Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

SAN Valley Systems , an IP-SAN connectivity hardware vendor, announced the relocation of its global headquarters from Campbell to San Jose. The two-story building, located at 6320 San Ignacio Avenue in San Jose, will serve as the company’s global headquarters for SAN Valley’s expanding infrastructure and North American and European sales forces. As part of […]

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has selected and implemented McDATA solutions at the heart of its data center. BlueCross BlueShield said it needed to gain control of its rapidly growing and disparate storage infrastructure in a non-disruptive manner. BlueCross BlueShield chose a McDATA storage area network (SAN) solution that includes McDATA’s 6000 Series Directors, 3000 Series […]

Worldwide spending growth on storage services – comprising consulting, integration, management, and support services – will achieve a moderate growth rate of 6.1% through 2005, a new study published by IDC reveals. The U.S. economic recession, a general slowdown in IT spending by customer organizations, slower than predicted growth in the storage product market, and […]

Storage-area networking (SAN) product provider Vixel Corp. and LSI Logic Corp. , which provides storage products, said they have completed certification of a new Fibre Channel 2Gb/s infrastructure bundle. The bundle includes the Vixel 9000 Series 2 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) Fabric Switches and LSI Logic’s 2Gb/s LSI44929O Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA). This […]

CreekPath Systems, an provider of automated, policy-based, storage area management (SAM) software solutions, today announced relationships with a number of industry-leading storage device vendors, including EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Sun Microsystems, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Brocade Communications Systems, Network Appliance, JNI Corp., Emulex Corp., McData Corp. and QLogic Corp. By supporting popular Storage […]

Overland Data Inc. , which makes mid-range tape automation solutions, today announced that Quantum Corp. , a provider of data protection and network storage, has signed an agreement to license Overland’s patented Variable Rate Randomizer (VR2) technology. Overland’s VR2 technology will be integrated into future Quantum tape drive offerings, officials said. Overland’s VR2 substantially increases […]

KnowledgeNet Inc., a supplier of next-generation e-learning solutions, today announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar agreement to provide EMC Corp. with its entire e-learning product offering-including content, authoring and services-as an extension of the EMC Proven Professional certification program and worldwide technical education offering. Under the terms of the agreement, EMC has chosen […]

GTDATA Corp.’s TSLi subsidiary has secured a $1 million line of credit, allowing the company to expand into new business opportunities. “This credit line will allow our company to pursue additional opportunities in both the service and sales arena,” said Robert Gensi, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of GTDATA. “We are pleased with our […]

Sistina, a developer of software products that enable sharing of data and dramatically reduce storage costs, today announced the release of version 5.0 of its award-winning Global File System (GFS). Sistina’s GFS is an advanced clustered file system that allows multiple servers on a Storage Area Network (SAN) to have concurrent read and write access […]

Network Appliance, Inc. , a NAS provider, today announced a new product family called NearStore that it said is a centralized rapid recovery and backup consolidation solution for the enterprise. Network Appliance said the NearStore product family leverages Network Appliance Data ONTAP technology and SnapMirror and DataFabric Manager software to allow products in the family […]

Tricord Systems Inc. The new release of Illumina, which runs on both the new 1200 and the existing 1100 NAS appliance, offers enhanced functionality for digital imaging and security applications, as well as an expanded feature set for enterprise environments. Lunar Flare NAS empowers users to add storage with no downtime, no user interruption and […]

Quantum Corp. , a provider of data protection and network storage systems, and data-storage management and security firm Benchmark Storage Innovations Inc. today announced the addition of Benchmark’s ValuSmart Tape 80 to Quantum’s PowerStor L200 and L500 library systems. The partnership provides DLTtape technology’s first half-high, 5.25-inch form factor and offers 80 GB of compressed […]