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Quantum has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Benchmark Storage Innovations, a privately held supplier of DLTtape drives, media and autoloaders. Quantum also announced a definitive agreement to outsource its current tape drive manufacturing to Jabil Circuit, a leader in electronic manufacturing services. The actions are intended to further strengthen Quantum’s […]

According to Netreon, using SANexec Designer, storage professionals can now control the full lifecycle of a storage area network (SAN) regardless of whether the SAN is brand new or already established. In addition, the company announced an expansion to its list of interoperability rules and supported devices including disk arrays, tape arrays and fabric switches. […]

Princeton Softech today announced it has entered into a technology agreement with EMC Corporation to integrate Princeton Softech’s Active Archive Solutions with the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform. Anticipated to be available in Q4 2002, the integrated solution will allow companies to deploy an enterprise active archiving strategy with an intelligent storage solution […]

Microsoft today announced broad industry support for its interoperable Multipath Input/Output (I/O) technology. Leading enterprise storage vendors including EMC, HP, Fujitisu and LSI Logic have committed to developing products that will use Multipath I/O. According to Microsoft, customers will experience increased levels of system availability and performance through load-balancing and interoperability of third-party storage products. […]

Internet criminals are increasingly using unsolicited commercial email or spam to commit Internet fraud and identity theft, said McAfee.com. Law enforcement officials and security experts at McAfee.com say that spam is often used to target unsuspecting consumers and lure them to “official looking” Webs sites – such as a billing center for an online service […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey includes only those servers […]

Salesnet, a Boston-based provider of Web-native sales force automation (SFA) software, announced yesterday the availability of Salesnet’s Web Services API, its Web Services application programming interface (API). Web services use a standards-based method to integrate Web-based applications. Built on the Microsoft .NET framework, Salesnet’s Web Services API is designed to enable integration between Salesnet’s application […]

Mellanox Technologies today announced it will join Intel in working to advance industry standard, hardware-independent, open source InfiniBand software interfaces. Mellanox is supporting the InfiniBand verbs, Access Layer APIs and upper level protocols being developed in the SourceForge open source environment. Mellanox will provide device drivers for the InfiniHost Host Channel Adapters into the Source […]

The Storage Network Industry Association IP Storage Forum (SNIA IPS Forum) and its member companies today announced the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standard has reached a significant milestone with the completion of the IETF IPS Working Group’s last call. According to the group, at this point, the standard is technically complete and accurate […]

Sony Wednesday unveiled a new strategy intended to create a “new style of audiovisual entertainment centered on home television” by equipping key gateway devices with large capacity hard disks and broadband connectivity. Dubbed CoCoon, for COnnected COmmunity On Network, Sony’s new line of devices will use the hard disks to enable consecutive recording and playback […]

The global electronics sector continues to look bleak. “Although chip sales worldwide improved earlier this year, it has leveled off in recent months and new orders in the US for electronic products have fallen in May and June even though inventory levels continued to slide,” said Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister of state, Ministry of Trade […]

Imation announced today the availability of its Black Watch Super DLTtape I media cartridges and SDLT cleaning cartridges. Specifically designed for the demands of network and data center operations, the Imation Black Watch Super DLTtape I media offers 160GB capacity and 16MB/second transfer rate (320GB and 32MB/s compressed). In contrast, when used in the SDLT […]