Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

There are many obstacles on the road to iSCSI adoption. One of the most significant is that of security. In the same way that ‘standard’ network transmissions can be intercepted, copied off the network media and read by a packet analyzer program, iSCSI’s use of TCP/IP as a transport mechanism means that the same could […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced that it has received an offer of a substantial new contribution of technology aimed at advancing standards-based SAN Management by a group of storage industry vendors. The contributors have developed a draft specification that applies CIM/WBEM object technology to create the basis of a complete management solution for […]

Imperial Technology announced today it is working with QLogic Corporation to make Storage Area Networks (SANs) more affordable. Using the QLogic SAN Connectivity Kit 1000 and an Imperial file cache accelerator, small and medium businesses can set up an entry-level application accelerator for applications such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, for less than $35,000. […]

Supporting its vision of a storage area network (SAN) in every business,QLogic Corp. has announced that its highly integrated Fibre Channel “switch-on-a-chip” has been implemented in the new Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router from Cisco Systems, Inc. The Cisco SN 5428, available today, is the industry’s first storage networking platform to incorporate both IP and […]

Fujitsu have unveiled its next generation of low-profile, high-speed and high-capacity hard disk drive (HDD) products, designed specifically for high-performance enterprise computing and emerging market applications. The new Fujitsu MAP and MAS series feature spindle speeds of 10K RPM and 15K RPM, respectively, and deliver capacities of up to 147GB in a 1-inch-high, 3.5-inch form […]

VERITAS has announced that its industry-leading VERITAS Foundation Suite(TM) storage management software is now available to customers of Sun Solaris(TM) 9, the latest update to Sun’s UNIX operating environment. VERITAS Foundation Suite combines VERITAS File System(TM), a standard file system for mission-critical enterprise applications, and VERITAS Volume Manager(TM), the industry’s No. 1 storage virtualization solution […]

Crossroads Systems Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Crossroads(R) 6000(tm), a new storage router designed to integrate a customer’s existing SCSI storage devices into 1 or 2 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. Targeted at the small to mid-sized market, the Crossroads 6000 complements the recently announced Crossroads 10000 which […]

Focusing on the medium-sized business segment, IBM today announced software and hardware enhancements to its TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) products, as well as a variety of new solutions, including several for the digital media industry. The new software and hardware improvements for the IBM TotalStorage NAS products can help increase NFS throughput performance by […]

There’s no question about it – the digital revolution has touched almost every aspect of audio and visual production. Nowhere have the changes been more dramatic, perhaps, than in the equipment, and practice, of non-linear editing. For editors, these systems remove many traditional barriers. Never before could so many elements be arranged, rearranged, and viewed […]

Exabyte Corporation announced today availability of the latest addition to Exabyte’s Fibre Channel library product offering — the 221L LTO Ultrium tape library with a native Fibre Channel interface (221L-FC). The 221L-FC is the first in a family of Exabyte native Fibre Channel LTO libraries designed to provide IT professionals with a technically superb, high-performance […]

StorageTek today furthered its commitment to providing reliable and interoperable solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs) by announcing the upcoming availability of the Brocade SilkWorm(R) 12000 Core Fabric Switch. According to StorageTek, the SilkWorm 12000, when used in conjunction with StorageTek’s storage solutions, allows companies to cost-effectively utilize storage management by improving storage allocation, increasing […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. (ASPX)has released a white paper addressing the latest approaches available to help enterprises control the hardware and administrative costs associated with data storage. The 19-page document, called “NAS-SAN Convergence Today: New Trends in Enterprise Storage”, can be downloaded free of charge from the Auspex Website. The paper discusses the current enterprise storage […]