Paul Shread

While Atempo has been going gangbusters in the European data protection market, the French firm has remained largely an unknown entity in the U.S. The company hopes to change that in the near future, starting with last week’s official opening of a North American headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Atempo counts among its customers Cap […]

The Enterprise Storage Group Lab has kicked the tires on the Hitachi Data Systems Lightning 9980V storage system and found it worthy. In a report entitled “Hitachi Lightning 9980V: Enterprise Storage Consolidation Analysis,” ESG Lab said it is “extremely impressed with Hitachi’s Host Storage Domains, Virtual Storage Ports, and Priority Access software, which contribute to […]

3ware has unveiled new Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controllers that the company claims outperform competing products from LSI Logic and Adaptec by 100-150%. 3ware Escalade 9000 RAID Controllers The new Escalade 9000 Series hardware RAID controllers outperform LSI and Adaptec by 150% in RAID 5 sequential reads and 100% in RAID 5 sequential writes, according […]

Actona Technologies, which offers wide area file services for centrally managing remote data, has nabbed $10 million in third-round funding. The round brings the four-year-old start-up’s total funding to date to $23 million. Actona says its storage centralization technology removes storage, management, and backup functions from remote offices and centralizes them in the data center, […]

3PAR this week began shipping its new InServ X-Series Storage Server, and to prove the new offering is no slouch, the company also released a benchmark that affirms the new server doubles 3PAR’s own previous performance record. 3PAR says the new InServ X-Series doubles the consolidation headroom of the company’s scalable enterprise array, and a […]

VCs continue to show strong interest in the InfiniBand space, with Voltaire the latest beneficiary. Voltaire announced this week that it has secured $15 million in funding in an oversubscribed fourth round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $50 million. The round is comparable to the $15-$20 million rounds garnered by competitors Topspin […]

The storage industry closed out 2003 in fine form, according to new market research results from Gartner and IDC. Worldwide sales surged 18.7% sequentially in the fourth quarter, Gartner research VP Roger Cox reports. “The overall market did a little bit better in 2003 than what was expected, and the fourth quarter was particularly strong,” […]

Alacritech has introduced an iSCSI accelerator that outperforms iSCSI HBAs from Intel and Adaptec . The San Jose, Calif.-based firm says its SES1001 iSCSI accelerator uses the company’s SLIC Technology, the basis of TOE (TCP/IP offload engine) solutions, and is the only iSCSI HBA to offer seamless hardware acceleration for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator […]

Broadcom has introduced what it says are the first complete interconnect solutions for the emerging 4 Gigabit per second (4-Gig) Fibre Channel standard. The three new products, the Broadcom BCM8421, BCM8422, and BCM8426, provide interconnect technology for Fibre Channel hard drive storage systems and retiming/repeating solutions for transmitting data throughout storage area networks (SANs) using […]

Could QLogic and Emulex soon face real competition in the host bus adapter (HBA) space? It’s apparently enough of a possibility that two Wall Street firms put out notes on the issue this week. Merrill Lynch said there is speculation that Applied Micro Circuits could win an HBA deal with EMC . Emulex derives 17% […]

EMC and Dell plan a new storage offering for the super low-end, according to officials of both companies. Russ Holt, enterprise engineering VP for the Dell product group, told analysts last week that the companies are working on a “sub-entry”-level platform, including “a low-cost HBA solution and a low-cost switch solution.” “We will see a […]

In a pretty good publicity move, Emulex is giving its HBA customers a free 40% performance boost. The firmware upgrade for the company’s large installed base of LightPulse Fibre Channel connectivity solutions improves performance by as much as 40%, according to the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company. Emulex LightPulse HBAs Emulex says its HBAs and embedded […]