Karen Schwartz

Several tape vendors have announced new products designed to capture the growing market for storage of e-mail and compliance data. Automated tape storage vendor Qualstar Corp. of Simi Valley, Calif., announced the RLS-8204 capacity-on-demand library, allowing users to add and pay for storage capacity as needed. The product ships with 12 LTO 3 tape cartridge […]

Business information vendor Captaris has introduced a new version of its e-mail archiving tool that is more scalable and integrates better with the records management module of its fixed content management product. The newest version of Captaris Inc. e-mail archiving tool, called Exchange Archive Link for Captaris Alchemy, now scales up to tens of thousands […]

With the introduction of an intelligent SAN switch for the midmarket, Maxxan Systems is carving out a niche for itself against more established players. Maxxan earlier this week introduced the MXV250 intelligent SAN switch for midrange IT environments, an all-in-one, modular solution that combines a redundant, 16- to 64-port Fibre Channel switch; IPStor software; and […]

Content management vendor Hummingbird Ltd. has joined forces with leading storage software vendor Veritas Software to provide a joint solution designed to help organizations better manage electronic records. The alliance will combine Hummingbird Enterprise for enterprise content management with e-mail and content archiving software Veritas Enterprise Vault 6.0. By combining the two products, the companies […]

Samsung has introduced a Serial ATA II hard disk drive that boasts twice the speed of a SATA I hard drive and has other features that company executives believe will translate into brisk sales. The hard drives, available in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB versions on an 80GB platter, run at up to 3GB per second. […]

Aiming to capture the largest share possible of the fast-growing 64-bit world, BakBone Software has announced support for Apples new Tiger operating system. Tiger, the newest version of Mac OS X, offers a host of new features, including expanded support for 64-bit computing, faster searches, automation of repetitive tasks, high-definition video and desktop search capability. […]

Hoping to attract more enterprise customers, Dell Inc. has introduced a network-attached storage gateway that consolidates all file and block data into one storage pool on a common storage area network. The Dell/EMC NS500G is a gateway NAS product that sits in front of the Dell/EMC SAN and allows customers to retrieve files from their […]

Disk-based backup and SATA storage vendor Nexsan Technologies Ltd. is partnering with virtual tape software vendor Diligent Technologies Corp. to offer a low-cost data protection solution that will allow customers to use disk rather than tape in their backup and recovery operations without hindering an existing setup. The solution combines Diligents VTF Open software, which […]

Open Text has announced enhancements to its Livelink ECM platform, a platform that company executives say virtually completes Open Texts transition to a vendor of integrated services providing universal access to enterprise content. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company unveiled the Livelink ECM Platform Tuesday, offering a complete set of ECM (enterprise content management) services inside the […]

Online backup and recovery vendor EVault Inc. has introduced new versions of many of its products, all stressing higher performance and greater scalability. The newest version of InfoStage, EVaults flagship software, allows users to add storage on the fly and then automatically and transparently load-balance it. Version 5 also offers parallel restore—the ability to perform […]