Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Building Storage Networks (2nd Ed) by Marc Farley is nothing if not complete. At almost 600 pages it has the capacity to deliver a wide reaching range of material on storage network which it duly does. Farley, who also wrote the first edition of the book, makes it clear in the introduction that much has […]

Imation and O-Mass AS, a subsidiary of Tandberg Data, today announced they have signed an agreement to work together to develop the world’s fastest performing, highest capacity tape drive based on a combination of magnetic and optical technologies. In addition, Imation will acquire a 12 percent equity stake in O-Mass AS for US $5 million, […]

VeriStor Systems today announced it will resell the full line of data recovery and backup products from UniTrends Software, including UniTrends’ Backup Professional storage management software. “Our customers increasingly require data protection that is reliable, easy to operate and reduces their operating costs,” said Murray Granger, VeriStor’s Executive Director of Sales. “UniTrends products meet those […]

Critical Path has announced a global agreement with EMC to cooperatively market advanced messaging solutions to leading carriers and enterprises around the world. The companies will initially offer a preconfigured, integrated solution along with tools and methodologies to support easy migration from other messaging systems. The advanced messaging solution will combine Critical Path’s messaging and […]

Oracle today announced wide-scale support by storage technology providers that have integrated and validated their solutions with Oracle9i Database, including partners such as EMC, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Network Appliance, Legato, Sun and VERITAS. The collaborative work between Oracle and its storage partners is intended to provide customers with better integration, faster deployments, and better service, […]

QLogic today announced that EMC has qualified the new SANblade 2340 Series PCI-X host bus adapters (HBAs) with Symmetrix and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems as E-Lab Tested. “E-Lab Tested means that QLogic HBAs are fully interoperable with EMC information storage systems, enabling customers to deploy heterogeneous storage networks, quickly, reliably and cost- effectively,” said Chuck […]

Raidtec has announced a new addition to its NAS family of File Server Appliances. The SNAZ-E6 is a high performance Gigabit Ethernet, full featured file server for simultaneous support of Windows and Unix/Linux client computers on a LAN. SNAZ E6 is optimized for workgroup and departmental installations and is available with 480GB, 720GB or 960GB […]

FalconStor and StorageTek have announced the joint qualification of each other’s product lines. Previously, FalconStor had jointly tested and qualified StorageTek’s 9176 Disk Subsystem with IPStor, FalconStor’s storage networking software, and has now completed qualification testing for select StorageTek disk subsystems. This includes StorageTek’s D178 2Gb Fibre Channel disk storage system, an enterprise-level open systems […]

With the demand for data storage showing no signs of abating, IT organizations are turning to new approaches for managing storage volumes, according to a new META Group’s study ‘Enterprise Storage: Technology Adoption and Deployment Trends.’ The study — based on a recent META Group survey of IT professionals — indicates that 60% of IT […]

Avid Technology yesterday announced the availability of the Avid Unity LANshare EX v3.0, a turnkey storage solution with almost two terabytes of capacity in an all-in-one rack-mountable chassis. According to Avid, at an MSRP of $40,000, the price of LANshare EX v3.0 is far below the cost of any storage system with similar capacity, yet […]

BakBone Software announced today the planned availability of VaultDR Online Application Plugin Module (APM), a new online disaster recovery APM that provides complete recovery capabilities for Windows-based operating system platforms. VaultDR Online will allow user to perform backups while the system is online (Operating System running and active), allowing users access to the system’s applications. […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is setting the stage for a breakthrough demonstration of a multi-vendor Storage Area Network (SAN) that will be managed using CIM/WBEM technology. Fourteen SNIA member companies gathered last week at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. to conduct the first of a series of collaborative “plugfests” to […]