Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Tricord Systems, Inc., developer of Illumina(TM) clustering software and Lunar Flare(TM) clustered server appliances, and Realtimepublishers.com, the worldwide leader in corporate-sponsored e-publishing, today announced The Definitive Guide(TM) to High-Availability NAS, an eBook that will be hosted on the Tricord Web site. Authored by industry expert, John Vacca, and published by Realtimepublishers, the eBook will discuss […]

Network Appliance, Inc. today announced it has been presented with a Texas Instruments (TI) Supplier Excellence Award (SEA). The annual award honors companies that demonstrate a level of dedication and commitment in providing TI with products and services that meet TI’s high standards for excellence. Since 1984, TI has issued the award annually to recognize […]

MTI Technology Corp., a leading provider of storage and business solutions for more than two decades, announced it has installed 13 of its Vivant D100 storage area network (SAN) storage solution at the U.S. Department. of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. The Vivant D100s will provide 42 terabytes of storage capacity. The sales […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router, a storage networking platform that incorporates both IP and Fibre Channel switching technologies. This integrated solution allows enterprise workgroups to cost effectively migrate from direct attached storage (DAS) to storage area network (SAN) environments. Enterprise workgroups, which include corporate departments and […]

Sony Electronics today announced that its new second- and third-generation Advanced Intelligent Tape(TM) (AIT) drives will incorporate write-once-read-many (WORM) recording functionality. Beginning in July, new AIT-2 and AIT-3 drives and specially marked corresponding AIT media will allow for non-rewritable, non-erasable electronic data storage, in addition to delivering AIT’s traditional superior core technology benefits. With the […]

IBM today announced that it has recorded 1 terabyte (TB) of data to a linear digital tape cartridge, storing nearly 10 times more data than any linear tape cartridge currently available. One terabyte is equal to 16 days of continuously running DVD movies, or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a […]

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC), has voted to launch a full U.S. Government investigation into EMC Corporation’s charges filed April 11, 2002, of patent infringement against Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Hitachi, Ltd. This is the first step toward fulfilling EMC’s request that the U.S. government exclude Hitachi’s infringing products from the U.S. […]

Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced that its Tornado(R) for Intelligent Network Acceleration (TINA) for iSCSI Initiators platform was named the winner for best networked storage technology, at the Best of Interop Awards competition during NetWorld + Interop (N+I) 2002. The judges for this prestigious award — editors from leading technology magazines including Network Computing, […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. announced today that the University of Toronto at Mississauga is using an Auspex network server to enable its 6,400 students to retrieve computer-based homework, papers, research and class assignments from any location on or off campus. Consolidating files on a single Network Attached Storage (NAS) system has eliminated the need for students […]

As part of the post merger restructuring of the company’s product lines, Hewlett Packard has revealed a roadmap detailing, among other things, how the storage element of the combined business will look going forward. Given that both the original HP and Compaq were prominent players in the storage field, the new HP has been able […]

Quantum Corp. today announced that its Super DLTtape(TM) products are exceeding the growing storage needs of industry leading businesses with greater tape drive performance, reliability, higher capacity media cartridges and a technology roadmap that extends several generations into the future. “Quantum brings a distinguished history of expertise to tape storage,” said Bob Abraham, president, Freeman […]

Sony Electronics today introduced a new StorStation. Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) library that, at one rack-unit (1.75″) high, is the slimmest tape library on the market today, and features the industry’s highest tape storage density per cubic foot. The newest member of the Sony StorStation family of storage solutions (model LIB-81), houses one AIT-1, AIT-2 […]