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NEC Corporationhas added BakBone Software’s NetVault to its Linux backup solution product lineup. NEC plans to sell NetVault as a backup software for NEC’s “Express 5800 Series” IA server products. “Our adoption of NetVault backup software enables NEC enterprise customers to use our Linux-based system products more reliably. We aim to further expand our market […]

SAN Valley Systems announced that the company has finalized a reseller contract with Total Tec, an enterprise solutions integrator. Total Tec plans to bundle the SAN Valley SL1000 IP-SAN Gateway as part of its business continuance program. “As the largest reseller of Compaq and Brocade equipment, Total Tec is a very strategic channel partner for […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has opened three new Sun Storage Centers in Denver, Colorado; Singapore; and the United Kingdom. The company said the storage centers are designed to help customers develop and implement complete storage solutions, bringing together at a Sun site the hardware, software and staff resources needed to architect, test and develop support for […]

Data storage leader EMC posted narrower fourth-quarter losses, the result of aggressive cost-cutting measures and a sales approach that acknowledges leaner IT budgets. The Hopkinton, Mass., firm posted a net loss of $70 million, or 3 cents a diluted share, compared with net income of $562.8 million, or 25 cents a diluted share, in the […]

Crossroads Systems Inc. , a global provider of connectivity for storage networking solutions, announced today that EMC Corporation has qualified the Crossroads 8000 storage router as E-Lab Tested. E-Lab Tested is the centerpiece of EMC’s E-Infostructure Interoperability Program. The E-Lab Tested process qualifies the interoperability of third-party products within an information storage network, enabling customers […]

QLogic Corporation’s. SANblade CompactPCI (cPCI) Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) has been qualified by EMC Corporation as “E-Lab Tested” for use in EMC Enterprise Storage Network environments running Solaris server platforms with its Symmetrix information storage systems. EMC’s E-Lab tested qualification process is part of the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program, a series of performance […]

IBM and QLogic Corp. announced that QLogic’s SANblade 2200 Series Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) are shipping on board IBM’s TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) 200 and 300 products. According to the companies, using QLogic’s Fibre Channel connectivity, IBM’s NAS products can connect up to 90 disk drives and over 3 terabytes (TB) of […]

Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) and LSI Logic Storage Systems have partnered to introduce a disk storage system, the D178, and storage management software, SANtricity Storage Manager 8.0 (formally known as Object Manager). The D178 and SANtricity software are the first in a series of disk-based storage systems and management software releases the companies plan to […]

Seagate Technology subsidiary XIOtech Corporation unveiled the first of three product families in its new SANbuilder line of application-driven storage solutions. The company said the SANbuilder for Exchange Series includes professional services, storage hardware and software, training, support, and integration guides to help ensure a successful storage area network (SAN) installation in a Microsoft Exchange […]

TrelliSoft, Inc., a provider of multi-platform storage resource management (SRM) software has renamed StorageAlert/DB to StorageAlert/Apps. The company said the name change was made to more accurately reflect the product’s focus on eliminating storage-related application problems and as a harbinger of future support for applications beyond DBMSs. “StorageAlert/Apps is designed for storage professionals-not DBAs-who need […]

IBM announced a set of programs designed to qualify eligible value-added resellers (VARs) as Certified Mylex Partners (CMP), enhancing the skills, support levels and sales promotions in the reseller channel for IBM’s ProFibre Storage Array and Mylex RAID product lines. The new CMP program includes Mylex University hands-on RAID storage instruction and new training programs […]

Sony Electronics has announced the availability of its branded Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT-3) drives. Sony said the new internal and external Sony AIT-3 tape drives have a 3.5-inch form factor and feature 100 gigabytes (GB) of native capacity (260GB with 2.6:1 compression) and a 12MB/sec sustained native transfer rate (31MB/sec with 2.6:1 compression). Like the […]