Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Data storage giant EMC warned it will likely lose money in the third quarter and will cut 2,400 jobs as wary customers continue to postpone large capital purchases. “It is now clear that further weakening of the economy is causing major cutbacks in many of the industries served by EMC,” EMC president and CEO Joe […]

Network Appliance, Inc. , provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today debuted its first multiprocessor storage appliances, the NetApp F880 and F880c, which it says are ideal for large databases, ERP, corporate-wide home directory consolidation, and other mission-critical applications. According to the company, it supports up to 18TBs(a) of storage and further […]

Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its 100,000th tape drive. Dell was the recipient of the milestone drive. “The entire Benchmark team is to be congratulated for their accomplishments,” said Lew Frauenfelder, Benchmark’s CEO and president. “It represents a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.” “As the proud recipient of […]

Networking product and services provider Avaya Inc. has announced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution designed to help enterprises optimize their businesses by expanding their infrastructure bandwidth. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networks are expected to deliver the newest broadband services — such as all types of streaming media, including high definition video, and audio plus advanced […]

Hitachi Ltd.’s Hitachi Data System subsidiary announced a number of performance enhancements to the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 system, highlighted by the availability of 2-Gigabit per second Fibre Channel connectivity. The Lightning 9900 is the industry’s first high-end storage system to deploy 2 Gbps technology, increasing performance by as much as 40 percent over […]

Raqia Networks today announced the availability of its RQDPC10G Deep-Packet Classification engine, enabling companies to enhance content-based network systems by providing full wire-rate classification anywhere in the packet header or payload. The device operates at 10Gbps Ethernet or OC-192 Packet over SONET. “The primary benefit of our RQDPC10G processor is that it performs packet analysis […]

Hitachi Ltd.’s Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and McData Corp. announced today what they called a “major storage networking deal” with the Norwegian gaming company, Norsk Tipping. The storage area network (SAN) solution from HDS and McData will enable Norsk Tipping to consolidate its data in a single storage pool, which will greatly increase its commercial […]

Finisar Corp. said that its Instruments division and Shomiti Systems, a recent Finisar acquisition, will combine to form Finisar Systems. Officially a Division of Finisar Corp., Finisar Systems will provide Network Test and Quality of Service (QoS) products for Local Area, Storage Area and VoIP networks, officials said. Finisar Systems will specialize in providing products […]

EMC Corp. said it has introduced a complete new line of EMC Symmetrix systems, along with rolling out enhanced software functionality for the line. With today’s announcement, EMC said it enables customers to achieve unprecedented levels of information consolidation – or hyper-consolidation – while sharply reducing total information storage cost of ownership. EMC delivered major […]

Mid-range tape automation product provider Overland Data Inc. has announced the availability of its Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) LoaderXpress autoloader using Sony’s new enhanced-performance AIT-1 (SDX-400C) tape drives. With AIT technology backed by Sony, the AIT LoaderXpress provides an excellent migration step to an automated solution with a technology that has enhanced reliability. The new […]

Adaptec Inc. , which specializes in data storage access solutions, and scalable storage networking solutions provider InRange Technologies , announced plans to integrate Adaptec’s IP Storage ASIC technology into InRange’s IN-VSN FC/9000 director class switches. The new solution will enable customers to connect geographically dispersed Fibre Channel SANs via IP networks, officials from both companies […]

QPS Inc., an Anaheim, Calif.-based maker of DVD-R/RW/RAM, CD-RW and external hard drives for both PC and MAC desktop and notebook computers, said it has launched three new Que! DVDBurners to meet the increased demand for its DVD products. These DVD-R, DVD-RAM drives include the internal IDE/ATAPI Que! DVDBurner, the external QUE! USB 2.0 DVDBurner, […]