Karen Schwartz

Quantum and NetApp focus on the midmarket, while NuView introduces a new version of its remote site data management tool with more functionality. New Quantum Tape Library Aimed at Midmarket The new PX510 tape library from Quantum Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has much the same functionality as the companys enterprise-class PX720 library, but at […]

FileNet on Thursday unveiled a solution in concert with Hitachi Data Systems that will result in a tool to help users protect sensitive enterprise information. At the same time, Western Digital unveiled two new hard drives, one providing a SATA interface and one aimed at small office and home users. Finally, StorageTek and HP formed […]

Aiming to provide the ease of use and convenience of a one-stop shopping experience, two storage solutions lead the pack this week by combining hardware and software. Exabyte, Adaptec and BakBone Join Forces for Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Solution Three vendors teamed up to offer a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution that is geared toward distributed enterprises and SMBs (small and […]

The storage market inched forward this week with announcements on new replication and application recovery solutions and a 100GB 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive, while Sun furthered its position in the NAS market through the acquisition of a NAS storage systems vendor. XOsoft Announces Assured Recovery XOsoft of Waltham, Mass., has introduced a product company […]

While its too soon to determine the full impact of Dells nearly $100 million investment in Linux vendor Red Hat, the move makes one thing perfectly clear: The Linux server market is red hot, and the Linux desktop market isnt far behind. Red Hat Inc., of Raleigh, N.C., disclosed in an April 27 filing with […]

Asigra has updated its service delivery platform called Televaulting for Backup Services Provider with several new features, which are designed to appeal specifically to service providers. The newest version of Asigra Televaulting—an agentless, offsite approach to backup—is geared to the specific requirements of BSPs (backup services providers), who can offer the product to their customers […]

McDatas plans for CNT became clearer Monday, when company officials started talking more openly about their strategy for the pending acquisition. When McData Corp.s purchase of CNT (Computer Network Technology Corp.) becomes final on June 1, the company immediately will begin consolidating overlapping products and focusing more on CNTs services expertise, which includes storage consolidation, […]

The lucrative nature of the small and midsized business market continues to prompt storage vendors to release products geared toward grabbing a bigger piece of the SMB pie. EMC Corp. of Hopkinton, Mass., on Monday announced that it has introduced an entry-level configuration for its Centera CAS (content-addressed storage) systems designed to attract the midsized […]

DataCore has released a new version of its SANMelody disk server software with iSCSI capability and more virtualization features. SANMelody 2.0 now provides the ability to perform high-end failover and mirroring between two SANMelody disk servers over iSCSI, either via Ethernet or a LAN. The first version, introduced last year, only provided those capabilities over […]

The newest release of Princeton Softechs data-retention software for PeopleSoft allows organizations to manage applicant data in addition to managing data retention for current employees. The latest release of Active Archive Solutions for PeopleSoft Enterprise offers a more comprehensive set of HCM (human capital management) archive templates, expanding its HR data-retention capabilities beyond functions such […]