Paul Shread

Sandial Systems has developed what it claims is the first “backbone-class” storage area network (SAN) switch, the Shadow 14000. Shadow 14000 A storage backbone switch goes further than conventional director-class Fibre Channel switches by providing visibility and control of network traffic to guarantee performance for business-critical applications, according to the Portsmouth, N.H.-based SAN switch solutions […]

In a play for email archiving dominance, ZANTAZ has acquired EDUCOM TS Inc. ZANTAZ dominates the hosted compliance and discovery space, while EDUCOM is focused on on-site email archiving and management. The combined company will be “the only single-source provider of end-to-end e-communications management solutions for compliance, electronic discovery, and email storage management,” ZANTAZ states. […]

Maxtor, Seagate, and LSI have announced the first Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) data transfers directly to disk, paving the way for the debut of the first SAS products later this year. Maxtor says it achieved full speed, 3Gb/s operation between an LSI Logic SAS controller and an in-form-factor prototype Maxtor SAS disk drive with dual […]

InfiniBand chip leader Mellanox Technologies plans to boost the next-generation PCI Express technology with InfiniBand (IB). Mellanox’s third-generation InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA), the InfiniHost III Ex, boosts bandwidth by a factor of three over the legacy PCI-X technology, with a 20% reduction in latency, according to company product marketing officials Kevin Deierling and Byran […]

VCs never shied away from the storage sector during the three-year tech downturn, and now that IT spending is picking up, they’re really opening their wallets. 3PAR and Maranti Networks announced a couple of big funding rounds this week. Maranti yesterday reported $26 million in third-round funding, and not to be outdone, 3PAR followed with […]

HP’s latest moves in the storage sector include pay-per-use financing for its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) devices as well as a new line of tape libraries. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s EVA3000 and EVA5000 are built with modular storage components, allowing customers to scale capacity on demand. They also include virtualization technology for dynamically […]

Cisco posted some impressive growth in the SAN switch market in its most recent quarter, enough to make one Wall Street firm grow cautious on the company’s rivals. Schwab Soundview believes Cisco’s 70-80% sequential quarterly growth in SAN switch sales and customers could be bad news for rivals McDATA and Brocade . Cisco CEO John […]

Broadcom is sliding into the storage sector with the acquisition of RAIDCore, a start-up that came out of stealth mode just three months ago with low-cost, high-performance RAID controllers. The Irvine, Calif.-based chipmaker announced it is acquiring RAIDCore for its RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) (define) and virtualization software. The storage start-up provides a […]

ARIO Data Networks emerged from stealth mode today with low-cost, high-performance external storage controllers for serial disk storage, and the company already boasts a number of major OEM wins. ARIO says its offerings “provide OEMs the essential building blocks they need to create modular, cost-effective Serial ATA storage subsystems solutions.” The San Jose, Calif.-based company’s […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has unveiled what it claims are the first iSCSI options from a major library vendor. The iSCSI connectivity options for ADIC’s Scalar 24 and Scalar 100 models give workgroups, branch offices, and smaller enterprises an easier way to perform backups by allowing users to connect the libraries directly to their […]

Serial ATA just got cheaper. Candera has unveiled its new Candera ATA Appliance, which the company claims is about 50% cheaper than other ATA solutions. Candera says the new appliance combines the company’s enterprise-class SCE 510 network storage controller with low-cost Serial ATA (SATA) RAID drives for scalable storage that is centrally managed and interoperable. […]

Emulex has joined the 4-Gig Fibre Channel party with a splash, unveiling its 4-gigabit per second (Gbps) InSpeed SOC 422 Fibre Channel embedded storage switch. The first 4-Gig embedded storage switching solution, according to Emulex, the InSpeed SOC (Switch-On-a-Chip) 422 provides 22 ports of connectivity in a highly-integrated device that can be used to implement […]