Karen Schwartz

EMCs recent acquisition of tiny Allocity Inc., the developer of an always-available e-mail storage solution, went virtually unnoticed by the storage world, but it may be indicative of a continuing trend at the company to expand its reach and better penetrate the small-business world. The acquisition, which closed Oct. 22, gives EMC full access to […]

The high-performance computing world now has a bundled solution based on Lustre, an open-source, high-performance file system that traditionally has been fairly difficult to configure and set up. Linux Networx Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company known for its cluster computing systems, has created a storage appliance by bundling Lustre with a variety of storage […]

IT managers concerned about deploying blade technology into heterogeneous environments may have an easier time of it with the recent announcement that Brocades SAN (storage area network) switching capabilities will be integrated into the Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem architecture. The integrated offering embeds a 4 Gbit-per-second Brocade Fibre Channel fabric switch into the HP BladeSystem, which itself […]

Storage powerhouses Hewlett-Packard Co. and QLogic Corp. have created an easy-to-use SAN-in-a-box product targeted at small and midsize businesses. The HP StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit is an entry-level storage area network offering based on HPs SmartArray technology that assembles everything a company needs to build a SAN. The kit includes the HP Modular […]

In a move experts say will level the playing field in the Linear Tape Open technology arena, Quantum Corp. has agreed to purchase Certance, a tape drive and data protection vendor based in Costa Mesa, Calif. Under the terms of the agreement, Quantum, of San Jose, Calif., will purchase all of Certances assets, including Travan, […]

WilTel Communications and Nortel Networks have teamed to provide enterprises with the ability to increase and decrease the amount of bandwidth they need for wide-area and metropolitan-area storage networks in 50Mbps increments, with associated increases and decreases in cost. Called StorageXtend, the solution combines EMCs networked storage systems and remote replication software with Nortel Networks […]

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. on Monday announced a 4 Gbit per second, 32-port switch, paving the way for the coming 4 Gbit/sec technology due to hit the streets within the next few months. The Brocade SilkWorm 4100 family of switches, based on the San Jose, Calif., companys fifth-generation Fibre Channel technology, offers 16-, 24- and […]

A backup and archiving product derived by combining technology from two existing storage vendors offers new storage possibilities to large organizations at a fraction of the cost. StorHouse/MAID, the result of an agreement between FileTek Inc. of Rockville, Md. and Copan Systems of Longmont, Colo., promises to provide the performance and reliability of RAID at […]

Crosswalk Inc., a new storage company founded by former McData CEO Jack McDonnell, has introduced its first product aimed at satisfying the storage needs of midsized companies. Crosswalk Storage Manager, a storage management software suite, promises to help organizations with five to 200 servers improve application performance and increase the efficiency of storage operations. Through […]

Apple has increased the amount of storage capacity available for its Xserve RAID rack storage system to 5.6 terabytes, increasing the density in a standard 42U rack to more than 76 terabytes. The new system, which consists of 14 independent 400GB Ultra ATA drive channels, includes 1GB of RAID controller cache (512MB in each RAID […]