Paul Shread

The overall SAN market was flat in the third quarter, but director-class switches were a bright spot, according to Dell’Oro Group. Sales in the modular storage area network (SAN) switch segment (also known as directors) grew sequentially by 8 percent during the quarter, according to the group’s SAN Quarterly Report. The increase offset declines in […]

Emulex has unveiled new embedded storage switches that can scale to support thousands of drives. The new FibreSpy SOC 804 switches can also support a variety of Fibre Channel drive types for creating tiered storage environments. Based on technology acquired from Vixel, the speed-agile 4Gb per second switch-on-a-chip is available in two applications: the SuperScalar […]

DataCore Software has published the first Storage Performance Council SPC-1 results recorded using the iSCSI standard for storage connectivity, and the numbers are impressive. DataCore called the challenging SPC-1 transaction and database-style workloads “the only objective standard for storage performance comparisons.” DataCore said the results, available at storageperformance.org/results/, show that DataCore’s SANmelody Disk Server using […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has updated its Pathlight VX disk backup solution to offer more performance and scalability for less. ADIC claims that Pathlight VX 2.0 is the first open system backup product to combine the capacity and characteristics of disk and tape in a single, unified system, using policy-based data management technology to […]

ExaGrid Systems has unveiled what the company claims is “the first fully integrated storage and data protection solution.” The company’s Advanstor data storage and protection solution combines primary network attached storage (NAS) with a fully integrated suite of data protection capabilities, for a “cost-effective self-managing and self-healing solution” for mid-sized businesses and departments of large […]

EMC’s Documentum unit is moving its enterprise-class Records Manager technology down market, with a little help from EMC’s Legato unit. Documentum took over control of Legato’s ApplicationXtender product earlier this year, and Documentum is adding its Records Manager technology and retooling the product for midrange enterprise content management (ECM). The result is unstructured content management […]

Acopia Networks has closed on a $25 million funding round, one of the largest for a storage start-up this year. The company’s third round of financing was led by new investor Goldman Sachs, with participation by previous investors Charles River Ventures, Accel Partners, STAR Ventures and Vesbridge Partners. Acopia has raised more than $65 million […]

NetEx announced a new accelerator that the company says can speed up storage applications across wide-area networks (WANs) by a factor of 10. The five-year-old StorageTek spin-off says its new throughput standard eliminates the need for expensive and complex networking equipment while solving throughput issues associated with business-class WAN connections using protocols such as TCP […]

Data protection remains very much on the minds of storage vendors, if announcements at this week’s Storage Networking World are any indication. Dell and EMC combined to use a Microsoft Exchange 2003 messaging solution to demonstrate the Dell Business Continuity solution replicating data in real time between two Dell/EMC midrange storage systems across the Atlantic […]

HP, QLogic and Microsoft unveiled a storage area network (SAN) for small businesses at Storage Networking World that starts at just under $10,000. With the enterprise market saturated, storage vendors have been moving down market by targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with Fibre Channel SANs that are easy to install and manage, hoping to […]

After preaching the superiority of its DLT tape format for years, Quantum has up and bought Certance, a key maker of the rival LTO format. Certance is a member of an LTO consortium with HP and IBM. While DLT has remained competitive in capacity and performance, it has lagged LTO in market share. Now with […]

EMC rode its information lifecycle management (ILM) and virtualization strategies to strong results in the third quarter. EMC posted quarterly earnings of 9 cents a share Tuesday morning, matching Wall Street expectations, while revenues grew 34.2% year-over-year to $2.03 billion, ahead of forecasts. Gross margins of 51.4% were better than expected, and the company reaffirmed […]