Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

IBM has certified Overland Data’s automated tape libraries for the latest release of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, centralized data protection solution. Brenda Zawatski, vice president, Tivoli Storage, IBM Software Group, said “Overland offers a comprehensive set of solutions that are compatible with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.” According to the companies, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.1 […]

Network Appliance, a provider of enterprise storage solutions, this week announced SnapDrive for Oracle, a data management product for managing Oracle8i deployments in Windows system-based environments. According to the company, SnapDrive provides support for high availability Oracle configurations such as Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and, when combined with NetApp Clustered Failover, data protection for Oracle […]

BlueArc Corporation’s Si7500 NAS Storage System has been certified to support all of StorageTek’s tape library backup solutions, including its top-end virtual tape library, the StorageTek PowderHorn Series. “The StorageTek certification ensures that our customers have a broad range of scalable, quality data management solutions that provide the best protection of business-critical information,” said Chuck […]

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) announced today that it successfully completed its recent large group test period. FCIA said various member organizations collaborated to demonstrate the ability of Fibre Channel to support multiple protocols and integrate Fibre Channel with general-purpose Ethernet networks. This open industry sponsored “Plugfest” was attended by 16 hardware and software […]

Gadzoox Networks, a supplier of Storage Area Network (SAN) products has signed an agreement with Anacomp, Inc. , a provider of technology outsourcing services, to offer technical services and support program to Gadzoox Networks’ customers. Rajan Varadarajan, director of worldwide distribution sales for Gadzoox Networks, said “We chose Anacomp to offer extended technical services and […]

Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation and Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS), the three technology provider companies for the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program, have made licenses for Ultrium tape format Generation 2 available. The companies said the LTO Ultrium format Generation 2 is designed to provide users with a number of advantages over Generation 1. Using Generation […]

Imperial Technology has announced the availability of the SANaccelerator, which the company said is a data acceleration device specifically designed to improve application performance in Storage Area Networks (SANs). Robert David, CEO and president of Imperial Technology, said “The SAN bottleneck is not the network, it is the inherent limitations of rotating disk drives. The […]

VERITAS Corporation announced today a storage management solution set for the Microsoft Windows 2000 server platform. The company said the portfolio of software products includes storage virtualization, zero-downtime backup, high availability, and data center migration for disaster recovery. “In order for Windows-based servers to continue to show strong growth in enterprise-caliber IT departments, they will […]

CNT is providing the Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) capability for Internet infrastructure services provider Genuity’s Remote Data Replication service. The companies said CNT’s UltraNet Edge Storage Router enables Genuity’s Remote Data Replication customers to replicate data from their site to a Genuity data center in a separate geography. Genuity’s Remote Data Replication service is […]

Stonebridge Technologies, a provider of business and technology integration services, today announced that it has been named a VERITAS Elite Partner by storage software leader VERITAS Software Corporation. “VERITAS technology is central to our end-to-end client solutions, and we are extremely pleased to be recognized as a VERITAS Elite Partner,” said Stonebridge CEO James Ivy. […]

Fujitsu Software Technology Corporation , a provider of storage management software, has acquired Vixel’s SAN Management software business, including SAN Insite. Under the terms of the agreement, Fujitsu Softek has purchased all of Vixel’s SAN Management technology intellectual property and key development team resources. On the heels of the company’s acquisition of Datacore’s virtualization source […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America MAN Series hard disk drives (HDDs) have been qualified for Adaptec’s DuraStor external storage solutions. Adaptec said its DuraStor subsystems include a 1U RAID appliance that holds up to two RAID controller cards, a 2U SCSI storage enclosure, and Storage Manager Pro software. The subsystems can be scaled to 876GB […]