool” designed to monitor DNS hosts for availability. It relies on common TCP commands […]

Hitachi has announced the Freedom Storage Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems. Setting a January release date, the company says the product are optimal for small-to-medium scale consolidation The Thunder 9500 V Series features a virtualization assist layer to ease storage management and lessen resource demands. The virtualization layer is meant to allow administrators to […]

BakBone Software has announced the the availability of VaultDR Online Client Application Plugin Module (APM), an optional new APM that allows users the ability to create a block-by-block disaster recovery image of Windows clients without having to take the system off-line. Using the VaultDR Online Client APM, disaster recovery backups are performed while the operating […]

Hitachi has announced the Freedom Storage Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems. Setting a January release date, the company says the product are optimal for small-to-medium scale consolidation. The Thunder 9500 V Series features a virtualization assist layer to ease storage management and lessen resource demands. The virtualization layer is meant to allow administrators to […]

IBM today unveiled a new medical imaging workstation and storage networking solutions designed to make it easier for clinical staffs within hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities to share, manage, and protect patient information, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrocardiograms, computed tomography (CT) scans, and other digital images. At the Radiological Society of North America […]

Tek-Tools has announced the availability of Storage Profiler with enhanced support for XIOtech’s MAGNITUDE storage platform. Storage Profiler is a high-performance, Web-based storage resource management (SRM) solution. Storage Profiler for XIOtech’s MAGNITUDE storage platform offers monitoring of backbone devices (MAGNITUDE, switches and HBAs) and provides a common tool to detect and anticipate storage outages. According […]

McDATA today announced that Pier 1 Imports has standardized on McDATA’s SANavigator software and hardware SAN solutions to lower its IT costs and ensure the highest levels of data access and reliability. McDATA sais that its SANavigator and core-to-edge SAN have allowed Pier 1 to mitigate costs while keeping pace with rapidly growing data volumes […]