Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Tek-Tools has announced the availability of Storage Profiler Backup. This cross-vendor, web-based backup reporting and analysis solution provides a consolidated, centralized view of all backups across multiple backup servers running Veritas NetBackup, CA ARCserve and/or Legato Networker in relation to the entire storage network. Storage Profiler Backup works regardless of the operating system or storage […]

McDATA announced earlier this week that EMC is offering McDATA’s full family of core-to-edge 2Gb/s storage networking solutions. As a result, EMC will offer to its customers McDATA’s Intrepid 6000 Series Director and it’s Sphereon 3000 Series Fabric Switches as the Connectrix ED-64M, DS-32M2 and DS-16M2, respectively. McDATA’s family of core-to-edge 2Gb/s storage networking products […]

LSI Logic today announced an agreement with IBM Corporation calling for LSI Logic to acquire the assets of IBM’s Mylex business unit. LSI Logic will use the purchase method of accounting for the acquisition. The cash transaction is anticipated to close during LSI Logic’s third quarter ending September 30 and is expected to be accretive […]

IBM today introduced new and enhanced tape storage products designed to help improve the way organizations handle high volume archiving and backup tasks. Specifically, IBM introduced a new IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590 Model H that is more scalable, and also unveiled connectivity and simplified management capabilities for the IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server […]

Adaptec today announced they have provided a sample Serial ATA RAID controller to four major server and workstation original equipment manufacturers, allowing them to begin Serial ATA disk drive tests, Serial ATA performance evaluations and backplane development. “With our Serial ATA RAID controller now sampling, Adaptec is firmly on track to release production units available […]

Fibre Channel is the name given to a set of standards that define mechanisms for connecting network nodes using serial communication over copper or optical cable. Fibre Channel standards were developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to overcome the shortcomings of the current SCSI infrastructure, and are used to provide high-speed connections between […]

Bell Microproducts have announced the launch of a consolidated and interoperable storage solution targeting VARs serving the Windows NT/2000 end user market. The SAN solution is available as both a basic 216GB configuration, and a high availability 438GB configuration. The packages are designed to help VARs deliver the availability, manageability, scalability and security of storage […]

StoreAge Networking Technologies has announced an extensive series of partnerships with industry-leading vendors of storage networking technologies. According to the company, the partnerships are part of an overall mission to ensure that virtualized SAN environments based on their StoreAge Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) solutions are compatible with a broad array of leading SAN storage solutions, […]

InoStor has announced the upcoming availability of it’s PerformNAS appliance, a high-performance, scalable Network Attached Storage solution designed to meet the cross-platform file serving demands of small and mid-sized businesses. Shipments to channel partners began this month with general availability to all customers in July. “Users are looking for turnkey solutions and increased data security. […]

A new study released by Freeman Reports cautiously projects a slow but steady recovery from two consecutive years of decline for the compact tape industry. “The fundamentals supporting this conclusion are sound, and include strong growth in network storage requirements, surprising resilience in the entry server segment, continuing performance and capacity enhancements, and accompanying cost […]

Gadzoox Networks announced today the availability of the FabriCore Engines suite of hardware and embedded operating system (OS) technology, for licensing and purchase. The FabriCore Engines suite of technology offers customers access to Fibre Channel (FC) expertise in three different product offerings, FC-MAC (Media Access Controller) Soft Core, Open SAN OS and ASSPs (Application Specific […]

INRANGE Technologies today announced that the INRANGE IN-VSN(TM) 9801 Series has been enhanced with additional functionality and has successfully completed interoperability testing with IBM’s TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server for Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) and new Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy Extended Distance (PPRC-XD) software, enabling users to mirror IBM storage devices across the WAN at continental distances […]