Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Mellanox Technologies today announced the availability of its Nitro II 4X (10 Gb/sec) InfiniBand server blade reference platform. The Nitro II platform utilizes Mellanox’s second-generation 10 Gb/sec InfiniHost host channel adaptor (HCA) and InfiniScale switching silicon. The Nitro II platform consists of 2.2 GHz Intel(R) Pentium 4 processor based diskless server blades, dual 16-port 4X […]

FalconStor Software today announced new additions to its solutions portfolio for end-to-end network availability -based on technology from recently acquired IP Metrics Software. The new client and server options to FalconStor’s flagship product, IPStor, enhance high availability on the SAN, complemented by the enterprise and standard edition of NIC Express, providing high network availability on […]

StorageTek have announced a trade-in program to give customers in the US an opportunity to upgrade their TimberWolf 9730 tape libraries to the newer StorageTek L40 tape library. The L40 can accommodate mixed media and SDLT tape drives. StorageTek’s 9730 trade-in program provides customers $3,000 cash back when they trade in their existing TimberWolf tape […]

Anyone involved in the certification industry will tell you that these are tough times. In the days before the dot com bust, IT certifications were a means for anyone with a technical inkling and a little cash to get certified and, most likely, get a job. As a result, hoards of companies producing a hardware […]

FalconStor and Acer have announced a global OEM partnership which will see Acer embed FalconStor’s IPStor software into selected Acer Altos servers. Acer’s Altos storage solutions consist of high performance servers designed for a wide range of business applications. The integration of FalconStor’s IPStor software will allow Acer to offer features such as high availability, […]

The Technical Committee T13 of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) has announced that it will begin work immediately on a new BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3 (EDD-3) Standard, which builds on EDD-2 to address emerging storage technologies. The standard will provide a BIOS interface that operating systems can use to access […]

A new study by IDC has revealed that worldwide spending on storage utility services will reach more than $1.2 billion by 2006, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%. Based on new assumptions taking into account changing market forces, this study shows that much storage-on-demand spending to date has been done as part […]

Vixel announced today that HP has implemented Vixel’s InSpeed Model 310 Embedded Storage Switch into its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) platform based storage solutions. In addition to shipping InSpeed with new EVA (v2) platform storage solutions, HP is also offering retrofit upgrades to existing EVA platform users. InSpeed technology is an advanced switching architecture coupling […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Board of Directors approved the charter for the formation of the Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF) last week during a meeting in San Jose, Calif. According to the SNIA, the forum is a customer- and market-focused vendor consortium dedicated to increasing the availability of robust storage security solutions. The […]

Imation today announced the shipment of its two millionth 3590E extended capacity half-inch tape cartridge. These cartridges are available from Imation as the Imation Black Watch 3590E and from IBM as the IBM 3590 Extended High Performance Cartridge Tape. Imation developed the 3590E tape cartridge in tandem with IBM and launched the technology in February […]

Gadzoox today announced the new Slingshot 4218HA, an Open Fabric 2Gb, high available, SAN switch and the Redundant Power Supply Unit (RPSU) for Slingshot 4218 SAN switches. Both Slingshot products solve high availability requirements by providing necessary redundancy and data continuity features. “SAN switches are important devices in building a true high availability storage network. […]

IBM today introduced a powerful, next-generation enterprise storage server that delivers self-managing and self-healing technology features from IBM’s Project eLiza. According to IBM, the new servers which are powered by IBM’s copper microchips and 2-Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Fibre/FICON data transfer rates, deliver superior system throughput and performance over comparably equipped competitive systems. The new models, called […]