Paul Shread

Serial ATA speeds will double under the SATA II specification finalized this week by the Serial ATA Working Group at the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain. It will take about a month to ratify the spec, and the first 3Gbps SATA II products will appear by the end of the year, according to Intel […]

EqualLogic has added data protection capabilities to its IP SAN solutions — at no cost. “Users are expecting to pay high-end prices for high-end features like replication,” says Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. “It’s a bold move to give away that type of functionality.” “Adding this kind of value will […]

Overland Storage is embracing the trend toward disk-based backup with a new high-performance offering that supports both iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Overland, which made its name in tape, says it designed its new REO 4000 appliance to optimize both backup and recovery, for “near-instantaneous restores and significantly shorter backup windows.”  Overland REO 4000 At $13,500 […]

PMC-Sierra has introduced Fibre Channel cut-through switches for the emerging 4 Gigabit per second (aka 4Gbps, 4-Gig, or 4G) standard, and Agilent has announced a number of its own 4-Gig offerings. Travis Karr, PMC-Sierra’s director of marketing and applications, says the company’s new switches employ a “clever switching mechanism that changes the cost points in […]

Responding to recent low-cost offerings from rival Brocade , McDATA has unveiled its next generation switch-on-a-chip (SOC). The Broomfield, Colo.-based firm says the SOC, a result of the company’s partnership with IBM, “will significantly lower the total cost of ownership for both first-time and enterprise-class storage networking customers.” The advanced switch-on-a-chip technology will be integrated […]

Texas Memory Systems has published Storage Performance Council results that are hotter than a bowl of West Texas chili and just as cheap. The company, which has trademarked the term World’s Fastest Storage, says its RamSan-320 solid state disk achieved an SPC-1 I/O operations per second (IOPS) rate of 112,491.34, eclipsing 3PAR’s mark set last […]

EMC’s LEGATO Software division has unveiled a number of product upgrades focusing on backup and recovery, long-distance replication, and data management. The products also tighten LEGATO’s product integration with EMC . Topping the list, says Legato CTO George Symons, are new integrated protection and recovery solutions for information lifecycle management (ILM). LEGATOInformation Management LEGATO’s new […]

KVS has upgraded its flagship archiving software to provide a single interface for emails, file system documents, instant messages, and SharePoint documents. KVS is one of the few remaining standalone companies in the archiving space, having seen rivals like Legato, IXOS, and Educom get snapped up in recent months. KVS claims “the largest installed customer […]

Precision I/O has unveiled a new high-performance server I/O architecture based on Ethernet technology. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company claims it’s the first to solve the server-to-network bottleneck problem using standard IP/Ethernet infrastructure. Other approaches have been proprietary solutions or new switch fabric technologies such as InfiniBand that require users to deploy a secondary switch […]

Adaptec has introduced an application-specific storage array that automatically backs up and protects PC and laptop information. Backing up data stored on servers is common practice, but information saved locally on desktop PC and laptop hard drives — which accounts for as much as 60% of all business data, according to IDC — all too […]

If not for BlueArc, zombies might have had a tougher time wreaking havoc in the box office hit “Dawn of the Dead.” Toronto-based digital film studio Mr. X used BlueArc’s storage solutions to reduce project times and meet deadlines for the visual effects in Universal Studio’s film, which debuted March 19 and grossed an estimated […]

SEPATON’s data protection appliances are catching on with customers – and with VCs. The Southborough, Mass.-based start-up announced $23.5 million in fourth-round funding this week, led by Menlo Ventures. Also participating were new investor Valhalla Partners and existing investor Jerusalem Ventures Partners (JVP). “I think that the new funding shows that the VCs, two of […]