Paul Shread

Tape vendors are catching on to WORM (write once, read many) technology as a selling point for customers swamped by compliance demands. Quantum and Sony are making WORM technology standard for their respective SDLT and AIT formats, while Certance, HP and IBM plan to include it in the LTO-3 specification later this year. StorageTek is […]

CNT has unveiled a new storage networking platform that the company says represents a new class of director. CNT Solutions Marketing Director Patty Barkley calls the platform “the first multi-service director,” bringing new services and scalability to director-class switches. Barkley says the company’s new UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD) has the high-availability and RAS (reliability, availability, […]

Despite hopes for a rebound in the storage networking market, results so far in 2004 suggest that Fibre Channel vendors continue to face pricing pressures, according to the Yankee Group. The total Fibre Channel SAN component market in the first quarter of 2004 was about $434 million, the Yankee Group estimated. While that was up […]

McDATA and Network Appliance have teamed to offer what the companies claim is the first storage software solution to manage both IP and Fibre Channel SANs. McDATA will integrate its SANavigator network management software with NetApp’s DataFabric Manager software. NetApp will sell the integrated solution through its channels under the NetApp DataFabric Manager brand name. […]

EqualLogic is doing its part to show that iSCSI is ready for prime time. The company announced its 100th customer on Monday — Johnson Health Network — and also took in $20 million in an oversubscribed third funding round. EqualLogic marketing VP John Joseph boasts that the company is disproving the knocks on iSCSI — […]

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Silicon Graphics have partnered to develop new storage technology for data-intensive computing. The two will conduct research into “active storage,” an effort to shift computation and transformation of data from client computers to storage devices. Eng Lim Goh, SGI’s chief technology officer, claims the effort […]

Onaro has unveiled software that the company says can predict and prevent problems in storage area networks (SANs) before they occur. The Boston-based startup, which announced a $7.75 million funding round in April, claims that 80% of SAN availability problems and brownouts result from SAN changes, making change management “by far the greatest challenge in […]

Everyone talks about adding intelligence to SANs, but MaXXan Systems is actually doing something about it. MaXXan has unveiled its second-generation intelligent SAN platform, which scales from 16 to 256 ports in a single chassis and up to 512 ports in a dual-chassis configuration, without using performance-reducing Inter-Switch Links (ISL). That means the full 512 […]

Acopia Networks has unveiled what it claims is the first switching platform that can globally access and manage unstructured data, while maximizing existing server and storage infrastructures. Acopia ARX1000 Unstructured data, or data outside of a database, comprise about 80% of an enterprise’s data, says Brendon Howe, Acopia’s VP for marketing and business development. Acopia’s […]

EMC took over the leadership position from HP in the external storage systems market in the first quarter, according to IDC, but HP maintained its lead in the total disk storage systems market. Another surprise in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for the first quarter was the emergence of iSCSI SANs, which posted […]

Broadcom has unveiled storage management software that one analyst says puts the company at the forefront of vendors addressing storage security concerns. Broadcom says it has enhanced the IT security and virus/worm protection capabilities of its XelCore RAID software stack with new features such as data redundancy, secure backup, and the ability to hide a […]

The next generation of serial storage technologies is moving ahead, with vendors starting to roll out the first Serial ATA II (SATA II) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products. ARIO Data Networks has followed up on its February release of SATA controllers with its first SATA II and SAS controllers. SATA II doubles SATA’s speed […]