Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Excel/Meridian Data today introduced its newest member of the NAS family of products, the DataNAS. The DataNAS is a NAS Filer scalable from 60GB to 1.6TB of raw storage. According to the company, the addition of the DataNAS product will strengthen its current position in the NAS market by enhancing the ability to deliver more […]

McDATA Corp. has released a new Fibre Channel SAN switch for the mid-range market. Designed to fill the needs of small-to-midsize enterprises, the McDATA Sphereon is the the world’s only 24-port SAN switch and offers “connectivity on demand” in 8-port increments through McDATA’s FlexPort Technology. McDATA is also packaging every Sphereon 4500 with its all-new, […]

Overland Storage has announced a new dual drive LTO automation product aimed at the extended-functionality loader market. According to the company, the new PowerLoader product establishes a new class of automation product for the high performance and high capacity LTO tape format, providing many of the features normally found in competing automation systems that cost […]

Nexsan today rolled out its next-generation disk-to-disk backup technology platform; an enterprise data protection solution that the company says outpaces traditional tape-based backup alternatives in both functionality and value. The new InfiniSAN D2D Professional combines cost-correct RAID-5 storage arrays with advanced storage management software to deliver a broad range of data protection capabilities and customer […]

In a move that underscores the importance of open storage management standards, and to address storage customers’ needs for a lower total cost of ownership, Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) members Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, IBM, Sun and VERITAS announced today a new effort dedicated to the promotion and progress of SNIA’s Common […]

Snap Appliance, the volume-leading brand of network attached storage (NAS) products, will no longer be just a brand name but an independent company as well. Quantum, who owns the brand, announced today it is selling its NAS products business unit for cash and equity to help launch Snap Appliance, Inc. Along with Quantum’s equity investment, […]

Enterprise SAN storage management software manufacturer StoreAge, and data management software company KOM NETWORKS today announced a partnership agreement to deliver policy-based storage management solutions that operate across virtually all storage platforms. Combined, the two companies say they will enable customers to strategically and automatically manage the cradle-to-grave lifecycle of their critical information while optimizing […]

BMC Software and Dell have announced a global enterprise agreement in which Dell plans to standardize on BMC Software enterprise management solutions for Dell’s internal systems. “Dell continues to leverage technology to gain efficiency throughout our enterprise and enhance our ability to provide the best customer experience in the technology industry,” said Michael Dell, Dell […]

LSI Logic and ServerWorks have announced a partnership to deliver MegaRAID IDEal RAID on motherboard (ROMB) solutions with the next generation of ServerWorks SystemI/O solutions. The MegaRAID IDEal solution will be available for licensing with the Champion South Bridge 6 (CSB6), which is now available in volume quantities. It is compatible with the ServerWorks’ Grand […]

Adaptec is demonstrating an iSCSI solution that simplifies management and accelerates backup and restore features of Microsoft Exchange-based corporate email servers. The demonstration this week is targeting hundreds of IT managers and end- users that plan, manage and deploy Microsoft Exchange or Windows servers who are attending the Microsoft Exchange Conference, and validates the maturity […]

There are many emerging technologies that promise to improve the storage environment, but few are anticipated as much as InfiniBand, an interconnect architecture which boasts greater speed, efficiency, and reliability than existing interconnect technologies such as PCI. As products that use InfiniBand start to become available, many are predicting that the technology will become the […]

Backup and Disaster Recovery software manufacturer NovaStor today announced an updated release, version 8.1, of their Open File Manager software. This release debuts support for servers running Novell NetWare 6 and Novell Storage Services (NSS) 3.0. According to NovaStor, the Open File Manager ensures full-time protection of critical files as part of a complete and […]