Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

“Easing Backup Pain: A Backup & Restore Workshop,” an event being hosted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), is being held today and tomorrow at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs. SNIA said the “Easing Backup Pain” workshop will deliver an extensive series of tutorials focused on the business and technical aspects of […]

Solution-Soft Systems, a provider of Data Optimization (IDO) solutions, and FalconStor Software, a storage networking infrastructure software company, today announced the licensing and integration of Solution-Soft’s SafeCapacity technology with FalconStor’s IPStor storage management software. According to the companies, the technology licensing agreement will enable FalconStor customers to take advantage of Solution-Soft’s storage availability, reliability and […]

Storage Technology (StorageTek) plans to release a native FICON version of its T9840B tape drive within the next year and plans native FICON versions of future high-end tape drives. Additionally, StorageTek said it will enable FICON connectivity in its Shared Virtual Array (SVA) disk storage system to benefit customers in the mainframe disk subsystem market. […]

Quantum Corp. today introduced the Snap Server 1100, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance that provides up to 80GB of storage in a portable, desktop configuration. According to Quantum, the new Snap Server 1100 boasts nearly 70 percent faster throughput and 50 percent faster response time than its predecessor, the Snap Server 1000. Like all […]

Seagate announced that it has demonstrated full-speed native Serial ATA hard drive technology. Seagate said its design uses on-board, native Serial ATA technology that does not need to translate incoming Serial ATA signals into Parallel ATA protocols. The company said this ensures the design can provide the full 150-Mbytes-per-second Serial ATA transfer speed, with no […]

Xdrive Technologies, a provider of Internet information management software and services, has acquired the businesses of FreeDrive, a Enterprise Storage Application Provider. According to the companies, the acquisition brings together FreeDrive’s consumer and commercial web-based storage applications with Xdrive’s software and services that provide access, storage, backup, sharing, synchronization and transactional management of information distributed […]

Seagate Technology’s 15K-rpm Cheetah X15-36LP, an Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller, as well as LSI Logic’s LSI53C1030 Ultra320 SCSI controllers are being used in a live Ultra320 SCSI and RAID demonstrations at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The companies said Adaptec’s AIC-7902 Ultra320 SCSI ASIC, software drivers, RAID firmware, and Adaptec’s RAID management […]

TrueSAN Networks is working with Hitachi Data Systems to integrate its Cloudbreak Storage Operating System with Hitachi Freedom Storage systems. According to TrueSAN, by leveraging Hitachi Data Systems’ HiCommand Application Program Interfaces (APIs), TrueSAN will extend its Cloudbreak software to the Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 series and Thunder 9200(TM), as well as additional third-party storage […]

The SCSI Trade Association (STA), established in 1995, is a member-run industry consortium established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced their newly elected Board of Directors for 2002 today. Re-elected to the presidency after a one-year hiatus was Harry Mason of LSI Logic, president from 1995 through 2000. Three new board members include Daniel […]

Myrient , an outsourced IT solutions provider that delivers managed services, has launched a bundled product offering combining its ZIPBackup on-line backup solution and broadband access. The company said the new offering is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. “Market demand has created the need for a bundled broadband and on-line backup solution,” stated Jim […]

MTI Technology , a provider of storage and business solutions, today announced a new Vivant S Series model that it said offers a completely configured storage area network (SAN)-based storage solution with up to 8.5 terabytes of capacity in 20U of space. According to t he company, the new Vivant S240, the next step up […]

Legato Systems, an enterprise storage management software provider, and OTG Software, a provider of data storage, data access and email management solutions, announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement under which Legato will acquire all of the outstanding shares of OTG in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $403 million. “Today’s […]