Karen Schwartz

With the release of three new RAID storage subsystems built entirely on an open source platform, Open Source Storage continues its march to offer a full line of open source storage products. The companys new RAID storage products all support both AMD Opteron dual core or dual Intel Xeon processors and offer Ultra320 SCSI and […]

Xiotech has introduced a scaled-down version of its Magnitude 3D 3000s SAN intended for small and midsize organizations. Intended as an entry-level storage cluster offering, the Magnitude 3D 3000e offers much of the same functionality as other members of the Magnitude 3D family, but with less capacity and performance, and at a lower cost point. […]

iLumin Software Services Inc. is expanding its reach with the introduction of a new product designed to provide storage management and discovery for files other than e-mail. The Reston, Va., company, which traditionally has focused on e-mail archiving and management, has introduced AFSM (Assentor File System Manager), an addition to the companys Assentor product family. […]

EMC expands support of SAP, Data Protection Solutions introduces a SATA product, iStor will use Toshiba technology in its storage controller solution, Applied Micro Circuits introduces hardware RAID controllers, Engenio certifies McDatas Fibre Channel switches, and LSI Logics MegaRAID now works on Solaris 10. EMC Expands Support of SAP EMC Corp., of Hopkinton, Mass., has […]

The latest version of NuView Inc.s ILM tool may give organizations—especially those that have standardized on Network Appliance Inc. storage solutions—one more reason to consider moving to the companys approach to information lifecycle management. The reason for introducing another version of File Lifecycle Manager so soon after the June 30 release of Version 3.0 was […]

In an effort to help small and midsize companies transition from direct attached to network storage and more easily migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2003, EMC has introduced an e-mail management and exchange migration tool that combines and adds functionality to two of the companys products. EMC Corp.s Storage Administrator for Exchange combines the original Storage […]

In the first upgrade to the Wide Area File Services product since Brocade Communications Systems Inc. inherited it through its strategic investment in Tacit Networks in June, the company made significant changes designed to make it more responsive to the needs of large, decentralized organizations. The revamped WAFS, based on Microsoft Corp.s Windows Storage Server […]

In what is bound to be the first of several such announcements over the next several weeks, Infortrend has introduced the first 4GB Fibre Channel array with a Serial-Attached SCSI back end, complementing the rash of 2.5- and 3.5-inch SAS drives that vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have begun shipping in […]

In an effort to ensure that its data-protection product doesnt get lost in the upcoming frenzy of Microsofts new DPM (Data Protection Manager), EMC has announced an upgrade to its popular RepliStor file replication software. RepliStor, first introduced by Legato, provides asynchronous, real-time replication of files, directories and registries in the Windows 2000, 2003, XP […]

Many storage vendors have a great deal riding on the success of Serial Attached SCSI, with most incorporating the burgeoning technology into current and future product announcements and enhancements. Touted as the replacement for parallel SCSI, SAS provides many benefits for the relatively small but growing number of organizations intent on adopting it: higher performance, […]