Paul Shread

Copan Systems says it has developed a new architecture that provides disk-based storage performance and reliability at the scale and price of tape. The result is a product that “fills a hole in the storage hierarchy between on-line disk systems and off-line tape systems,” says Copan CEO Dave Davenport. At $1 to $3 per gigabyte, […]

SANRAD has unveiled new IP storage networking switches that the company says can deliver a complete 2-terabyte IP SAN solution for “well under $30,000.” The V-Switch 2000 is a new version of SANRAD’s enterprise-class V-Switch 3000 that has been optimized for common business applications in mid-range and departmental environments. The V-Switch 2000 and 3000 run […]

Adaptec is combining iSCSI and Serial ATA to deliver the company’s first external storage solutions. Adaptec next week will formally unveil solutions for Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Direct Attached Storage, and components and software, building on its acquisition of Eurologic to offer end-to-end storage solutions. The Adaptec iSA1500, an iSCSI-to-Serial ATA storage array, leverages […]

SAN filer start-up ONStor and utility storage company 3PAR have partnered to set a new storage performance benchmark record. The companies’ products working together on a dual node installation, the configuration most commonly found in corporate data centers, delivered the highest throughput ever recorded on an industry-standard file services benchmark. “It’s the configuration that probably […]

iSCSI won’t begin to take off until 2005, when management tools for the IP storage standard appear en masse, but companies will begin planning for it this year, according to Chuck Hollis, EMC’s VP for storage platforms marketing. “We don’t think the robust tools will show up until early 2005,” says Hollis. “This year will […]

IBM gave a ringing endorsement to InfiniBand technology today, with the announcement of a five-year agreement with InfiniBand start-up Topspin Communications. IBM will include Topspin’s InfiniBand switch technology on IBM systems and will resell Topspin’s switches to customers worldwide. The agreement gives IBM access to current and future versions of Topspin’s server switches and software […]

In a move toward the mainstream storage market, Apple has released its first storage product with support for Windows and Linux-based computing environments. The Xserve RAID storage system is a 3U high-availability rack storage system that provides up to 3.5 terabytes of storage capacity, up to 210 MB/s throughput, and pricing of about $3 per […]

Four-gigabit Fibre Channel received yet another big boost on Monday, with the first 4-Gig FC product implementation. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced Monday that it has completed a successful 4 gigabit per second Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL) data transfer between two fully integrated hard drive controllers, the first 4-Gig announcement by a major disk […]

Competition in the low-to-mid end of the Fibre Channel switch market may soon get even tougher. Brocade plans to introduce a new low-to-midrange switch this spring, according to a research note by Susquehanna Financial Group analysts Kaushik Roy and Phillip Rowe. Codenamed “Dazzler” and based on a derivative ASIC , the new switch could cost […]

Since it’s ‘That Time of Year,’ we thought we’d give storage industry analysts an open mike and ask them to reflect on 2003 and predict what will be hot in 2004. Three analysts took us up on the offer — Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group; John Webster, founder and senior […]

MaXXan Systems has combined its intelligent fabric systems with FalconStor’s IPStor 4.0 software suite to create a storage-on-demand solution that also performs disaster recovery, file serving, data protection, and storage consolidation. San Jose, Calif.-based MaXXan, which bills itself as the first company to ship intelligent storage networking solutions, spent three months integrating its MXV320T intelligent […]

Hoping to take advantage of the growing popularity of Linux in storage networks, Red Hat announced plans to acquire storage infrastructure software firm Sistina Software. “With enterprise-class storage management capabilities in place, Linux operating environments look more trustworthy than ever,” said John Webster, senior analyst and founder of Data Mobility Group. In February, Webster wrote […]