Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Serial ATA, the next-generation storage interconnect, is gaining steam within the storage industry. The Intel Developer Forum (IDF), being held this week in San Jose, CA., has hosted a number of Serial ATA demonstrations and related announcements. As Serial ATA-based products are starting to roll out, significant milestones are being achieved. New and recent accomplishments […]

Maxtor has announced Maxtor MaXLine, its newest generation of ATA drives designed specifically for emerging enterprise storage applications including near-line, media storage and network storage. The MaXLine family features two key features which set it apart from other drive families – capacities up to 320 GB and unique manufacturing and quality processes resulting in mean […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has announced the general availability of the latest version of its AMASS for UNIX data management software, AMASS 5.3. The new AMASS version incorporates support for Write-once Read-many (WORM) tape technology and the latest revisions of UNIX operating systems to provide users with high security storage for large data sets […]

IT infrastructure architect Avnet Enterprise Solutions recently opened a SAN Center in Torrance, Calif., where customers and partners can observe demonstrations of actual Storage Area Network (SAN) environments, enabling them to see how information technology equipment can work if it were installed in their places of business. Customers get hands-on experience and can “drive” the […]

Seagate, Intel and Silicon Image today demonstrated new Serial ATA II interface capabilities that are defined by the upcoming Serial ATA II specification. The demonstration took place at the Intel Developer Forum conference in San Jose, CA. Among other advances, the working system showcased today implements Native Command Queuing — a key new capability defined […]

Adaptec today introduced a new low-profile external storage subsystem featuring storage management, security and protection crucial for SANs. The Adaptec DuraStor 7320SS, a Fibre Channel-to-SCSI subsystem, features LUN (logical unit number) zoning for the highest level of SAN security and manageability. LUN zoning allows organizations to easily allocate storage for specific applications and servers while […]

According to Netreon, using SANexec Designer, storage professionals can now control the full lifecycle of a storage area network (SAN) regardless of whether the SAN is brand new or already established. In addition, the company announced an expansion to its list of interoperability rules and supported devices including disk arrays, tape arrays and fabric switches. […]

Quantum has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Benchmark Storage Innovations, a privately held supplier of DLTtape drives, media and autoloaders. Quantum also announced a definitive agreement to outsource its current tape drive manufacturing to Jabil Circuit, a leader in electronic manufacturing services. The actions are intended to further strengthen Quantum’s […]

Microsoft today announced broad industry support for its interoperable Multipath Input/Output (I/O) technology. Leading enterprise storage vendors including EMC, HP, Fujitisu and LSI Logic have committed to developing products that will use Multipath I/O. According to Microsoft, customers will experience increased levels of system availability and performance through load-balancing and interoperability of third-party storage products. […]

Princeton Softech today announced it has entered into a technology agreement with EMC Corporation to integrate Princeton Softech’s Active Archive Solutions with the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform. Anticipated to be available in Q4 2002, the integrated solution will allow companies to deploy an enterprise active archiving strategy with an intelligent storage solution […]

The Storage Network Industry Association IP Storage Forum (SNIA IPS Forum) and its member companies today announced the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standard has reached a significant milestone with the completion of the IETF IPS Working Group’s last call. According to the group, at this point, the standard is technically complete and accurate […]

Mellanox Technologies today announced it will join Intel in working to advance industry standard, hardware-independent, open source InfiniBand software interfaces. Mellanox is supporting the InfiniBand verbs, Access Layer APIs and upper level protocols being developed in the SourceForge open source environment. Mellanox will provide device drivers for the InfiniHost Host Channel Adapters into the Source […]