Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Enterprise storage vendor nStor Technologies has named its Vice President of Finance and COO Thomas Gruber as Acting President effective immediately. According to the company, former nStor president Thomas Makmann resigned his position to pursue other interests closer to his family on the East Coast. The company said Mr. Gruber brings over 30 years of […]

Network attached storage (NAS) vendor Tricord Systems has become a premier-level member of the Citrix Business Alliance (CBA) program. As a CBA Premier member, Tricord said it will move beyond fundamental product compatibility testing to a more sophisticated level of joint marketing, and will work with Citrix to provide enhanced application server computing solutions to […]

SwapDrive, a provider of Web- based data storage, announced that more than 30 enterprise level customers, including three publicly traded companies, have implemented SwapDrive online data backup, storage, and recovery solutions over the past three months According to SwapDrive, its service helps organizations quickly and easily access virtually unlimited data storage capacity and capabilities, on-demand. […]

Adaptec, Inc. has expanded its external RAID family of products to include the DuraStor 7220SS, a SAN-ready 2 GB Fibre Channel storage subsystem. The company said this new solution complements its DuraStor 6220SS, the SCSI storage subsystem launched last year. “Storage based in the SAN architecture provides numerous benefits to organizations, like reduced administrative costs […]

EMC Corp. has qualified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel HBA as E-Lab Tested for use with its Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and Connectrix family of Fibre Channel products in Windows 2000 environments. EMC said its E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive performance and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of […]

JNI Corporation announced that Hitachi Data Systems has certified JNI’s 2 Gb Ready FibreStar PCI and SBus Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for use in the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900. Two families of JNI HBAs have been qualified by Hitachi Data Systems: the 2 Gb Ready FCE-6460 PCI and 2 Gb Ready FCE-1473 […]

CommVault Systems, a provider of enterprise data management solutions has expanded support for enterprise UNIX, Linux and leading databases with the latest release of CommVault Galaxy, version 3.7.1. According to the company, this latest release extends CommVault’s data protection for IBM AIX and Linux, and leading databases, like Oracle and Informix, to meet enterprise storage […]

SAN Valley Systems has successfully completed interoperability testing of its SAN Valley SL1000 IP-SAN Gateway with Compaq’sSANworks Enterprise Storage Management suite of products in a Brocade storage area network (SAN) environment. The companies said this achievement paves the way for Compaq and channel partners to market a complete Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) standards-based […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. , a provider of enterprise storage solutions, announced the forthcoming release of a storage controller that it said will enable enterprises with Storage Area Networks (SANs) from virtually any vendor to access and share files via Network Attached Storage (NAS) protocols. Scheduled to ship in April 2002, the company said the controller […]

IBM is cooperating with Hitachi Data Systems to further promote the development of interoperable storage networking solutions. Specifically, the companies are conducting interoperability testing of IBM’s TotalStorage NAS 300G with Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 series with plans to extend to the Thunder 9200. IBM said the NAS 300G is designed to act as an […]

QLogic Corp. has introduced the newest member of its SANbox2 family of Fibre Channel switches. Targeted at small to medium sized enterprises, the company said the SANbox2 8-port switch is designed from the ground up to deliver the price/performance of 1Gb Ethernet switches with an expected street price of $5,000 QLogic said the 2Gb SANbox2 […]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a leading metropolitan newspaper, has deployed Dot Hill Systems’ SANnet(R) storage systems to store the newspaper’s extensive databases. SANnet systems are also being used for Web-related projects such as the paper’s career and job listing site. “Our journalists and 1.4 million readers require continuous access to the latest information stored in our […]