Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Deloitte Consulting L.P. today announced a new Global Solutions Alliance to extend their five-year relationship and add new customer-focused enterprise-wide solutions. This alliance is intended to deliver tested, pre-integrated vertical and horizontal solutions that could help customers speed implementation, and, ultimately, reduce total cost of ownership. Sun and Deloitte Consulting will […]

Storage Computer Corporation joins more than 45 vendors to showcase the largest demonstration of interoperable enterprise-wide storage networking solutions at the Spring 2002 Storage Networking World(R) (SNW) Conference and Expo, held April 2-5 in Palm Desert, Calif. This year’s SNW Interoperability Lab, titled Find Your Storage Solution, is designed to give end users and storage […]

The board of directors for Veritas Software Corp. said Dave J. Roux, co-founder and principal of Silver Lake Management, LLC, has been appointed director. Roux, 45, has served as co-founder and principal of Silver Lake Management, LLC, a New York and Silicon Valley investment partnership. Roux is also chairman of Liberate Technologies, Inc. in Redwood […]

Adaptec Inc. , a data-storage-access solutions provider, today announced licensing and OEM agreements with IBM that it expects will lead to approximately $200 million in new revenue opportunities for Adaptec over the next three years. According to the agreements, Adaptec will supply RAID products to IBM for its xSeries servers and license IBM’s ServeRAID technology […]

Despite the sluggish global economy of 2001, the tape library industry achieved unit growth of 3% and revenue decline of only 4% compared to 2000 according to the newly completed Freeman Report, “Tape Library Outlook 2002.” Total demand for tape libraries rose to 63,500 units in 2001 and is projected to climb to 134,800 units […]

Veritas Software Corp. today announced a heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) implementation in its corporate data center. This new data center serves as a living showcase of the most advanced SAN technology in the market from Veritas Software and key technology partners Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, McData, Quantum and Sun Microsystems. It includes data protection, […]

Storage Area Networks (SANZ) is introducing a new family of data management appliances called EarthWhere, a set of products designed for the needs of end users of remote sensing and Geospatial data. Mark Hardy, Director and General Manager of SANZ Geospatial Practice said, “The market that we have targeted includes an estimated 15,000 user sites […]

SwapDrive, a provider of Web-based data storage, has released its Palm wireless application. According to the company, SwapDrive for Palm enables mobile users to access, view, and send files utilizing a Palm Web-enabled handheld device. It allows Palm users to access, view text, and send files, which have been previously backed up from their desktop […]

FalconStor Software announced that its storage infrastructure software IPStor will support storage networks based on INRANGE’s Virtual Storage Networking (IN-VSN) architecture. According to the companies, IPStor has successfully completed qualification testing for interoperability with the 64-port and 128-port models of INRANGE’s IN-VSN FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director. The companies also said IPStor’s end-to-end security, redundancy and […]

Vixel Corp., a provider of storage area networking (SAN) solutions, announced today that IBM has verified the compatibility of the Vixel 9100 2Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch for use with IBM’s latest 2Gb/s subsystem enclosures. IBM has successfully completed compatibility testing between the Vixel 9100 and its ProFibre Storage Array DF4000R and DF4000J enclosures. “This illustrates […]

Design and construction concern Ellerbe Becket today announced a strategic partnership with worldwide data storage and information management provider Imation Corp. The alliance will allow both firms to expand and enhance their services to data center clients. The technology revolution has increased the need for “mission critical” facilities that house and protect an organization’s key […]

Six members of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s Supported Solutions Forum (SNIA SSF) — Brocade, Compaq Computer Corp., EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM Corp. and McDATA Corp. — today announced that SSF members Legato Systems, Inc., Quantum Corp., StorageTek and VERITAS Software have joined them to provide a new solution set that expands on the […]