Paul Shread

ExaGrid Systems has unveiled a disk-based backup and disaster recovery solution that uses Grid computing technology for full recovery within minutes of a disaster. ExaGrid says its “Grid Protected Storage” uses the company’s software and commodity hardware to create a Grid-based storage utility, enabling multiple storage servers connected in multiple locations to back up and […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is on a fast track to becoming an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard. The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) has agreed to take SMI-S, which helps storage products from different vendors function together under one manageable interface, through the INCITS Fast Track […]

Sun Microsystems is bragging that its Sun StorEdge 3510 Fibre Channel bested the IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 with Turbo Option in the Storage Performance Council’s industry-standard benchmark. Sun says the StorEdge 3510 delivered 17% more performance and 33% more price-performance with 30% less storage than the FAStT600 Turbo. The measurement was run on an entry-level Sun […]

Adaptec and PMC-Sierra propelled 3 gigabit per second Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) closer to reality this week, with the first 3 Gb/s transmission and interconnect, respectively. Adaptec claims it has become the first company to achieve full first-generation Serial Attached SCSI speeds of 3 Gb/s in tests of an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) that […]

VCs just can’t seem to get enough of Topspin Communications. The intelligent server switch start-up has snagged $20 million in third-round funding, in an oversubscribed round that involved all the company’s previous investors and resulted in a 40% jump in valuation. “These guys look like they may sweep the floor and nail all the major […]

RAIDCore has unveiled its first products – low-cost, high-performance RAID controllers – and announced a $5 million funding round. Based on Serial ATA (SATA) technology, the RC4000 Series RAID Controllers provide enterprise-class RAID storage solutions for about 30% less than competing models, according to RAIDCore marketing VP Mark Taylor. “We are about 30% lower than […]

Competition in the high-end Fibre Channel market has grown to the point that EMC is seeking – and winning – price concessions from its own spin-off. EMC has apparently won 10-15% price concessions from McDATA on its high-end switches, according to analysts. “EMC wanted McDATA to lower prices and they wouldn’t, so they stuffed the […]

Brocade has unveiled multi-protocol fabric routing services for consolidating SANs and extending their reach over long distances. The services will be delivered on the Brocade SilkWorm Fabric Application Platform, an intelligent switch designed to host storage management applications in the SAN fabric, and will let customers consolidate and scale SANs as well as extend SAN […]

QLogic hopes to push storage area networks (SANs) into the small- and medium-business (SMB) market with a Fibre Channel switch that costs less than $500 per port, about half the cost of FC switches from McDATA or Brocade . As if that weren’t enough, QLogic’s SANbox 5200 is also the first stackable Fibre Channel switch […]

StorageTek already leads the market in shipments of high-end automated tape systems and drives, but the company sure isn’t resting on its laurels. StorageTek on Wednesday took the wraps off its StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System — a quantum leap over the company’s enterprise-class PowderHorn 9310, which StorageTek will continue selling. Jon Benson, STK’s VP […]

In another coup for 4 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel, storage switch maker McDATA has announced plans to support the emerging standard. “As a major proponent of industry standards, McDATA…intends to support 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel fabrics in 2005, as it matures,” Mike Gustafson, McDATA’s SVP of worldwide marketing, said in a statement. 4-Gig FC […]

Cloverleaf Communications has launched a storage appliance that the company says combines the virtualization features of a FalconStor or DataCore with the backup and disaster recovery functionality of a VERITAS or CA. The spinoff of Israeli defense R&D firm Elta Systems says its Intelligent Storage Networking System, or iSN, is the first “3-D” system that […]