Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Bocada has released BackupReport Suite 2.0, the latest version of its agentless, multivendor Storage Intelligence solution. “BackupReport Suite 2.0 solidifies Bocada’s leadership in helping organizations quickly and measurably improve their ability to protect critical data while substantially reducing costs,” said Steve Duplessie, Senior Analyst for The Enterprise Storage Group, in a press release. “The unique, […]

Ultera Systems yesterday launched the first in a series of scalable Virtual Tape Controllers (VTC) for enterprise backup, restore and archive. Named the ‘Mirage’, controller operates as a hard drive-based virtual tape library which allows it to provide high-performance backup and restore with instantaneous file access. Ultera says that the device also has a unique […]

Nortel and EMC have joined forces to provide an end-to-end solution based on an optical storage area network (SAN) and business continuity software for Baptist Health, a Montgomery, Alabama-based healthcare institution that offers quality, leading-edge health services and wellness programs. “Part of delivering exceptional service to all of our communities is ensuring we have leading-edge […]

VERITAS today announced that it has acquired Manchester, NH. based NTP Software’s Storage Reporter, a reporting product that makes it possible to view storage usage and more exercise control over storage management and associated costs. VERITAS says that Storage Reporter will complement its storage resource management (SRM) offering, SANPoint Control. According to the company, it […]

Brocade yesterday announced an agreement to acquire privately held switch manufacturer Rhapsody Networks. Through the acquisition, Brocade says that it will extend its leadership in the by delivering the industry’s first open, intelligent platform for fabric applications. “We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks. The powerful combination of Rhapsody’s advanced technology and […]

ADIC today announced that supercomputer manufacturer Cray will use ADIC’s StorNext File System as the primary SAN file system in its new Cray X1supercomputer. The file system, which is being made available through a long-term source license agreement, will be configured for Cray’s UNICOS operating system and will be delivered with every Cray X1 system. […]

Iomega, the company that earned its reputation by bringing the world ‘Zip’ drives, today launched the Iomega NAS P415 in both Microsoft and UNIX versions, adding a 720GB NAS server to its family of NAS products. Designed for the growing storage needs of small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise workgroups, Iomega says that the NAS […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the formation of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) Forum. The SMI Forum is the fifth forum to be formed by SNIA specifically to drive the adoption of technologies and interoperability, joining the Supported Solutions Forum, IP Storage Forum, DAFS Developers Forum, and Storage Security Industry Forum. The […]

Network Appliance today announced that it has been selected by the Australian Department of Defense Information Services Branch, the entity responsible for managing the majority of the Department’s IT infrastructure, as the preferred storage supplier to standardize storage technology across the organization. The deal is for a total storage solution comprising hardware, software, and services, […]

Bus-Tech has announced a new product – the iSCSI Storage Server – and iSCSI protocol support on its Mainframe Appliance for Storage; expanding the tape-on-disk product family to include an IP-based Storage Controller. Bus-Tech’s Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) is a System/390 Tape-on-Disk Controller providing ESCON connection to System/390 class mainframes. Open systems disk storage […]

Having an effective and tested disaster recovery plan is vital for companies in all industries. According to META Group research, over 30 percent of companies that suffer a catastrophic disaster, i.e. fire, flood, earthquake – never reopen their doors for business. In addition, that same research stated that 29 percent of businesses suffering a catastrophic […]

Hot on the heels of EMC‘s announcement last week, IBM yesterday launched a new initiative to accelerate the delivery of interoperable storage management products using the “Bluefin” specification. It also announced more advanced function and productivity enhancements to its TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (code-named “Shark”). As part of the announcement IBM also unveiled a working […]