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VERITAS has announced that testing has revealed companies who use VERITAS storage software with Sun Solaris 9 experience 15 times faster computing performance and improved system reliability compared to those who simply run the native software provided with the operating system. The testing was performed by the GiantLoop Testing and Certification (GTAC) Lab — an […]

Raidtec today announced a new addition to its NAS family of File Server Appliances – the SNAZ E4. The E4 is a high performance Gigabit Ethernet full-featured file server for simultaneous support of Windows and Unix/Linux client computers on a LAN. The system is optimized for workgroup and departmental installations with hot removable/hot spare ATA […]

In a teleconference to its global clients today, IDC showed that the worldwide IT industry suffered its largest decline ever in 2002, with a growth rate of negative 2.3%. However, IDC expects the $875 billion dollar IT industry to recover from this low point with a 2003 growth rate of more than 5%. “Overall, the […]

The Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative (EBSI) has teamed with Network Storage University to conduct informational seminars in six states from November through February 2003. The focus of the sessions will be the opportunities provided by today’s disk-based backup platforms. EBSI members Atto, Legato, Network Appliance, and Quantum are sponsoring the NSU Series. Dean Morash, strategic […]

As IBM celebrates its 50th anniversary of inventing tape storage, the company today announced the next generation of its Linear Tape-Open (LTO) product line, and a significant milestone with the shipment of the 100,000th IBM TotalStorage Ultrium LTO tape drive. “IBM has a storied history of tape technology leadership,” said Frank Elliott, vice president of […]

QLogic today unveiled a full line of iSCSI products that it says answers the call from major OEMs for standards-based iSCSI components to power server, networking and storage systems. The foundation of the new product line consists of three single-chip ISP offload engines for TCP, iSCSI and IPSec, the industry’s first state-based offload engines scalable […]

Solid state storage solution innovator BiTMICRO Networks unveiled its new E-Disk 3F2 — the world’s first 2Gbit Dual-Ported Fibre Channel storage device with 77 GB of pure flash memory storage capacity in a 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprint. BiTMICRO said that they developed the product in response to the increasing demand from the business enterprise, […]

Tape drive component manufacturer Read-Rite announced today that it has made a breakthrough in data storage technology, achieving a magnetic data storage world record of 146 gigabits per square inch using vertical recording technology. According to the company, this breakthrough shatters the previous perpendicular record announced earlier this week, by Seagate, by over 40%, and […]

Storage Networking HBA manufacturer Emulex today announced that it will be showcasing the industry’s first 10 Gigabit-per-second (10Gb/s) Fibre Channel technology during Fall Comdex 2002, which takes place next week in Las Vegas, NV. The demonstration features the delivery of 10Gb/s protocol compliant data streams over optical cabling utilizing Emulex ASIC, firmware, and driver technology. […]

IBM today announced new network attached storage (NAS) systems that double the processor speed and storage capacity of its previous models including the industry’s first network products with accelerators available to mid-sized customers. Demand for midrange storage products is seeing dramatic growth rates due to the increase in storage networking by both mid-sized and enterprise […]

Seagate today announced that its scientists have broken new ground in the field of magnetic data storage by demonstrating areal densities of over 100 gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2) using perpendicular recording technology. This “vertical” move has also enabled record performance data rates of up to 125 MB per second. As the areal density growth […]

Nexsan today rolled out its next-generation disk-to-disk backup technology platform, creating what it says are new standards for affordable, high-density enterprise storage. The InfiniSAN ATABeast, is a compact multi-terabyte disk array that Nexsan says delivers enterprise-class capabilities in a low-profile, cost-correct package. Nexsan’s new ATABeast combines capacity, availability and scalability at a cost that makes […]