Paul Shread

Despite all the recent attention paid to disaster recovery, DR planning and decision-making is still largely left to IT departments, according to a new survey of IT managers that uncovered some alarming gaps in disaster preparedness. IT managers recognize the potential threats and the importance of proper disaster recovery procedures, but that awareness hasn’t been […]

Applied Micro Circuits moved into the storage networking space last week with the acquisition of host bus adapter firm JNI Corp. . While Emulex and QLogic dominate the HBA space, for AMCC the acquisition is a chance to expand into a faster-growing market than communications chips. “This acquisition significantly extends AMCC’s networking silicon technology expertise […]

IBM will officially say good-bye today to the IBM TotalStorage IP Storage 200i, the first commercially available iSCSI product. The 200i was introduced in mid-2001, almost two years before the IP storage standard was officially adopted. It was, as they say, ahead of its time. “This was an early pass at iSCSI technology, done at […]

During the massive Northeast and Canadian power outage earlier this month, Richard Fleischman and Associates, a network solutions firm for New York-area portfolio managers, reported “flawless” performance for its Business Continuity Center in Purchase, N.Y. RFA’s secret? An “advanced array of electrical and communications redundancies,” including XOsoft’s WANSync global business continuity platform. Hedge fund clients […]

Marvell hopes to push Serial ATA II into the enterprise with the release of the first available 3-gigabit per second Serial ATA II host controllers, which deliver twice the speed of current SATA technology. Marvell touts the new 88SX6081 (8-port) and 88SX6041 (4-port) Serial ATA II controllers as key components in enabling the highest-performance and […]

About 30% of companies lack a formal disaster recovery strategy, and 64% of companies say their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities, according to a recent national survey sponsored by Imation Corp. The lack of a sound DR strategy leaves those companies vulnerable to potential data loss as a result of natural […]

Who says you can’t have it all? DataCore Software is claiming record-setting results for the Storage Performance Council’s industry-standard SPC-1 Benchmark, and as if that weren’t enough, the record-breaking system carries a price tag that is significantly less than that of competitive offerings. DataCore boasts “the first affordable configuration to break the 50,000 SPC-1 IOPS […]

Yesterday’s massive power outage in the Northeast and Canada drove home what most corporate IT departments already know: disaster recovery preparation pays. “The fact that we haven’t heard too much about this topic, other than Fidelity shutting down after hours trading, suggests that everything went smoothly,” reports Steve Kenniston, technology analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. […]

Hewlett-Packard has introduced the next generation of its tape library architecture. The HP StorageWorks Extended Tape Library Architecture is designed to meet enterprise storage area network (SAN) requirements for high reliability, interoperability, and advanced functionality, according to the company. The architecture brings a layer of intelligence to tape drives and the SAN for increased levels […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday announced it is extending its multi-billion dollar OEM and technology relationship with Tokyo-based Hitachi through 2008. And in a stroke of fortuitous timing, coming on the heels of yesterday’s massive Northeast and Canadian power outage, the two firms also unveiled a multi-site disaster-tolerant solution. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker said […]

VERITAS and Network Appliance have agreed to expand their strategic partnership to include joint development, sales, and marketing. The companies are mum on specifics, but they say the joint effort will initially focus on backup and data protection, information lifecycle management, and storage resource management. The closer relationship comes on the heels of EMC’s acquisition […]

The next phase of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s interoperability demo is expanding beyond Fibre Channel SAN technology to include network attached storage (NAS) and storage over IP. The SMI-Lab3 Developers Demonstration Program will exhibit “ground-breaking progress in the advancement toward achieving interoperable storage management,” SNIA claims. Established by SNIA’s Storage Management Forum, the SMI-Lab3 […]