Paul Shread

EMC is expanding its network-attached storage (NAS) offerings with two new midrange options and a high-end product. The new Celerra NS500 and NS500G are lower-cost integrated NAS storage and NAS gateway offerings, respectively, while the new Celerra NS704G gateway is targeted at customers needing high-performance and availability. The new offerings complement the NS600 series announced […]

Xiotech is adding a new wrinkle to the information lifecycle management (ILM) movement with a new category of Fibre Channel drives. The company’s new tiered-storage Magnitude 3D offering features “Economy Enterprise” drives, which the company says is a new category that delivers the robustness of enterprise Fibre Channel for less. Xiotech is also making Serial […]

Dell’Oro Group’s latest numbers for the storage area network (SAN) market show Cisco gaining market share in SAN switches, and QLogic pulling even with Emulex in host bus adapter (HBA) revenues. Dell’Oro’s latest report found that sales of Fibre Channel switches and HBAs declined 3 percent in the second quarter of 2004. The FC switch […]

FalconStor Software hopes to make backup and recovery easier with a new family of self-contained backup and recovery solutions based on its IPStor storage networking infrastructure software. The company says its new Network Storage Server (NSS) Appliances provide data retention and retrieval services via turnkey appliances, and are “cost-effective, scalable, and easy to deploy and […]

EMC is following the trend of storage companies offering one-stop shopping with its first reseller program. The new EMC Select program includes the company’s previously announced tape partnership with ADIC . Other vendors in the program include host bus adapter vendors QLogic and Emulex and switch maker CNT . EMC says there will be more […]

3PAR hopes to make Linux-based storage easier with its latest product aimed at data centers. The utility storage company on Tuesday unveiled 3PAR Virtual Copy DBA for Linux. Combined with 3PAR InServ Storage Servers, “users can now deploy Linux-based applications more simply, more economically and more reliably,” the company says. 3PAR says Linux is gaining […]

Intransa appears to be catching on in IP storage, at least enough to convince the company’s investors to shell out big bucks. Intransa announced $25 million in fourth-round funding, bringing its total funding to $74 million. Intransa marketing vice president Ravi Pendekanti says it took less than two months to raise the money, and the […]

One year ago tomorrow, a massive blackout wiped out power throughout much of the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, sending companies scampering to keep their businesses up and running. The event was one of several in recent years that have raised awareness of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC). “It wasn’t just the blackout, but […]

Storage vendors continue to eye the Linux market, if vendor announcements at this week’s LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco is any indication. At least a half-dozen storage vendors saved announcements for the event, among them VERITAS, Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC) and Emulex. Vendors trumpeted their long history of support for Linux. “For the last seven […]

After years of making Fibre Channel technology more and more complicated for enterprise storage administrators who wanted to be able to tweak everything, the storage industry finds itself going in the opposite direction as it begins to push Fibre Channel for small and medium businesses (SMBs). With the enterprise market saturated, SMBs have become a […]

HP has expanded its low-end storage offerings unveiled last year, adding what the company says is the first storage array to support either SCSI or Serial ATA (SATA) disk enclosures behind a single controller shelf. The new StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA)1500 adds SATA support to the company’s previous SCSI offerings, giving companies that need […]

The stock market correction that began in January claimed another victim this week: the long-awaited debut of LSI Logic spinoff Engenio Information Technologies. LSI Logic Storage Systems was renamed Engenio in May in preparation for the IPO, which was expected to be completed mid-year. Engenio would have traded on the NYSE under the symbol “NGE.” […]