Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

SAN Holdings, Inc.,a provider of data storage solutions, today announced the engagement of Grant Thornton, an international accounting and managerial consulting firm, for the fiscal year 2001 audit beginning with the second quarter 2001 review. Although the Company ays it had no disagreements with their prior audit firm, Causey Demgen and Moore, the Company’s thinks […]

The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) today announced the appointment of Dave Suden, chief technology officer of Rimage Corp., as chairman of its CD/DVD Committee. In this role, Suden will be responsible for establishing a forum in which suppliers throughout the optical storage industry will address issues involving CD and DVD technologies. “OSTA recognizes the […]

Dismissed as a niche and technologically poor solution to the growing demand for storage, the network-attached storage (NAS) market has been hogging headlines in the storage space over the last six months. A new study by Frost & Sullivan, the international marketing consulting company, highlights the extraordinary level of activity in the NAS market. EMC, […]

EMC Corporation today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2001. According to the company, total consolidated revenue for the second quarter was $2.02 billion, 6% lower than the $2.15 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2000. Net income for the quarter dropped to $109 million from $429 million in the second quarter […]

Storage Computer Corporation today announced the first results of apatent dispute between itself and Hitachi Data Systems Ltd.. In its initial complaint, Storage Computer Corporation alleges that certain Hitachi Data Systems Ltd. storage products infringe Storage Computers intellectual property, specifically two European patents: EP 0 294 287 B1 entitled Fault-tolerant, Error-correcting Storage System and Method […]

Exabyte Corporation (Nasdaq: EXBT), a network backup systems vendor, today reported revenue for the second quarter of 2001 of $39,412,000 compared to $51,314,000 for the second quarter of 2000 and $49,052,000 for the first quarter of 2001. The net loss for the second quarter of 2001 was $5,259,000 or $0.23 per share compared to a […]

Crossroads Systems Inc. , a global provider of connectivity for storage networking solutions, today announced a workforce reduction. In order to reduce its operating expenses, the company has eliminated approximately 10 percent of its workforce, or approximately 20 employees, through realignment and consolidation of its current organization. The company says no software or hardware engineering […]

NIIT, a global IT solutions and training company, announced today that it has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to help HDS educate its staff, customers, resellers and channel partners on its storage solutions and products. NIIT will develop both product overview and in-depth skill-based courses to help HDS Global Education meet its internal and […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association today announced the formation of a new group within the SNIA IP Storage Forum, the Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) Group, which will promote the emerging FCIP standard for interconnecting geographically distributed Fibre Channel-based storage area networks (SANs) over IP networks. According to SNIA, the creation of the FCIP Group […]

IBM today announced that financial services application service provider, LiveOffice, has chosen the Enterprise Storage Server (code named “Shark”) to enable a storage area network (SAN) that supports the company’s rapid growth. LiveOffice hosts software applications, professional content and web sites for financial customers including Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TD Waterhouse. The company says it […]

IBM today announced a reduction in its low interest rate available to customers on an expanded range of IBM products. The below-market financing rate — now as low as 5.3 percent(a) — offering is available to qualified customers through IBM Global Financing, the information technology industry’s leading financier. Low Rate Financing is an offering first […]

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced version 10 of CA-Datacom, the database management system for z/OS and OS/390 platforms. According to the company, the new version maximizes the scalability and flexible deployment of eBusiness applications by enabling data-sharing throughout the Parallel Sysplex environment. Applications can now access database information anywhere on any CA-Datacom image […]